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• Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

  John Kehoe

  Garden, People, Different

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• He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.

  Kate Cruise O'Brien

  Sarcastic, Cold, Twisted

  Kate Cruise O'Brien (1980). “A gift horse, and other stories”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Beautiful, Stars, Looks

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Light

  Adyashanti (2006). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.105, Sounds True

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• A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

  Caitlin Thomas

  Vulgarity Is, Heartless, Littles

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• I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

  Gordon Wu

  Principles, Action, Belive

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• The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same thing. I just live my life with eyes and ears perhaps a little bit wider open than some people. Whatever bothers me or seems off kilter or in need of parody-or on a serious subject, in need of examination-in the past I had done a sequence about it. Now I write a column about it.

  Peter Funt

  Art, Eye, Writing

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• I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

  Richard Armitage

  Jobs, Character, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hero, Mean, Role Models

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'.

  Simon Le Bon

  Fake People, Worried, People

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• A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Giving, Police

  "The Threepenny Opera". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1928.

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• The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Voice, Quality, Roosters

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• We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

  Shirley Jones

  Watches, Hardship, Assuming

  "Celebrity Big Brother: Producer Interview". FemaleFirst Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk.

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• A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

  Dan Millman

  Recovery, Tasks, Done

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• By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Roots

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• We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Memories, Science, Names

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.249, Oxford University Press

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• I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer. I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J.Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Goodbye, Fun, Crazy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Drawing, Masters, Ifs

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• The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

  Yip Harburg

  Ems, Littles, Lord

  "Finian's Rainbow (The Begat)". Book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy, 1947.

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• If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

  Hale Irwin

  Sports, Should Have, Expectations

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• It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

  Lou Gerstner

  Loss, Technology, Computer

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• There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Taxation, Fairness

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• My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as three-penny bits. I don't really believe in astronomy, except as a complicated description of part of the course of human and possibly animal sensation. I apply my perspective not merely to space but also to time. In time the world will cool and everything will die; but that is a long time off still and its present value at compound discount is almost nothing.

  Frank P. Ramsey

  Stars, Believe, Science

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