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• I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

  Joss Stone

  Different, Littles, Strange

  "Joss Stone: 'I'm allowed to be me now'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 26, 2007.

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• The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Littles, Life Or Death

  "Redhead Redemption: Ed Sheeran". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

  Andrew Solomon

  College, Self, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.660, Simon and Schuster

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• So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Average, Europe, Civilization

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• Whenever I’d over­hear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of say­ing the word ‘unbear­able’), I under­stood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.

  Steven Morrissey

  Light, People, Able

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• I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

  Juan Gris

  Dog, Hands, Pet

  "Washboat days". Book by Jeanine Warnod, p. 204, 1972.

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• Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fate, Destiny

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• I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.

  Judith Jones

  Color, Smell, Raw Materials

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• Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Trying, Done

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• Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging.

  Lee Clow

  Challenges, Brilliant, Easy

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• The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

  Tony Benn

  Christian, Party, Church

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• You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

  Sergey Brin

  Inspirational, Car, Mind

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• The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

  Martin Parr

  Trying, Cameras, Shooting

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• Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hard Work, Self, Evil

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• Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

  Roger Deakins

  Thinking, Important, Sound

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• Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

  Arthur Koestler

  What Matters, Data, Facts

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Reading, Perspective, Exit

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.233, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

  John Prescott

  Easter, Moving, Government

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• With the new game I'm going to be involved from the ground up. I have had story input and the whole thing will have my imprint on it. Even if I don't hands-on do every bit of artwork, I certainly will direct the look of the whole thing.

  Dave Gibbons

  Hands, Games, Looks

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  If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

  Sherman Alexie

  Inspiring, People, Littles

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Sep 01, 2015

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• If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

  Sam Altman

  Baby, Trying, Conviction

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• F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the right place at the right time. True, it was simplistic, but in the Age of Photoshop, this maxim is too often forgotten. No matter how much you play with the bits and bytes, the best images always start out with a great vision, clearly and cleanly seen.

  Dewitt Jones

  Photography, Years, Play

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• My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

  Joe Strummer

  Thinking, Trying, Needs

  Interview with Corey Levitan, Rolling Stone Online, December 02, 1999.

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