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I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.

Joe Strummer

Letting Go, People, Interesting

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We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

Bill Hicks

Thinking, People, Baghdad

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You can always be a little bit better.

Drew Brees

Littles, Little Bit

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Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

Louise Rennison

Baby, Jesus, Sorry

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I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

Roger Clemens

Passion, Fire, Want

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Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Gore Vidal

Past, Long, Gossip

FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jan 05, 2015

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L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

Nicolas Berggruen

Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

Nicholas D. Kristof

Literature, Littles, Helping

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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

Randolph Bourne

Religious, Feelings, Ironic

Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

Christa Wolf

Writing, Mean, Self

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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Elizabeth Moon

Drug, Rattlesnakes, Bother

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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

Rachel Maddow

Ephemera, Lots Of Friends, Hiv

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But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

People, Attention, Littles

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A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses

Robin Sharma

Hands, Rose, Giving

Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.137, Jaico Publishing House

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My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

Cass Elliot

Mother, Determination, Jobs

"Twenty Questions for Mama Cass" by Frederick Todd in American Girl magazine, June 1970.

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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

Kate Chopin

People, Mad, Personality

Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

Colleen McCullough

Character, Teeth

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I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs

Richard Krajicek

Pigs, May, Top 100

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It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.

Pippa Middleton

Brother, Law, Age

"Remembering world's reaction to Pippa Middleton's bum on her wedding day as she marries banking tycoon James Matthews" by Leeanna Faulkner, www.mirror.co.uk. May 20, 2017.

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Enjoy your life and be happy.
Being happy is of the utmost importance.
Success in anything is through happiness.
More support of nature comes from being happy.
Under all circumstances be happy, even if you have to force it a bit to change some long standing habits.
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but think that way anyway and it will help it come.
Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness.
Be happy, healthy, and let all that love flow through your heart.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ocean, Fall, Heart

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It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'psycho, psycho'!

Stuart Pearce

Two, Meals, Psycho

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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

F. C. S. Schiller

Believe, Mind, Facts

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I'd like to think that I'd helped people all over the world to question the things they otherwise would have accepted as the truth. I'd also like to think that I'd charmed them a bit with my lovely vocal stylings and the baring of my lovely arse.

Marilyn Manson

Thinking, People, Lovely

"Manson Gets Paranoid". "Kerrang!" Interview with Ian Winwood, March 23, 2002.

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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.

Sheila Jeffreys

Radical Feminism, Class, Feminist

Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.42, Routledge

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Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.

Martina Hingis

Beautiful, Games, Play

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