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• We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

  Patricia Briggs

  Perfect, Imperfection, Who We Are

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• We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

  Stephen Hawking

  Whole, Short Time, Universe

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• truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

  Herman Melville

  Long, Quality, World

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick, the Whale: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Father, World

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• My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Phones, Owl

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• People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Simple, Rocks

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• With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

  John Cho

  Impact, Creative, Acting

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

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• A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Trends, Effects

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

  David Morrissey

  Office, House, Looks

  "Is this it?". Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.

  Carly Simon

  Thinking, World, Opinion

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

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

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• I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?

  Kathryn Hahn

  Anchorman, Cameras, Done

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

  Kate Morton

  War, Book, Different

  Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower.

  Jill Shalvis

  Bed, Bigger, Caught

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Mar 04, 2013

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• I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashionista

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Bad Mood, Realizing, Discouraged

  Lynn Grabhorn (2011). “The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook”, p.4, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mother, Son, Brain

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• This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Islands

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• I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

  Jane Lynch

  Real, Fans, Agents

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• I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

  Freddie Highmore

  School, Tvs

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• So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

  Regina Spektor

  Letting Go, Rejection, Break

  Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004

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• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, London

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

  Dale Archer

  Emotional, Keys, Understanding

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• I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Sorry, Years, Leaving

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