Small Parts Quotes - Page 4

• I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

  Michael Biehn

  Play, People, Care

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

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• I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.

  Sangharakshita

  Ideas, Empires, Relation

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• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Average, Dollar Bills

  "Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Beach, Hero

  "FactCheck.org is Sponsored by Decidedly LEFTIST Organization: ANNENBERG Public Policy Foundation" by Biochemky, www.freerepublic.com. October 13, 2008.

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• Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Race, Long, Gold

  William Stanley Jevons (1931). “The Theory of Political Economy”

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• Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Country, Cities, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Pride, Train Of Thought, Track

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press

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• But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Crazy, Believe, Wonder

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me.

  Peter Greenaway

  Powerful, Moving, Technology

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• Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

  Halldór Laxness

  Lying, People, True Or False

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• I've had small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures.

  Candy Darling

  Bigs, Big Picture

  Candy Darling (2015). “Candy Darling: Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

  Barack Obama

  What Matters, People, Earth

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.

  America Ferrera

  Voice, Littles, Way

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• In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Emotional, Creating

  "Andy Serkis on Who Sends Him Hate Mail; Why Oscar Should Rethink Animated Category (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because theyre the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. Im responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

  Shoshannah Stern

  Vision, Directors, Responsible

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• What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

  Sander Levin

  Has Beens

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• If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

  Rick Pitino

  Night, Engagement, Want

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

  Nellie McKay

  Love Is, Fleeting, Emotion

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Powerful, Accomplishment, Generations

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• I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

  Anne Hathaway

  Long, Sound, Actors

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Lying, Father, Dark

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• Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

  Thomas Kinkade

  God's Plan, Painting, Used

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• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

  Alec Guinness

  Play, Lucky, Roles

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

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