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• You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

  Van Morrison

  Knows

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• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Giving, Decision, Dimensions

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• Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

  Sam Altman

  Firsts, Scared, Starting

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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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• So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day - maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what you need to know: this is good, not bad, news for the program... Lots of people logging on and signing up on the very first day... is an early indication that it’s going to be fine, that plenty of people will sign up for the first year of health reform.

  Paul Krugman

  Years, Obamacare, People

  "Good Glitches". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. October 1, 2013.

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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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• 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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• I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

  Harry Styles

  Missing, Spoil

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• Marijuana grows naturally...Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural?

  Bill Hicks

  Marijuana, Thinking, Law

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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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• Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

  Drew Brees

  Years, Goal, Littles

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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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• I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Drama, Real, Successful

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom...an immaterial source and explanation...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Ideas, World, Information

  "Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information" edited by Wojciech H. Zurek, (p. 5), 1990.

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• I think ... that things are a little bit up for grabs right now.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Littles, Right Now

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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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• It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

  David Attenborough

  Believe, Two, Historical

  "Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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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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• And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

  Nigella Lawson

  Different, Literature, Way

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• I love hanging and drawing and quartering
  Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

  William Blake

  War, Drawing, Wells

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.160, Pearson Education

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