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• Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.

  Blythe Danner

  Children, Air, Grandparent

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• I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

  Jay Kay

  Littles, Knees, Stage

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• Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

  Sue Kelly

  Airports, Benefits, Economy

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• I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

  Graeme Murphy

  Honesty, Thinking, Lakes

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• What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

  Nia Vardalos

  Attitude, Greek, Wish

  "TriBeCa Interview: My Life In Ruins with Nia Vardalos". Interview with Matthew-Lee Erlbach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2009.

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• If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.

  Howard Wilkinson

  People, Littles, Smarter

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• But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

  John Deacon

  Lifestyle, Changed, Accused

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• I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

  John Deacon

  Beach, Discrimination, Segregation

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• I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

  John Deacon

  Home, Touring, Wells

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• When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

  Alan Brennert

  Thinking, Odds, People

  Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.11, Macmillan

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• It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Personality, Together, Littles

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• I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Disappointment, Thinking, People

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• I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

  David Millar

  Thinking, Cycling, Dapper

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• Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

  David Feherty

  Lacrosse, Degrees, Looks

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• I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

  Carter Burwell

  New York, Looks, World

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• It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Dream, Different, Wake Up

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.82, Bottom of the Hill

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• We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

  James Dyson

  Silly, Naughty, People

  "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit.

  Pete Wentz

  Girl, Real, Believe

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• I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties ‘avec le bourgeois’ / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

  Cat Stevens

  Song, Stars, Party

  Song: (I Never Wanted) To Be a Star, Album: Izitso

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• If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

  Timothy Keller

  Trying, Add, Littles

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• Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

  Bear Grylls

  Games, People, Littles

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• Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

  Bear Grylls

  Luck, Trying, Matter

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• To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

  Randy Pausch

  Home, Blessing, Use

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• When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Moon

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• We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

  Hillary Clinton

  Giving Up, Order, People

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