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• It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you'll never surf again was gone in one wave.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Joy, Doubt

  Bethany Hamilton (2004). “Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were there as part of an event. When you're a songwriter, you are the event. So it's a little bit of a different focus.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Writing, Years, Focus

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• There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.

  Brandi Carlile

  Believe, Writing, Vintage

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• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

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• I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Writing, Easier

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• For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

  Sean Lennon

  Music, Inspiration, Writing

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• It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.

  Neil Lennon

  Dark, Light, Knowing

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• A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Crazy, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

  Alan Cumming

  Depression, Fog, Talking

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• Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

  Julie Delpy

  Depression, Psycho, Mental Illness

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• Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

  Janet C. Long

  Depression, Crazy, Littles

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Agency, Looks

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• When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Smile, Order, Faces

  1942 Pilote de guerre.

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• But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more'.

  Ali Larter

  Love, Anniversary, Mom

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• At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

  Imelda Staunton

  Envy, Looks, Exotic

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• I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

  Rachel Bilson

  Hair, Europe, Envy

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• Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest... Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.

  William Hanes Ayres

  Flying, Hearing, Problem

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• It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

  George Sand

  Jealous, Doubt, The End Of The Day

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.17

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• For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Motivational, Attitude

  "How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part IV".

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• The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Special, Littles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 55, 1799.

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• You have to make a bet one way or another. We believe that overall demand is going to continue to grow, and its absolutely being fueled by the Internet. If anything, we're just building a little bit ahead of the curve. There's clearly a curve toward growth, and the question is 'How do you intercept that?' We've decided to intercept it as aggressively as possible.

  Paul Otellini

  Believe, Curves, Growth

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• I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.

  Sheila Heti

  Christian, Brother, Jesus

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• Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself!

  Manuel Neuer

  Add, Useless

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

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• I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

  Sundar Pichai

  Secret, Add, Four

  "New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. May 13, 2013.

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