Little Bit Quotes

• We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Jobs, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

  John Malkovich

  Fabric, Littles, Lunatic

  "Wearing John Malkovich" by Teo Kermeliotis and Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2010.

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• Everything that I have done has always been predicated on doing the best that I can with the ability that God has given me, trying to reach as far as I possibly can. And if I fall a little bit short, then I'm still farther ahead than if I hadn't reached at all.

  Don Shula

  Fall, Trying, Done

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• It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

  Ryan Adams

  Fun, Nice, Heart

  "Ryan Adams Strikes Back!". Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Mind, Littles, Togetherness

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• If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

  Rob Corddry

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

  Ray Charles

  Dream, Crazy, Littles

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• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Fall, People, Littles

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.78, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.

  James M. Cain

  Dog, Beer, Rivers

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• I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Children, Heart

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• What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

  E. B. White

  Mean, Thinking, Would Be

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• It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I heard her. When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Love You, Thinking, Magic

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Believe, Love You

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• ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.

  Lionel Shriver

  Life, Thinking, Attachment

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books

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• Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

  June Jordan

  Running, Hurt, Good Life

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.105, Basic Books

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• Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Writing, Intelligent

  "Player Piano". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1952.

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• Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

  Ann Brashares

  Happiness, Being Happy, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 01, 2012

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• I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, People, Appreciate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.23, Penguin

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• All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

  James M. Barrie

  Cheer Up, Dust, Needs

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• "You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Fun, Mean

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• [I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Oatmeal, Littles, Bowls

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