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• Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.

  Jethro Tull

  Art, Gun, Media

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• I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

  Alice Waters

  Spring, Onions, Littles

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• ... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.

  Karen Tayleur

  Heart, Car, Finals

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• ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Brain, Population

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• Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Religious, Catholic

  Song: Catholic Girls

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• Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

  Paula Cole

  Religious, Religion, Atoms

  Song: God Is Watching, Album: Amen, 1999

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• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  Nancy Grace

  School, Georgia, Study

  "The Golden State Warriors, Contenders Or Pretenders: The 'Meet The Press' Roundtable". "Meet the Press: NBA Edition" with Chuck Todd, theclassical.org. January 26, 2015.

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• When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

  Josh Gad

  Kids, Changing Your Life, Responsible

  "Gad & Rannells: A Blessed Union". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.playbill.com. August 3, 2011.

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• There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.

  Lena Headey

  Tattoo, Artist, Thinking

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• I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Swings, Years, Long

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• Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.

  Tom Hooper

  Mother, Kings, Reading

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Animal, Pet, Littles

  "Carrie Ann Inaba Picks Her Ultimate DWTS Contestant, and Admits: 'I've Thrown Up Before Every Show'" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.

  Chanel Iman

  Hate, People, Gains

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• The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Opportunity, Space, House

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• Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Enormous, Paradoxical

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• Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Cities, Car

  "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

  George Saunders

  Goal, Mind, Trying

  "This week in fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Jobs, Nice

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

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• I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

  Sissy Spacek

  Brother, Climbing, Tree

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• Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Good Work, Twinkling, Galaxy

  Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

  Dick Wolf

  Art, Cutting, Discipline

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• I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

  Brock Yates

  Children, Two, Four

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• The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Hinduism, Aspects Of Life

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• I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Important, Hollywood

  "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

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