Two Bit Quotes

• I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

  S. E. Hinton

  Fun, Real, Pride

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.110, Penguin

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• Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

  George MacDonald

  Stars, Eye, Night

  George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

  Jim Butcher

  Night, Two, Shooting

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs”, p.79, Penguin

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• I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Two, America

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• I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.

  Johnny Carson

  Kids, Skills, Two

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I wrote and directed a movie called Two-Bit Waltz.

  Clara Mamet

  Two, Waltz, Bits

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• I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.

  Jack White

  School, Kids, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Baby, Men

  "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 188), 1950.

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• But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Attitude, Mistake

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• People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived - whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman.

  Junot Diaz

  Strong, Two, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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