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“I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.”

Thinking Giving Humans Whole Bits Issues Danger Creating Scientist Legs Human Life

Author:Tony Abbott

“As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.”

Littles Different Facts Bits Views Little Bit Independent Democratic Colleagues

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.”

Littles Film Bits Tvs Little Bit Blur

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Each project changes you a bit.”

Bits Projects

Author:Kit Harington

“I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.”

Thinking Stills Self Actors Bits Doubters

Author:Kit Harington

“I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"”

Thinking Looks Littles Bigs Bits Cases Walking Little Bit Shoes Torture

Author:Charlize Theron

“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”

“We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.”

Littles Opportunity Given Bits Little Bit

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy. I want to do something that I would look at and go, "I don't know what to do!" The most exciting thing is when you're a bit scared, so I'm looking to find something that's really terrifying.”

Knows Want Looks Wanted Easy Bits Exciting Scared Careful Exciting Things

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.”

Believe Important Whole Culture Bits Separation About Yourself Fulfilling What's Important Tapestry

Author:Chita Rivera

“I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.”

World Years Has Beens War Done Kids Bits Five Four Dad Years Ago My Dad Beach War Of The Worlds Five Years World War Ii Four Years World War I Remembrance D Day

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.”

Knows World Littles Ideas War Stories School Bits Sides Taught Little Bit Resistance War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Unfamiliar

Author:Bill Nighy

“Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy. With recording, it's not really as organic as it can be. But I feel like I'm a lot more fluid, and I can be a little bit more aggressive.”

Way Feels Littles I Can Different Shows Energy Bits Little Bit My Favorite Honestly Performing Aggressive Fluid

Author:Sharon Van Etten

“The world of politics is divided between people who are introverts - who lose a little bit of energy out of each interaction they have so that by the time the day ends, after 1,000 interactions, they're exhausted - and people like Bill Clinton who are extroverted - who get a little bit of energy from each interaction.”

People World Littles Ends Energy Bits Loses Little Bit Bills Clinton Divided Interaction Introvert Exhausted

Author:Robert Reich

“In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.”

Thinking Littles Shows Bits Crazy Tvs Little Bit Capable Pressure Witch Tv Shows Being Crazy Cookers

Author:Sam Simon

“Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.”

Want Has Beens Artist Bits Blessing Albums Scary Admire Guidance Extras Involvement Debut Extra Time

Author:Skylar Grey

“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .”

Men Littles Bits Democracy Walking Paper Little Bit Crosses Paid Bottom Pencils Tribute Little Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat”

Ifs Care Bits Caring Fats Cooks Toil Fowl

Author:Horace

“Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!”

Doe Lying Bits Infinite Paint Likes Realism Smallest

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.”

Two Bits Patience Mice Cables Diligence Poor Richard

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.”

Bits Rich Eating Wit Fats Ribs Dainty

Author:William Shakespeare

“Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.”

Knows Names Lost Bits Noble Teeth Adversaries Treason

Book:The First Quarto of King Lear

Source: The First Quarto of King Lear

“The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.”

Firsts Bits Enjoy Color Bird Primaries Landscape Brown Gray Cheer Robins Hue Sparrows Bluebird

Book:The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout

Source: The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout

“Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.”

Littles Doe Enough Bits Differences Effort Achieve Little Bit Add Enormous Extras Spectacular Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.”

Littles Done Motivation Bits Can Do Powerful Effort Little Bit Draws Ordinary Extras Immense Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.”

People Knows Different Jobs Turns Literature Bits Company Heard Internet News Assuming Radio Evening Cables Turn-on

Author:Bob Schieffer

“Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.”

Thinking Needs Littles Art Bits Little Bit Art Is Madness Temperament Larger Than Life

Author:Laurence Olivier

“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.”

Ideas Stories Certain Bits Saws Television Particular News Tables Newspapers Encounters Breakfast Comment Articles Recalls Recognise

Author:Mark Z. Danielewski

“By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.”

I Can Two Film Bits Effects Harmony Patterns Drawing Exposing

Author:Norman McLaren

“for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!”

Enough Bits Christ Mountain Perfection Blue Sake Chuck

Author:Paul Gauguin

“It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.”

Littles Light Bits Little Bit Poetry Is Slow Down Slowing

Author:Mark Strand

“I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting.”

Thinking Littles Seems Bits Quality Worry Lovers Little Bit Mood Bad Mood

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Everybody exaggerates a little bit.”

Littles Bits Little Bit Exaggeration

Author:Bubba Watson

“I'm a bit down. Liza Minelli and David Gest, I don't know how it didn't work out. How can a man who likes other men and a woman who drinks not get along? The interesting thing is this - there is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minelli.”

Knows Men World Bits Interesting Know How Amount Drink Work Out Likes Beaten Interesting Things

Author:Jon Stewart

“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.”

Thinking Littles Moments Would Be Bits Term Lines Simple Saws Example Little Bit Draws Drawing Where You Are Tense Concentrating Ipads Limiting Yourself

Author:David Hockney

“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!”

Two War Together Film Bits Painting Photography Shots Photographer Photograph Iraq Newspapers Experts Chemicals Editing Iraq War Crumbling

Author:David Hockney

“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.”

Ifs Looks Art Hands Bits Paper Photography Cameras Video Bores Pencils Video Cameras

Author:David Hockney

“There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.”

Years Bits Nice Ancient Passing Passings Remembered Dropping Morale

Author:Prince Philip

“All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.”

Want Writing Reading Bits Missing Thousand Prose Modest Good Writing Good Reading

Book:Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

Source: Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

“For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.”

World Way Bits Offers Everyday Painter Abstract Collages Incorporating

Book:Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne

Source: Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne

“To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.”

Thinking Wells Looks I Can Bigs Bits Can Do Dance

Author:Paul McCartney

“You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.”

Ifs Needs Trying Matter Done Body Young Bits Realizing Teach Students Your Body Coaches Tendencies Going To Work Athletic Bad Health

Author:Reynolds Price

“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”

World Want Love Life Feels Trying Art Happiness Young Felt Bits Space Teacher Fans Retirement Freak Devoted Aspire Feels Just

Author:Lady Gaga

“Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?”

World Littles Bits Change Little Bit Changing The World

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.”

Bits Video Advertising Corporate Agency Plus Mtv Advertising Agencies

Author:John Lydon

“One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.”

Bits Daughter Lovely Pairs Flats My Daughter Implants

Author:Rod Stewart

“I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'”

People Art Song Bits Sides Cities Pieces Performances Radio Pops Queens Call Me Eccentric Pop Music Gaga Performance Art Queen Song

Author:Lady Gaga

“Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often”

Years Littles Would Be Bits Careers Couple Little Bit Court Be Good Down The Road

Author:Roger Federer

“It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.”

Dream Bits Secret

Book:Tales from Moominvalley

Source: Tales from Moominvalley

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