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“I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.”

Thinking Sometimes Whole America Bits Nice One Thing Groups Dog Discipline Musical British Alternatives Soulless

Author:Jon Lord

“I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.”

Thinking Values Social Bits Religious Views Standing Conservative Admire Conservative Values Religious Views

Author:Michelle Malkin

“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”

Thinking Way Littles Different Kids Able Wish Grows Bits My Own Growing Up One Thing Mystery Birth Little Bit Different Ways Farms Exposure

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.”

Thinking Needs Humans Bits Fire Missing Contact Fire Escapes

Author:Jamie Oliver

“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.”

Thinking Want Done Bits Realizing Audience Teacher Teaching

Author:Jamie Oliver

“My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.”

Thinking Littles Helping Government Bits Poor Rich Taxes Little Bit Messages Hood Robins Cameron Robin Hood Help The Poor

Author:Keith O'Brien

“I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Bits Periods Burden

Author:Leo Ornstein

“I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.”

Thinking Persons Play Felt Bits Type Handle Nightmare Take Me Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!”

Thinking Littles Ends Politics Bits Little Bit Add Potatoes Alright

Author:Dan Quayle

“I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.”

Thinking Actors Bits Interesting Rough Posh

Author:Damian Lewis

“I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Film Causes Bits Periods Little Bit Bunch Damage Packs Crew Finite Circus Movie Business Big Families Film Crew

Author:Francis Lawrence

“I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.”

Thinking Knows Years Looks Different Life Is Girl Bits Secret

Author:Francine Pascal

“These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.”

Thinking Guy Bits Sleep Harder Wake Up Train Legs Exception Other Guys Athletics

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.”

Thinking Littles Bits Scene Little Bit Scare Sweat

Author:Lily Rabe

“I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.”

People Thinking Want Feels Littles Bits Little Bit Appreciate Jazz Complicated Hostile

Author:Sonny Rollins

“No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.”

Thinking Way Writing Littles Actors Bits Little Bit

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.”

Thinking Wells Littles Character Bits Pieces Little Bit Bits And Pieces

Author:Phyllis Smith

“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.”

Thinking World Past Artist Bits Brain Information Computer

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.”

People Thinking Doe Sometimes Done Bits Sides Forget Media Managers Overlooked

Author:Gordon Strachan

“If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.”

Ifs Thinking Important Remember Fall Bits Roles Understood Falling In Love Wimps Baddies

Author:Mark Strong

“They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Made Different Done Bits Lines Doubt Changed Buddhism Little Bit Sexuality Casanova

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.”

People Thinking Two Hard Bits Practice Records Meditation Positive Thinking Health Buddhism My Friends Aids Longevity Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.”

Thinking Different Able Faces Names Bits Cases Pieces Please Pages Magazines Equipment Comes And Goes

Author:Geddy Lee

“I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Bits Comedy Little Bit

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...”

Thinking Needs Trying Littles Able Guy Bits Little Bit Live Your Own Life

Author:Marat Safin

“I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.”

Thinking Political Bits Fiction Science Fiction Get Away

Author:Rupert Sanders

“To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor.' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.”

Thinking World Littles Actors Bits Enjoy Models Odd Decent Stilettos

Author:Analeigh Tipton

“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.”

Thinking Knows Trying Looks Littles Play Film Felt Bits Acting Careers Know How Little Bit Manage Shells Shocked

Author:Lea Thompson

“I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.”

Thinking Whole Film Bits Interviews Frightened Reserved

Author:Alicia Vikander

“If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Has Beens Enough Asks Bits Successful Too Much Lucky Yeah What You Want Being Successful Shy

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.”

Thinking Kind Fun Bits Groups Television Lucky Doctors Costumes Doctor Who Props Eclectic Eclectic Style

Author:Lalla Ward

“I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.”

Thinking Littles Self Able Fighting Bits Walks Records Willing Pride Little Bit Sake Self Respect

Author:Ryan Adams

“In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.”

Thinking Matter Philosophy Bits Meditation Buddhism Ridiculous Fake Dull Fades Fade Away

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.”

Thinking World Kind Littles Important Kids Past Grows Bits Growing Up Little Bit Important Things Teenager Discovering Little Kid Shrinks Discovering The World

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.”

Thinking Way Self Bits Dangerous Critical Superiors Appeals Exceptionalism

Author:Al Franken

“I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Bits Little Bit Scared Intimacy

Author:Brit Marling

“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.”

Thinking Way Kind Book Matter Stuff Bits Sides Subjects Influential Subject Matter Refined

Author:Isaac Marion

“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.”

Thinking Feels Littles Long Doe Facts Running Able Young Bits Parent Havens Baby Little Bit Selfish Mates

Author:Nick Moran

“I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Bits Little Bit Definitions

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Jobs Three Bits Careers Four Crazy Position Finished Quilts

Author:Alfred Molina

“What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.”

“A woman needs to enjoy life a little bit more. Needs to think about family, needs to think about kids.”

Thinking Needs Littles Kids Bits Enjoy Little Bit Enjoy Life About Family

Author:Ernests Gulbis

“I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.”

Thinking Bits Band Worried

Author:Rod Stewart

“I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.”

Thinking Shows Reality Bits Awareness Mental Health Behave Extras Reality Shows

Author:Ronda Rousey

“I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.”

People Thinking Kind Bits Activity All Kinds Witchcraft Cautious Reacting

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.”

People Thinking Feels Littles Done Bits Little Bit Deserve Comes And Goes Overused

Author:Joe Johnston

“I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Believe Looks Littles Energy I Believe Bits Little Bit Casts Mojo Bad Energy

Author:Dileep Rao

“I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!”

Ifs Thinking Years Wells Doe Said Play Might Bits White Forget Judging Twenties Photographer Eight Nine Piano Minors Violin Exaggeration Nine Years

Author:Paul Strand

“The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but you didn’t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you’re a little bit less alone in the world. You’re part of this cosmic community of people who’ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”

People Thinking World Littles Book Happens Bits Community Little Bit Cosmic

Author:Tommy Wallach

“We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.”

Thinking Might House Bits Economy Path Bases Spending Employment Decline Consumption House Prices

Author:Ben Bernanke

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