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“Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.”

World Ends Problem Might Earth Asks Heaven Bits Saint Saving Faithful Gates Peter No Problem Sticky Saint Peter

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.”

World Kind Littles Doe Order Bits Little Bit Priorities

Author:James Lafferty

“I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.”

World Littles Book Different Universe Bits Couple Little Bit Built Comic Comic Book Leniency Different Universes

Author:Jeremy Renner

“I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.”

World Littles Bits Nice Mom Balance Little Bit Adults Dinner Cooks

Author:Keri Russell

“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

“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”

World Littles Bits Cold Little Bit Mercy

Author:Pope Francis

“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

“Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“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

“Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.”

World Way Bits Fiction Science Fiction Philosopher Pops Didactic

Author:Brit Marling

“I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.”

World Trying Kind Littles Country Bits Records Little Bit Prepared Save The World Johnny Appleseed

Author:Don McLean

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”

People World Years Littles Kids Bits Difficult Term Stage Succeed Little Bit Lows Rate Starting Like Me

Author:Daley Thompson

“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I’m a bit of a goofball; I don’t have a lot of censors and I don’t have a lot boundaries and I’m trying to remember that the world is watching.”

World Trying Remember Bits Boundaries

Author:Ty Olsson

“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.”

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Author:Tommy Wallach

“The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.”

World Years I Can Character Stories Lasts Force Bits Involved Because I Can Cerebral

Author:Jason Gann

“Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.”

World Bits Violence Keys Argument Claims Defense Driven Ideology Around The World Britain Oppressed

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.”

People World Trying Mean War Today Political Bits Violence World Today Political Systems Obscenity

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get a job? Not yet. Go out and do some crazy stuff. Don't hurt anybody including yourself, but take some risks. Travel a little bit. Make big mistakes that you have to apologize for. Do stuff that will make you relatable to the world. And whatever jobs you settle into, you will be better at it, for it.”

World Trying Mean Littles Bigs Jobs Stuff Bits Hurt Mistake Risk Crazy Little Bit Including Settling Finding Yourself Apologizing Relatable Big Mistake

Author:Megyn Kelly

“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.”

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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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“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

“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.”

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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

“The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.”

World Language Bits Pieces Figures Degrees Picks Constructs Barbara Bits And Pieces Vernacular Pictures And Words

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.”

World Remember Bits Support Player Cups Dutch World Cup Belgium Holland Denmark

Author:Simon Kuper

“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”

World Humans Soul Bits Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Nerves Broads Strain Curtains Human Soul Ontology

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.”

“We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.”

People World Littles Bits This World Depends Little Bit Yoga Accomplish Karma Depressing Discouraged Karma Yoga Before Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.”

People World Want Important Mother Actors Asks Bits Dad My Dad Ask Me Impressive Phenomenal

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .”

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Author:Bear Grylls

“Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!”

World Bits This World

Author:Nichiren

“My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.”

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Author:Jennifer Garner

“I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“I do Comic-Con and stuff all over the world. They can be taxing and they can take it out of you a little bit, but it's just great for the fans. They get such a kick out of it.”

World Littles Stuff Bits Fans Little Bit Comic Kicks Comic Con

Author:David Anders

“Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.”

World Way Reality Bits Vision Worry Struggle Serious Demand Intellectual Understood Tiny Bites Scholar Flawed Patches Birthright Mayhem Pedants

Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.”

World Mind Children Nations Bits Opinion Issues Public Opinion Private Life Nursery

Book:Character. Repr

Source: Character. Repr

“You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.”

World Ends Jobs Next Actors Causes Bits Waiting Careers Strange Profession Bridges Thrown

Author:David Oakes

“I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.”

World Littles I Can Bits Interesting Environment Benefits Little Bit Studios Contemplation Antidote

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.”

Knows World Should Mind Looks Made Ends Remember Bits Sin Poor Clear Saws Trouble Taste Creatures Mouths Conscience Should Have Fellows Casts Heavy Ems Mischief Breeding Workmanship

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”

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Author:James Spader

“[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.”

“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.”

“As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.”

Thinking World Bits Comedy Becoming

Author:Bobby Lee

“You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.”

World Bits Color

Author:Alva Noe

“If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.”

Ifs World Bits Cities Wealthy Ruined Snakes Poke

Author:Robert E. Howard

“We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.”

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