“Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesImportantUseProblemMightBitsToo MuchMediaLittle BitAskingConservativeOilDryAlsMainstreamBiasAl QaedaMainstream MediaHummus Author:Al Franken
“I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.” WantLittlesSometimesGirlBitsLinesBoysFitLittle BitJeansSkinnyBoy And GirlHuskies Author:Mark Indelicato
“I want to say to all you Scribes, Pharisees, heresy hunters, all of you that are going around pickin' little bits of doctrinal error out of everybody's eyes and dividin' the Body of Christ...get out of God's way, stop blockin' God's bridges, or God's goin' to shoot you if I don't...let Him sort out all this doctrinal doodoo!...I refuse to argue any longer with any of you out there! Don't even call me if you want to argue...Get out of my life! I don't want to talk to you...I don't want to see your ugly face!” IfsWayWantLittlesBodyEyeFacesBitsChristLittle BitErrorsRefuseUglyArguingBridgesCall MeHuntersHeresyBody Of ChristPhariseesScribesUgly Face Author:Paul Crouch
“It is very simple, Messi is the best in the world, and if you give him a little bit of space, he can do whatever he wants.” IfsWorldWantGivingLittlesBitsCan DoSimpleSpaceLittle BitMessi Author:Neymar
“I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. I adore Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. I've always been a big Oscar Peterson fan. I've branched out a little bit more in rock-and-roll, but that's maybe because I'm 50 years old and I can now listen to Steely Dan again without shame. I adore the Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All that's been fun to get back into. But I'm no longer interested in the Doobie Brothers.” WantYearsLittlesMadeStillsI CanBigsYoungFunBitsFansRocksBrotherLittle BitSickShameGratefulJazzGet BackOscarsRock And RollAdoreRevivalIpodsAnything And EverythingCrosbySteely Dan Author:Thomas Hampson
“If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.” IfsWantLooksLittlesSeemsKidsBitsGenerationsLittle BitScaryDrivenThis Generation Author:Kim Basinger
“Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7. It was too oppressive. So, we were like, "How can we get out? Let's see their lives, a little bit." That was really fun.” WantYearsLittlesFunBitsOur LivesHugeLittle BitPrison Author:Jenji Kohan
“I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.” ThinkingWantTryingKindLittlesStillsFilmBitsLetting GoLittle Bit Author:Joe Swanberg
“If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsLittlesNightBitsProcessLinesInterestingCreativityDoorsLittle BitRestaurantsProgrammingContinuingOutlookCounting Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.” KnowsWayWantNeedsLittlesFilmBitsLinesToo MuchFocusTelevisionDisciplineLittle BitDiscoveryMarkPaceFactoriesRelaxedNurturing Author:Shannyn Sossamon
“Sometimes I have to criticize guys to try to make it fun, I mean, I'm out there trying to bust other people. I want all these guys to do well, but when they do something stupid or don't play well, I try not to kill 'em, I try to make 'em laugh a little bit.” PeopleWantTryingWellsMeanLittlesSometimesPlayGuyFunBitsLaughingStupidLittle BitEmsCriticize Author:Charles Barkley
“Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.” WantLittlesBitsLittle Bit Author:Leighton Meester
“I have to reign in my personality a little bit. Sometimes you want to go more colorful, but that's not my job on the [Grimm] show. My job is to be the center of the show, and the further you move out the more it can get wild.” WantLittlesSometimesShowsJobsMovingBitsPersonalityLittle BitReignColorfulGrimm Author:David Giuntoli
“A lot of actors say that no villain wants to be a villain, generally. They don't might being evil, maybe, but they have an agenda that they can justify. Otherwise, a little bit of that tension goes, if you're just a villain and everyone hates you because you're mean.” IfsWantMeanLittlesMightHateEvilActorsBitsLittle BitTensionJustifyAgendasVillainHate You Author:Liam McIntyre
“Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats or Republicans or conservatives or liberals. Most Americans live their lives that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often it's something they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things get done every day that are only made possible by the little, reasonable compromises.” WantLittlesMadeDoneBitsImpossibleRepublicanLateLittle BitDemocratCompromiseReasonableImpossible Things Author:Jon Stewart
“I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.” PeopleWantLittlesBitsDramaLittle BitNo Drama Author:Mary J. Blige
“I've never had the Lord say, 'Jesse, I think that car is a little bit too nice.' I've had vehicles and the Lord said, 'Would you please go park that at your house. Don't put that in front of my house. I don't want people to think that I'm a poor God.'” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesSaidHouseBitsPoorLordNiceCarFrontsPleaseLittle BitParksVehicleToo Nice Author:Jesse Duplantis
“I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of this information you realize that they are just people and that actually takes away a little bit from the aura of somebody.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesSometimesBitsRealizingInformationBandLittle BitAurasMystique Author:John Bush
“I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.” PeopleWayWantYearsLittlesWantedBitsWifeWonderfulLittle BitTownsSouthWinterMy WifeEastCompromiseChicagoBrutalCoastEast CoastDelaware Author:David Bromberg
“I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit. But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them. It doesn't always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you're playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that's sort of an expensive proposition.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsTryingLittlesLongEnoughJobsGamesStuffBitsBandMajorsLittle BitLong TimeResourcesBiggerRadioSpendingVideoLabelsExpensiveMore MoneyTranslatePropositionsBetter Jobs Author:Adam Schlesinger
“Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.” WantMayLittlesFeelingsBitsHurtCareersHugeEgoLittle BitNegativeTrackDisasterRuinsFeedbackHurt FeelingsBruisedNegative Feedback Author:Charles Koch
“I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.” WantLittlesProblemPoliticalFoundBitsLeaderLittle BitOptimismDepthSurprisingPolitical LeadersCheerleader Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I want to help people understand themselves a little bit better, to stop being so critical and judgmental of themselves, and to help them understand why they are going through some of the difficult things in their lives.” PeopleWantLittlesHelpingBitsDifficultLittle BitCriticalDifficult ThingsJudgmental Author:Echo Bodine
“Jodie Foster did it, Natalie Portman did it. I think it's entirely possible to juggle university with filming... I actually think going to university will make me a better actress. The experience of living like that, working to deadlines, living with other students. It's all the things I want. There are actresses who don't know about things like doing their own laundry and getting a bus. I'm not going to be like that. For me, this is just the beginning. I've only shown a little bit of what I can do. There is so much more to come.” ThinkingKnowsWantLittlesI CanBitsCan DoStudentsLittle BitUniversityActressesBusDeadlineLaundry Author:Emma Watson
“If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.” IfsWantTryingWellsLittlesIdeasEndsSeemsAsksBitsLittle BitHappeningsConnectedDevelopingAsk MeAbstractThemeLike SomethingChoose Me Author:Wes Anderson
“Comedians are - at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of people that lack a little bit of - we're very insecure, and we want to be loved and liked by everybody. And you know, I could check my Twitter and there could be 150 people that say wonderful things. There'll be one person who says something negative. And all we focus on is that negative.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesPersonsEndsBitsFocusWonderfulLittle BitNegativeChecksBunchComedianThe End Of The DayInsecureWonderful Things Author:Russell Peters
“We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.” PeopleThinkingWantMayLittlesDonePastSuccessWinningBitsLinesFocusLittle BitBottomChampionshipYankeesBottom LineNew York YankeesYankee Stadium Author:Derek Jeter
“Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesDifferentStoriesFilmBitsTermDifferencesTelevisionLittle BitScriptsCastsDimensionsWant MeBattlefieldsMeadowsYou Want MeInsertHorizontalTaj MahalMahalLive TelevisionFilm WritingLiterary Terms Author:Rod Serling
“I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesBookFeelingsFacesBitsLittle Bit Author:Janet Evanovich
“It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.” WorldWayWantLittlesHouseNationsBitsUnitedClearChangedCitizensLittle BitWorthyPhrasesUnited NationsGlobalizationGlobal CitizenNicaragua Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore
“I want to write a score for a film. It can be a proper film, maybe for a film kind of like... I saw that movie 'Drive', or a bit of a 'Blade Runner' vibe. A little bit sci-fi, but I don't know. I've just always wanted to write a score for a film.” KnowsWantWritingKindLittlesWantedFilmBitsSawsLittle BitScoreSci FiRunnersBladesBlade Runner Author:Flume
“I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.” ThinkingWantTryingLittlesChoicesNextCausesBitsLittle BitDirectMatureJumping Author:Brett Ratner
“So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass or something. And you put the glass up to the wall, and you can hear through the wall a little bit more of the song - maybe just the middle bit this time. You know, you managed to get in a little bit of the end. And so it goes on until - because you just got to - you really just want to sing it.” KnowsWantLittlesEndsSongBitsMiddleReadyWallGoes OnLittle BitWineGlassesWine Glass Author:Nick Lowe
“Tony Gonzalez is one of the best ever and changed the way tight ends have transitioned themselves from college to the NFL. He can do a little bit of everything. He's a guy who you want to model yourself after.” WayWantLittlesEndsGuyBitsCan DoChangedCollegeLittle BitModelsNflBest Ever Author:Virgil Green
“There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story.” ThinkingWayWantLittlesStoriesFilmBitsViewsLittle BitOur SocietyNot InterestedDistracted Author:Condola Rashad
“When you had the fangs in, you wanted to be a little bit careful that you didn't actually pierce the jugular, kind of like my experience shaving Alan Rickman, which by the way neither of us want to do again, especially Alan.” WayWantKindLittlesWantedBitsLittle BitCarefulFangsPierceShaving Author:Johnny Depp
“Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun.” WantLittlesSometimesShowsSeemsHappensFunBitsLittle BitForgivingExcitedAngleRowdy Author:Adam Cole
“Banks don't want certain asset classes, and that's created opportunities for private equity, hedge funds, Silicon Valley. In this case I think he was referring to some of the European banks shedding assets, and the big buyers are probably not going to be big American banks. Someone like Blackstone may have a very good chance to buy those assets, leverage them, borrow up a little bit, and do something good there.” ThinkingWantMayLittlesBigsCertainOpportunityBitsChanceClassCasesLittle BitVery GoodFundAssetsValleysEquityReferringSiliconBuyersSilicon ValleyGood ChanceHedge FundPrivate Equity Author:Jamie Dimon
“They [Chinese] have very smart, experienced people. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush. There was a little bit of a feeling that the stock market, which went from something like $4 trillion in valuation to $10 trillion, that the Chinese wanted that.” PeopleWantLittlesFeelingsWantedBitsLittle BitSmartPaintChineseBrushesVery SmartValuation Author:Jamie Dimon
“I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.” WantLittlesWantedBitsAttentionMajorsLittle BitNoiseLabelsGoing Away Author:Beck
“One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesSometimesEnoughSocialBitsRaceHigherCostLittle BitSouthSellingGood EnoughNot Good EnoughCongregationSelling Out Author:Michael Emerson
“I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where I don't use the high hat, and I don't use any crash cymbals. It just makes for an interesting sound because you don't really notice it when it's not there, but if it was there, you would definitely hear it.” IfsWantLittlesStillsUseStuffBitsSoundInterestingBandLittle BitHatsCrashStanding OutCymbals Author:Sune Rose Wagner
“So you have Sleep Stage One, Two, and then Three/Four. One is a little bit lighter stage of the quiet, non-REM sleep and then Three/Four is really deep, deep sleep. And what you want is, you actually want a number of - you want to go through all of these stages throughout the night.” WantLittlesTwoNightThreeBitsSleepNumbersFourStageQuietLittle BitWhat You WantLightersReally DeepDeep Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.” PeopleWantKindLittlesIdeasMomentsThreeFunCausesBitsWaterWeekLittle BitSittingSundaySensationsSitting DownConsecutive Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.” WantFeelsTryingLittlesImportantBitsLike YouCostLittle BitWho I AmBeing YourselfProtectedRobots Author:Serena Williams
“And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s; certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.” WantLittlesPastCertainLeftBitsPaintingLittle BitDrawingRemindersMy Past Author:Robert Barry
“"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.” IfsWantMeanLittlesSaidHandsMovingActorsEasyBitsViewsLittle BitConceptsOkayWeightPressureWant MeComes And GoesYou Want MeTouch MeNudgeNo Pressure Author:Morgan Freeman
“That's always been my main anxiety - the people in the room. That's my massive stress - thinking that these people in the room are judging me. And, this time around, I've been able to think a little bit more clearly about that. I've been able to think "Well, no. They're here to enjoy a show," and I want to give them that. I want to give them their money's worth – for starters.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWellsLittlesShowsAbleBitsEnjoyRoomsJudgingAnxietyLittle BitStressMassiveJudge MeStarters Author:Ladyhawke
“If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.” IfsWantGivingKindLittlesUseAbleGuyBitsWonderCarLittle BitTrackFlashBad GuysWonder WomanSnuffCyborg Author:Ben Affleck
“I obviously understand that each team has the opportunity to prepare the balls the way they want, give them to the officials and the game officials either approve or disapprove the balls. That really was the end of it for me until I learned a little bit more about this .” WayWantGivingLittlesEndsOpportunityGamesBitsTeamLittle BitBallsOfficials Author:Bill Belichick