“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
“Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.” NeedsGivingTryingYearsKindLittlesHardWould BeBitsActingWonderfulHard WorkEvolutionLittle BitGive MeEnjoyableChunks Author:Agyness Deyn
“I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.” ThinkingShouldYearsLittlesSometimesDoneMomentsWishGrowsBitsFiveOne DayTenLittle BitLet MeEvolveLive In The Moment Author:Gloria Estefan
“Human nature doesn't really change a lot. We haven't changed that much and politics haven't changed that much. It's still the same things we're debating today that we did 300 years ago, which is a little bit scary when you think about it.” ThinkingYearsHumansLittlesStillsTodayBitsHuman NatureHavensChangedLittle BitYears AgoScary Author:Nikolaj Arcel
“I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsLittlesHas BeensDifferentGuyActorsBitsRealizingLittle BitSittingYears AgoTendenciesRestaurantsKillers Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.” YearsLittlesBitsMonthsOfficeLittle BitClintonExpensiveControversyHometownLeaseOver 50 Author:Jay Leno
“The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.” TryingYearsFirstsLittlesNamesBitsMinutesTaughtOne DayLittle BitFinishedCall MeI Have LearnedAcademyNavalBack To WorkPrestigiousNaval Academy Author:Sam Smith
“I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.” YearsLittlesBitsLittle Bit Author:Dolly Parton
“In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.” YearsLittlesI CanLightChoicesBitsMorningLittle BitCandleSheepEvery MorningScratchesMeditating Author:Russell Simmons
“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 it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better represented how we sound live with more of a rock feel, which is the direction we've been heading. It's just an evolution of the band throughout the years. We worked on this record longer than any other record, so I don't know if "stripped down" is how I would put it; I think it is a little bit more raw sounding.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingYearsLittlesWantedFeltBitsSoundRecordsRocksEvolutionBandLittle BitHeadingsElectronics Author:Jason C. Miller
“My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.” ShouldYearsLittlesHas BeensGamesBitsCoupleHabitLittle BitShould HaveSwingsShould Have BeenBad Habits Author:Rory McIlroy
“For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingYearsLittlesStillsTwoDifferentGuyEnergyStuffBitsTeamDyingLittle BitDown AndYeahMonsters Author:Darryl Dawkins
“A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on or what kind of problems they have. And you know I'd feel much better if I know a little bit about the patient before I walk in the room, so I won't be too surprised.” IfsKnowsFeelsYearsKindLittlesProblemRememberBitsWalksRoomsHavensMonthsLittle BitMedicinePatient Author:William Davis
“Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.” YearsLittlesBitsFiveFeetTenLittle BitScaryFourteen Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.” PeopleYearsLittlesSometimesRememberBitsWhiteWonderCoupleLittle BitNewsYears AgoStrikesBonnets Author:David Sedaris
“And I remember that about three years before that, her first record had come out. And I just remember really liking this one song off it called "In My Bed" and being a little bit enamored. This, you know, this young kind of Jewish girl from North London, you know, I have the same thing - from a Jewish family from North London - with this incredible voice.” KnowsYearsFirstsKindLittlesRememberYoungSongGirlThreeBitsVoiceRecordsBedLittle BitIncrediblesLondonThree YearsEnamoredJewish Family Author:Mark Ronson
“It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to play one character for however many years, so it's nice, for an actor, to have a little bit of fun.” ThinkingYearsLittlesDifferentPlayCharacterShowsActorsFunBitsNiceLittle BitVersions Author:Candice Patton
“The impositions that this government is trying to put on now, it's the typical death by 1,000 cuts. We'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here. And it doesn't end the conversations for 25, 50 years. It starts the conversation again the next day what they're looking to take back.And really it's about freedoms.” TryingYearsLittlesEndsGovernmentNextBitsCuttingConversationLittle BitTypicalNext DayImposition Author:Sean Hannity
“I'm trying to make it a little bit more personal this time. All my shows are hodge-podges, and this one is no exception but this one delves a little more deeper into my life and my world. Hopefully it's funny. I did a version of this at Birdland last January and it's similar-ish to what I've done before. But I've been working on it all year; I did it out here in Los Angeles in a theatre and kept developing it. Hopefully it'll be better.” WorldTryingYearsLittlesDoneShowsLastsBitsLittle BitDeeperTheatreVersionsHopefullyDevelopingExceptionLos AngelesJanuary Author:Jason Graae
“I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.” YearsLittlesBitsSpaceBreakNeededLittle BitMachinesProgrammingSoftwareBatteries Author:Jamie Lidell
“I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.” ThinkingYearsLittlesStillsBitsLittle Bit Author:Peter Jackson
“My character was a homogenization of various things, whether it be the attitude of a Bruiser Brody, or the look of Nikita Koloff or the way that Nikita looked at the people. I took a little bit of what I liked and what I had seen throughout the years from everybody that I was entertained by and made it my own.” PeopleWayYearsLooksLittlesMadeCharacterBitsMy OwnAttitudeLittle BitVariousMade It Author:Bill Goldberg
“I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.” ThinkingYearsLittlesI CanEndsMomentsRememberNightFeltBitsViewsLittle BitPerformingGood Moments Author:David Gilmour
“I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fitting together. I was doing an event that they were sponsoring, and after a group of us went to dinner and we started talking a little bit more and one thing led to another.We all thought it might be a good idea to try to develop a show and as we started talking about the show that we might bring to air, it turned into doing a newsmagazine.” TryingYearsLittlesIdeasShowsMightTogetherBitsPresidentTalkingPiecesOne ThingGroupsAirEventsPossibilityCoupleLittle BitDinnerGood IdeasPuzzlesAcquaintanceFittingPuzzle PieceFitting Together Author:Ed Gordon
“I went to high school directly across the street from Carnegie Mellon, actually, and I knew people that were a couple of years older than me that went there. I was able to see shows in the drama department, and hang out there little bit, and it just felt like a natural progression. It was at the top of my list.” PeopleYearsLittlesShowsAbleSchoolFeltBitsNaturalStreetsCoupleDramaLittle BitHigh SchoolListsDepartmentHanging OutProgressionCarnegieCarnegie Mellon Author:Zachary Quinto
“I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.” IfsYearsLooksLittlesAgeThreeBitsSilenceRecordsLittle BitThree YearsProfile Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Given that level of responsibility with your 25-year old or 35-year-old chef, it's just quite nice to see how they handled that exposure. Not every chef deals with it properly; they get slightly excited, a little bit overconfident and then they miss out on the most important part.” YearsLittlesImportantGivenBitsLevelsDealsResponsibilityNiceMissingLittle BitExcitedChefExposureOverconfident Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.” WorldYearsFirstsLittlesDoneFilmLostBitsStageTelevisionLittle Bit Author:Eric McCormack
“There's always a little bit of disappointment. At the same time, number one, [Hillary Clinton] made a great choice. Secondly, I'm 41. And so I feel like - that I'm excited about the years to come.” FeelsYearsLittlesMadeChoicesBitsNumbersLittle BitClintonDisappointmentExcited Author:Julian Castro
“If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.” IfsKnowsYearsLittlesSaidStillsProblemLastsBitsBlackClassLittle BitYears AgoFolksDiscussionHigh Class Author:Barack Obama
“We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.” MenYearsLittlesMightBitsBlackWhiteLittle BitDollarsCaliforniaProportionCentsBlack WomenPenniesLatina Author:Patricia Arquette
“It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by Europe, that I think many Portuguese became a little bit more left-leaning, and so did I too, I could not not care about the situation. I had to deal with it in some way.” ThinkingWayYearsLittlesMomentsCareLastsLeftBitsDealsSituationPolicyLittle BitEuropeLast YearPortugalPortugueseAusterity Author:Miguel Gomes
“I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things smashing. I try to look for the happy memories from the brief time my parents were married, and I can't really recall that. From the start things were messed up, and I just kept moving through the years and trying to pick out the little bits of evidence that would help me prove to myself that it wasn't my doing. But it took finding out somebody really does love me, who's not my parents or a relative, to really know that I was loveable.” KnowsTryingYearsLooksLittlesDoeI CanHelpingAgeRememberMovingBitsParentMemoriesProveFindingsMarriedLittle BitPicksEvidenceHelp MeRelativeRecallsYellingMessed UpThrough The YearsSmashingHappy Memories Author:Jason Diamond
“A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin America in the 1990s. You can predict that some books will give you a thrill, but you can't predict the books that will hit you hard. It is a little bit like falling in love.” GivingYearsHeartLittlesBookHardAmericaFallBitsCoupleLittle BitYears AgoFalling In LoveLatinThrillNew YorkersLatin America Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.” YearsLittlesTwoStatesReasonEnoughBitsSidesUnitedUnited StatesProgressLittle BitCapacityClintonObligationAdministrationBombsPresidencyDiplomacyKoreaPursuedNorth KoreaMisleadMissilesHad EnoughBlockedUraniumPlutonium Author:Noam Chomsky
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.” YearsLittlesAbleYoungBitsOughtLittle BitModelsWeightStudiosDimensionsPotArrogantClayArrivingPotteryDaily Work Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.” YearsLooksLittlesMadeDifferentTogetherFormBitsSawsCuttingImagineLittle BitYears AgoDiedJoiningUpside DownExhibitionsShovelsSpadesVasesCatalogues Author:Warren MacKenzie