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“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!”

“These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.”

People Thinking Littles I Can Ideas Bigs Cutting Busy Budgets Meat Mice Annuals Big Ideas

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.”

Thinking Littles Important Might Goes On Breaths Lifetime Tiny Reincarnation Succession

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.”

Thinking Needs Littles Doe Producers Meat Packages Humane Neat Carnivores Humane Way

Author:Julia Child

“I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.”

People Thinking Mind Littles Long Bigs Might Used Levels Attention Company Deeper Bother Cycles Lots Of Money Underestimate Underestimated Big Companies

Author:J. Robbins

“And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.”

Thinking Littles States Running Kids President United Steps United States Brooklyn Humbling

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“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

“Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.”

People Thinking Want Littles Sometimes Film Can Do Audience Fields Advantage Harder Yeah Meetings Hbo

Author:Charlize Theron

“I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.”

Thinking Writing Wells Littles Abstract

Author:Ryan Adams

“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

“I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.”

People Ifs Thinking Littles Bigs Religion Asks Heaven Week Honest Concepts Stores Department New Things Neighbour Department Stores

Author:Erich Fromm

“Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.”

Thinking Should Littles Real Done Criticism Justification

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

“Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would be actually on the lot somewhere and some guy with a loud sports jacket would be sizing me up...kinda lookin' around goin--maybe kickin my knees. Looking behind me going: That looks a little bashed in back there...Yeah. You mind if I check under the hood?" 'Well yes I do! Thank you very much.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Wells Looks Littles Body Would Be Guy Sports Behinds Car Yeah Checks Loud Knees Trading Jackets Hood Analogies

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“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

“I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Can Do

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.”

Thinking Way Littles Care Hate My Own Female I Hate Males Reach Out Females And Males

Author:Christine Lagarde

“The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.”

Thinking Feels May Littles Sometimes Artist Business

Author:John Ruskin

“Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.”

Thinking Littles Doe Seems Order Aspect Critics Critical Superiors Assumption Criticize Scope Critical Thinking

Book:I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

“When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Littles Mother Girl Chinese My Children Soup Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“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

“I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.”

Thinking Feels Littles God Names Answers Driven Arlington

Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson

“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Doe Reality Force President Chance Teach Clear Threatened Saddam Diplomacy Hussein

Author:Tony Blair

“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

“I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.”

Thinking Littles Said Percent Patriotism Bottles Swedish Ketchup

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.”

Thinking Giving Littles Different Left Interest Study Subjects Months Highest Rivers Edges Angle Bending Motifs Plentiful Different Angles

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.”

Thinking Littles Done Character Spirit Speak Given Hurt Angry Charity Ill Proof Considering

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.”

Thinking Children Littles Childhood Sight Saving Thrones Loafing

Book:Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces

Source: Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces

“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.”

Thinking Littles Parent My Family Devoted

Author:Lady Gaga

“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Has Beens Real Country Nature Walks Rocks Painting Paint Clouds Studios Woods Each Day Living Things Diagrams

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.”

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Oh, it was a disaster, .. It went down like a lead balloon. I don't know why. I had thought the women in the audience deserved a little bit of something else after watching all those beautiful women. But I think they were shocked. Although the guys did dance nicely.”

Thinking Knows Littles Beautiful Guy Bits Audience Little Bit Disaster Shocked Beautiful Women Balloons

Author:Barbara Lee

“I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.”

Thinking Littles Doors Magic Swim Pool Sharks

Author:Christina Ricci

“It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm willing to take them further. I think it will be a good thing to keep them in the program.”

Thinking Children Littles Has Beens Willing Program Good Things My Children Montessori

Author:Connie Smith

“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.”

Thinking Mind Littles Soul Body Spirit Imagination Sleep Little Things Closed Mind

Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.”

People Thinking World Needs Littles Happens Today Values Left Judging Achievement Happenings Busy Speed Things Happen Meaning Of Life Little Time Time Left Little Time Left

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“Each situation has to be handled as a unique situation. But I think if you want your guys to stay in school and graduate and one of these opportunities comes along, you have to be willing to work with him, you have to give a little.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Littles School Guy Opportunity Situation Willing Unique Graduates Uniqueness Stay In School

Author:Charlie Weis

“I guess I'm a little different. I think being unique is different.”

Thinking Littles Different Unique Uniqueness Being Unique

Author:Michelle Wie

“When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.”

Thinking World Littles Real Air Car Television Painting Activity Paint Speed Absurd Glorious Real World Squares Sunlight Canvas Animation Motor Fresh Air High Speed Worlds Apart Motor Cars

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.”

Thinking Trying Children Littles Ideas Wanted Felt Bits Animal Fellows Tiny Cute Mice Do The Best Charlie Indebted Chaplin Wistfulness

Author:Walt Disney

“Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized”

Thinking Giving Littles Made Light Earth Father Sun Planets Moon Regard Shining Ignorant Evening Vain Spheres

Author:Brigham Young

“Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Hard Play Ought Sick Lovely Hungry Throwing Oregon Demure Hussies

Author:Tom McCall

“You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.”

People Thinking World Littles Beautiful Race Cities Wonderful Car Shoes Hills Bridges Friendly Sunlight Sailing San Francisco Cables Pacific Beautiful City Sardines Chinatown

Author:Dylan Thomas

“I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.”

Thinking Littles Tolerance Laziness Incompetence Sloppy

Author:Michael E. DeBakey

“I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.”

Thinking Littles School Choices Bits Acting Class Succeed Little Bit High School My Family Intelligent

Author:James Gandolfini

“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”

“We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.”

Thinking Want Littles Running House Fire Cutting Tree Consumerism Coal Overconsumption Build A Fire

Author:Will Rogers

“I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Children Littles Together Wish Grows Growth Space Rooms Growing Plant Maximum

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words