Bits Quotes

• I'm a bit of a tomboy.

  Miley Cyrus

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• This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Support, Pieces

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• As a group I thought we played connected. I feel like we had a lot of great shots, some great opportunities, and for us it is just bearing down a little bit and finishing. We believe in our team, for us we have confidence, we have respect and we know it is going to take a lot of hard work and playing together as a team.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Team, Believe, Hard Work

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• I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Power, Littles

  "Rita Cosby Live & Direct", www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2005.

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• Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Example, News, Littles

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.

  James M. Cain

  Dog, Beer, Rivers

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• I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon.

  Cate Blanchett

  Nice, Makeup, Simple

  "Meet the Real Cate Blanchett". Interview with Bobbi Brown, www.yahoo.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

  Katie Holmes

  Mother, Baby, Strong

  "Exclusive! Katie Holmes Talks!". Interview with Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. March 1, 2009.

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• I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so I basically said, 'I don't wanna be with you anymore,' and she cried. I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward.

  Justin Bieber

  Girl, Cocky, Phones

  "Justin Bieber: "I Dumped a Girl Over the Phone"". www.mtv.co.uk. June 03, 2010.

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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fashion, Cat, Tree

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'.

  Simon Le Bon

  Fake People, Worried, People

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• A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Giving, Police

  "The Threepenny Opera". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1928.

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• Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Hands, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Voice, Quality, Roosters

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• We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

  Shirley Jones

  Watches, Hardship, Assuming

  "Celebrity Big Brother: Producer Interview". FemaleFirst Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk.

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• Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Inspirational, Life, Joy

  "When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough".

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• Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

  Robert Breault

  Family, Pie, Perfect

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• A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

  Dan Millman

  Recovery, Tasks, Done

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• By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Roots

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• Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

  William James

  Science, Expression, Talking

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 9 (1890).

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• We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Memories, Science, Names

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.249, Oxford University Press

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• I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer. I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J.Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Goodbye, Fun, Crazy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beauty, Men, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be retained. And this is not difficult: it is just that we have not tried it, that's all. It is like swimming: if you have not tried it, it looks very difficult; it looks very dangerous too. And you cannot believe how people can swim because you simply drown! But once you have tried a little bit it comes easily; it is very natural.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Mean, Sleep

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