"People like to make children into little grown-ups."
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"It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it."
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"Maybe some guys were looking at that ranking a little bit too seriously."
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"I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?"
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"I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life."
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"I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards."
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"For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money."
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"I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger."
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"Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?"
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"I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too."
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"Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to."
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"The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth."
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"It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more.""
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"I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like."
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"We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves."
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"Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?"
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"I think that a lot of times, I trust people I shouldn't, and it turns out right, and it makes me feel a little better about it."
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"I learn a little more and I change a little bit"
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"I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny."
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"Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says."
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