"The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice."
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"If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated."
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"Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler."
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"Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things."
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"How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!"
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"Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument."
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"Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars."
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"I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements."
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"Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more."
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"I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little."
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"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
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"Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself."
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"[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie."
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"People expect too much of one year and too little of ten."
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"I believe in everything - a little bit."
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"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
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"Gossiping is the plague of little towns."
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"This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love."
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"We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see."
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"Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand."
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