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"Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay."
"I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need."
"Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes."
"Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough."
"Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio."
"Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer."
"Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment."
"I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it."
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
"I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do."
"The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong."
"The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp."
"in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power."
"I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little."
"Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me."
"Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers."
"I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit."
"God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
"A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour."
"England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country."
