"If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked."
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"Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest."
"For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive."
"It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with."
"He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving."
"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
"A little rebellion is a good thing."
"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better."
"Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones."
"Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege."
"When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing."
"I've met little meanness, wherever I went."
"We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid."
"Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!"
"I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl."
"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things."
"I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality."
"Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice."
"Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away."
"I only know how little I know"