"Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you."
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"I felt like I kind of got to know [Elvis Presley], and got a little peek inside what was going on there. That was pretty amazing."
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"At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile."
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"It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place."
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"Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction."
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"For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional."
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"You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category."
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"Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy."
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"We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God."
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"You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive ."
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"-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again."
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"There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat."
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"Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram."
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"Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock."
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"We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped."
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"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."
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"I'm a nerd. I'm a little guy... the last guy you'd expect in a romantic movie."
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"A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture."
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"I've remade a few movies and they all have one thing in common: great endings. If you're going to remake something, make sure that ending is tight. It's a little less challenging, if you have a great ending. If you don't have a great ending, don't remake the movie."
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"I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one."
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