Quotes with small-minded

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  • Robert Bloch I have the heart of a small boy... It's in a glass jar on my desk.
    Robert Bloch
    American fiction writer (1917 - 1994)
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  • Agnes Smedley I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Cowley I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • A. S. Byatt I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
    Possession (1990)
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Art Linkletter I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bill Rancic I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Medley I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Adam Sandler I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Rancic I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately. I've been doubting my own existence.
    Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Art Linkletter I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Austan Goolsbee If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Horace If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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