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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
Salma Hayek

Love, Art, Everything

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
Lenny Kravitz

Old, Listen, Records

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
Roberto Cavalli

Big, Show, Fish

Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.
Marilu Henner

Food, Brain, Negative

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
Jason Reitman

Hope, Young, Personal

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Henri Poincare

Cannot, Chance, Fail

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.
Carrie Underwood

Husband, Parents, Lost

If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
Halle Berry

Life, Work, Real

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Gustav Mahler

Gay, Simply, Opera

I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Rock, Star

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson

Live, Place, Everybody

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod

Put, Greater, Large

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho

Life, Change, Someone

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.
Brett Favre

Life, Football, Old

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
Betty White

Long, Talk, Show

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner

Great, Artist, Picture

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett

Trying, Off, Started

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney

Diet, Living, Same

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain

War, Powerful, May

There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Milan Kundera

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
Roald Dahl

Father, Town, Broke

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.
Jonathan Sacks

Poor, Left, Bible

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
Jonathan Sacks

Faith, Time, God

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

Friendship, Big, Exchange

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman

Time, Daily, Ignore

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
Warren Beatty

Money, Job, Rich

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds

Children, Used, Memory

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.
Diane Kruger

Actually, Consider, Tomboy

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.
Diane Kruger

School, Angry, Father

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
Pete Seeger

Care, Turn, Took

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