"You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him."

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Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.57, Penguin

Melissa Bank

#Littles Quotes #Fit Quotes

“Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.72, Basic Books
“A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.”
“I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities, and I was just a girl from Idaho.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.”
“...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!”
“A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.”
“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 7-8), 1947.
“This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.”

Source : Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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