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I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy. -- Jonathan Pryce
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. -- Diane Lane
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. -- George Carlin
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Too much is just enough. -- Mark Twain
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Less isn't more; just enough is more. -- Milton Glaser
Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely -- Michael Dolan
Having just enough life to enjoy being dead. -- Jim Holt
A little too much is just enough for me. -- Jean Cocteau
It was just enough to sit there without words. -- Louise Erdrich
Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough. -- John Paul Warren
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. -- Stephen King
Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough. 2 Peter 1:2 -- John Paul Warren
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised. -- Epicurus
If you always do "just enough" you'll never have more than enough. -- Rob Liano
It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little. -- Darryl Sutter
You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid! -- Robin Williams
It's not just enough to change the players. We've gotta change the game. -- Barack Obama
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. -- Diane Ackerman
It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America. -- Dan Quayle
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing. -- Billy Graham
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got. -- Alex Steffen
Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move. -- Ryan Reynolds
I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record. -- Blake Shelton
I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune. -- Cameron Monaghan
In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning. -- Confucius
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love. -- David Mitchell
And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. -- Ray Bradbury
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless. -- Ernest Hemingway
It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country. -- Muriel Lester
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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. -- Gary W. Keller
I graduated with a class of 35 people. We had basically just enough people to actually have a play. -- Michelle Monaghan
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. -- Lynn Abbey
Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty! -- Will Rogers
Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk. -- Harry Leon Wilson
Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself. -- Emery Lord
My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more. -- Keith Sweat
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright -- David McCullough
It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. -- Eric Allman
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. -- Robert Breault
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings. -- Alber Elbaz
Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' -- J. D. Salinger
It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music. -- Rick James
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine. -- Aberjhani
Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work. -- Anna Quindlen
As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees's dog. -- Steven Weinberg
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work. -- Charles Bukowski
Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives. -- Chris Hodges
The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough. -- Steve McQueen
A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it. -- Tyler Perry
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it -- Karl Popper
I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed. -- Constance Marie
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself. -- Chris Daughtry
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. -- Marilyn Monroe
When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script. -- Mike Colter
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along. -- Megan Whalen Turner
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined. -- Remy de Gourmont
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them. -- Morgan Freeman
I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement. -- Justin Theroux
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote... -- Lord Byron
I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem. -- Charlie Munger
There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse. -- Aaron Watson
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s. -- Daryl Hall
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years. -- Janis Ian
I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep. -- Kip Thorne
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. -- Billy Sunday
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. -- Agnes Repplier
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children .[p. 15] -- Diane Ackerman
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough. -- Elie Wiesel
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them. -- Randy West
If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life. -- Steve Martin
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour. -- Fritz Zwicky
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. -- Manfred von Richthofen
From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters. -- Deborah Cox
Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference. -- Ralph Marston
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods. -- Diane Ackerman
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic. -- Chris Hardwick
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. -- Dalai Lama
How much do you love me?"She drew in a breath and let it out. "Too much.""Too much is just enough for this man.""And do you love me?" she whispered."I have always loved you. Always. You know that. -- Delilah Marvelle
During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back? -- Jacque Fresco
An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. -- Jeremy Irons
...I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty--guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard--but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us. -- Sheri Dew
...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery. -- Tyler Perry
A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it. -- Ben Affleck
...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well. -- Randy Alcorn
Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs. -- Henry Giroux
Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit. -- Jesse Harris
At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots. -- Keith Coogan
The gospel isn't just enough to justify the ungodly; it's enough to regenerate and sanctify the ungodly. However, only because (in the narrower sense) the good news announces our justification are we for the first time free to embrace God as our Father rather than our Judge. -- Michael S. Horton
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal? -- Rachel Carson
Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors. -- Richard Armour
All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip in and taste him. I needed a taste, needed to complete this fantasy of mine. -- Stephanie Witter
Good profiles mentioned characteristics that would probably be true for all of us, such as: "I want someone who will make me laugh." About Me sections with fewer than a hundred words tend to be clearly popular. Short profiles that express just enough information to pique someone's interest work best. -- Amy Webb
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair. -- Erich von Stroheim
It was enough just to sit there without words. -- Louise Erdrich
I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway. -- Don Knotts
If you want something hard enough, it just gets done. -- Billy Strayhorn
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. -- Werner Herzog
I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man. -- Mike Epps
For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it. -- Matt Cameron
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. -- A. J. Liebling
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. -- Israel Zangwill
If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it. -- Brian Kobilka
We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes. -- David Stern
If you want something bad enough, and you're having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way. -- Nick Goepper
I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough. -- Felicity Huffman
But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough. -- Elton John
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed. -- Richard Helms
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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