Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Big Quotes from famous persons: Frank A. Clark, Bjarke Ingels, Sadie Sink, Honore de Balzac, Matt Cameron. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Big Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
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In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
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The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.
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I’ve never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it’s just spectacular. And it’s true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I’m this big believer that culture is not what you say, it’s what you do. Who cares about your PowerPoint and about what you’ve carved into your cornerstone? If it’s not being modeled, it won’t be readable.
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There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise.
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I was a small-town boy with big dreams.
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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You shouldn’t feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give themselves a big ol’ bear hug and treat themselves to some TLC.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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I feel like, at times, I’ve been seen as the dirty stepchild of Australian comedy. I think there’s a few people out there that are pissed off that I made it big overseas.
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Life is one big transition.
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Love is what makes the world go around. I know it’s a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives.
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Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
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Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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My whole life has been one big improvisation.
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The big ‘Aha!’ moment is that the trauma never goes away.
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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
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Confidence is everything, and the way you carry yourself, your posture, eye contact, all of that is such a big role in impressions, regardless of your size.
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When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us – he was a wild guy, big on jokes.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I always dreamed of making it big.
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What I realized is that it doesn’t matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it’s still the same thing. It’s still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.
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Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don’t overeat. I don’t develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don’t work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties – not using your brain, not using your body.
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That’s called a microphone. It’s a big sausage that picks up everything you say – and you’re starting early.
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High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
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I can’t read, I don’t know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
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I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it’s a really big swing that I don’t know if I’m going to connect on.
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It’s always the small people who change things. It’s never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn’t have a clue the day before.
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There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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If you think big, then it’s going to be big.
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The Internet is a big distraction.
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.
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You have to think big to be big.
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Girls’ weekend with the ‘Vampire Diaries‘ girls has become a big deal! It’s our quality time. It’s so much fun to unload and not feel guilty complaining or talking about your insecurities or bonding over things that you thought you were on your own about.
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I just think a big smile and feeling confident makes you beautiful.
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I’ve been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.
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The world is at a big risk from climate change. We have to come up with solutions, to bring in a sustainable economy.
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It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You’ve got your big commerce and you’ve got your small films that you’re more passionate about.
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I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it’s easier to capture the big picture at the end.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don’t know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’
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Communism is like one big phone company.
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Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.
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Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges,’ which require global solidarity.
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I feel like I have a big forehead.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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If you’re not big enough to lose, you’re not big enough to win.
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We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail.
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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A few good words don’t just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.
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All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‘the rich’ to pay ‘their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
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Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.
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I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
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I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.
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Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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My mother loved entertaining, and I’ve followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.
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I have no words to express and completely speechless to talk about him. I am a big fan of Vidyut.
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I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that’s because I do something. Big difference.
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If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that’s what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that’s what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don’t try to be authentic and real with themselves.
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I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
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I’m big on what’s in good taste.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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Even if you don’t have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.
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We’ve definitely had our share of ups and downs as a group, and there were times we’ve faced some pretty big challenges, but we were able to get through these times, which allowed our bond to grow stronger.
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Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
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Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
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I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
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I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life – to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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You don’t have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won’t get better and that I won’t have time to practice. To be called a ‘jazz musician‘ – it’s a big responsibility.
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I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don’t expect it to be.
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Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
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The very best Labor governments in our nation‘s history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
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I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
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There’s always going to be someone out there… who doesn’t believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you’re not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.
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If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.
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The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, ‘Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.’ But, you know, most people don’t speak out because they are frightened.
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The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it’s okay, because we can stay the course.
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I guess my critics say, ‘He must be crazy. Nothing can be that beautiful.’ But when you think that there are so many people around the world who have nothing, you realize how lucky you are to be making a living in the big leagues.
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What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that’s the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof – the same guy.
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Let’s face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.
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Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.
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I’m always pursuing knowledge; I’m a seeker of spiritual equilibrium – and music is a big part of that.
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It’s good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.
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Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.
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Same sex marriage, it’s not a big concern to me.
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I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
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Personally I don’t think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I want to be that Latin girl doing big things around the world.
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The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I’d be in one of those electronic scooters because I’d be too big.
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I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
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Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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I don’t care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.
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I’m a big advocate of drones.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
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I believe I’ve always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn’t do something because I was a girl.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.
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Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.
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I want people to dream big.
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Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
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We have time, there’s no big rush.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
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When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I’m pretty good at passing.
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I’m big on the studio. I like to stay in it 24/7.
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Later on in my life, it became a big theme: just being okay and comfortable to take the risk and to have really thick skin and realize not everybody is going to love your product. Get over it, and if you believe in it, keep going forward.
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There’s sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn’t matter if it’s Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That’s just as big of a tragedy for me.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
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In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it’s a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
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Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
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Small gestures can have a big impact.
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I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don’t mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn’t need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It’s stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I’ve ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!
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I’m a big, big fan of cheesecake, so I love baking that.
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If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.
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There’s a moment when you come to a certain point, and if you make the leap you get to the big leagues. But if you back away, you get stuck.
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A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
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I think I did a pretty good job – particularly when I was racing with Hakkinen. It was maybe the first time that I have been challenging with the big boys, and I really enjoyed it.
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If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.
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I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.
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It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
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See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
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My mom is proud of me. I just want to keep working hard so one day I can help my family. I am going to get a big house one day, and we all can stay in it and eat.
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As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don’t take that lightly; it’s a big responsibility.
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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don’t know the odds. It’s a big difference.
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Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
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I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they’re great lines and great titles.
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I like it when it’s nice and quiet. I’m not a big city person.
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People say, ‘Dream big!’ – but you have to think about the logistics. It’s not just coming up with a great idea; it’s how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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I love cartoons. I’m just a big kid.
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Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
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There’s nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.
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Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
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I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
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I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
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I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that’s the best business you can have.
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America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, D.C.
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I grew up in a big Italian family.
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Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
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There’s nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
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I’m a big cardigan sweater guy.
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If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
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For me, practice and discipline are the magic words to become big in any sport, especially soccer.
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Today the world is a big jungle.
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Yes, I’m from a very big family but it’s great. All my brothers are friends as well. We all grew up together and have great memories.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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It’s always special when you receive an award. Up here in the big leagues is special.
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I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
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It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
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Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others – how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
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To maintain our entrepreneurial spirit, we have to create a culture in which everyone remembers that every order, big or small – and every interaction, every moment – will define what our company is today and what it will become tomorrow.
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Everybody said you’re never going to win this whole Classic. You’re not strong enough. You’re big, you’re athletic, you’re fast – but you will never win this Arnold Classic. Those were the people who didn’t believe in me… I put in the work every single day – and here I am, three times champ!
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I’m an optimistic guy. I’m one of those big dreamers. I’m one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
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People like crap. It doesn’t matter. I think if you have a big mouth and you perform so-so, it is what it is. People are going to notice you more. Nice guys come last. Let’s say it like that.
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People are really hesitant about expressing that they don’t know something – but what’s the big deal? I’m not ashamed about that at all.
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Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household.
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The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors – including all of the big investment banks – bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.
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To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of ‘Big Issue’ sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them – or not, actually.
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I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn’t very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.
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I don’t want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.
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When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.
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Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
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Holding true to what you believe – even in a big city – is so important.
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I have a big head, so I can appreciate a good hat.
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Bangladesh is not a rich country, but we have a big heart.
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Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
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I love food. I’m a big food person. I’m really passionate about eating good food all the time.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There’s young actors and they’re put into these central roles and they’re commanding armies – but they can’t quite pull it off. I’d much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it’s a magical city – it’s big, sexy and very ‘cosmo’ with a small-town feel.
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I think the idea is that every time we perform Big Red Machine music it should be different somehow – like, different people, different songs maybe, definitely different versions of the songs.
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If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.
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I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.
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If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She’d swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.
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Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.
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We don’t really have any big family traditions; just spending time with each other is the most important part.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I’m not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I’m not talking about co-dependency, I’m talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.
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I’m a big fan of my father.
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Meat eaters don’t like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don’t like me because I say there’s nothing wrong with eating meat. It’s part of our evolutionary heritage! Meat has helped to make us what we are. Meat helps to make our big brains.
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I think the way we react to things is a big indicator of our character and what type of person we are.
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If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
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I’m a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
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The people who know me know: I am a good guy with a big heart.
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I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
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My brother’s my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London, though, so points off, but she’s wicked. And then my little sister is a little genius. She’s super talented and such a great person, always been far more mature and cool than me.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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I’m not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
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Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
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It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They’re all there for you. We’re willing those to you. Are you ready?
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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The DJ role, it’s never been a big thing for me.
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Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.
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Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
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I’m not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.
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Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
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I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.
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Students can’t dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits – or even paper, pencils, and paste.
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The big moments for me are moments when I can actually contribute.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
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I’m having a great time. It’s like I’m on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what’s happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I’ll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you’re going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.
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It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
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Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders – companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
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Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value… but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers… and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.
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I’m a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.
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Politics isn’t about big money or power games; it’s about the improvement of people’s lives.
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When I was on ‘The Real World,’ I moved back to Cleveland, and I had a choice: My dad was like, ‘You should stay in Cleveland and be the big name out here.’ I was like, ‘But no, Dad, I wanna be a WWE superstar.’
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture.
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Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.
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Don’t waste time on what’s not important. Don’t get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don’t dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you’d admire.
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I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I’ve been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I’m small but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
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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.
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
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Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude.
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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
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I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
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I’m a big dog fan. They’re the best. They make life better, although they’re hard to deal with. But complications in life are actually what make it fun.
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If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
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Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn’t religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.
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My cousin‘s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
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I’d like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
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I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
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You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you’re new.
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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
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My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I’m giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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It’s odd, that’s why I don’t like telling people I played field hockey. It’s real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, ‘Oh, you girl!’
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I’m a big candle guy.
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Leo Burke was an unbelievable trainer. Him and Tom Prichard. Tom Prichard was not a big guy. And I learned a lot from him.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
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I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It’s not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.
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Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don’t know that I’m an example. I hate to say, ‘Yes, look at me. I’m a good example of being Mormon.’ I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I’m a good example.
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Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn’t matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he’d find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.
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Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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I’ve got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn’t a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.
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I’m a big ‘Goosebumps‘ fan – ‘Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.’ My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.
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It’s not how big your pencil is; it’s how you write your name.
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
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We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
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Breakfast is a big deal. I love it.
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Just dream big. Go for it. There’s nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don’t let people put you down.
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I’m not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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All the big powers they’ve silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It’s inspired so many people and so much music – in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there’s a little bit of a romantic thing there.
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If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.
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Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn’t know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.
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I’m big. I’m strong. I’m fast. I have the hips. I have the footwork. I’m always trying to perfect my craft, and at the end of the day, I’m just a competitor.
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I’ve been a pretty big guy my whole life.
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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.
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I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
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When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we’d get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.
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To me, the Internet is a big scam.
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I was never really a nerd. I’m not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I’m a big movie and music buff. And I’m into sports.
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I honestly don’t understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It’s silly.
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When my girlfriend‘s away, I cook a big vat of meaty pasta and sauce and eat that for about a week. Then I eat out the rest of the time. When she’s home, we eat at home probably twice a week. I chop, she cooks.
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If you are bowling well and not getting wickets, it’s not a big issue. Sometimes I am economical, but not getting enough wickets. But if I am not bowling well and not getting wickets, then it’s a disturbing thing.
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Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
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I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
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I’m a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I’m pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I’m there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we’re all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.
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There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant… We need big change. We’ve got to get back control of our country.
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I’m still a, you know, a silly girl… a big kid.
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You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.
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All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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I’m not a big fan of food, but when I do eat, I like to eat.
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Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.
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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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The nameless loser in Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.
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To many people, ‘biodiversity‘ is almost synonymous with the word ‘nature,’ and ‘nature’ brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
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I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
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I’m a massive fragrance fan – I think fragrance is part of someone’s hygiene, and I’m a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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But if you can’t relish playing in big games like this then it’s not worth it.
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None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
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I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.
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You couldn’t enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.
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I’m trying to do big things. It doesn’t matter whether it’s on the field or off the field.
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Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.
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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.
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Saath Saath’ was my first big mistake!
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I’m a big believer that you surround yourself with good people which brings the best out of you.
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Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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We think big and we dream big.
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I am very excited – it’s a big opportunity for me to play for Manchester United, a new challenge for me. I will try to do my best.
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No problem is too big to run away from.
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
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Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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I’ve got a big heart and I believe in good karma.
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It’s cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don’t really be big on people looking at me.
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I’m a big, big, big techno dork.
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Money was a big differentiator when I was growing up, but I made sure it doesn’t stay that way.
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People can say what they want about me. But I’ve got a big heart and will keep going.
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I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field.
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I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
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I’m a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
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We only live once, so I want to think big.
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I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera – so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
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I’m a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.
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The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
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New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.
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When lorry drivers come up behind me and I’m cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
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I’m a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective – I feel things first, and then I think them through – and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel‘s nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.
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I’m a fun-loving guy. I enjoy my life. I have a big kid inside me.
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It’s a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.
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I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.
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‘Outlander’ is based on a group of books; there’s a slight fantasy element to it, but ours is authentic – we try to stick to historical accuracy as possible. Ours is about a small group of people and a core relationship rather than big armies.
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If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
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My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
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I don’t walk around big headed. I’m not a superstar.
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I didn’t come from any money, but even when I was on ‘Big Love’ – people think you’re on a series and you’re making bank.
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Vitiligo is just another difference, like freckles, big hair, tiny ears Everyone has differences.
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My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’
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In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
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Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.
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It does the American economy no long-term good to only keep the big box factories where we are now assembling ‘American’ products that are composed primarily of foreign components. We need to manufacture those components in a robust domestic supply chain that will spur job and wage growth.
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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
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Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.
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I’ve got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
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Drama is drama, and it’s really… if it’s something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it’s something big, you use a wide lens.
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Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.
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But it’s a strange thing when people judge you because you’re not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in ‘The Dukes of Hazzard?’ I mean, hello?
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Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places – not one place, and not one thing, but all of the above.
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