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• I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

  Camilo Villegas

  Believe, Mean, Starting Over

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• Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

  Dee Dee Warwick

  Girl, New York, Careers

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• You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

  James Mattis

  Military, Technology, People

  "4 Lessons Every Business Leader Can Learn From Legendary Marine General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

  Joanna Macy

  Hero, Heart, Adventure

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• Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

  Red Smith

  Dying, Bigs, Tricks

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• President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person . . . So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It’s all the same.

  Jay Leno

  Girlfriend, Real, President

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• The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Practice, Curiosity

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• Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence of greed. A player has to be selfish in the pursuit of the development of his skills, but he cannot be selfish when it comes time to blend them in with what's good for his team.

  Pete Carril

  Selfish, Team, Player

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.80, U of Nebraska Press

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• Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Artist, Giving

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• Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

  Patricia Hampl

  Book, Writing, Taste

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• My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

  Jane Pauley

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Nice, Mean, Needs

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• It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

  Christopher Atkins

  America, United States, Nudity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  Ed O'Neill

  Mom, Teacher, Drinking

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• I don't think it should be a big deal who you love.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Should, Bigs

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• If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.

  Cat Osterman

  Thinking, Yesterday, Looks

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• I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

  Sally Ride

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trying, Nerves, Determined

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• God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

  Max Lucado

  Doe, Bigs, Deals

  Max Lucado (2011). “It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

  Barack Obama

  Income, Sitting, Minimum Wage

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• Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me directly.

  Greg Giraldo

  Mean, Stealing, Bigs

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• Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

  Bruce Sterling

  Government, Realizing, Bigs

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• You can only stare at a clown mask so long. After a few minutes it's no big deal anymore. So people start paying attention to the music instead of what the clown is doing, or what he is wearing, or how cool his spikey hair is.

  Paul Gray

  Hair, Long, People

  "Slipknot top 10: Everything you didn't know about the masked metallers whose bassist Paul Gray has passed away", www.mirror.co.uk. May 25, 2010.

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• Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie.

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Opportunity, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I really loved when Prada Sport came into fashion, which kind of created all the nylon which she had for quite some time. You also wanted a Prada bag, you wanted a Prada shoe, not that you don't today, but that craze for Prada accessories was really big. It was a really big deal.

  Roopal Patel

  Sports, Fashion, Shoes

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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