Big Things Quotes - Page 14

• I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.

  Boy George

  Jobs, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

  Bette Midler

  Art, Children, Taken

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing big things is hard. All of us. All of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better.

  Paul Ryan

  Pain, Party, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Details Of Life, People, Events

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

  Lewis Black

  Distance, Two, People

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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• I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

  Graydon Carter

  Party, Years, Oscars

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

  William James

  Success, Peace, Honesty

  "Pete Seeger’s Last War" by David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

  John Steinbeck

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.40, Penguin

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• It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

  Markus Zusak

  Bigs, Small Things

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.221, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Perfection, Coaching, Details

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• Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

  Alan Cumming

  Country, Calendars, Bigs

  "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.

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• The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

  Ryan Hall

  Morning, Race, Water

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• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  Walter Isaacson

  Done, Tough, Wonder

  "Walter Isaacson: the right man for the Jobs job". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. November 26, 2011.

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• But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

  Bob Kerrey

  Thinking, Winning, Order

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• We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

  Chris Noth

  Kids, Issues, People

  "Exclusive: Chris Noth Opens Up About Playing Mr. Big On Sex and the City, His New Life On The Good Wife, and the Crusade He's On to End Hunger!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

  Miranda Otto

  Media, Juggernaut, Kind

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• Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

  Richard O'Brien

  Thinking, Want, Suits

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• Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

  Guy Laliberte

  Simple, Creating, People

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• The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, Play, Musical

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• It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

  Julie Walters

  Jobs, Men, Get Better

  "Julie Walters: 'Parts for women disappear as you age'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.

  Robert Dessaix

  War, Writing, Different

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Believe, Humor

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.

  Bailee Madison

  Thinking, Who I Am, Stay True

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• There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.

  Gerad Adams

  Sports, Play, Legs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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