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Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Rupert Everett

Gay, Years, Age

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It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

Robert Duvall

Littles, Sometimes, Little Things

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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

Patrick Dempsey

Beauty, Kissing, Taste

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My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

Ray Charles

Song, Men, People

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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving Up, Wine, Intelligent

"The Victorian Age in Literature" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, University of Notre Dame Press, (p. 20), 1963.

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One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

Aziz Ansari

New York, Missing, Burgers

"Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alain de Botton

Tiny, Disappointing, Bigs

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You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

Irving Kristol

Commitment, Ideas, Leader

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In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine

James E. Faust

Love, Marriage, Beautiful

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The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.

Barry Goldwater

Country, Gay, People

"Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

J. Willard Marriott

Class, Excellence, Details

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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.

Deepak Chopra

Brother, Team, Sibling

"Chopra Brothers: Separate Paths But Common Bond". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 29, 2013.

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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

Richard Hamming

Errors, Small Problems, Tree

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I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Lou Reed

Play, Trying, Joking Around

FaceBook post by Lou Reed from Apr 27, 2012

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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

Simon Pegg

Life And Love, Zombie, Film

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The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

Miyamoto Musashi

War, Men, Feet

Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.12, Bottom of the Hill

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Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Bear Bryant

Motivational, Leadership, Sports

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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

Stephen Covey

Relationship, Family, Kindness

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There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

Peter Ustinov

Experts, Littles, Facts

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It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely - not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again?

Mel Gibson

Thinking, Years, Drunk

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

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Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

Joe Jonas

Being Yourself, People, Understanding

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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Lou Reed

Believe, Play, People

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Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

Bruce Lee

Life, Believe, Achievement

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.102, Tuttle Publishing

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My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Hans Selye

Careers, Advice, Mind

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