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“But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.”

“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.”

Kind Bigs Lord Media Rings Shock Shocking Big Things Scrutiny Juggernaut

Author:Miranda Otto

“For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.”

Years Two Bigs Tree Thirds Woods Driving California Harvest Pickups Northern California

Author:Nick Offerman

“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.”

Bigs Light School Used Night Bits Football Grew Grew Up High School Track Texas Friday Friday Night Antonio Night Light San Antonio Friday Night Lights

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.”

Needs Bigs Order Buffets Cheap Food

Author:Patrice O'Neal

“It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.”

People Country Hard Dream Bigs America Hard Work Extraordinary Appeals Pulling Presidency Bootstraps

Author:Ron Fournier

“Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.”

Littles Bigs Political Talent News Bills Clinton Journalist League Thinker Governors Tickets Covering

Author:Ron Fournier

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

Thinking Want Bigs Suits Big Things

Author:Richard O'Brien

“In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.”

Knows Bigs Values Parent My Own Goes On Higher Protection Household Asian Discouragement Higher Education

Author:Sandra Oh

“The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.”

Years Bigs Boys Careers Lucky Ten Brilliant Fats Flukes

Author:Sandra Oh

“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Stories Bigs Opportunity Given Born Deals Baby Ugly Pilots

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.”

Thinking Bigs Beautiful Water Hurt Clear Five Week Feet Couple Scare Sharks Hurt Me Surf Leopards Malibu Clear Day

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.”

Trying Feelings Dream Bigs Kids Able Opportunity Achieve Lucky League Good Feeling

Author:Tony Oliva

“Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.”

Bigs Company Profit Priorities Selling Unhealthy Healthy Food Unhealthy Food

Author:Jared Polis

“If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.”

Ifs Important Dream Bigs Kids Easy Goal Player Majors Aim Golf League Setting Goals Major League

Book:What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

Source: What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

“I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.”

Kind Art Problem Bigs Kids Fighting Week Ready Backgrounds Martial Arts

Author:Jason Statham

“They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.”

Way Bigs Sin Education Study Grace University Swiss Amazing Grace

Author:Bob Dylan

“The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.”

World Should Stills Ideas Bigs Theory Logic Chaos Complicated Myth Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Conform Intricate Ontology

Author:Moby

“All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.”

Long Matter God Bigs Tree Branches

Author:George Harrison

“The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.”

People Problem Bigs Government Politics Cutting Taxes Messages Welfare Messengers Dukes Big Government Back To Work Very Popular Pocketbooks

Author:Dan Quayle

“Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.”

Writing Firsts Mean Problem Bigs Young Advice Personality Being True Temper Academy Pretentious Big Problems Fortresses Young Writers

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government.”

“What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.”

Thinking World Needs Ends Enough Bigs Happens Energy Levels Focus Users Microsoft Oracles Ibm User Experience

Author:Aaron Levie

“I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.”

Bigs Found Class Events Husband Theology My Husband Personal Life Big Events

Author:Ali Landry

“I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.”

Ifs Knows Bigs Populist

Author:Brian Lamb

“In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.”

Shows Bigs Culture Trouble Missing Baby Showers Mexican Baptism Mexican Culture

Author:Eva Longoria

“I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Film Causes Bits Periods Little Bit Bunch Damage Packs Crew Finite Circus Movie Business Big Families Film Crew

Author:Francis Lawrence

“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.”

People World Shows Bigs Language Simple Approach Creating Universal Attractive Big Things Universal Language Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.”

Firsts Bigs Winning Parent Break Gone Lucky University Scholarship Cambridge University Education Cambridge University

Author:Trevor Nunn

“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”

World Trying Firsts War Bigs Next Events Materials England Historical Musical Strikes War Of The Worlds Documentaries First World War Historical Events

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.”

Stories Bigs Certain Stuff Fire Impossible Building Let Me Get Insurance

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.”

Bigs One Thing Fans Identity Defining Define Yourself Identity Politics

Author:Andrej Pejic

“No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.”

Bigs Government Policy Contact Agency Makers Big Business Regulators Policy Makers Government Agencies

Author:Mikhail Prokhorov

“My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.”

Way Years Mind Heart Character Bigs Age Young Novel Issues My Favorite Wide Make Sense Range Broads Tackling Young Minds Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Ridley Pearson

“Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.”

Persons Use Bigs Tvs

Author:Sara Paxton

“I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.”

Persons Long Bigs Middle Figures Hair Bottom Legs Flats Bells Flattering Wigs Booty

Author:Sarah Paulson

“My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!”

Years Littles Long Bigs Used Mom Dresses My Mom Cute Princess Costumes Veils Medieval Brides Extravagant Bouquets Another Year Wedding Dress

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“I'm a big fan of zombies, and I have a zombie tattoo on my leg.”

Bigs Fans Legs Tattoo Zombie

Author:Tyler Posey

“I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.”

Play Bigs Wonder Screens Wonder Woman Big Screen

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.”

Done Bigs Used Black White Color Hair Cost Paper Thick Eyebrows Markers Bleach Big Hair

Author:Amy Poehler

“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.”

Knows Trying Bigs Brain Break Saws Football Hero Mets Beats England Studios Drunk Scotland My Hero Refrigerators Football Match

Author:Andy Partridge

“You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.”

Knows Firsts Done Bigs Joy Hate Causes Heard Fans First Time Absolutes Albums Frustration Mixtures Hate Myself

Author:Andy Partridge

“I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.”

Way Bigs Touring

Author:Andy Partridge

“There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.”

Different Bigs Actors Exciting Different Directions

Author:Anna Paquin

“I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.”

Bigs Fun Stuff Interesting Fantasy Crazy Genre Fun Things Gals Interesting Stuff

Author:Anna Paquin

“My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.”

People Bigs Deals Comfortable Prejudice Sexuality Big Deal

Author:Anna Paquin

“Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There's something about here, everyone makes you feel so at home. I miss my family of course, but I don't miss London that much. I was worried, but I feel really at home. Everyone says that who comes here from London, but I didn't believe them.”

Feels Believe Home Bigs Courses Missing New York My Family London Welcome Worried Hug

Author:Archie Panjabi

“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.”

Ifs Mean Enough Bigs Mother Fairs Introducing Misconception Arranged Marriage

Author:Archie Panjabi

“The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.”

Firsts Shows Bigs Broadway

Author:Bernadette Peters

“People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.”

People Ifs Giving Looks Bigs Order Strong Black Car Weak Driving Supposed To Be Ties Opposition Cursing

Author:George Papandreou

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