“I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.” ThinkingTryingKindDifferentUseBigsFitStressDifferent ThingsCategoriesDummy Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.” PeopleWayDifferentReasonBigsGuyDiedLeaguePoundsAthletics Author:Steve Mariucci
“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.” DifferentBigsActorsExcitingDifferent Directions Author:Anna Paquin
“There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.” FeelsImportantDifferentShowsBigsNextComedyTvsStudiosTv ShowsNext DayComedy Shows Author:Jenny Slate
“And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.” ThinkingDifferentBigsKidsRememberNamesStarsVoiceDarkStyleRapper Author:Alan Vega
“Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.” WorldWayTryingMindHumansSaidDifferentBigsAreasLocalsHinduismKrishna Author:Frederick Lenz
“My wife is the host of Big Brother. Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, "Da da da,* but first* we do this." So they mashed together her saying "but first" a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.” FirstsDifferentBigsTogetherNamesCuttingWifeBrotherCoupleMy WifeHostDozenOutfits Author:Leslie Moonves
“Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.” WayLooksDifferentBigsOpportunityEnvironmentHugeInternetSmartHappeningsPhonesMobile Author:Niklas Zennstrom
“It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.” KindDifferentBigsStageLove YouClubsIntimateKinds Of Love Author:Nickolas Ashford
“British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.” YearsHas BeensDifferentBigsInspirationComedyBritishAustralianBritish Comedy Author:Jason Gann
“We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity.” KnowsDifferentPlayHelpingBigsOpportunityGamesChanceKnow HowTeamStyleEastGladTournamentsAdaptabilityDifferent StylesPacs Author:Allan Ray
“I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.” ThinkingDifferentBigsGroupsLike YouBecomingAddMainstreamCultSmall Groups Author:Neil Gaiman
“I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.” DifferentStoriesBigsWantedGuyAnimalRegretProudLosingBoxesExcitedScreensSomething NewSerenityGood StoryFireflyBig ScreenDifferent Animals Author:Joss Whedon
“Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.” DifferentBigsTheaterIndependentVery GoodGreat Relationship Author:Marguerite Moreau
“Im a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?” FeelsDifferentBigsFansHotAddLayersRiceBeansSauceCaribbeanHot Sauce Author:Theophilus London
“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'” PeopleLooksSaidDifferentSometimesHomeHandsBigsTogetherMovingBlackWhiteColorRaisesMeetingsSouthBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaRainbowDifferent PeoplesRepresentingDifferent Colors Author:Desmond Tutu
“It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.” FeelsMeanPersonsDifferentBigsAbleMovingParentAuthorityAppreciateMatureSmarterTurning PointsPoints In Life Author:Ryan Sheckler
“When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.” ThinkingArtDifferentBigsWantedFilmProduceAngelMediumsFeaturesAmbitious Author:Tom DeLonge
“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.” MeanBookDifferentBigsReadingFiveSixComicEnjoyedComic BookGeek Author:David S. Goyer
“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.” ThinkingShouldMindHas BeensDifferentStatesEnoughStoriesDreamBigsIndividualSleepPayEmotionAttentionPsychologyFireHavensResearchWake UpStructurePay AttentionDreamerSubconsciousSurreal Author:Christopher Nolan
“And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).” HumansSaidTwoDifferentBigsLanguageAnimalFiveMaterialsDrinkTenSizeGenderCollectivesFeminineDividesVegetablesFifteenBig ThingsMasculineSmall ThingsAustralianLiquidSpearsCanineNounsMali Author:Guy Deutscher
“I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.” WayFeelsPersonsDoeStillsI CanDifferentWholeHelpingDreamBigsKidsGirlPerspectiveBronx Author:Jennifer Lopez
“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.” DifferentRealMatterStatesBigsRealityUniverseViewsKnownPathTakenSeaObjectsCloudsPoint Of ViewForestsAlternativesPerceiveShoreDecayQuantumFiniteBangsEmbeddedTrajectoryEntirety Author:Robert Charles Wilson
“Just playing more, I'm more comfortable. A big part is the boys are giving me a lead a lot of nights. Playing more has just let me be more comfortable in different situations in the game.” GivingDifferentBigsNightGamesSituationBoysComfortComfortableLet Me Author:Ray Emery
“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.” DifferentBigsMightSufferingGamesSeeingModernEventsDesignBenefitsPropertyPatternsVariousListsBackgroundsDespiteApplicationSuspicionProgrammersBoostDelegatesDifferent BackgroundsEscalation Author:John Carmack
“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.” IfsWantTwoDifferentSometimesHardBigsCertainCan DoPerfectLevelsBehindsCreativeFourHonestFootballFairsEnglandMirrorsClubsLondonBoundariesLikesManagersSoccerProductiveChairmanTransfersTempoEnglish Society Author:Jens Lehmann
“Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?” KnowsMenYearsWellsLittlesI CanDifferentBigsBitsSportsFiveFourLittle BitBreatheShouldersFive YearsLoad Author:Latrell Sprewell
“When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked myself a question: 'How come people like Mike? How come they like Magic? How come they like Bird? How come they don't like the big guys?' So I just throw a little bit of what they were doing. You smile, you act crazy and silly. And I think people like me because I'm different. I've always been a class clown type of guy. It comes natural.” PeopleThinkingLittlesDifferentBigsYoungUsedGuyBitsNaturalClassWatchesMagicCrazyTvsTypeBasketballLittle BitBirdSillyPunishmentLike MeClownMikeDoing YouBig GuysType Of GuyLike Mike Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.” WayDifferentDoneBigsGuyThreeStuffJusticeSecretPlayerTroubleTeamChangedMastersBasketballPoliceMeetingsRapCriminalsWho I AmLegacyOfficersDominantRight WayAcademyPolice OfficerCriminal JusticeBig GuysPolice Academy Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.” ThinkingYearsKindLongI CanDifferentBigsGoes OnRight NowDifferent KindsTopicsSeafoodChunks Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.” PeopleThinkingDifferentBigsCitiesGrewGrew UpNew YorkersDetroitBig Cities Author:Mike Binder
“I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.” WritingKindMadeDifferentBigsActionDecisionProudFindingsConsciousPassionateDifferent KindsAction MovieFinding Myself Author:Ric Roman Waugh
“Surfing is so unique and it's something that no matter what level you are, you can go and have fun. You can pick and choose the waves that you want to surf, so if it is too big and scary, you can wait until it changes and gets more to your level. Every time you go out it's always different and unique. It's almost like a place you can just de-stress.” IfsWantDifferentMatterBigsFunWaitingLevelsUniquePicksStressNo Matter WhatWaveScaryHaving FunSurfingSurfDe Stress Author:Bethany Hamilton
“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindDifferentRealCountryBigsVisionPrinciplesSuccessfulMovementDegreesCommitmentReformDifferent ThingsGood LifeDistractionBizarreIdeologicalCoalitionsPolarizationReform Movements Author:Chris Hayes
“I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.” PeopleHas BeensDifferentShowsBigsGuyDealsLaughingNiceTypeYeahCriticsHeyAppealsSouthernBig DealMaking People LaughRailNice Guy Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.” PeopleWantFeelsDifferentBigsValuesSocialCommunityMediaProductsBeatsEntertainmentSocial MediaLifestyleLayersDrummerChunksFacilitateTakeaways Author:RuPaul
“The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.” DifferentBigsTeacherHappenedApproach Author:Michael Gove
“I am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture of corruption is different in different countries. The corruption we suffer is not the same as the corruption that debilitates Africa. But it is both corruption, and both need to be eliminated if the faith in democracy is not going to be destroyed.” IfsNeedsIdeasDifferentCountryBigsSufferingDemocracyMovementCorruptionArchitectureDestroyedSupporterRecognizingDifferent Countries Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Video games is a big part of a kids' life. Videos games let you be something that you're not, so does acting, but it puts you in like a real situation type thing or something totally different.” DoeDifferentRealBigsKidsGamesActingSituationTypeVideo Author:Ty Simpkins
“I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.” PeopleDifferentWarHardBigsMightTogetherLastsYoungPurposeInterestLeaderSacrificeSpecialRegretToughDifficultyGladIsolatedSpecial Interests Author:Ann Richards
“Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.” WayIdeasDifferentMomentsBigsChanceOur LivesDifferent WaysSerendipityBig Ideas Book:Not Dead Enough Source: Not Dead Enough
“Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.” MindDifferentBigsFunInfluenceBandMassiveThrill Author:Teddy Thompson
“Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingLooksTwoDifferentRealBigsScienceReligionUniverseViewsEssentialsWindowWorthyFeaturesReal WorldScience And ReligionOne SidedDifferent ViewsWhy We Are Here Book:Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 1990–2014 Source: Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 1990–2014
“The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.” WritingLittlesDifferentReasonBigsKidsFeltSecretHugeDadBeatenLittle KidSexuallySan Diego Author:Dorianne Laux
“With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.” PeopleDifferentSelfCountryHardBigsValuesCultureWealthAchieveMaterialsSelf WorthMaterial WealthDifferent Values Author:Debra Granik
“I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsFirstsBelieveBookDifferentBigsHateNextI BelieveFansI HateInvitedBookstores Author:Nikki Giovanni
“It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantNeedsBookDifferentBigsDifficultWaterLove IsLove YouHealDifferent WaysJoyful Author:Yoko Ono