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“I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.”

Thinking Trying Persons Said Important Bigs Jobs Decision Minutes Dangerous Divorced Important Jobs Working Women

Author:Meryl Streep

“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.”

Thinking Years Kind Long I Can Different Bigs Goes On Right Now Different Kinds Topics Seafood Chunks

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.”

Thinking Stills Reason Bigs Turns Cities Crime New York Inspire Broken Civilization Mysterious Paris Meadows Big Cities Broken Down Turn Me

Author:Woody Allen

“I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.”

Thinking Real Bigs Together Film Talent Focused Puzzles

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“For me, I just never put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. I know that music and acting now are things that I want to do for the rest of my life. But, if suddenly that was to stop, I'd actually be okay. It's not the be all, end all of my life. I know who I am, outside of this, and I think that's a really big thing to have.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Ends Bigs Speak Acting Okay Who I Am Eggs Big Things Baskets Eggs In One Basket Acting Now

Author:Jordin Sparks

“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.”

People Thinking Different Bigs Cities Grew Grew Up New Yorkers Detroit Big Cities

Author:Mike Binder

“I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.”

Thinking Bigs Intellectual Adults Teenager Wrestling Sophistication Big Questions

Author:John Green

“If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Looks Bigs Happens Able America Cities Support Example Tomorrow Independent Sells Hip Hop Hips Corporate Damn Hops Chicago Venues Omaha

Author:Immortal Technique

“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.”

“It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.”

“I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Bigs Pay Attention Careers Rocks Down And Noise Pay Attention Punk Gestures Relaxed Up And Down Punk Rock Cockroaches

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.”

Thinking Believe Bigs Regret Don't Believe Never Regret I Never Regret Never Regret Anything

Author:Michael McKean

“I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.”

Thinking Feels Important Hard Bigs Faces Fall Humility Shots Noses Bloody Jackasses Big Shots

Author:Nick Offerman

“I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Kind Has Beens Moments Bigs Earth Night Connections England Complexes Driving Cells Visible That Moment Southern Organisms Lacking New England

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Wells Said Stills Helping Shows Bigs Games Focus Player Team Dog He Man Right Now Basketball Faults Excuse Damn Contracts Jealous Rays Basketball Player Good Basketball

Author:Sam Cassell

“For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.”

Ifs Thinking Men Made Bigs Father Responsibility Boys Produce Dad My Dad Productive Good Man Close Relationship Big Responsibility

Author:Rafe Spall

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”

“Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.”

People Thinking Trying Kind Mean Hard Bigs Lines Deals Acting Big Deal

Author:Ryan Gosling

“Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?”

People Thinking Littles Use Bigs Certain Empty Holes Bread Ass Holiday Vegan Turkeys Rice Beans November Ovens Bacteria Tofu Lentils

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Ends Sometimes Bigs Sides Information Proud Creating Impact Spread Larks Big Impact

Author:Jonah Peretti

“I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.”

People Thinking I Can Sometimes Bigs Realizing Wonder Five Minutes Singing Staring Tunes Five Minutes

Author:Justin Timberlake

“I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.”

Thinking Knows Long Reason Bigs Light Would Be Song Girl Lucky Long Time Albums Pops Expected Long Time Ago Spices Pop Song Spice Girls

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”

People Thinking Book Stories Bigs Our Lives Huge Grew Drama Grew Up Filled Supposed To Be Dramatic Movie Ups & Downs Arcs Books And Movies

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.”

People Thinking Bigs Representatives Big Business

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Natural childbirth scares me. I think before you have natural childbirth you should find out how big the baby is. Three pounds -- natural childbirth. Anything over three pounds -- heroin.”

Thinking Should Bigs Three Natural Baby Pounds Scare Childbirth Heroin Natural Childbirth

Author:Rita Rudner

“If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Heart Long Enough Facts Bigs Felt Attention Brain Authenticity One Way Appeals If I Could Artificial Wigs

Author:Dolly Parton

“Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.”

Thinking Bigs Sports Baseball Institutions Sacred Selfish Dedicated Big Business Public Good Ruthlessness

Author:Jackie Robinson

“My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.”

Thinking Said Stories Bigs Might Remember Film Guy Growing Up Growing College Dad My Dad Nfl Highlights Telling Stories Big Guys College Days

Author:Andrew Luck

“There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.”

Thinking Bigs Games Upset Nfl Miami Underdog Playoffs

Author:Chuck Knox

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.”

Thinking Looks Important Bigs Running Security Brother Balance Program Details Complaining Abstract Privacy Zero Cents Nsa Inconvenience

Author:Barack Obama

“I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.”

People Thinking Needs Made Bigs Causes Groups Resources Enormous Collections Suspicious Needles Nsa Probable Cause

Author:Rand Paul

“Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Bigs Certain Realizing Deals Worry Records Phones Meaningless Big Deal Nsa Metadata

Author:Rand Paul

“I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.”

Thinking Body Bigs Would Be Citizens Experiments Representatives Supporter Selected Complement

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really you were just trying to find a word to rhyme with another word.”

Thinking World Way Trying Said Sometimes Bigs Fans Deeper Rhyme

Author:Andre Benjamin

“I think what's cool about about going on a co-headline tour is everyone's bringing a huge show, so it's not like opening band, opening band, then here's the big show. It's like two big shows.”

Thinking Two Shows Bigs Huge Band Opening Headlines

Author:Jack Antonoff

“I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.”

Thinking Shows Bigs Reality Fans Fake Reality Shows

Author:Billy Eichner

“A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."”

People Thinking Writing Humans Littles Persons Bigs Reader Scene Yeah Average Details Breakfast Showers Untrue

Author:Don Winslow

“Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.”

Thinking Believe Whole Bigs Able Careers Industry Focused Believe In Yourself Believe In You Stay Focused

Author:Ace Hood

“I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.”

Thinking Should Years Bigs Five Thousand Hundred Dollars Five Years

Author:Dion DiMucci

“The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Kind Has Beens Bigs Failing Worst Fronts Terrible First Time Crowds I Realized Get Better Could Have Been Retrospect Spoken Word

Author:Phil Kay

“In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.”

Thinking Stills Bigs Competition Evolve Muscles Motivated Bodybuilding

Author:Kai Greene

“I still think about the time when I was fighting for my first real big fight against [Marco Antonio] Barrera back in 2002. I know he can come in thinking that he has nothing to lose, and that's why I have to be aware of that.Always be prepared.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Stills Real Bigs Fighting Loses Prepared Be Prepared Nothing To Lose Marcos Antonio

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.”

Source: Put out the light

“Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!”

Thinking Trying Bigs Stuff Taste Cups Whiskey Sobriety

Author:Steven Tyler

“I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.”

Thinking Needs Has Beens Bigs Genius Periods Deserve Productions Cash Masterpiece Starvation

Book:A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Source: A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

“The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.”

Thinking World Giving Whole Moments Bigs Happens Differences Chance Wonderful Family And Friends Small Differences

Author:Larry Page

“We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.”

“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.”

Thinking Hands Bigs Grandmother Grandparent My Grandmother Clumsy Delicacy Knuckles Knobs

Book:Near changes: poems

Source: Near changes: poems

“Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.”

Thinking Wells Bigs Deals Pay Audience Baby Entertainment Meals Buying Tickets Big Deal Parking

Author:Kathy Griffin

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