Big Quotes

"The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective"

"Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power"

Roy Romer, Politician

"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world"

Juan Cole, Educator

"It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time"

Suzy Bogguss, Musician

"I'm not a big jazz fan"

Warren Zevon, Musician

"I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to"

Rob Morrow, Actor

"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness"

Anne Heche, Actress

"So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever"

Gloria Stuart, Actress

"Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today"

James Caan, Actor

"Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life"

Marla Maples, Actress

"I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world"

David Cameron, Politician

"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow"

Marguerite Young, Author

"Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

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