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"Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is."
"The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time."
"We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation."
"One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day."
"I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse."
"I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective."
"God is on the side of the big battalions."
"Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things."
"Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first."
"A big lie is more plausible than truth."
"Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday."
"If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching."
"Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big."
"I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage."
"I'm sure Proust was a big bore."
"I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if .""
"Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten."
"I feel like I'm a big human snot."
"I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself."