"The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard."
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"I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing. While we are in the "now here," we all contemplate where we are going. Where we are going is back to the "nowhere." We are going to rejoin the spirit from which all things emanate. These are the big questions for me - always."
"When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift."
"I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow."
"I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy."
"When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves."
"Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly."
"I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit."
"Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service."
"I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic."
"I don't think it should be a big deal who you love."
"We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy."
"I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised."
"And the new day was a great big fish."
"Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it."
"The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media."
"Im a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that."
"My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life."
"Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me."
"It's a big pay off when I see a woman wearing my stuff. It's really gratifying."