My parents were from Wisconsin, and football was a big thing.
We all get knocked down in life, the big thing is getting back up.
The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I’ll drink throughout the day.
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it’s such a big thing that you can’t.
So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that’s what we wanted to do – change the system.
I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don’t know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn’t act foolish, but this is history.
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
You hear a lot of scientists say the same thing. It doesn’t have to be a big thing because the thing about being a scientist is even the little things are big things to us.
When I started DJ’ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ’ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
It’s a big thing in my music to highlight being human – being emotional and powerful, like a goddess.
I’ve always wanted to walk Prada, since I’m Italian. It was really a big thing for me.
The big thing that everyone forgets, you’re famous and on TV and everything, but I think there’s something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
My skin is pretty low-maintenance, but I’m a big sunscreen wearer, which I think is the big thing when it comes to wrinkles, right?
Looks aren’t a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don’t even know who they’re talking about. It’s boring.
I worked with a chiropractor who does some manual therapy, some acupuncture. The big thing is to do something on a regular basis, rather than waiting to get hurt.
I think one big thing with food and race that is a hot topic is cultural appropriation.
Some of my closest friends, the England lads, have played in the Champions League, so it’s a big thing to be there as well.
When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that’s a big thing for me.
‘Star Trek’ was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And ‘Twilight Zone’ is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from ‘Being Human’ sit down and have marathons to get our little ‘Twilight Zone’ fix.
Comedy is often a short career because you get to a point where you are no longer a small thing punching up at targets; you are the big thing, and it’s hard to write from that position.
I’ve done routes where I’ve climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, ‘What am I doing?’ I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That’s the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
A big thing in the LGBTQ community is finding family because some of us have loving families and some of us really don’t, so we have to go out there and make our own families.
It’s never me saying, ‘When is my day over?’ It’s more, ‘When do they legally have to get me off of the lot, based on when I have to be back the next day?’ The first call is a big thing in the acting world and in the union world. There needs to be a 12 hour period, and I need it.
I think, like for me ‘Strictly’ was a big thing that I’d wanted to do for years and I’ve done that now and now I’m like ‘okay, what should I do?’
Perception is a big thing in football and people need to be more careful about how they choose to perceive young players in the first instance.
It’s a big thing to play under Mahi bhai. He was my first captain.
When you first start out, it’s a big thing you’re always like ‘does my voice sound good?’
I want a girl who lets me do my own thing, but who is going to be by my side the whole time, because I know I’d be supportive of her. And kissing is a big thing for me! You have to be a good kisser.
Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received – the gift of Jesus Christ.
I find that it’s not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That’s why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.
I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.
Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
We’re trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
That’s a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.
In TV, you’re a ‘writer for hire.’ That means you’re trying to guess what your boss wants and delivering that story. There’s a lot of spitballing. The big thing is ‘breaking story,’ which means coming up with a story. You do it by episode and put it all up on a board.
Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.
Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer – things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it’s almost like a person. It’s this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.
I was navigator on the Gloucester schooner ‘Gertrude L. Thebaud’ in the International Fisherman’s race. That’s a big thing in New England – the race, I mean. A Boston newspaper man covered it, and saw me on board. For a long time I wished he hadn’t! He wrote a piece saying I ought to be in motion pictures.
If you just trust the process, that’s the big thing.
I think the big thing is you look at your team, and you always think about ways that you can improve.
I think the big thing with Philly is I have such a great relationship with all the personnel decision makers that if there ever does come a day where I am traded or something does happen, it’s going to be an open conversation.
After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.
I used to be a huge collector, and my big thing was stickers.
Working with Hirani sir is a big thing for me. At least in my resume, I’ll have a mention of his name in my filmography.
I hung out in the Baltimore area a lot. My biggest memory was playing football against Morgan. That was, like, ‘Forget about it,’ that was a really big thing. They used to kick our butts all the time.
Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.
It is a big thing to work in a foreign film.
Shaking the commissioner’s hand has always been a big thing for me. When you’re young and you watch the draft every year, you’re like, ‘That’s going to be me one day.’
Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.
I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I’d be a massive movie star. But there’s a longevity to what I do. It’s more reliable. Someone isn’t deciding that I’m the next big thing.
And I wouldn’t take on such a big thing if I didn’t think I could nail it.
The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.
Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don’t think I’ve ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.
I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that’s not even art, but something universal and bigger.
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, ‘Wow.’ Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.
I come from a place where getting a call to do a film is a big thing. I would work double hard to better a partly-convincing film than be without work.
Sponsorships and marketing are oftentimes pretty short-lived. From a company’s standpoint, they’re often not looking to do tremendously long contracts. They’re always trying to catch the next big thing.
I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.
A really big thing I’ve learned – and I think it’s so liberating – is when you realize no one knows what they’re doing.
