Big Deal Quotes - Page 13

That is the beauty of having characters that don't make a big deal out of being gay, or lesbian, or whatever. They are just what they are, and that is acceptable - and that nobody should question that and that love is love.

Katrina Law

Character, Gay, Love Is

Source: www.mtv.com

8 Copy quote

Show source
God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.

Patrick Henry Hughes

Opportunity, People, Musical

56 Copy quote
Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

Rachel Gibson

Who I Am, Degrees, Pieces

4 Copy quote
People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal.

Lauren Barnholdt

People, Should, Bigs

4 Copy quote
I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

Karisma Kapoor

Retirement, Children, Hollywood

5 Copy quote
It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.

Charles de Lint

Running, Dog, Kids

4 Copy quote
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

Andrew Solomon

Doors, Lunch, People

35 Copy quote
When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.

Jason Collins

Athlete, Gay, Self

"Parting shot: Jason Collins announces NBA retirement in his own words" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. November 19, 2014.

7 Copy quote

Show source
It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

Ali Larijani

Lying, World, Bigs

"Secretary of Iranian Supreme council for National Security, Ali Larijani: if the European countries impose sanctions, they will be more harmed than us; if you toy with our national pride, you will face a firm response". Press conference aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN), www.memri.org. February 1, 2006.

6 Copy quote

Show source
Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments to be really, fully present, but because you thought you were busy, you didn't see the opportunities these moments presented. . . . People carry around an enormous amount of grief because they missed the little things.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Children, Grief, Kids

27 Copy quote
A lot of people in the WWE try to paint themselves as outlaws and rebels and I really honestly believe I'm the only one left. I always do what I want and I never get any flack for it. I don't know if it's because they know they're not gonna win, or it's not worth fighting me over. Plus I don't see what the big deal is about me wearing a Cabana shirt. The guy should be working there, first of all, and it's promoting my friend. I don't see what the big deal is.

CM Punk

Believe, Fighting, Winning

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

61 Copy quote

Show source
DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. I know that sounds like no big deal. But I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha — correct in every way! Buddhas can be very intricate — these drawings that you see in books. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. Where did they come from? I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat, you know? And there it was. And I thought, Wow — the power of the mind, you know?

Iggy Pop

Book, Cat, Men

69 Copy quote
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Josh Radnor

Drinking, Rocks, Decision

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

4 Copy quote

Show source
Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

Bill Konigsberg

Mom, Rooms, Want

Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

6 Copy quote

Show source
You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

Suzanne Somers

Mean, Long, Littles

18 Copy quote
Sometimes there is little regard for people's lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people.

Robert Young

Children, Dark, People

4 Copy quote
This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

James Stockdale

Character, Ideas, Issues

7 Copy quote
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

John Doerr

Mean, Ties, Molecules

110 Copy quote
I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.

Mike Schmidt

Couple, Fun, Games

8 Copy quote
I mean, the thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

Adele

Mean, People, Giving

5 Copy quote
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

Phil Plait

Viruses, Pseudoscience, Levels

"Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars" By Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2004.

49 Copy quote

Show source
The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Writing, Two, Voice

"The Show-Woman". www.newyorker.com. October 30, 2006.

14 Copy quote

Show source
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

Larry Wall

Bigs, Fixed, Deals

4 Copy quote
Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.

Ivana Trump

Special, Stuff, Sometimes

15 Copy quote
It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

Duffy

Names, People, Decision

4 Copy quote