Big News Quotes

• When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.

  Gary Numan

  Kids, People, News

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• What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Imagination, Three

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• It's an important moment [win an Emmy]. I just feel like I want it to happen tonight, either for myself or Viola [Davis] so we can get past it, so it's not big news anymore. I mean, it is 2015. We have a black president.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Mean, Past, Black

  "Taraji P. Henson on Possibly Making Emmys History: 'I Don't Want to Make It About a Material Thing'". Interview with Nancy O'Dell, www.etonline.com. September 20, 2015.

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• Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Smart, Night, Texas

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• The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Discovery

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• To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

  David Sedaris

  Laughing, News, Bigs

  Interview with Tony DuShane, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2008.

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• The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their biggest majority since World War II. Or as they put it, 'Time to party like it's 1939!'

  Jimmy Fallon

  War, Party, Night

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• The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?

  Larry Sabato

  Political, News, Pearls

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• You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.

  Jiang Zemin

  Simple, News, Way

  "Leader of China Angrily Chastises Hong Kong Media" by Mark Landler, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2000.

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• The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake!

  Li Na

  Tattoo, Snakes, News

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• The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue

  Liz Phair

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead. What sort of dead do you usually date?

  Christine Warren

  Vampire, News, World

  Christine Warren (2010). “One Bite With A Stranger”, p.277, Macmillan

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• Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

  Esther Williams

  Sports, Gold, Events

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• Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Medicine, Cnn

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