Big Shots Quotes

• One
  person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
  don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
  your power to change things.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Differences, Making A Difference, Have Faith

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• Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.

  Tony Evans

  Waiting, Bigs, Shots

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• I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

  Stephen Curry

  Guy, Risk, Inspirational Basketball

  Source: espn.go.com

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• When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.

  Andy Stanley

  Thinking, Feet, Bigs

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• I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

  Marlon Brando

  Motivational, Dancing, Fool

  "Fictional character: Don Corleone". "The Godfather", 1972.

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• The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Boys, Community

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.64, Grove Press

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• I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

  Joseph Barbera

  Years, Pieces, Recognition

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

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• And who knew?
  That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert,
  Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven
  You may have every title, every big shot degree,
  But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Men, Heaven, Darkness

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• Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

  Paul Pierce

  Missing, Awful, Bigs

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• For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.

  Matt Groening

  Eye, Drawing, Hollywood

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• Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Art, Hate, Culture

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• When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

  James Frey

  Fighting, Boys, Idols

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• We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Home, Land

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• I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Positive, Basketball

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

  Drew Barrymore

  Vegas, Air, Towers

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• The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.89, Pelican Publishing

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• I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

  Jimmy Carter

  Boss, Want, Bigs

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• I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

  Christopher Meloni

  Theatre, Actors, Hips

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• Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn’t just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget that today. What I think inspired me was the fact that in spite of being the president of the United States he retained a certain down-to-earth quality. He never got to be a big shot, and he cared about people.

  George H. W. Bush

  Caring, Thinking, People

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp,
  Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp,
  Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll,
  Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy.
  On the microphone:
  I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

  Kool Keith

  Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

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• American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Oil, Bigs, Shots

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• Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Opportunity, Giving

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