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My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
A World Cup would only be a true experience if I were wearing the Brazilian shirt. Otherwise, it would just be like playing for a club.
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.
I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.
My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
I think, at the end of the day, you should just be judged by your work, not on what effect it might have on the world or your community.
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.
Be the best teammate you can be, be the best player you can be, and just be as supportive and encouraging for the people who are playing.
I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.
I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business, 'Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.'
I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.
Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don't know at all can just be like, 'Oh my God - are you Billie?'
You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
I'm not going to blurt out my whole life on the Internet and just be all crazy emotional. I'm not that type of person, but it's in my music.
Just do what you do. Sometimes you do well, and sometimes you do wrong, but you have to just be able to deal with yourself and move forward.
I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.
Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes.
P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.
I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.
I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.
I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.
As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
When you have been stuck in that heel, bad-guy role as the foreigner who never talks, you want to get out of there, have fun, and just be you.
It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.
There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Eating something with someone is the second most sensual and intimate thing you can do in life. The experience can't just be about consumption.
You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.
I want a part playing a really ugly geek, with no make-up and my hair all tied back, so I could just be a character without worrying how I look.
Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.
Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.
That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.
Like when you hear Aretha Franklin sing - it touches your soul. Crunk music, it makes you just wanna lose your mind - just be free and wild out.
I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.
You don't know what's going to happen to you in the next hour. So you just live your life, live to the best of your potential, and just be happy.
I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, 'No, I can do all of it.'
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.