Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

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• Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Country
  • Age
  • Professional

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Down
  • Bring

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Pride
  • Fat

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Great
  • Think
  • Yourself

• I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Speak
  • First
  • Face

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Different
  • Movie
  • End

• The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Style
  • Tradition
  • Him

• If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Advantage
  • Disadvantage

• Words that weep and tears that speak.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Words
  • Tears

• All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Art

• I suppose you have work tomorrow? That's quite sad, really.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Work
  • Sad

• The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Life
  • Emotional

• Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic

• The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Money
  • Names
  • Ridiculous

• I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Live
  • Fun

• I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

  

  James Badge Dale
  • Walking
  • Fate
  • Hockey

• There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

  

  Big Sean