Sentences with phrase «big friend of»

«I called Lady Gaga, because she's a big friend of mine and she's godmother to our children,» John said.

Big friend of Maureen.

If the car would look like the Italia, maybe I would have bought it, but, thats the main reason, I m not the biggest friend of its looks.

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But you can get a sense for the real scale of the solar system, how big the Sun is, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and then the little guys and on the right are Pluto and friends.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Jun 25, 2013, Sam Stemler Maintain a positive attitude and voice; people get enough cynicism and negativity from their «friends,» which is a big reason why a large percentage of even apt social media users are unhappy with their networks.

New Year's Eve is one of the biggest global celebrations, with people throughout the world coming together with family and friends to reflect on the prior year and get excited for the coming one.

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

A lot of my friends are Hera Hub members, so it's one big circle, so to speak, of how I live my life.

Remember last year's big news about the power of social connection: that friends could make you fatter, happier, and even sexier?

Peter Stormare, a face any Big Lebowski or Fargo fans know and love, plays a black - suited surrogate who will fill in wherever your life needs you — jobs, lady friends, what not — so you can focus on «your responsibility to kick ass» with the new Call of Duty release.

But Spangenberg describes his latest, and what he thinks will be the biggest and longest - lasting investing idea he has ever had, as something he stumbled into as a result of a friend convincing him to buy bitcoin.

Most if not all of my friends were in big corporate jobs because that's what you were supposed to do.

As word of the giveaways spread, Woodman decided to make a bigger deal of them by gathering friends of the company in front of his booth at 3 p.m. each day of a show.

I got my first big break at Deloitte Consulting when the external consultant I worked with at my first job, with whom I had formed a really good working relationship, called a friend of his there and recommended me.

No disrespect intended to Mick, who is a friend of mine, but seeing him onstage certainly shows how big a disconnect there can be between doing what you do best and acting your age.

While the trip's big costs are out of the way — I bought my flight in October and I'll be staying with a friend — stretching $ 60 over the four days I'm there could be tricky.

And not just that, but it won't be big brands and roulettes of ads that will be encouraging you to buy — but your friends.

You will have a friend for the rest of your life, and you will have learned a big lesson.»»

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The biggest innovation are its «Circles,» which allow users to tailor status updates and information to a varied group of contacts such as friends, co-workers and family.

If you ask for feedback on a big decision and find out that all your friends and coworkers agree with you, that doesn't mean it's necessarily the right course of action.

A friend and fellow entrepreneur, Chris Dixon, describes the extreme version of this by saying, «The next big thing will start out looking like a toy.»

No matter how good your marketing is, your customers are going to be a big part of it, and the better your relations with them are, the more likely they are to put in a good word with you to a friend, co-worker, or family member.

Whether you're attending a wedding, heading into the office for a particularly big meeting, or just dressing up for a night of cocktails with friends, a top - tier pair of dress shoes can help make your look pop.

If you've ever helped friends pivot a couch upstairs only to find out it's too big to fit or wondered how many square feet of flooring tile you'll need for your kitchen, then an AR tape measure app might be the one for you.

Instead of building displays designed to move merchandise quickly, with huge racks of records and no place to sit down, we brought in big, comfy cushions and built listening booths — it was a place where you could chat about music with your friends and share your favorites with them.

I am a very big fan of «How to Win Friends and Influence People», and also, «Awaken the Giant Within» by Tony Robbins.

It's a major change for Facebook, which over the years has shifted from being a social networking service connecting friends and family to one of the world's biggest distributors of news and online ads.

We're consuming more information faster than ever before, and mobile video is a big part of that, as is live video experiences with friends, influencers, and celebrities.

Because today's media landscape is so fragmented, big, communal cultural experiences are rarer than they were back when Friends was hauling tens of millions of viewers every Thursday night at 8:00; and because almost everything is available to watch on - demand, not much of what people consume is truly unpredictable anymore.

«We try to talk to kids and work with them to get them to have big groups of friends and not be so possessive about friends,» Christine Laycob, director of counseling at Mary Institute in St. Louis, told the New York Times.

If you hold yourself to the standard of making a product that is so good people spontaneously recommend it to their friends, and you have an easy - to - understand business model where you make more than you spend on each user, and it gets better not worse as you get bigger, you may not look like some of hottest companies of today, but you'll look a lot like Google and Facebook.

Using big data analytics, Pursway gives companies a way to determine pockets of purchase influence — the customers most likely to drive additional sales and the prospects most likely to respond to offers and buy — based on the simple concept that friends buy what their friends buy.

One of the biggest sources of financing for early - stage businesses is from friends and family.

It's the realization that you've handed over an accumulation of years and years of data — data you gave Facebook back when it first introduced that big blue login button on sites around the web, data you gave to app developers who turned around and scooped up your friends» data, too.

Facebook was hit with one of its biggest scandals ever when multiple outlets reported that a researcher's app pulled personal information about 270,000 users and 50 million of their friends, then passed that data to Cambridge Analytica.

«Although it seems obvious in retrospect, probably the biggest benefit of moving to Vegas was that nobody had any friends outside of Zappos, so we were all sort of forced to hang out with each other outside the office.»

While we won't drop names, it is no exaggeration to say that John counts among his close friends and associates many of the biggest names in the world of finance and money management.

Whether you want to connect with friends and family or just don't feel like cooking, head to Chili's Grill & Bar for our sizzlin» service, laid - back atmosphere and a taste of our spiced - up Southwestern favorites like our famous Grilled Baby Back Ribs, our juicy Big Mouth Burgers ® or our tender marinated fajitas.

Corcoran founded her real estate company in 1973, initially backed by a $ 1,000 loan from a friend, but she's built it into one of Gotham's biggest firms.

Nobody from the FIRE community figured out who I am, and nobody from my personal circle of friends or relatives figured out that I'm big ERN.

The Bitcoin name was tainted in my mind then, but my good friend Steve Patterson, the author of What's the Big Deal About Bitcoin?

FreedomFest was founded in 2002 by my friend Mark Skousen, then - president of the Foundation for Economic Education and author of several books, including one of my favorites, The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.

I had a close friend of mine who is a big - time financial advisor review my portfolio and he had only one suggestion for me.

Eric: One trick I've heard from, I know, our friends over at BiggerPockets, that's a big real estate site, some of our friends over there they stories about how when they get they buy one property that they live in so it can be their primary residence and they can get that best mortgage rate.

When online security consultant Scott Helme was shown warnings a friend had received from visiting a UK government website, he couldn't imagine that he was about to uncover one of the biggest cases of crypto - jacking we've ever seen.

Afternoon tea at Fleuri Restaurant in The Sutton Place Hotel — a friend said that it was a very good service and I'm a big fan of tea.

The dispute was set off when Gawker published a video of Hogan having sex with a friend's wife, and came to involve big - picture ethical questions for the digital era.

There have been three such shocks in my adult life «the sudden death at age 54 of actor J.T. Walsh who was to me big brother, uncle, and friend wrapped in one ferocious package.