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"big shot" Definitions
  1. an important or influential person.

290 Sentences With "big shot"

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"He's a big shot taker, big shot maker," Draymond Green said.
Crawford's movement visibly confused Molina, tricking him into big shot after big shot with consummate ease.
X FACTOR Kyron Cartwright, Providence's senior point guard, hit big shot after big shot in the Big East tournament.
That goes for Mr. Big Shot, Big Shot Bob or Rob, Big Game James, and whatever else in that vein is out there.
Cofer poured in 244 points and grabbed eight rebounds, hitting big shot after big shot to seemingly kill the momentum every time Miami made a run.
C.J.'s been in that position in this season where I've needed him to make a big shot and I've kicked to him and he's made that big shot.
I really like Maybelline mascara — the Colossal Big Shot.
"Big shot by P.J. Tucker," Suns coach Earl Watson said.
"That was a big shot," Cavaliers coach Tyronne Lue said.
You don't have to be a big shot to compete.
She tweeted me, thinking I was some big shot author.
That was a big shot in the arm for us.
We're going to give it a shot, a big shot.
Such shots will be replayed endlessly over the years, in a million televised hype montages to come, earning their makers oversized reputations and nicknames to match: Big Shot Rob, Mr. Big Shot, Black Mamba.
HUNTINGTON Mike DelGuidice and Big Shot, a Billy Joel tribute. Feb.
Nobody really shies away from the big shot on this team.
Is he trying to seem like a big shot at home?
Then at 8:41, Hart snared another big shot by Pastrnak.
Thank God Isaiah (Cousins) stepped up and made a big shot.
Louisville finally took the lead for good with just over 2800 minutes left, but the Hokies kept hitting big shot after big shot to stay within striking distance, as the Cardinals' lead never reached double-digits again.
However, that set up the big shot from Pickens for the win.
Bled made a basketball decision hit a big shot for the three.
PEEKSKILL "Celebrating the Music of Billy Joel," Mike DelGuidice and Big Shot.
"He hit a big shot," Florida State's Mfiondu Kabengele said of Norvell.
"Nobody looks at him like he's this big-shot coach," Gudmundsdottir said.
Grumpy Cat was such a big shot that she even had legal troubles.
Maybelline The Colossal Big Shot Mascara, $8.49, available in January 2017 at Maybelline.
Mike DelGuidice and Big Shot, a concert celebrating the music of Billy Joel.
Just like a big-shot food critic, but for all the wrong reasons.
Mr. Joel bought it in 21 from a big shot at Goldman Sachs.
"Big shot?" is not someone who acts like one, it's a GROUP PHOTO.
The child rapist is a government big shot with a lot of money.
But Toronto has shown it can take a big shot and deliver one.
"You can't just go around acting like a big shot," he said. Sen.
I don't have any illusions about being a star or a big shot.
In my own field, I think I'm influential, but I'm not a big-shot.
Cut to "big-shot gangster," whose name is Dryden Vos, played by Paul Bettany.
"It's been a big shot in the arm for the NIH," Collins told CNBC.
I've been just successful enough to not be given that big shot too soon.
In high school he was freshman class president, "a big shot," he had thought.
Everyone's big shot to score a Super NES Classic came and went on Sept.
The group date gang is getting all geared up for their big shot with JoJo.
My priority was my job and I was not trying to blow my big shot.
You can also be someone unremarkable and be made to feel like Mr. Big Shot.
Look, Trump picked Tillerson because he wanted a Fortune 500 big shot working for him.
As a big-shot public figure, Christie has always had a kid-on-Christmas quality.
I have one guy who used to be a regular, this big-shot finance guy.
Then the big shot comes home from high school and we do homework some more.
For now, that's still something like being a big shot in a regional bowling league.
Gatling's big shot was not the first time on the night his scoring proved vital.
" This led to the infamous governor getting in Joseph's face to call him "a big shot.
But don't worry — Chastain won't let anyone silence her, even if it's a big shot actor.
"I thought Eric Gordon got a big shot in the lane," Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said.
The Tesla CEO, unlike some other big-shot executives, is at least engaging with his critics.
My tendency was to shy away from the big shot and just not make a mistake.
Hey yo, I'm just like a beaverA young overachieverAnd I love being a hot big shot!
There were also the moments when Fowler needed a big shot and usually came up short.
Imagine you're a big-shot Hollywood executive, and somebody has handed you the above book report.
It would be easy to be the big-shot and only collaborate with similarly established musicians.
He made sure it was a memorable one with a big shot in the final second.
Academia is wonderful, but I learned more from that immigrant turned taxi driver, hustler, big shot.
His uncle, Nathan "Bodie" Barksdale, was a big shot in the more hierarchical Baltimore gangland he recalls.
You think you're a big shot now because you moved out of Charlotte to New York City?
Bands and artists often work their whole lives to get their big shot on the small screen.
As ever-present as women have been in the industry, they often weren't the big shot-callers.
Quentin Oliver Lee as Kilian, a big-shot townsman, and Kevin McGuire, as Kuno, were both excellent.
"He was a big shot," said Charles B. Rangel, the 88-year-old former congressman from Harlem.
Georgia Tech had chances to get this one but couldn't make the big shot at the big moment.
She wasn't a big-shot lawyer in this case; she was just a teacher who believed in me.
You might remember her campaign for the brand's The Colossal Big Shot Mascara that launched earlier this year.
"Every time we got right there, they knocked down a big shot," Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said.
The big shot by Harris helped the Nets (218-11) move into sixth place in the Eastern Conference.
Acoba is the fifth winner of the Lakers-sponsored MGM Big Shot Jackpot since its inception in 2006.
I mean, if I won £100,000 [$140,225] I'm pretty sure I'd be swanning around like a big shot.
"It just looks like the court sided with the big shot against the little fellow," Mr. Davis wrote.
The ostensible nonofficial purpose of the dinner is to impress the bosses by sponsoring the biggest big shot.
American health care is swimming in money, but the money benefits systems, companies, and big shot administrators, not patients.
This is Mia's big shot, and she knows it, and she's about to lose herself in completely crushing it.
Much later, a Nazi big shot was killed in those same woods, and he was buried there as well.
If you're conquering New York, you can feel like a real big shot—Trump and Scaramucci are great examples.
I was like, holy cow, a little Idahoan girl talking to a big shot vice president ... I'm like, 'dang!
You get on the phone with some corporate big shot who's considering closing a plant in the Rust Belt.
At the very least, you'll look like a real big shot out in the world with these buds on.
Vargas delivered the big shot with a two-run homer to put Minnesota up 25-212 in the first.
Hours later, the Kabul police sheepishly admitted that it was only another government big shot on another drunken rampage.
With his shaved head and his round architect-style glasses, he could be mistaken for a studio big shot.
And then there are the legions of big-shot producers and execs who belittle and scream at everyone daily.
"The Dudesons" star Jukka Hilden took a big shot with a new stunt Friday ... and it's painfully entertaining to watch.
Gabor Presser, a big shot Hungarian composer, says the last part of Kanye's "New Slaves" features one of his songs.
Mike has the week off, so I'm thrilled to have a big-shot tech editor like you join the discussion.
He is taken under the wing of one such big shot (Omari Hardwick), who introduces Cassius to Steve Lift himself.
Described by defense attorneys as a "social-climber," Mr. Rechnitz wanted badly to be a "big shot," federal prosecutors said.
" Mr. Trascher added, "When he became whip we would joke, 'Oh Steven, you're a big shot now; you've got bodyguards.
Then a big shot in the arm was when The Seattle Times started running my cartoons on a weekly basis.
"We felt if we got the ball to Melo, he would get us big shot," Knicks Coach Jeff Hornacek said.
"If the e-liquid is vaporized at a high temperature, you could get a big shot of nicotine," Krishnan-Sarin said.
That should mean proving that he was somehow involved in the WikiLeaks release of Democratic Party big shot John Podesta's emails.
It hasn't gripped his imagination in the way that immigrants do or big-shot international financiers at the Davos conference do.
Big Shot Rob won seven titles over his career and McGrady asked if he could have just one of his rings.
He's the big-shot superhero, the one confirmed to return as one of the four leads in this summer's The Defenders.
It's telling, really, that on a team with Kobe and Shaq, it's Big Shot Rob that the OnePlus most closely identifies.
In a typical election year, that performance would have given any presidential candidate a big shot of momentum and national airtime.
"I remember someone telling me that night: 'Oh that's Nabil Ayers from 4AD, that guy's a big shot,'" Ms. Grossan said.
And Playoff LeBron made the big shot, a 3-pointer over Pacers center Myles Turner with just over a minute left.
Trump's impeachment means more for history than it does for today, and he still has a big shot at winning reelection
The big one is the arrival of Leo McKay, a Texas big shot with a military background and a hidden agenda.
" "I'm just saying, I'm just saying—you get one of those big-shot Chicago lawyers, might be good money in it.
Once he had that, Lehder cut Jung out, went on his own and became a big shot in the Medellin Cartel.
Who is this jerk, I wondered, and how in the hell did he get to be a big shot at the FBI?
For him, spending $2,000 on Balmain joggers ("Big Shot") is as normal as recalling the day he hit his first million ("Outstanding").
In this case, the court and the defendant's father wanted a pass for the rapist because he was a big shot swimmer.
Scott hit a 3-pointer to tie the game 87-all before Porter hit his big shot to give Washington the lead.
It was also easy to figure out a big shot was in town ... with her Secret Service motorcade tipping off the locals.
Tyler lose his shoe and I just thought it would give Tyler a one-minute blow, and he hit a big shot.
Ward's impenetrable jab had Brand in fits and neatly disguised the occasional big shot thrown from the 230 Athens Olympic gold medallist.
But make enough clutch shots once you get there and you can go from being Robert Horry to being Big Shot Bob.
Oh, and BTW ... there's another page we got our hands on that takes a big shot at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Gabe Kalscheur missed the front end of a one-and-one for the Gophers to set the stage for Morsell's big shot.
Sutton and Lincoln City have now advanced further in this season's F.A. Cup than Liverpool, a big shot in the Premier League.
With LSU down 229-23, Reid hit a 22-pointer to tie the score with 215 seconds left before Nembhard's big shot.
In every other sport the star can hit the big shot, throw the touchdown pass or score the goal when it counts.
Tyler Johnson, who came off the bench to score 23 points, followed Dragic's big shot with another 3 on the Heat's next possession.
Tyler Seguin rang the puck off the post with a big shot and John Klingberg got it back to Pavelski at the point.
"My priority was my job and I was not trying to blow my big shot," Metz said in an interview with Marie Claire.
"Novartis paid Mr. Cohen hundreds of thousands dollars more than it paid its big-shot lobbyists in Washington," Wyden said in a statement.
But the lifespan as a digital big shot can be short—a few years at most before their audience ages and moves on.
The joke lies in the way the little guy impersonates the big shot, laying bare the empty grandiosity of his will to power.
"I can tell you, in my crowd, they would rather not do anything associated with Trump," says one advertising and marketing big shot.
After knocking down nine 3s in the first half, Ford's big shot was the only 3 for the Gaels in the second half.
After Jokic's big shot, Harrison Barnes missed a 3-pointer with 56.5 seconds left, giving the Nuggets a chance to extend the lead.
Big Shot Bob has more titles under belt than both LeBron and Michael Jordan -- but says you can't judge a player on titles alone.
In August, AMD's Roy Taylor looked toward 2017 and the rise of location-based VR, the next big shot for VR to go mainstream.
When Uber went from 80 cents to 60 cents in LA [right before the Lyft IPO], that was a big shot across the bow.
The film will get a big shot in the arm next week when it premieres in China, the world's second biggest market for film.
The new round of funding is led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and includes big shot funds like Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer Hippeau Ventures.
Danielle Bregoli's dad says his estranged daughter is such a big shot making loads of dough he shouldn't have to pay child support anymore.
But sometimes we get these big shot executives who just sit there and down glass after glass of champagne before we've even taken off.
Defenseman Dustin Byfuglien's big shot from the point was stopped by Dubnyk, but Wheeler was there to tip the rebound between the goaltender's legs.
Were he to possess a pair of red-and-black Air Jordans, he would be a big shot — with the shoes conferring instant status.
I was just another workingman in wet overalls and he was just another big shot in a three-piece suit and a safety vest.
The method they settled on was startlingly low-tech: they sent out 1,500 handwritten letters to every C-suite big shot under the sun.
And Mr. Rechnitz kept opening his wallet, leveraging the access his largess bought him to schmooze business associates and pose as a big shot.
Of course, his doing a portrait is about five minutes in front of the Big Shot Polaroid camera [laughing], I need about six months.
It's no secret a lot of the President's supporters want Mueller gone, and this lawsuit is a pretty big shot across the bow.  13.
Except this isn't the story of a wide-eyed dreamer longing for stardom, or a plucky intern with dreams of becoming a big shot.
After blowing his big shot, Sharkey went to a draw with Tom Heeney and then lost a split decision to the awkward journeyman, Johnny Risko.
Decades of harassment by a big shot producer put famous faces on the problem, but whisper networks in every field have grappled with it forever.
Taplin drained his sixth 3-pointer get the Golden Hurricane within two with two minutes remaining, but couldn't come up with one more big shot.
MAGIC 215, HAWKS 26 Another big lead got away from Orlando in the fourth quarter, but one big shot got it back just in time.
As Carter's former White House communications director Gerald Rafshoon told the Post: "He doesn't like big shots, and he doesn't think he's a big shot."
Other times, they create a sense that the offending big shot has been sufficiently chastened by a public lashing and the crisis starts to fade.
Young Thug got chauffeured around Hollywood like a big shot this summer, but stiffed the limo company like a bum ... according to a new lawsuit.
Before: You were unusually imperious, even for a corporate big shot — waited on hand and foot by lackeys who stroked and coddled you for decades.
Bill (McAvoy) is a big-shot Hollywood screenwriter; Ben (Ryan) is an architect; Richie (Hader) is an edgy comedian; Eddie (Ransone) is a risk analyst.
"We were able to make enough plays on offense — Jameer's big shots, Gary's big shot in the corner, big three — to stem the tide," Malone said.
"He doesn't like big shots, and he doesn't think he's a big shot," said Gerald Rafshoon, who was the 39th president's former White House communications director.
This pork belly marinade calls for a New Orleans favorite, Big Shot Red Crème Soda, but that might be hard to come by outside of Louisiana.
Our beauty closet is overflowing with glittering new products to try, but we've already found a worthy contender for MVP: Maybelline's new Colossal Big Shot mascara.
Here, he's trying to clear his name after his big-shot basketball buddy Rashard claims he's responsible for a hit-and-run, and it's … fine, mostly.
You clearly hear the NJ governor tell the dude, "You're a big shot" -- before he pulls back and continues down the steps ... nachos intact and all.
Jenner sat courtside with her publicist and longtime friend, Alan Nierob -- a UCLA grad who's a big shot on campus (he's on the board of visitors).
Elma, hoping to trade the sharecropping life for something finer, reluctantly succumbs to the advances of the vile Freddie Wilson, grandson to the town big shot.
He turned the Edwardian Room, where big-shot conversation had rumbled between dark-paneled walls, into the pastel-curtained Green Tulip, a change excoriated by all.
"Something relatively complicated?" for FAMILY TREE and "Big shot?" for GROUP PHOTO are both smart and succinct and vast improvements over the strained clues I submitted.
He doesn't have to wind up to get a big shot away so he can shoot it from anywhere and that's what makes him so dangerous.
I knew NINEBARK, BIG SHOT and BOHEMIA but didn't get much traction from those three and had to take some chances with RHYMING and IRON AGE.
In every other sport, the star can hit the big shot, throw the touchdown pass or score the goal when it counts, in the last seconds.
According to the magazine, the actor struggled for four months over whether or not to take the role of Simpson's hot-blooded big-shot lawyer Robert Shapiro.
He photobombs, metaphorically, books about the early years of the effort like Jon Cohen's Shots in the Dark and Patricia Thomas' Big Shot (both published in 2001).
"It's gone up because we have one big-shot investor, Barry Silbert, who's gone to Wall Street and sold some people on it," wrote the former supporter.
Once people saw how much information we were getting, it was a big shot in the arm of NASA to pick the Kepler mission and fly it.
This production restores a snippet of the original framing device, in which Frank, as a middle-aged big shot, delivers a graduation speech at his high school.
When the audience responded poorly to Trump's arguments and temperament, he assailed them as corrupt big-shot GOP donors who are upset that Trump cannot be bought.
And then the Seahawks give him back his starting job last week against the Rams, and he takes a big shot on his leg and can't continue.
Allen Iverson was rolling like a big shot on the roulette table this week ... 'cause by looks of it he was gambling with thousands worth of chips.
Big Shot Bob says Kobe having one less ring than MJ should have ZERO impact on his legacy ... but admits Mamba has always compared himself to Jordan.
Wall's block of Dennis Schroder's layup kept the Hawks from closing the gap to a single point, and Wall hit every big shot in the closing minutes.
He drew a healthy salary as a Cabinet secretary and a Fed guy, but not the kind of big-shot money someone in private equity might accumulate.
With punishing attrition, Ronnie Green had gone to work on Sombat Sor Thanikul and, once again, had made the big shot fighter from Thailand look technically bankrupt.
Scott collaborated with Lamar on "Big Shot," SZA on "All the Stars," and the Weeknd on "Pray for Me." Game of Thrones returns this Sunday at 9 p.m.
We got Sam Cassell out at Mastro's and asked him about the move he made famous ... the imaginary cuffing of huge huevos whenever you hit a big shot.
Several luxury brands have hired big shot designers in recent years to try and revive their fortunes, including Britain's Burberry, which took on ex-Givenchy star Riccardo Tisci.
VCs used to love the idea of a young big shot who saw a vast market that the old didn't: the diary writers who would contribute to Tumblr.
In fact, he isn't the first big shot to try to make it easier to sue for defamation after having a SLAPP suit blow up in his face.
And when he was through and had exhausted his energy, Maidana came back, until in the 10th, Maidana landed one last big shot, and Khan began to wobble.
I had to be thrown to the dirt with nobody wanting me, to learn, if nothing else, that it's not all about me and my big shot career.
Rather than taking it in stride, Christie got into the fan's face and appears to say, "You're a big shot," as he turns to walk back to his seat.
Larry Kudlow came out again yesterday – STEPHEN MOORE: They -- in fact, one time a couple weeks ago – JOE KERNEN: You'll still come on if you become a big-shot?
Don't fret if you've been toiling away for years, waiting for your big shot to come — you could find fame where you least expect it, like at a Walmart.
The short also features a big shot of the hulking radar tower at Montauk's Camp Hero Air Force base, which also pops up in the Duffers' original pitch document.
He had one late turnover but still had the confidence to knock down the big shot and two free throws that pretty much took over the game for us.
A small film takes a big shot at the man upstairs in a new film from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's experimental production company Oats Studios simply entitled God.
So while you might be a big-shot in your community, town, or city, the rules in Silicon Valley — a place notorious for being cut-throat — are very different.
Speaking at a rare solo press conference in New York, Trump said Kavanaugh's accusers are going to have "a big shot at speaking and making their case" at Thursday's hearing.
Wisconsin took a 56-53 lead with 26 seconds left on a 3-pointer by Vitto Brown, but the Jackson wasn't going to let that be the last big shot.
Hoping to land the singular big shot without over-committing, Molina, who beat both Rodricka Raya and Tomasz Adamek after his losing effort to Wilder, eventually left his chin exposed.
Dinwiddie is unaccustomed to big media groups around his locker, but he faced a throng ready to inquire about his big shot that beat LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
From Guyana, the culture is sort of like, when you can go to America, or when you can visit America, you're like a big shot, you know what I mean?
Of course, Gronk took a big shot to the head during the AFC Championship on Sunday and missed the 2nd half of the game after being evaluated for a concussion.
The Amazon chief executive has quietly been grooming a new image to go with his new status as rocket scientist, richest man in the world and potential Washington big shot.
The Oilers scored twice in 56 seconds, starting with Jones' insurance goal at 15:29, as he followed up a nifty passing sequence with a big shot from the point.
Even Quibi's origin story sounds like a pitch, this time for a buddy comedy: Ex-studio mogul partners with a former big-shot tech CEO for one last big score.
"Afterward, O'Neal said he went back to the teammates, the Lakers legends Rick Fox and Robert "Big Shot Rob" Horry, and told them: "Just get the rebound; he's not passing.
Mr. Big Shot, Finals MVP, Future Hall-of-Famer—Billups' NBA life is rich on accomplishments and well-deserved praise, almost all of it tilted towards his career's back half.
BTW -- the big shot by Ogunbowale was her SECOND in two games ... she also hit a long shot in the final seconds to beat undefeated UConn in the Final Four.
"You know, we worked hard tonight and it came down to the big shot," said Young, who connected on 6 of 12 attempts, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range.
Big Shot: Kasnoff made this 83- by 48-inch portrait, titled "Hong" (2016), using six sheets of photo­graphic paper exposed together, processed separately, and then assembled to form a single image.
Big Shot: Kasnoff made this 40- by 48-inch portrait, titled "Hong" (2016), using six sheets of photo­graphic paper exposed together, processed separately, and then assembled to form a single image.
Dunans was called for goaltending seconds before his big shot, which allowed Mercer to take a one-point lead after Ria'n Holland converted a three-point play with 3.8 seconds left.
Years later, Strahan says he took another big shot – this time, moving over from his co-hosting gig on Live to a full time spot as a co-host on GMA.
TMZ Sports spoke with the "Big Shot" rapper at LAX to get a critique on the track ... and while he doesn't hate it, O.T. says there's some major room for improvement.
Then he got on the phone with William Kraemer, a big shot in the NSCA who, since 1987, had been the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
Make Country Captain as if you were a Charleston burgher or a big shot in Savannah, and marvel at the interplay of flavors in this simple, awesome taste of our Southern past.
The résumé boost seems to have been a boon to Page's stature in Russia, where he portrayed himself as a big shot in ways that ended up being a liability to Trump.
Despite Trump's wealth and his televised role as a big shot who took glee in firing people, "Hillary somehow got portrayed the way Romney did," a close adviser to Clinton told me.
Some crook thought he'd be a big shot breaking into Billy Joel's house -- which would've been bad enough -- but trashing the piano man's beloved motorbikes too ... just makes him a heartless prick.
He'd go on to become an Ivy League big shot, getting his undergrad at Harvard, his MD and MBA at Penn ... and later teaching at the Department of Surgery at Columbia University.
This could mean any additional spending is spread over the next fiscal year, rather than a single big shot with this fiscal year's extra budget as sought by some ruling party lawmakers.
Speaking of old technologies, at our day care center there was one father — a big-shot professor — who was so brave that he did the worktime while wearing his Walkman (remember those?).
Call it poor timing or the price you pay to be a big shot in Hollywood, but Elba learned the hard way that try as you may, the Swift-West beef is unavoidable.
But I think Nick has a big shot at going all the way because he has already grown so much, and I think he has the potential to become a really fantastic dancer.
Elizabeth and Philip tail her, discovering that she's not actually teaching but sleeping with one of her students (who, it turns out, is about to be given a big-shot position in Moscow).
It was all the more so because Lee got noticed not for making the big shot, though he did do that, but for simply doing what he so often does in plain sight.
It's just one of several allegations against him that can be categorized into the same central theme: The EPA administrator was acting like a big shot, according to people who worked for him.
In addition to Ms. Grey, "Red Oaks" includes other '80s celebrities, like Paul Reiser ("Diner," 1982), who plays a finance big shot, and, as executive producer, Steven Soderbergh ("Sex, Lies and Videotape," 1989).
Scott (Michael Ealy), a big-shot marketing strategist, isn't so sure, but an isolated house at the end of a spooky, tree-lined driveway seems like the perfect place to start a family.
"The funny thing about having some money is you can't really be a big shot in Hollywood every day, because there's so much money here you're not going to impress anybody," he said.
Carlotta's daughter, Cotton (Amiyah Scott) recognizes their talent and encourages Star to come with her to a strip club, where she can talk to a music-industry big shot in the Champagne room. Sketchy?
That happened to be when Silicon Valley big shot and New Zealand fanboy Peter Thiel was being pretty vocal about his support for then-candidate Trump, something that sent shockwaves through the tech world.
When big shot George Wade (Hugh Grant) offers her a job with the promise of protecting her community and a high salary, she accepts with the intention of investing her pay in good causes.
No defendant deserves special treatment because he's a big shot public figure — even the former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and current member and ranking member of several other committees, as Menendez is.
JL also had regular appearances as an actor on "Arrested Development," playing Warden Stefan Gentles ... the bumbling lawman who aspired to be a big shot screenwriter and was kinda obsessed with the Bluth family.
But the story's narrator, Seth, and his friend Carter don't realize they're archaeologists, don't know they're excavating broken promises; still in their 20s, they think they're big-shot music producers collecting and processing random sounds.
Her father may never have been much of a part of her life, but he's a big shot in the Army, and she finagles a USO invite for the Bellas to perform on a European tour.
Everyone at the Golden Globes might've gotten a laugh from Christian Bale comparing Dick Cheney to Satan -- but the ex-Veep's daughter just took a big shot of her own ... invoking his 2008 domestic violence arrest.
In order to court these big-shot movie types, Apple created an unmarked "iTunes Lounge" in a Park City, Utah, hotel last year, when Hollywood's biggest players descended on the city for the Sundance Film Festival.
If McKnight looks familiar, it's because he not only was drafted by the NY Jets back in the day, but he's also kind of a Hollywood big shot who famously dated "Gossip Girl" star Jessica Szohr.
He pops up dealing and scheming in some of the sleazier, less reliable Hollywood histories, but in "Hail, Caesar!" he's a straight arrow and effectively an executive suite of one — the only big shot on the lot.
"While big-shot Hollywood producers once demanded a trophy Banksy canvas to be hanging above their faux-Spanish fireplaces, now all they want is one of [Tyler] Shields' gloriously twisted photographs," GQ has said of Shields' work.
"Look at Mr. Big Shot, getting Facebook to organize his parties for him" And so when my birthday approached this year, I thought I might invite one or two friends to dinner and enjoy the relative calm.
Given that just about every big-shot politician who leaves the DC circus immediately inks a book deal, it's not surprising that ousted FBI director James Comey scored one of his own on Wednesday, according to Politico.
Spacey plays a coked-out Beverly Hills big shot in Billionaire Boys Club, which stars Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton as two young investors who come up quick off a (real-life) Ponzi scheme in the 80s.
So, his oldest daughter, Alexa Ray, made sure her big shot dad didn't get away without a song sung in his honor ... and brought out Billy's 3-year-old daughter, Della Rose, with her for the occasion.
In the Chinese Basketball Association, a league dominated by overseas imports, it is rare to see a native player wave off his American teammates and take a big shot—let alone someone just 23 years of age.
Watching Stephens bout with Josh Emmett, his big shot came on the counter—something he is quite good at but doesn't do enough—yet was a straight arm swing that only just caught Emmett on the extreme end.
He founded the China Economic Review (which in 1990 published an article by a 32-year-old Yi Gang, now head of China's central bank), then entered finance, becoming a big shot in private equity at Newbridge Capital.
So since expansion-eligible Mainers live disproportionately in the state's rural areas, expansion should be a big shot in the arm for local economies that are ailing under the weight of a structural decline in the logging industry.
Williams broke serve twice in the second set and, though she returned the favor herself in the sixth game, Suarez Navarro failed to withstand Williams's serving and big shot barrage in the final game, succumbing to an unreturnable backhand.
Strahan got his first big shot at 17, when his father, a major in the Army, who was stationed in Mannheim, Germany, sent his son to live with his uncle in Houston and try for a college football scholarship.
"I can see why it's a temptation for a big shot like Trump to think that smaller powers don't matter and you just solve your problems with the other big guys," said Sestanovich, who is also a professor at Columbia University.
There was a piece in Vanity Fair based on an interview with a Wall Street big shot from his seaside home, which is an all out attack on Trump personally wasn&apost a particular fact, and the guy was never named.
On the other hand, you don't actually need a big-shot music executive to launch a music subscription service — just ask Spotify, run by a Swedish programmer who had no exposure to the music industry when he started the company.
To be caught before the lens of his Polaroid Big Shot camera was to be considered among the top echelon of the day's influencers — celebrities, musicians, athletes, the rich and famous — each rendered in these quick, candid, and stunning snapshots.
As cannabis transitions from the black market to a legal industry, big shot marijuana investors with their eyes on the "green rush" want to make pot seem "mainstream" enough that white soccer moms will forget it was ever a crime.
Baser desires — like the one to see attractive people naked, or to forget your age by popping some molly and hitting the Skrillex set, or sip champagne in a Hummer just to feel like a big shot — have a market too.
The actress, 42, starred in the 2002 movie about a big-shot designer living in New York who has to go back home in order to convince her ex to sign the divorce papers so she can get married again.
"They're eager to become an important player, a big shot in the Middle East," said Zvi Magen, a former Israeli ambassador to Russia who is now a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
What Russell seems to be making his critics reconsider — with every outlandish celebration, every expert pass, every prank at practice and every big shot — is whether those two aims could productively co-exist for him on an N.B.A. court after all.
It seems like a perfect fit -- after all, the dude had a cameo on "The Young and the Restless" in 2006 ... and Luke's tight with Hollywood big shot Jeffrey Katzenberg (they were leaving Craig's together when we shot Luke last night).
The meeting of big-shot chief executives at the White House on Friday — people like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and Stephen A. Schwarzman of Blackstone — was supposed to prove the bona fides of the new, business-focused businessman-turned-president.
Who better to answer that question than Judd Apatow, the executive producer of "Freaks and Geeks" and the comedian, producer, director and writer who has been in a spiral over the ascent of his fellow TV big shot and Twitter addict?
Consider that for married couples filing a joint return for 215 with a combined income of more than $264,21 -- substantial compensation, but hardly big-shot bucks in major urban markets such as New York -- the federal tax bite is a hefty 228%.
Even something like Lillard Time, which isn't so much a nickname as just a description of what happens when Damian Lillard takes over crunch time of any given game, is so much better than "Big Shot" or "Big Game" or "Big Time" anything.
" Plus, it was hard "ego-wise, to go from being a big shot one day with the press calling you for your opinion on the real estate market all the time, to the next day when you're not in the game at all.
However, when the Chicago Bulls needed a big shot late in the fourth quarter, the rookie forward who has emerged as a reliable outside shooter finally came through with the on-target shot that was eluding him for much of the night.
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Last year, Huawei took a big shot at Apple with the MateBook X Pro, a laptop that encapsulated some of the best things about MacBook Pro line while ignoring more gimmicky features like the Touch Bar and Apple's frustrating butterfly keyboard.
Although not a household name, Lawrence Krauss is a big shot among skeptics, a community that rejects all forms of faith — from religion and the supernatural, to unproven alternative medicines, to testimonials based on memory and anecdote — in favor of hard evidence, reason, and science.
Sister Jean, the 98-year-old nun who has served as the Ramblers' team chaplain for more than two decades, knew from experience and the meticulous scouting reports that she files that in big-shot moments, the ball often finds its way into Ingram's hands.
Two friends, Pickle and Belly Button, spend their nights in compulsive voyeurism, watching and listening to dashcam recordings of Pickle's boss, a big shot named Kevin, as he drives around in his Mercedes looking for (and sometimes having) sex with a series of women.
" –Nick Orsini "I wish I knew it was okay to live in a town that made me feel comfortable, that it was okay to still be working in a coffee shop instead of a big-shot office, and that hearts go on after life-shattering breakups.
Ben Horowitz, the rap-loving, book-writing co-founder of the big shot venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz will be joining the board of directors at Tanium, the computer security outfit in which the firm has so heavily invested, sources briefed on the move tell Re/code.
Back home, church was many things for the people I knew—a place to meet friends or show off a new dress or preen like a big shot if you were a deacon or an elder, as well as a sanctuary in which to worship God.
To generations of mayors, governors and ordinary New Yorkers, he was Gabe: the short, rumpled, pushy guy from Channel 19673 who seemed always on the scene, elbowing his way to the front and jabbing his microphone in the face of a witness or a big shot.
Just a few months after CoverGirl signed their first coverboy, James Charles, Maybelline has announced Manny Gutierrez, (known on social media as Manny MUA) as one of the stars in their new Big Shot campaign — making him the first male to star in one of the brand's campaigns.
Gutierrez, alongside fellow YouTube beauty influencer Shayla Mitchell, synced up with the brand to create a video campaign for the upcoming launch of The Colossal Big Shot Mascara — and the duo is on a mission to teach us all how to embrace our inner boss, starting with our lashes.
The back story: In a White House with a strong political operation, there'd be a big shot acting as the main strategist — marshalling party leaders across the country, controlling the Republican National Committee and ensuring the biggest donors in the conservative movement are ready for the epic fights ahead.
The second-term Republican can be seen clutching a bowl of nachos and leaning over a man identified as Brad Joseph, telling him "you're a big shot," before walking away down a flight of stairs, according to a video of the incident posted online by Milwaukee's WISN television.
In a wonderful comic sequence that takes place on one of these outings, the three core members of the team (a fourth dies early in the book) haze Levin by ordering him to arrest a mob big shot dining in the same restaurant where they're all spending the evening.
"The idea that you would be in government, you would be consulted, you would be a big shot in the legal profession, I think that was viewed as one of the distinctive parts of the Harvard Law School ethos," said Mr. Kennedy, who noted that some of his best-known colleagues maintained very active practices.
After a short break from the front pages following his "Beachgate" photos on the Fourth of July weekend, Christie ran into some trouble with a Chicago Cubs fan at a Milwaukee Brewers game Sunday when he responded to the spectator's verbal attacks, saying, "You're a big shot," according to a viral video of the scene.
In 1974, an economist named Art Laffer was having dinner at the Two Continents restaurant, a nice restaurant in Washington DC. And he was having it with Donald Rumsfeld, who was the secretary of defense for the United States — really big shot guy — and Dick Cheney, who would soon become vice president of the United States.
But most are more ordinary—the intimidator, the reckless driver, the coke-snorter, the one-percenter, the big shot wishing she'd drop the attitude, the lunch date gabbing about himself, the feckless no-show, the guy who was never home enough, the guy she did her best to love, the guy whose baby she doesn't want, the guy she misses even now.
For Lobo, "life had been a counting off of days and dust and sun," until one day he sings a corrido for a big shot dealer known as the King; the song wins Lobo the King's favor and he moves into his gaudy palace, securing a place among the characters of the King's Court and gaining the name The Artist.
His demonstrated ability to make baskets in the waning seconds of playoff games earned Horry the nickname Big Shot Rob and a spot on the championship squads of the Houston Rockets (1994, 53), the Lakers (2000, 2001, 2002) and the San Antonio Spurs (25, 210), making him the second player, after Salley, to have won titles with three N.B.A. teams.
"Bloodlines" is the story of Lawson's big shot at dismantling a drug cartel: in this case, the Zetas, a brutal crew of Mexican commandos who, around the turn of the millennium, crossed their own sort of border and switched from working as the government's elite counternarcotics force to using their military training to run cocaine themselves — and wreak bloody havoc on their rivals.
"We watch the bay when other people don't want to watch it" is an actual line from BAYWATCH, which appears to be a tone roller-coaster — Josh Lincoln Dickey (@JLDlite) April 12, 2016 Though the title suggests more Nicolas Sparks than Denis Villeneuve, this is indeed the Sicario director's big shot at sci-fi, and it was well-received here by the fanboy keyboard corps.
"Thankfully, Venus (the ruler of this moon) and communicative Mercury come to the rescue by helping us see the big picture as they form a cooperative sextile with big-shot Jupiter — suggesting that even if it feels like an erratic and tense situation, it will get resolved as long as we commit to adapting to positive change and have an expanded sense of what's possible," Montúfar says.
FABER: DOES THAT WORK, DOES IT ATTRACT PEOPLE BECAUSE OF COURSE I THINK STAR TREK, AND I THINK STAR WARS, WHICH DISNEY IS GOING TO USE TO HELP TRY AND ATTRACT PEOPLE MOONVES: WE THINK STAR TREK IS GOING TO DO EXTREMELY WELL IVE SEEN THE FIRST TEN EPISODES, ITS REALLY, REALLY GOOD WE THINK THATS GOING TO BE A BIG SHOT IN THE ARM FOR ALL ACCESS.
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Gutierrez, who has nearly 2 million Instagram subscribers and was the first male to ever be featured on Maybelline's Instagram page, stars alongside female influencer Shayla Mitchell in two new videos, in which they "get bossed up" by applying the Volum' Express The Colossal Big Shot Mascara before a party in N.Y.C. We recently caught up with Gutierrez at PEOPLE's Ones To Watch party, where he was named The Ultimate Influencer, and he filled us in on his advice for anyone looking to follow in his glamorous footsteps.

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