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Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni and much-hyped annual awards ceremonies. One year Mel Gibson recited Hamlet and escaped from a straitjacket. Tom Cruise has strutted in a bra and stilettos. This year Sarah Jessica Parker gets the prize. A recent ... episode was about money woes. I wonder if there will be any jokes about dough this time!

Nicole Davis

I think it's great that UNCA tries to keep its alumni involved with campus life through the awards and all of the other events that we invite our alumni to attend.

Gerald Myers

I think as our alumni and fans have gotten to know Mike, they have come to appreciate him even more.

Bruce Sherman

It is most appropriate that the entrance to this beautiful facility ? a facility that was constructed at the request of students ? carry the name of the Alumni Society,

Sid Bernstein

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Gerald Parsky

We look for UC Merced's presence, its faculty, its research and its alumni to start an economic renaissance for the Valley.

Tim White

I am delighted that coach Erickson will be the head football coach at the University of Idaho. Our student-athletes deserve the opportunity to develop and play under the tutelage of a proven, seasoned and successful head coach. I was in leadership roles at Oregon State University during Dennis' renewal of the football program in Corvallis, and know first-hand of the positive impact he had on the entire fabric of the university, its alumni and supporters.

Dan Leibovitz

I am extremely impressed with the leadership and mission of the University of Hartford under President (Walt) Harrison. I'm joining the university at a time of tremendous growth and see it as an opportunity to build a successful basketball team with a winning tradition of which our students, alumni and community can be proud.

Ron Murphy

Right now, Purvis is hurt; he sprained an ankle in the alumni game.

Mark Hansen

It becomes an annual family reunion ... a gathering point for musicians from all over the country.

Mark Davis

This was our second crab feed and we hope to make it an annual event. The funds raised by the music boosters go for new equipment, trips and scholarships.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

Shannon LaRocque

It comes down to liability. Two things have to happen to make this work. One is, Scripps has to have assets to back $100 million. Then, it is possible they are looking to the local governments to help make the annual premiums.

Ted Turner

It is after much deliberation that I have decided not to stand for re-election at the annual meeting. I have enjoyed working with (TW chairman and CEO) Dick Parsons, as well as the other board members and the management team. I wish Dick and the company every success.

Ann Davis

It is, I think, a little sobering to look at those job growth numbers year over year. The annual numbers are showing a significant decrease throughout the region, and that tends to suggest a slowing economy.

Emily Oster

I am extremely devoted to Amazon Prime - which offers speedier free deliveries, free movie streaming and other benefits for an annual fee - but I don't think it is great for groceries.

Sander Levin

I am convinced that a day-to-day, fully staffed, high-level commission, with its focus being human rights issues ... will be far more effective than our annual review,

Steve Forbes

He introduced things like different-color cars and annual model changes, and it's taken Ford 70 years to get back close to GM. I'm like Sloan. I see what the new world needs and wants, and I'm offering it. Dole's still making black cars. But he doesn't have to.

Jamil Moledina

We are extremely happy to host the awards ceremony at the Game Developers Conference. We believe it's important to celebrate the individual recipients and provide them with as much exposure as possible.

Marsha Samitt

There is an awards committee that makes the decision on winners, and we look at the community in general for winners, not just members of the Chamber of Commerce.

Ryan Hall

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Brian Jones

I just tried to keep from not turning the ball over and in getting the ball to our playmakers. I don't care about all of the other accolades. Not winning any awards took the pressure off of me. I just wanted to do my part to win this for the guys.

Joe Alexander

His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the Baldrige.

Pamela Anderson

Canadian music rocks. No matter where I am in the world I can listen to Canadian music and feel like I'm at home. This is going to be one kick-ass awards show.

Randy Hauswirth

I'm happy for Jeremiah for all the awards he's getting. He was so important to our team - he was the kind of kid where, if Jeremiah was playing well, the rest of the kids on the team picked up their intensity as well. He's a great athlete.

Finn Taylor

I hope people are buying into the unique script and characters. We realized as the process unfolded that the studios would make a watered-down version of what we wanted to do. A watered-down version of The Darwin Awards wouldn't be funny.

Michael Bradley

Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes. This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Anita Loos

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever

Jim Taylor

Kids don't necessarily (even) sort out the difference between store brands and product brands.

Todd Campbell

I wouldn't be a brand new buyer of most companies, ... But old money should keep riding the wave. Don't get off the moving bus until it stops.

Jackie Cooper

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Greg Walker

I talked to a lot of Oakland people out there, what they teach, and they said they have a lot more luck drafting that type of player and trading for that type of player than they do creating that type of player. I think it's just the way your brain works. It's very hard to teach.

Zach Day

He didn't want to overwhelm me with a bunch of stuff, ... But I picked his brain and said, 'I don't care if you overwhelm me. I've got a lot of stuff to work on and the last month and all off-season to work on it and want to get right.'

Sirio Maccioni

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

Michael R. Bloomberg

It gives you a good visual, ... You can put a picture in the paper of a big cruise ship. We can talk about the food on a cruise ship.

Wes Craven

Everyone from Tom Cruise to Jude Law was talked about for this role - and not everyone was available, and some we couldn't afford.

John Barker

After the kick I was like, 'Thank God I got that over with,' ... Now I can just cruise the rest of the way.

Douglas Ward

As we've gotten larger and larger ships in the main resort cruise section, particularly in the U.S., what I've found is that people get tired of standing in lines and being highly structured, and then they start to think about smaller ships, and so they want to downsize.

Ed Conley

For instance you may have some people who have insurance and insurance is meeting their living expenses while they have been displaced. You have some people who may be looking at an option such as a cruise ship where all of their needs are going to be met. It is going to vary by family.

Judy Randall

They are giving the customer exactly what they want. What we have to do is to become a cruise ship on land.

Bob Hunter

This is where it gets tricky, especially for inexperienced travelers who are making long-range plans. It might be worth it for a really expensive cruise that is non-refundable, for instance. It depends on your risk quotient and health.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

Rick Riordan

I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.

John Jarvis

People need to know it's all back there. Most people don't even make it past the doughnut counter.

Randy Dunton

We have got to get some more contributions from the post. We're a doughnut down there and that has to be addressed.

David Davenport

Had (the students) not obtained a gun from their home, this episode would have never happened,

Jennifer Aniston

I had done a lot of television shows, ... I sort of thought that's what I did... you do six episodes of this and then you go: 'All right, well that was a good year. Go on to the next one'.

Marshall Acuff

I'm not sure that we're going to see the market run straight up as it seemed to be doing in the first quarter. There are going to be episodes when we feel better, as we do today, and there are going to be episodes like this whole week ago, when we feel uneasy.

Jane Kaczmarek

I know I don't want to do another single-camera show. It's so time-consuming. I did a couple of episodes of 'Whitney' as her mom, but I have been laying low. I love being with my kids and being a mom.

Jill Soloway

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'

D. James

The Borg were always very time consuming, whatever episode they might be in, they were always difficult.

Judith Jamison

It's a mood piece about love and relationship, like a slice- of life- pie at 2 a.m. with episodes that happen quickly.

Megan Park

It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

Keeley Hawes

I've never seen an episode of 'Downton Abbey.'

Tod Martin

After the game, I told our kids, 'We escaped with the win and our lives. . . . It was scary.

Ben Phillips

The last time I was in there I kind of apologized to the tree for taking the core, and just told it how important I think it is. I don't want other people to go in there and trample it down. The human impact that it's escaped is the reason why it's still there.

John Clute

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.

Erin Healy

is pleased to hear that Mr. Hamill escaped and is safely in the hands of the U.S. military.

David Brooks

The rich escaped while the poor were abandoned.

Rene Saguisag

Now that they are free men, if they have really escaped as the military claims, then the more they should be able to communicate with us with ease.

Lorene Scafaria

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

Constanze Stelzenmueller

Germany has somewhat been pushed into the lead in Europe. This implies great opportunities for Merkel, something that hasn't escaped Bush.

Sam Worthington

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Michael Keaton

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Joe Newman

We looked at the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, CBA and NBDL and there were little or no minority ownerships. Unless you were a famous star, all of those leagues were excluding minorities.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Gilbert Arenas

We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Raymond Brown

I'd been poking my head out for days. I haven't had food in 2 or 3 days. I wasn't scared, but I was nervous. I trust in God. He wanted me to hang in there.

Jim Rosborough

I wouldn't put anything past him. Whatever he says typically gets done. He's just never, ever let any of his handicaps hold him back at all.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

Floyd Reese

I wouldn't be surprised if (Edwards), a veteran guy, gets gobbled up at some point,

Bill Cowher

Joey is the kind of guy who gets us going. We have some unique personalities, and Joey is unique in his own sense.

Mark Hastings

Josh is a very physical kid. He runs really well and has a great nose for the ball. When he gets a hold of you, he's going to tackle you.

John McNeley

J.R. has such a quick release, it doesn't have to be a situation where he gets that open.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Bill Guerin

He just gets us all going. When you see him out there and he's stirring things up, it gets you wanting to do the same thing. He's one of our leaders out there.

Jeff Lerg

He just gets it and throws it to the net, I know his game. I'll be hearing about that one for the whole summer.

David Jolly

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.

Michael Green

She's been running in front. She's been out there when Perkins, at the time, and Gibson have been getting it together.

Dean Laidley

I thought Jon Hay was good and Josh Gibson -- they were the two big pluses in the backline.

Ryan Lochte

If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.

Jake Epstein

The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.

William Shakespeare

From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

William Shakespeare

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

William Shakespeare

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

William Shakespeare

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

Eric McCormack

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact." ()

James Beattie

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Colin Firth

is that it is like Hamlet. If you thought about who had played it before, you'd never play Hamlet again.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

Arabian Proverb

The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry

Sarah Krycinski

Hannah surprises me, though I don't know why. She runs with me and Lindsey every single day. Jessica will get there. She just needs to be pushed.

John Watkins

It is somewhat ironic. Jessica Williams, we know she was not impaired because a jury said so, yet she is in jail. With Veronica Schmidt, we don't know if she's impaired, and she's free.

Britney Spears

And I'm proud of Jessica - she's doing really well.

Katrina Szish

Sources tell us Jessica may be willing to shell out as much money as she has to in order to make this whole thing go away.

Olga Klimova

She was the most experienced one here, so we will miss her. Next year, it will be time for someone else to step up and lead the team like Jessica was doing.

Curt Benge

Megan and Jessica are going to be big for us offensively, and we've got to get them more involved.

Dexter Irvin

I thought Jessica and Lauren did an outstanding job defensively on Wallace.

Oscar Isaac

Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

Taylor Twellman

He jokes around -- when he looks up, he sees The Big Head. When he sees The Big Head, he reads where I'm going.

Eric Andre

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

James Schamus

It's essentially flattering, It says more about those making of the jokes than about the movie.

Ronde Barber

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Ricky Gervais

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Thomas R. Insel

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Bob Henderson

I think it's a very serious matter. In fact, it's known that it's a serious matter when you take some communications that you were supposed to have.

Nicola Sturgeon

It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Jerry Crooks

He had to have known it was wrong to open up those tanks.

Jeff Carter

He was mixing well tonight. He has an idea of what he wants to do out there and he does it.

David Carr

In preseason, we used it (a three-step drop) a lot because we wanted the repetitions, but now that the season's beginning, we have to mix it up and do some things down the field,

Adam Timmerman

It helps, just the mixing it up. It's nice when we're pushing them back and running the ball.

Bruce Arena

(Ching) is right in the mix right now.

David Milne

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

John Wells

You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.

Emile M. Cioran

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Lewis Carroll

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.

Mari Pehkonen

It's sort of mixed feelings. It's sentimental and it's also being scared of what could happen.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Steve Frank

Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.

Bill Cowher

If Jerome is unable to go, Willie Parker will start,

Tre Cool

I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.

Wentworth Miller

I'm pretty much a couch potato.

Trisha Yearwood

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

James Beard

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

Mary J. Blige

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

Frank McCourt

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

Augustus Hare

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

Demetri Martin

When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

Veronica Roth

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich

Roger Waters

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Joseph Roth

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

Beatrix Potter

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

Donald Trump

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

Miguel de Cervantes

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

Miguel de Cervantes

The proof is in the pudding.

J. K. Rowling

I hope there's pudding!

Edmund Daukoru

In the wake of recent experience, no one is saying that this threat should be taken lightly.

Kathryn Taylor

It has to do with the recent reported suspicious surveillance attempts.

Mark McCutchen

Clarksville has hedged small amounts in recent months. They do know about hedging, they just haven't done much lately." ()

Phil Davis

Their achievements in recent years speak for themselves,

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Chris Tarry

Swissair has been strengthening its relationship with American over recent months.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

Eric Haslett

For Sarah to be able to have the time she did was wonderful.

Cheryl Tweedy

I don't think I can have Sarah now. But the other girls, yeah, definitely.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

William Butler Yeats

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

Rob Thomas

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

William Shatner

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect

Will Rogers

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Rudyard Kipling

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Richard Notebaert

If you could wave a wand tomorrow that's the only thing we'd sell.

Ciara

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

Jose Rizal

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Kurt Cobain

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Al Wolski

I was just wondering if we were ever going to get the ball.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.