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They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. They got it righted and played good defense to get back in the game. I knew that Kobe would find a way out there to help us win. Phil Jackson
almost burnt coffee hot leg maybe threw
They almost burnt me with a Marlboro or something. They threw hot coffee on my leg. Or maybe it was hot chocolate. It was hot, though. It burnt my leg a little bit. It's not a big issue. Corey Dillon
almost conference game last nice win
The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top. Kevin Boyer
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The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.
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The way he's been pitching lately, we almost feel obligated to go out there and get him some runs. Confidence is the key in baseball. When you feel confident, you're going to put up good numbers.
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The waterline was almost at the top of the basement when they began dewatering. I am amazed at how fast they've been able to remove so much water. I didn't expect this much progress for months. Amazing. Jeff Johnson
almost face factor major nervous people trouble
These are things that people can be nervous about and, yes, they're concerns. But let's face it: the world has trouble almost every day. It's probably not a major factor for our market.
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The rift, if not civil war, within the Liberal party also presents an almost Herculean task for any new leader.
almost company man richest sells though wealthy
The richest man in the world got wealthy even though his company sells almost nothing tangible.
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Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.
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Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do. B. F. Skinner
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In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what you see on screen, the idea that we have a worlds where the consumer can exercise authority and sovereignty is absurd,
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There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will be focusing on this. And for the author of the story to be away on holidays when it's released just is wrong.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels. Victor LaValle
authority enemies enemy greatest respect
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstein
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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. Laurence Housman
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt
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When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire. Andrew O'Hagan
became finally life
When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life. Morris Gleitzman
became evident financial needed terms turnaround viable
It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.
became bigger project
It became a bigger project than what we anticipated. Joan Smith
became cost four insurance losses people
It became a $400-million hit. Most of that came from insurance losses, but also losses of infrastructure. And sadly, it cost four people their lives.
became cannes walked
I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another. Max von Sydow
became fast fortune good nick work
I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends. Josh Helman
became good trying
I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good. Chris Massoglia
became bought coke daddy failed jobs office president question united whose
He wanted us to question why a coke headed, alcoholic who's had all of his jobs have failed but one, and whose daddy bought him into office became the President of the United States.
became couple innings pitch
He could probably pitch a couple of innings before he became fatigued. Bobby Cox
best knew lost score year
That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.
best people register stand
People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.
best deep exception run seen team
Deep Run is the best team I've seen with the exception of Dale.
best deep golf half happy
Deep down, Beth and I know we didn't play our best golf today, ... Half a point, we're not happy with it, but it's better than no points. Juli Inkster
best brown carry michigan players state
Dee Brown is one of the best players in our league. He's going to come in and try to carry them by himself. He did that in the Michigan State game.
best capable great pitchers
Deanna is a great pitcher, one of the best pitchers in the state. She does not get enough recognition for what she's capable of doing.
best deals mean means work
Deals are time-consuming, and they are difficult. It doesn't mean that they necessarily don't work out. It just means that the best day you have is the day you make the announcement.
best game learning trying
Day-in, day-out it's still a learning process, especially as quarterbacks, because we haven't had much game experience. We're just trying to do the best we can with the reps we are getting.
best shot
Day in and day out they've been able to take everybody's best shot because that's what you get, especially in the playoffs.
book june third
I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book men dedication
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. Stephen Jay Gould
book design raw-materials
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.
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To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights.
book books-and-reading bring certain comic guy mythical sort
Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.
bought looked past practice talked
We talked about getting better in practice from day one. They bought into it and we never looked past anyone.
bought drive everybody forward guys looking playoffs reasons team trying
Everyone has their own reasons why they do things. All I know is this is my team right now, and the guys have bought into what we're trying to do. The playoffs are what drive everybody in this league, and we're looking forward to what's going to happen. Flip Saunders
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I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot. Jon Favreau
bought companies company customer data goods joe store tools visited web
Not many companies know that Joe who visited the company Web site is the same Joe who visited the store and bought goods at point-of-sale. For the tools to be really effective, companies need to look at customer data from all perspectives.
bought game home host ncaa paper prepared turned work
The NCAA bought the NIT. So it is a little different. The NCAA will be seeding the tournament. But we are prepared to host a home game if we get the opportunity. We've already turned in all the paper work and we are ready. Hopefully, we will get the opportunity.
bought conversation experience fact great trying
After that conversation everything was very positive. I thought he really bought into what we were trying to do. It was not a great experience for me, the fact that we lost, but it was a great experience to see his growth. Larry Brown
bought coaches everybody executing game good job listening looked plan playing team themselves win
After that (Alabama) game we had a team meeting. I think everybody looked at themselves and everybody bought into what will win games. I think we've done a good job listening to coaches and just going out and executing the game plan and just playing smart. Taurean Green
bought candidate clear debt needs reduction
It's not clear that Qwest is a near-term candidate to be bought by anyone. I still think debt reduction needs to be a priority.
bought effort free guys means time together tribute willing
It's really a tribute to the guys that they have bought into it. It really means something that they're willing to give up some of their free time to get together and make an effort to get better.
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Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.
change found solution
There will not be a change to the law, but we have found a solution to the law, a provision, something like that.
change definitely
This is definitely going to change the way we do science.
change
This is an inexpensive way to make a change in how something looks.
change continue happens incredible stocks until
This is an incredible thing that's going on in these stocks and it's going to continue for a while until something happens to change it,
change example fear hearts minds missing puts room
This is an example of this change and the fear that it puts in the hearts and minds of independent practitioners. What they (the doctors) are missing is there's room for both.
change court front grant harmful remedy
This is harmful pretrial publicity. It's all over the front page. The way the court can remedy it is to grant a change of a venue.
change great news
This is great news for the marketplace, but it is not going to change anything overnight.
change life
This is going to change my life a lot.
classic married reader
Reader, I married him. Charlotte Bronte
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I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away. Bobby Clarke
earned ended feelings fortunate hard negative wish worked
I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point. Troy Percival
earned playing
He's made a lot of progress. He's earned his playing time.
meant speech
He told me he meant everything he said in his speech.
people realistic year
Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.
people quiet rather wrong
Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.
people tolerant
Some people will not be tolerant about this.
people types
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.
people ran
Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.
people watched
Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting. Michelle Lombardo
people
Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons. Tracey Emin
people restaurant size
Some people told us not to put the restaurant in Ceresco because of the size and location. But that's really why we're doing this. There's nothing here.
people save threatened
Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.
personality poor runners
Runners are poor walkers. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
personality age trying
If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age. Julie Chen
strength grief unhappy-person
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
strength lying opportunity
I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years. Ellen Swallow Richards
strength men sea
Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide. Edward Dahlberg
strength crazy roots
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.
strength strong demand
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover. Hermann Hesse
strength brother together
All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
strength lying criticism
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
strength strong suffering
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
strength loneliness men
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen
zero taken somewhere-else
In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly. Leon Panetta
zero loss hands
If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss. Peter Thiel
zero technology games
It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.
zero japan long
It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times. Shinzo Abe
zero lying thinking
I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent. Lindsey Vonn
zero blood alcohol
At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers' blood, they are instantly dismissed. Lindsay Fox
zero kids firsts
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome. Leif Garrett
zero hero butterfly
Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero Katy Perry
zero hands what-if
What if I promise not to touch you?" "Cath laughed. "Now I have zero incentive to come." "What if I promise to let you touch me first?" "Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands." "I've seen no evidence of that, Cath." "In my head, I'm all hands." "I want to live in your head. Rainbow Rowell