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assertive incredibly needs talented today
Jim Calhoun Rudy needs to be more assertive. He's an incredibly talented kid, but he's a young kid. Today he was assertive and made his moves. At times today he was unstoppable.
assertive blown capable drive hit national open shots winning
LeBron James We didn't want to get blown out on national TV. I just wanted to be assertive and just try to hit the open shots and drive to the basket, which I'm always capable of doing. So the MVP was never in my mind; just winning the ballgame.
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Chris Paterson We are delighted to win because it's the first time we've beaten the Ospreys, but it was a strange day. We were really motivated and we are usually positive and assertive but it wasn't the case early on and we got ourselves into a bit of trouble. But I think huge credit comes out of the way we fought back.
assertive defence forming quicker
Peter Russell We need to be a lot quicker in forming our defence and a lot more assertive when we go in for the tackle,
assertive happens political run
Lorelei Sims I'm an assertive person who happens to be female. I think you have to be assertive to run for political office.
assertive couple good lazy penalties start took
Marc Crawford I don't think we were complacent, I don't think that we got the start that we had wanted. We weren't very good on a couple of shifts. We took lazy penalties tonight. We weren't assertive enough when we went to battle.
assertive bounce defending game good great looked running until
Jose Fernandez She had a great game tonight. She had a good bounce to her, running up and down the court, defending as well. She was assertive and looked good until the fall.
assertive far loose quicker step sure taking teams tonight types
Robert Corn Most teams we play are quicker than we are. So we've got to make sure that we're really assertive as far as taking that first step to the loose ball, taking that first step to the basketball. Those types of things are what we have to do to be successful, and tonight we did that.
both guard maybe wire
Ron Wilson We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.
both employees hate move seeing
Jack Berry We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.
both naturally wealth
Atharva Veda Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.
both discovery driven east finds fossil mary since understand
Louise Leakey With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
both since
Lisa Cholodenko Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
both direct guess project serious
Mackenzie Astin There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
both checks dressing great knows reason rooms sit sound together worse
Ben Folds The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?
both potential
Duncan Chase The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.
both huge potential sales
Tarun Das The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.
cultures felt mesh move pick position strength
Joe Crawford We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well.
cultures embrace event learn lives students
J. Taylor This event allows students to learn about their own and others' backgrounds. We should all embrace other cultures and learn to live lives of celebration and joy.
cultures drumming group student together
Desiree Manuel For example, one student put together a drumming group to show how different cultures drum.
cultures depend might run tests
Romeo Crennel They didn't say. We may know more tomorrow. It might depend on when they run tests and cultures and what they might find.
cultures time western
Stephen Little They're from before the time of any western incursion. They're from a time when these cultures were intact, and that's very rare.
cultures due opportunity time variety wonderful
Rob Willmann It was a wonderful, wonderful time to live in Rome. The educational opportunity was multiplied tenfold due to the variety of cultures and languages.
cultures fine given good history vision
Duane Ackerman Our cultures are a good fit, given the history and the vision of these two fine companies.
cultures english three
Debby Padgett Actually, there were three cultures that converged Powhatan, English and African.
cultures difference expose feet hope thanks time
Jason Mraz Thanks to 'I'm Yours,' I'm probably set for a really long time. The pressure I put on myself, or what I hope my 'I Won't Give Up' does, is to make a difference in people's lives... With 'I'm Yours,' I got to go out and set my feet on different continents, and expose myself to different cultures and causes.
female looks harsh
Carol Vorderman How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
female fight great history mothers numbers seen sending single wars
Elaine Donnelly We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.
female males food-supply
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
female five minutes partners talk time totally within
Alexa Von Tobel When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
female sexier women
Tyga There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.
female genius
Camille Paglia There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.
female genius overcoming
Camille Paglia Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.
female unconscious seems
Carl Jung Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.
female body painting
Diego Rivera Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
generally
Leander Paes If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.
generally green military style uniforms
Rick Glancey When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.
generally high return
Jim Harrison We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.
generally information otherwise playing somebody
Keira Knightley What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.
generally sketch spirited
Denis Diderot A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture,
generally
Amy Cuddy A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.
generally income investment tax
Marc Freedman This investment is generally recommended for higher-income tax brackets,
generally good markets war
Hugh Johnson It's very cold-hearted, but war has generally been good for the markets and the economy.
generally interest rate sensitive stocks strong tech
Ed Peters There's a strong sensitivity now to interest rate increases, and high-priced stocks such as tech stocks are generally more sensitive to that.
men listening wish
Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
men
Charles Dickens Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men brotherhood common
Charles Dickens The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
Charles Dickens It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
Charles Dickens When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Charles Dickens Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men talking two
Charles Caleb Colton When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
Charles Caleb Colton No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
men two rogues
Charles Caleb Colton There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
oklahoma
Alan Jackson Oklahoma's always been good to me.
okonkwo fire ashes
Chinua Achebe Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
okonkwo dry-bones things-fall-apart-important
Chinua Achebe An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
oklahoma states happened
Edna Ferber Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
ok
Ryan Seacrest It's OK to cry. It's because you care.
ok team
Carlos Ruiz It's OK if I score, but it's much better if my team wins.
okay
John Tanner It's okay to go if you know where you are going.
ok rooms
Riley Polumbus There were just OK rooms here and there.
ok schedules trust turn
Rod Stewart I trust them, ... I just OK the schedules and I turn up to sing, basically.
puts risk
Kofi Annan Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.
puts relationship risk serious sex wear
Lori Reynerson Always wear condoms. Having sex with someone you don't have a relationship with puts you at risk for some very serious problems.
puts stage three top
Mike Erlandson It puts him (Warner) in the top three on the stage for 2008.
puts roy
Phil Garner Roy is not a promoter. He's very laid-back. That's not a show he puts on.
puts side table
Jim Stone This puts them on the same side of the table as you,
puts till understand words
Francis Bradley There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words
puts students wait
Eugene White Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.
puts ready side whoever
Chad Clanton We're going to be ready for Katherine Harris. Or whoever the other side puts up.
puts yankee
Phil Rizzuto Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!
risk superstitions currents
Alan Watts No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...
risk may banking
Alan Greenspan Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
risk acting doe
Al Pacino The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
risk myopic carpet
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
risk get-better way
David Viscott If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
risk growth
Bear Grylls Without risk, there can be no growth.
risk doe different
Deborah Moggach But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.
risks
Hugh Johnson There are big risks when you get leveraged,
risk machines pieces
John Roberts There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.
sides god-is-with-us
Charles Spurgeon God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
sides actors safe
Chloe Grace Moretz An actor always goes to the safe side.
sides cottages industry
Derek Bailey I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
side wants
Jack Thompson The other side wants to make me the issue,
sides aspect
Madeleine Albright There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
side time whenever
Mark Twain Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
sides world want
Charlie Ergen The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,
sides argument difficult
Charles Dudley Warner It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
sides jazz tradition
Bill Laswell Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
similarly
Madhur Bhandarkar For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
similar tastes
Robert Rodriguez Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
similar team
Allen Kelsey They have a very similar team to ours.
similar stick systems takes team whatever willing win within
Derek Damon They really stick to their systems. They are similar to us. We are really disciplined within our systems. And that is what it is going to tak: A team that is more disciplined in their systems and willing to do whatever it takes to win the game.
similar
Donna Smith It was delightful. We are all so much alike, and the things we do are so similar to what they do in Scotland.
similar
Elaine Tarr Rosemary, his sister, was very similar to Sam. Introverted and quiet.
similar
Mike Modano Pretty similar to 1999 and 2000, very similar.
similar works
Joe Gillis It would be similar to the way triage works in emergency,
similar situations
Thomas Doll We've been in similar situations often this season.
skills mind soil
Edward Gibbon In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .
skills doubt senses
Arne Jacobsen There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt
skills car effort
Antony Sher The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.
skills imagination people
Denis Waitley Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
skills ideas imagination
Charlotte Bunch Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.
skills bird strenght
Bill Walton Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
skills judging-yourself luck
Carl Icahn Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.
skills iraq america
Dennis Kucinich Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.
skills goal long
Denise Morrison The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
women want ornaments
Charles Caleb Colton Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women believe littles
Alan Ayckbourn If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
women thinking different
Chris Abani Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.
women rights expression
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.
women next dresses
Edith Sitwell Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
women piano government
Edith Sitwell I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
women eels people
Edith Sitwell I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
women hair genius
Edith Wharton Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
women men sells
Earl Wilson To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.