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The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders. Tina Brown
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America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage. Thomas Friedman
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education. Wendy Kopp
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
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What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity. Virginia Postrel
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For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion. Colin Morgan
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen. Ben Carson
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The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland. George Burley
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The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.
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I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it. Imelda May
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.' Iain Duncan Smith
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
allow responsibility
I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit. Gallagher
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It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. Zaha Hadid
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I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload. William Shockley
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Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements. William Henry Bragg
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I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere. Chuck Palahniuk
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I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain. Evangeline Lilly
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If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood. David A. Bednar
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The overall philosophy behind the design approach can be extended to enable one to understand the impact of changes in suppliers' components on the performance of a complex system without revealing details of the components or the system. This will enable suppliers to retain their proprietary design knowledge without revealing each other's intellectual property. Such strategies are critical as products are increasingly designed and produced in a globally distributed manner.
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The past will be forgotten quickly. The new director has the sound approach to take the zoo to new levels and keep it fresh.
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I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.
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I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' Chris Ware
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The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time. Chris Crutcher
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Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages. Niklaus Wirth
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The $2.0 million less the cost of the studies might leave $1.5, $1.3 million. You might get the ramps for that, but if you get into reconstruction of that bridge and the approaches to bring them to standards for the next 30 to 40 years, that would could easily double the cost of construction.
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The accomplishment of this objective demands a high degree of responsibility and a balanced approach in order to maintain the effectiveness of measures aimed at establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic and normalizing the regional situation.
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You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. Whitey Ford
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day. Gabe Paul
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The pollsters tell me it's because of Kyle that we're picked so high. And he's definitely a huge part of that. But we have a strong group this year. One person can't do it all. It certainly helps to have him back, but he knows that baseball is a team sport. And he's on a great team.
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The picture of the caboose was a no-brainer. The railroad helped build this city. As far as the baseball scene is concerned, you have to look at what people were doing a hundred years in Oneonta. Everyone played baseball. Jim Murphy
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The overall number of seats doesn't change. Those are pre- and post-game seats, not baseball seats. But we think it's worth the investment.
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The past two games, we've played five innings of good baseball. They continued to put pressure on us, and we just didn't make the plays.
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The outside baseball is a public perception of disarray. This isn't a bunch of Democratic Howard Deans out there saying this (about Rumsfeld). This is a bunch of respected people in the military. ... And certainly the evidence that people see is of a lack of success in Iraq.
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That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons. Don Yaeger
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Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it. CC Sabathia
best ditch
My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' Twyla Tharp
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown? Yotam Ottolenghi
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It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself. Yani Tseng
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We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. Thucydides
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. Timothy Noah
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I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows. Idina Menzel
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
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But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows? Glenn Tipton
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I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun. Matt Groening
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Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.
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With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing. Wyclef Jean
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The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.
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The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.
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the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration. Kofi Annan
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The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it. Randy Carlyle
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I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.
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The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one. David Selby
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. Nancy Gibbs
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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We have a lot to be proud of so far this season. It's not just about being right there with teams like the Yankees and A's. It's about what we've developed into. Bob Wickman
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No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear. Roger McGuinn
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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. Martha Beck
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We've had great success, and Europeans have been a big part of that. When Scotty put together the Russian Five, that was really the start of the Red Wings we see today. I think it even had an impact on how we developed our drafting philosophy and scouting philosophy.
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Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing. Max Heindel
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My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both. Geoff Hoon
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Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.
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The police have worked endlessly, day and night, to provide us the safest environment they can at 36th and Hampton. The police can only do so much. We have lost accountability of our family members.
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I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams. David Rabe
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There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace. Gordon B. Hinckley
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It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment. Bill Brandt
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If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact. Peter Singer
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Usually we have to scratch and fight for nine innings of baseball. But when you play in a championship environment it intensifies our guys? at-bats.
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We've done festivals before. What better way to have them tell us what they think about the environment?
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters. Randall Kennedy
genuinely interested perspective
It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key. Phil Klay
genuine worried
I worried during the first show that it would all be too campy, ... But this week, it was really a tough, genuine competition, and it's getting more and more exciting. Michael Giacchino
genuinely men types
You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly. James Marsden
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Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.
genuine hope
We hope these will find their way to genuine fans.
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People were very proud of it and very complimentary, genuinely so. It has given us a greater sense of purpose than perhaps we had before.
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Because they know it's genuine, ... If it was something that looked like it was staged or premeditated, it wouldn't be anything. It's genuine when it happens. Morgan Ensberg
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Jon was a joy to work with last year and demonstrated a real passion for the music and genuine understanding of his job as host.
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Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. Arsene Wenger
league petition week
We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.
league likely teams
Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.
league vision needs
He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all. John Wesley
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We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.
league personnel
You just wonder,'' said one league personnel man. Earl Campbell
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I'm shocked we're 19th. I don't think that's right. We have the best-ranked league in the section. Once we get more wins under our belt, we'll move up.
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The problem is the overall league suffers if you don't have stars,
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It doesn't surprise me, because this is a league that has a short memory.
major
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore. Gillian Armstrong
major time
I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.' Buck Leonard
major spoiled watch
I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.
majority music
For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point. Bridget Kelly
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There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s. Frank Pierson
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The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country. Tony Benn
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The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off. Steve Forbes
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The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team. Sue Enquist
major matter problem
We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency. Arlen Specter
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president. Gail Kelly
man option
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
man natural primal
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. William Osler
man rich
If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor. William Prescott
man
Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.
man
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
man
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
manifest ways
The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth. Cheyenne Jackson
man
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
natural
How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact! Henry David Thoreau
natural response shut stressful
My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold. Amy Adams
natural process realness
I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty. Carrie Brownstein
naturally people
People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. Mitchell Baker
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Most of our oil production is shut in, and about 80 percent of our natural gas.
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Whitney is pretty natural back there, but she'd rather be on the field.
natural feels
Shakespeare feels very natural to me. Bebe Neuwirth
naturally sports
I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person. Tony McCoy
natural plan
Well, if you have a goalie like Colin, it's a natural choice. We don't plan on high-scoring games. It's just not what we plan to do.
opportunity
China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific. Yoshihiko Noda
opportunity
If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it. William Shatner
opportunity time
I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature. Frank Marshall
opportunity
[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll! Carrie Underwood
opportunity other-worlds waiting
Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting. Carl Sagan
opportunity winning oscars
I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it. Ashton Kutcher
opportunity looks
Opportunities look a lot like work.
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Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all, Arnold Rothstein
opportunity film
I like the opportunity to make films. Antoine Fuqua
player hands games
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it. Bill Bryson
player england blame
Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
player sometimes foul
Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.
player house fundamentals
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
player world messi
Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!
player thinking practice
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
player influence coaches
As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
player working-very-hard league
English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.
player band information
One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way. Bill Bruford
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The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.
positions
We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.
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Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
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I think Jens is sitting in position where he should ski in the top 30 in the state.
position
We aren't in a position to be able to comment,
positions practiced wide
We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open. Tyrone Willingham
position strongest
We are in the strongest position that we have ever been. Eric Schmidt
position
I think she could have an MVP season. She is in a position where all she has to do is go out and play. She doesn't have to be the leader.
position taking
It does not preclude us from taking a look at the quarterback position in the draft.
talent loses
You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent! Bette Davis
talent enough
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
talent
We have the chemistry, with all the talent we have we just have to put it all together.
talent thrilled
We're really thrilled we have the talent here in the valley, now.
talented
I think this is a very deep, talented group.
talent
I think I have a lot of talent on the team,
talented
We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.
talented
From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.
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He is a tremendous talent. He still wants to get better.
type
I was the class clown type of guy.
type
You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays. Taye Diggs
type
Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney. Morris Gleitzman
typewriters years computer
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002. Beck
typewriters trying stories
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper. Barry Lopez
type hopefully persons
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully. B. J. Novak
type
Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have. Mark McNulty
type
We're not used to that type of athleticism in our league. They get in your mind. Ryan Robertson
type
I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds. David Morse
unexpected
I was thinking, Why am I doing this, do I really want to go... it was unexpected thing after another, but I made a lot of friends. Jeff Goldblum
unexpected film beats
Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon. David Brooks
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The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. Charles Kennedy
unexpected unexpected-places
Love comes from the most unexpected places. Barbra Streisand
unexpected sometimes lost
Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places. Daniel Handler
unexpected sometimes unexpected-things
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen. Alex Flinn
unexpected plans
One cannot plan for the unexpected. Aaron Klug
unexpected expected
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected. Alice James
unexpected crisis charlotte
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect. Alice Duer Miller