Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray LaHood

People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.

Robert Blake

I wanted to convince him (the security) problem was real. And these were the probable reasons.

Tom Harkin

I've said time and time again, there is little risk of BSE in U.S. beef, but it is obvious that we have not yet convinced key trading partners of that.

Martina Navratilova

I've been talking to Martina about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

Kyle Wright

That's fine. Let them try to convince themselves that they're going to put pressure on us.

Rafael Marquez

You're not talking about a population of kids that can't make it. They just need to be convinced they can.

Jim Tracy

You're going to have to convince me it doesn't work,

Kreayshawn

I'm, like, a person who likes love. And I can find love in any type of person. I've dated girls, and I've liked girls. But they're usually straight girls, so it never works out. I mean, I'm not that gay, so I don't have the energy to convince someone else to be gay, you know?

Pierre Ellis

This will probably be of great satisfaction to the Fed and will convince them that economic growth is on track without worrying them that interest rates are seriously too low.

Drew Neitzel

Offensively, we never really got anything going. Everything we got, we had to earn. We didn't get any easy baskets.

Dee Lee

Often times we want the easy way out.

Harvey Mackay

Often, firing is a straightforward cost-cutting measure. When you're fired, it's easy to weave fantasies and imagine villains. If you are going to spend an hour feeling miserable, make sure that you are miserable for the right reason.

John Brady

Northeast didn't make it easy for us. We struggled in the first half, started to put together some solid play in the third quarter then opened it up in the fourth.

Charlie Korsmo

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Taurean Green

Defensively, we had to rebound, stop penetration and prevent them from getting easy looks at the basket.

Kevin Williams

Defensively I was worried because I thought we were giving up some easy shots, but I looked up and we've only given up seven points. A lot of times we got greedy defensively and were out of position.

Joe Galli

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Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Tom O'Brien

I've always said, we'll find our niche in Boston, if we're good enough. I think we've found it. We have the opportunity to become a national school.

Ken Hitchcock

I've always found that veteran players play significant roles in playoffs because they know what the level is like. And over a short period of time they can get themselves to that level because they know it's a two-month season.

Jim Caldwell

After a tragedy, we find a way to shake the troubles. It's a somber locker room since they found out. But they have been very businesslike.

Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Stephen Murphy

So we found out what else they were interested in, ... sound tracks for people's lifestyles.

Ben Boyd

So we called around. We found a policy. We wrote a check.

Robert Blake

So you think that you're going to be found guilty?

Claude Julien

Sometimes you wonder if you need it to be a roller coaster-type of game. We got ourselves back in the game and somehow found a way to let it slip away.

Charles Thompson

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Cristobal Huet

The team is playing real well in front of me. It was our physical play and the PK (penalty kill) was the success tonight. It was a team win.

Sean Hayes

The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.

LaMont Jordan

I've learned that it's one thing for a young player to have somebody like that in front of him. It's another thing for you to have the maturity to sit back and actually learn and not be selfish. I had it right away, because I understood my situation.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I've been a National Front member since I was 17, and active supporter for a long time.

John Krasinski

I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them.

Adam Pascal

I've become a little disillusioned with what's happening in the theatrejust in the material that's been offered to me. I wish there was material that I responded to more. I can't make a living doing theatre. But I can't wait to come back. I'm doing a lot of film auditioning. I'm trying to make a transition into film. I'd like to see if I could have a little success in front of the camera.

Justin Long

I waited tables for about a year; I was terrible at it, ... The only thing that I could have done to be a worse waiter would be to actually have like peed in front of people, like on them while they were trying to eat. It was at that level.

Elmore Leonard

The movie, when I saw it in New York, I said, 'This is the second-worst movie ever made,' ... And the woman in front of me said to her husband, or her date, 'This is the worst movie I've ever seen .' And the three of us got up and left.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Don Baylor

I've always viewed it like this: If you take that player away from the team, where does it finish?

Sydnee Wyss

I've always been the smallest player on my team. I'm just used to it. I don't think about it anymore.

Chris Avellone

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

Mark Franke

So the player tells the stewardess he didn't get enough to eat, either, and where was his $20.

John Fox

Sometimes players don't like to be reminded of their mistakes, at least not right away.

John Nash

Ruben's a very unusual player. I don't know that I've ever been around a player like him before.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.