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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.

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.

Drew Gilpin Faust

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Adam Marcoux

Have they thought about putting maps on the campus itself? I know they do it for orientation.

Karen Haynes

I think it's more challenging for us because we are not large enough to have economies of scale, ... But our campus is young and more facile when it comes to moving forward with changes.

Justin Harmon

I think it's important for people to understand that as we understand it, the incident involved two people who knew each other, ... It was not a random drive by. Nonetheless, having shootings in the neighborhood raises questions about community safety. Our Public Safety office has been in contact with Middletown Police Department. Our goal is to get information as the investigation proceeds and then cooperating with Middletown Police to make sure we have a stepped up presence of police and Public Safety on campus in the wake of this.

Brad Anderson

It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.

Jim Norris

Lacrosse will probably have to be relocated off campus for the next spring. But with the weather as it is, the teams generally end up off campus anyway.

Bradley Wilson

There is enough power on this campus to make this a successful publication.

Maura Harty

We can help demystify the visa process experience. This is a sizeable campus with a great interest in having foreign students come.

Dennis Healy

Pitching has always been the dominant thing for me, ... The campus is beautiful, the people have been helpful and courteous everybody has been great.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Kim Williams

He could score out in probably four events. He's going to help us in quite a few running events as well.

Shyam Selvadurai

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Bob Nicholson

He's already missed two major events because of the suspension and now he's back. He's off suspension and now he is eligible.

Ian Thorpe

I don't know which events are really going to be right for me at the moment. I've got to work that out and I'm not going to rush it.

Judy Martin

He will set the stage for the events to come later in the afternoon. He is a very knowledgeable man.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Cuki Alvarez

Kelvin has been working hard for a little over a month. I wish it could be more, but we'll take what we got and let it work. I'm not worried about his stamina because he's in great shape, it's only now he'll be able to handle himself on the ground.

Stephen Hess

I think the president might have defused the situation if he had invited her in instantly.

Jerry Brookings

I ran into Tito Jackson and told him I wanted to learn to play and he invited me to his house.

Olin Browne

I'm thrilled to be here. I would like to play well enough to be invited back. And there's only one way to get back.

Carine Roitfeld

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

John Lackey

Nolensville has been invited to the party, and they didn't show up to the dance.

Evan Spiegel

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.

Valerie Cruz

I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

Charlie Hunnam

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

Ron Iwami

I talked to A&B and HCDA, the two parties involved and they told me 'Ron, we will not move on this signing until the Legislature decides'.

Jim Bell

I think it is our role to get involved and not just sit back and wait for someone else to help.

Mark Francis

He wants to be involved in a lot of things this term so that he can become more acclimated with the position.

Charles Mason

There are simply too many players involved for a (conspiracy) to be plausible.

Sandy Goldstein

We're probably involved in 10 of the 30 most prominent investigations in the country.

Lee Baig

It is preposterous to think that they could be involved in any kind of criminality. They have not had so much as a speeding ticket in their lives.

Raymond Cruz

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

Pete Carroll

He's going to be involved in a lot of special teams.

Nick Cave

When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quvenzhane Wallis

I loved experiencing city life in New York.

Quinton Aaron

I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.