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It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known. Gerry Beckley
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The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.
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The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America. Theodore Steinberg
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The overall thing is we wanted to bring acts that appeal to a college crowd. Dave Attell just got off the 'Insomniac' comedy tour and had a TV special last Sunday, so it's very timely. He's just really funny and a lot of college kids like him.
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It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us. John C. Calhoun
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A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.
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My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were young when they were doing it, like me. Then I kind of came into my own a couple of years later; I found new artists that shaped my musical landscape. For instance, Kings of Leon played a big part in that. Nick Jonas
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more! Gabriel Mann
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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. William Peter Blatty
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. Wendy Kopp
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say. Vikram Seth
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When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything. Wyclef Jean
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There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.
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The overseas migration hasn't affected us to the same extent it has affected the semiconductor distributors.
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The over-regulation of banking sector can be avoided because they affect the entry into the market of poor migrant workers. The remittances give a lifeline to people in poor countries.
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The overall industry outlook is not improving in the short term, and the economic conditions in Asia Pacific and Latin America continue to negatively impact our business, ... The domestic market is suffering from heavy promotions at retail, which is affecting our performance. And the well publicized conditions in Japan and Korea, our two largest markets in the Far East, has caused reported sales to decline approximately 50 percent when compared to last year.
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I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show. Nicole Ari Parker
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I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion's always there, and that's what's been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can't do it. You can't have a normal life and pursue this dream. Paul Eenhoorn
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Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again. Melinda Clarke
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With the distractions of the recent audit committee investigations largely behind us, we expect much improved management focus and quality of execution in this business during the second half of the year. Going forward, we can and expect to do better. E. O. Wilson
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing. Madonna Ciccone
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead. Patina Miller
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I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
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My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.' Jake Johnson
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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. Thomas Friedman
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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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We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.
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The 36 points, I wasn't surprised with it being an overtime game. I'm only averaging four or five boards a night so the double-double-I'll take any day.
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That was huge. We were just getting people in the right position and we had switched defenses. But I thought switching the defense was important. They were taking some deep shots and we were hitting the boards and not letting them get second shots. I thought the rebounding was big in that quarter.
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That was huge for us. We've been struggling on the offensive boards and that was, again, a big focus tonight.
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We have to wipe out Bushism itself, before it wipes us out. That means showing up and voting smart in every election, big and small. I think that in many ways that, the local elections are even more important than the national elections. It's the mayors and the city councils and county comissioners and the school boards and the legislators that decide how to spend the money they fleece off of us in taxes. Jello Biafra
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We just didn't do a good job on the boards in the first half. We did a better job in the second half. Jim Boeheim
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We're used to local control where local boards of education write curriculum, they determine opening and closing dates, they determine the holidays and so on.
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Most of the largest Continental European companies now have thirty percent or more non-domestic shareholders. This gives them a very different structure in terms of accountability than most boards are used to.
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Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.
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The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.
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And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know. Milos Forman
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We are always looking for people to fill committees and work on other projects.
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Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee! David Tennant
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We're going to work with the committees and see what's doable. Jim Nussle
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The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. Fay Weldon
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Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction. Mayim Bialik
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I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers. John Carney
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Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made. Gina Prince-Bythewood
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In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it. Colm Meaney
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It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard. Eva Marie Saint
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As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role. Brooke Adams
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In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people. Bill Hader
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't. Jacki Weaver
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I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. Antoine Fuqua
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The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,
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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans. Maximilian Schell
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Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.
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As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,
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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
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There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness. Pierce Brosnan
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As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much. Spike Jonze
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The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand. Joe Biden
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We can't go fully monty in Bond, Because we can't get the rating. Daniel Craig
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace. Magic Johnson
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time bomb. This is going to be $4-to-$5 trillion when it is fully implemented. Tom Daschle
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Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
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I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman. Peter Scolari
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Most notable was the leap in the prices-paid index, ... this is simply a reflection of higher oil prices but it may not have been fully anticipated in the markets.
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Whether he runs out or not, he'll be out there at some stage, and we'll find out whether he's still recovering or fully recovered from that shoulder problem.
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I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.
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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it. Venus Williams
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect. Yehuda Berg
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The overall perception was that it would take a year or two to get the problems ironed out. It is a huge endeavor, and we realized it would take time.
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I love hanging out with my friends; I love to run. I box. I'm a huge movie buff. Brittany Snow
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I am a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon, and I always get told that I look like her little sister. So I would love to play her little sister one day.
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And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again. David Steinberg
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I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. David Cross
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That was huge. That was a quality team we beat. We've got some tough kids, and it's a tough group. For us, this is huge for our confidence.
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That was huge knowing there was a minute to go and we kept them at their end.
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On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece? Oscar Wilde
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If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91. Mario Cuomo
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The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy. Billy Graham
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We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.
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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives. Christine Pelosi
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What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.
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Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. Mike Wallace
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There's no timetable right now. I can't say one way or the other, but I'm not retired by all means. Jennifer Capriati
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I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%. Michael Jordan
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I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.
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I must have said it 14 000 times. I have retired and I have no aspirations to return. Shane Warne
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We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.
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There are big risks when you get leveraged, Hugh Johnson
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.
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It's just one of the risks that go with it. Jimmie Johnson
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These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable, Thomas Wilson
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There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.
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and take risks whenever you think it is right. David Wallace
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I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.
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That was good, just seeing Keith out there, doing his thing. He's only going to get better. Johnny Damon
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You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.
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Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.
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I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous. Reggie Bush
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I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.
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We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,
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We were just seeing how wacky you can be. John Landis
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We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.
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And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need. Robert Grosseteste
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I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans. Phil Klay
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We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students. Steven Smith
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We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students. Steve Smith
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Those who do not serve the True Guru, come and go regretting.
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For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. Gore Vidal
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Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows? Andy Roddick
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His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest. David Ferrer
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He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.
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We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course. Phil Garner
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka
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The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness. Saul Williams
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But we're not waiting for signs to show up.
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There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.
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There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.
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We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.
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Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.
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I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.