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CHARLIE MANUEL I expect The Rock would want to keep his pretty face intact for Hollywood. He better stay away from ...
ROMAN REIGNS Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
DICK SCHAAP [Sugar] Ray Leonard is the kind of guy who's always looking at the edge of the cliff, fascinated as ...
MIKE TRAINER He wants to be able to learn. He wants to be able to make a difference in someone's life.
BONNIE STEWART He told me he wants to be able to focus on the season ahead. I think that speaks a lot about the pla...
GEORGE QUARLES Bernard wants to do what Sugar Ray Robinson tried to do and go from middleweight to capture that lig...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster...
ROBERTO DURAN He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small li...
DERMARR JOHNSON He can be as good as he wants to be. He's going to get better and better because he wants it.
EDGAR BENNETT He'll deal with the pain. He wants to be able to cut on people.
BILL NEFF My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thi...
MARY J. BLIGE All I know is that Ray Hultman didn't write it. He just wants get on with his life,
JAMES NICHOLS Adrenaline wants to kill you...
DEYTH BANGER Normally, when he wants to get someone elected, he calls me.
BOB BLACK You've got to get used to it. He said you need a great point guard to be a great team. I just take t...
NATE ROBINSON If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS As long as he's not naked, he can be here any way he wants. But if he wants to be on the bench, and ...
OZZIE GUILLEN You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
USHER I think he was frustrated, but he understood. He wants to get deep into the game.
TERRY FRANCONA He fell in love with it right away. Another main reason he wanted to go there is because he wants to...
JASON STANLEY He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
UNKNOWN Clyde is a hard-working young man. He has the will to win. He never wants to lose. Victor settled in...
CHAD JACKSON If I was a boxer, I would bounce those things like Sugar Ray Leonard!
LIAR LIAR He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,
GERALD STEINBERG Society wants to see him cured. He wants to be cured. Society want to be safe. He wants to be safe.
DON SAMUEL He'll be able to go wherever he wants to go, if he keeps those hits up.
TIM CHAMBERS God is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
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JOE MALOOF I told them, 'Shaq wants to win the championship. He wants to prove he can do it without Kobe. Detro...
GREGG POPOVICH He is reckless. He wants to get every inch and he gets a little careless with the ball.
JOE PATERNO He just wants to be comfortable. He wants to be secure and find a place with some stability after wh...
DEANDRE SCOTT It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must fol...
MORARJI DESAI If he wants to come at me again, I'll be ready for it.
CAM JANSSEN He was inspired, and yet he wants books!
He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON (Monroe) wants to be coached. He wants to be very good.
AL GROH He's all about his kids and wants to provide all the opportunities he can for them. Ray has a heart ...
DAVE MCCAULLEY He is a guy that wants to win. He wants to be the best. We have been blessed and lucky to have someo...
DERRICK BURROUGHS I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.
NONITO DONAIRE She's been in constant contact with Lionel and this is what he wants and he wants to be home as soon...
HENRY HUNTER The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some inc...
MARVIN HAGLER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He thought that the court had done the right thing, and he wants only mental health care for Andrea,
GEORGE PARNHAM A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Terry, he is involved in youth with his church program. He likes kids. He wants to be adopted. He sa...
LINDA HARKEY Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro...
JOHN PODHORETZ He wants to get better every day. He definitely has a high work ethic and wants to go far in this le...
DUANE CLEMONS I think it's very clear the premier doesn't like the Canada Health Act, he wants to find a way aroun...
CAROLE JAMES Nobody wants to retire from football.
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant g...
DEYTH BANGER I ask him to step back from what he wants to do, he wants to shoot, and deliver the ball. He did tha...
GERVAIS BARGER He is always pushing me. He knows I can do better and he wants me to do better. Even if I get a pers...
BRITTNEY STEWART Anybody who has a name, he wants to play them. He wants to be on the top of the list, that's all. Th...
LAMONT BRYANT Josh had a good year, he just came up a little bit short. He kept working and getting better and in ...
JASON ROSTORFER He wants to be in movies; he wants to be on television in the future. We found that out real quick.
ANTHONY FASANO He made two good reads. He got it down to Joe. That's where Mike wants to get to. Not only be able t...
TERRY STOTTS The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for cont...
VOLTAIRE I think he has an outlook on how he sees things and how things will develop. We call him the idea ma...
LAURIE BOWLIN He pretended to be a police officer that time. He seems to do what he has to, to get what he wants.
CATHY MURPHY He wants to play. But I don't think he's going to be able to. He's day to day.
KURT FAUST The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD He sent in a letter asking to be relieved for health reasons,
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MATT HAIG I had a little talk with him the other day and he understands that if God wants to heal him, he will...
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MAXINE WATERS People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL To me, right now, he has no ceiling. At this point, he can be as good as he wants to be.
BLAIR PRUETTE He wants to stay there and try to get himself together.
DEBBIE ESTE We didn't know whether or not he wanted to come. We want somebody that wants to come to your organiz...
JOE MALOOF He wants to build his own big facility on the other side of the ranch. He likes the amenities, but h...
GARRETT VENEKLASEN He says he wants to be a firefighter,
DENISE ROBERTS To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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ANN GODOFF Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
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A.L. DAVROE Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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DMITRI TRENIN The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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That if all mankind
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LEONARD COHEN The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ...
LEONARD COHEN Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha...
LEONARD MLODINOW My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY