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Related Think of BMW at an early stage of development in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was playing catch up w... COLIN COUCHMAN I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a ki... TOM BROKAW There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was th... SHALOM HARLOW The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of ... CONNIE SELLECCA In terms of these e-mail issues, a couple of people were involved in venting, if you will, and my co... ALLEN BENSON When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community.... LAUREN TOM I can't really take credit for doing a lot of motivating for this particular game. When you get beat... LLOYD MCGUFFIN They came out pretty hot and we came out a little flat. The biggest turning point in the game for us... MATT CITRON My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ... ELMORE LEONARD It's an important distinction. But there's a lot of research that how the employees feel is incredib... MAX STIER I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe... MADELEINE PEYROUX (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON When it came down to the end of the game they kind of got soft, ... because they thought we were out... DAVID PATTEN When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, u... BING GORDON You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. I expected (the pressure defense) from the beginning of the game. It's not as if we weren't prepared... LIZ BERNSTEIN Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the ki... PETER LEWIS ALLEN The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd... JIMMY BUFFETT Up until that point, every computer was one of a kind. They were really in it as a business to make ... GEORGE GRAY We're hungry to play them again. We have a feeling they were excited when the seeding came out and t... JOSH MANNING I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as ... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working. CAROL ALT This deeply free and public space plays a vital role in our world, equally important in our digital ... CATIE MARRON When I signed up for the show, my ultimate goal was being a role model for 13 million readers, but t... JULIE LELAND There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out. CANDICE BERGEN You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN It was a three-point game when she fouled out. I really didn't feel like we were out of it until Sam... DENIS CONROY Yeah, when we came in at halftime, the defensive players were extremely animated and upset, ... They... MIKE MARTZ [Investors should keep that experience of 1999 and early 2000 in mind when looking at the model.] Th... ED YARDENI I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very s... PETE TOWNSHEND Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think on... BRUCE BABBITT I'm sort of jaded at this point. But when we did 'Dead Diva' in L.A. recently, it was the first time... DAVE FOLEY When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny ... BILLY PAUL We thought we'd hear something in the early hours of the morning today or at least by now. We're def... ED LONEY We are in favor of a strong coalition to fight terrorism. All international organizations and the Un... LOUIS MICHEL My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers... BRIAN HERBERT When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political poi... MICHELLE PHAN For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always... BEN MENDELSOHN Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteer... BILL ALEXANDER When Mess came in to the league from the WHA at 17 he was kind of raw, WAYNE GRETZKY They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. JONATHAN COE They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. JONATHAN COE The block captains, who were usually women because most of the men were off at war, were in charge o... CHRISTOPHER DODD And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about... RICHARD DOOLING These aren't the kind of structured tours of the past when you got on a tour bus and Tuesday meant y... BARBARA HVASTA When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contributi... NORMAN BORLAUG I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Li... JERRY SPINELLI If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of i... ELI PARISER I turned 40 when we started this project. Early on, it became a search for a role model for the agin... DAYNA GOLDFINE Disney has supported the deployment of HDMI since the first version of the specification was issued ... BOB LAMBERT This is precisely the agreement that most of these guys when they were out of office said was tantam... KURT CAMPBELL I think she is a very important teacher for all three of the girls as far as a female role model and... HANK OGILBY I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk o... SALLY RIDE When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ... DANIEL HOROWITZ What we're really emphasizing is that it's hypocritical for a moral leader like James Dobson to be p... SARAH BELANGER I've kind of patterned my game after Derek Jeter. He's my role model in this game and has been since... NICK DELGUIDICE I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writ... JERRY POURNELLE For us there is 16 conference games to go and yet, boy, these games this weekend seem really importa... DAVE LOOS When you went to hear one of these people, ... it was their conviction that got you. They were each ... ANDRE WATTS All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication. DEYTH BANGER First of all, I try to be a positive role model. CAITLYN JENNER Last year we were up nine at half. We were only up six. It was important that we came out those firs... DOUG STIVERSON That was the turning point. They were trying to slow the game down early on. We switched some things... JAY CORBY We knew we were in for a game. It's elimination time. But when the home run came, it kind of gave us... LAYTON ALIVIADO I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard. JOE AYOOB They always are good for a run, and they brought that run at us in the third quarter. I think that w... CRAIG DRURY It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ When my grandparents came to this country in the early part of the 20th century, they came from thre... BILL SCHWARTZ -When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the ... SUZANNE BROCKMANN Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA We were on two different middle school teams, so we were both the point guard. ... It was kind of ha... AMANDA LUNA At some point it needs to be bigger than the two of them in order to really drive the goals of this ... ABNER GERMANOW I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude.... UTKARSH AMBUDKAR I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I c... MELISSA ORDWAY Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, ... BELL HOOKS brought the tone, and he brought it hard and fast. He picked up and carried Sunset, which was really... PIERCE BROSNAN Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political proce... RICHARD FORTEY From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuil... KIM YOUNG-HA He had become something of a tragic figure even before these stories hit the headlines. But it was t... ANDREW MALE Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the att... DOROTHY L. SAYERS All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality... KATE MOSSE I give Manteo credit for hanging in there the first half when it looked like they were out of it. Th... DANNY WARD It seemed like we gave it to them. We came out at halftime and let them take it again. It was kind o... CRAIG CHAMBERS I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I... WOODY NORRIS We have an awful lot to be proud of. We came out strong to finish the season. At one point it didn't... BRETT NORRIS Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along RUSH LIMBAUGH All things considered, it was a good quarter, particularly in light of what's been happening with th... TOM MORABITO
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JOANNE HARRIS An apple a day keeps the doctor away. No one's immune to bribery. JOANNE HARRIS And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until i... JOANNE HARRIS The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. JOANNE HARRIS Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place JOANNE HARRIS Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren'... JOANNE HARRIS They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer. JOANNE HARRIS Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. JOANNE HARRIS Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest he... JOANNE HARRIS A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is re... JOANNE HARRIS Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life. JOANNE HARRIS After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a... JOANNE HARRIS A named thing is a tamed thing. JOANNE HARRIS Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've be... JOANNE HARRIS You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wa... JOANNE HARRIS Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between ... JOANNE HARRIS Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki JOANNE HARRIS I know you,” said Maddy. “You’re -“ “What’s a name?” Loki grinned. “Wear it lik... JOANNE HARRIS But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Lok... JOANNE HARRIS Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't eve... JOANNE HARRIS A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or... JOANNE HARRIS I speak as I must and cannot be silent. JOANNE HARRIS A thing named is a thing tamed. JOANNE HARRIS The dead know everything but they don't give a damn. JOANNE HARRIS Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know. JOANNE HARRIS There's a windy, strong northerly ebb tide making rescue efforts difficult, ... Very soon, most like... JOANNE HAYES That’s the last time I put you in charge of the tequila when we’re making margaritas JOANNE KENRICK For the record I've been a trustee over nine years and I can probably count on one hand the number o... JOANNE FIELD