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BUD LACHEL We're about out of industrial property at the interstate. It's one of those things when you're looki...
ALLEN NEWTON There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I d...
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GEORGE RIGGS [Miller] is without question the leader of the offensive line,
DON BROWN and then the property owner would say oh and by the way here is the list of the 6 people I'd like yo...
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DEUCE MCALLISTER There are a lot of first things that happened here.
ALETHA KAOHI I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same t...
LAUREN MILLER What happened on the road to gender equality? A lot of work happened.
SUZANNE BIANCHI We keep battling all day. A lot of good things happened.
JOE MCEWING Flooding is addressed in permits, water quality is addressed in permits, stability... just some of t...
DON GIBSON We're putting together a manual on things they should do immediately, ... It will have sections on i...
DOUG ANDERSON The new economy places a lot of value on intellectual property and content.
ALFREDO VIEGAS 'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on...
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KERRY COLLINS I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!
ARTHUR MILLER I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at ...
LES CLAYPOOL I wasn't throwing down a gauntlet, I was trying to change the customer's mind. A lot of these things...
GORDON MOORE There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and...
BRIAN COLLINS There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and...
BRIAN COLLINS Like [trainer Rick Smith] said, there was a lot of old leather out there.
TIM SALMON You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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BILL HAGEMANN Costs are definitely coming down drastically. A lot of good things have happened. Other states are g...
CHRISTINE BAKER The Miller case was in the headlines and there was a lot of debate upon the chilling effect that tha...
ANN DUFRESNE A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I thin...
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my...
MADELINE MILLER Without him and his staff, it is a safe bet that this thing would not have occurred. Rick Perry dese...
PIKE POWERS A lot of things that happened [in the past] would have broken anybody else. I was able to survive. T...
JENNA JAMESON Mayor Miller, you have a history of attacking appointed African-American representatives on boards a...
JOYCE FOREMAN We have a lot of balls up in the air, ... a lot of things going on.
BRYAN COLANGELO Jennifer Pomeroy knows a lot of inside information - as his wife - about things that have happened a...
ERIC DETERS We're trying to raise a lot of money for Easter Seals and the reason why we're doing it is when Rick...
DICK HOYT You need to find out the cause of the person's demise. We don't know what happened or who it is. A l...
CAPT. ALLAN ELKINS When you have the small companies without the aid of expert advice on intellectual property interest...
BEVERLY WILLIAMS Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER It hasn't been a very pleasant few months at Real, but a lot of things have happened at the club tha...
FERNANDO MORIENTES Yeah, I just quit. A lot of things happened over the past year and I am just tired.
NORMA ANDERSON I've been lucky that a lot of things that happen here haven't happened to me yet.
CAPT. CHAD GUGAS A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn'...
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REX GROSSMAN A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good
SAMUEL JOHNSON We have polar opposite views on a lot of things,
LINDSEY GRAHAM I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
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RICK RIORDAN Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.
RICK RIORDAN Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for g...
RICK RIORDAN You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary sub...
LIANE MORIARTY Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
SOCRATES What a lot of things there are a man can do without
SOCRATES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It ends up being a lot of kids who have supervision problems. Their goal is to just do stupid things...
DOUG SIMMONS Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES It wouldn't have happened without Elrod.
JIM PALMER Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and...
BRIAN COLLINS These things have happened in the past, and we've committed to put on a show for the fans. We have a...
CURTIS GRAY I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I ...
ROSEANNE BARR Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...
CRAIG GROESCHEL No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY A lot of big plays happened when things broke down, ... The linemen picked up their blocks and guys ...
CHRIS COOLEY Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. Th...
DAVID ADAMSON We have identified 14 areas that we want to talk about to determine the best use. It's been 10 years...
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MARGARET DOUCET To my wonderful readers:
Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHA...
RICK RIORDAN Most of the things that happened to them we were up on, but we learned a few things too.
DICK WILLIAMS Rick Perry is a weak governor with a record of failure on the issues important to Texas.
BOB GAMMAGE They crashed because the track didn't have a lot of rubber on it. On top of that, it just so happene...
RYAN NEWMAN Without the rigor of today's systems, I suspect things happened that didn't hit the radar as quickly...
LARRY WHEELER I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my l...
JOSE SARAMAGO I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would h...
SCOTT THOMPSON The property has more value as a cleared lot than it has with the buildings on it.
ALEX ROGERS They see a lot of potential in this property.
JAMES GILLEN A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first element of freedom
JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON You have to give Scotland credit though and they played really well, especially their forward Miller...
MARCELLO LIPPI Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happene...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Stranger things have happened,
RYAN DEMPSTER Our big lesson from Iraq was that we got there too late. A lot of things had already happened.
JAMES MITCHELL You just need a bus if you're going to have activities. Then, you can do things off church property....
KAREN PAQUIN The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth withou...
THOMAS PIKETTY There is a lot of interest in property tax relief across the country. A lot of states have either re...
BERT WAISANEN Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
RICK RIORDAN That game will be a real challenge. But I think this is a good sign. A lot of good things happened.
BOB SCHNURE When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing thing...
JOE NAMATH A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There ar...
IVAN ALLEN But it would never have happened without this group of Brazil players.
RONALDO it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,
ARISTOTLE We're quite pleased to have Rick.
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"That's not what I me...
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I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
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RICK RIORDAN Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"

I don't hate you."

Could've foole...
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Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the...
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You'd probably ki...
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"Y...
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"It only works on wild animals....
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Annabeth: Come back alive,...
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"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ...
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"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
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Her...
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RICK RIORDAN Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.

Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
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RICK RIORDAN Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
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RICK RIORDAN I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
RICK RIORDAN We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
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RICK RIORDAN Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”
“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”...
RICK RIORDAN Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!
RICK RIORDAN She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a...
RICK RIORDAN Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.
RICK RIORDAN Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge fin...
RICK RIORDAN Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a tot...
RICK RIORDAN Um...is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so...
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Percy: "Detention?
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RICK RIORDAN Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy ...
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"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
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