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Rick Applegate

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EDWARD ATORINO Bottom line: Do or die. No other way to approach it.
CODY ROBBINS The bottom line is in heaven!
EDWIN H. LAND You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
PAT SUMMITT He's doing what an ace should do. He's our ace, that's the bottom line.
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WARREN BENNIS Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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ACE FREHLEY The bottom line is we need to score points, and we need to score a lot of them.
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BEN SHEETS So then he comes in and I says 'Listen, b*tch, ahm Rick James.'
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BARB JANDRIC The bottom line is safety.
GREGG HUNT We need to win every game. Bottom line.
JASON MICHAELS We may have to go to court over it. Bottom line, we just don't want it.
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TONY HAYNES Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
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EDWIN H. LAND Jeter said. ''That's the bottom line.
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IVOR VAN HEERDEN We outlasted them, in that sense. That's the bottom line.
TREVOR WATKINS We don't talk about that. The bottom line is I don't dwell on those things.
TRENT JOHNSON The equipment is working great. That's our bottom line at this point.
JOHN JONES I'm going to an Olympic Games, that's the bottom line!
CRAIG STEVENS But the bottom line is the charge existed. It's there.
HOWARD SILVERBLATT We need rain now. That's the bottom line. We need that moisture.
MARK PLOGER I think that the bottom line is that for people thinking that the economy is slowing down, that is c...
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SUSAN RICE The bottom line for policy appears ambiguous.
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RICK APPLEGATE If your fund changes managers, that's a red flag to pull your money.
RICK APPLEGATE much more comes out on how common the practice was.
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HELEN SOASH If they're in a competitive market sector, it just kills their bottom line.
JACK KYSER It was a bad crash. ... But the bottom line is that she's going to be OK.
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JOE CANGEMI The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
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WAYNE HUIZENGA Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
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ANDY CARR Bottom line is, if you do not use it or need it, it's clutter, and it needs to go.
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"Y...
RICK RIORDAN Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.

"It only works on wild animals....
RICK RIORDAN Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?
Annabeth: Come back alive,...
RICK RIORDAN You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ...
RICK RIORDAN What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. B...
RICK RIORDAN The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w...
RICK RIORDAN A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo...
RICK RIORDAN Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
RICK RIORDAN Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf...
RICK RIORDAN It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
RICK RIORDAN What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
RICK YANCEY Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?
Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?
RICK RIORDAN I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"Bu...
RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons...
RICK RIORDAN