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Susan Collins

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CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER, "SEAWATER ONE...." You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
JACK ADAMS How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?
NEAL STEPHENSON I thought (Collins) was very effective. It appeared that they listened.
JOAN MCDONALD The layoff hurt us. You could tell when we played Polk that it affected our game.
KRIS COX Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE The program was chosen by Susan.
JOEL ROSENBERG She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
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ALBERTO SALAZAR You could tell he was anxious. He was stomping his foot.
JENNIFER JACKSON The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cros...
MARIANNE MOORE If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Could you tell whether that was a right- or left-handed glove when you looked at it at that time?
MARCIA CLARK Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic ...
ANDY COHEN I was pleasantly surprised, and I could tell that they are genuine about wanting us in the coalition...
DAVID GLASS The seniors have never made the states. You could tell that their energy was real high.
CLARK CHAPMAN Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard again...
THOMAS HARDY I hope that they recognize that Susan was trying to defend herself. There was no malice in what was ...
HELEN BOLLING I expected that. I knew Brookville would play us a little differently than the first time. ? I guess...
DAN STEPHENS Each time he documented, you could tell it was getting worse.
ANN MEREDITH You could tell he was nervous when he's talking a lot.
TOMMY ALBELIN If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He some...
CORRIE TEN BOOM I can't tell you why they refuse us a category. At the most, I thought it would take five.
JACK GILL I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was hu...
S.E. HINTON In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS They don't tell you why they chose you. And they won't say who was on the committee.
MAX ROACH Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is i...
HEYWOOD BROUN The way it's written right now, the lawyers tell us it's essentially useless. ... Why pass a bill th...
DUKE COX What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to e...
CHANDA KOCHHAR Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal con...
ROBERT BLAIR Why did God leave us one tale after another of wounded lives being restored? So we could be grateful...
MAX LUCADO Ultimately, the seven of us felt responsible for that loss. After the game, you could tell by the wa...
JOSH CIOCCO [Attorney Robert Clifford said he did not know what the instructor said, but accused American Flyers...
ROBERT CLIFFORD You could have asked anything but that. I'll tell you how old I am. I was born in 1914. I'll let you...
CLAYTON MOORE Sebastian was just enormous. He was just so tall and a little shy, but you could tell that he liked ...
LINC ROTTMAN It was a barn-burner right until the very end, and we managed to come out on top. That was the harde...
DON FERRELL President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which wa...
RANDALL JARRELL If I was a psychologist, I could tell you. We didn't match their intensity ... I just can't understa...
AMANI TOOMER We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN That three-point play, you could tell the excitement in the girls. That was definitely the turning p...
MARK AMDAHL They said 'Ms. Susan, we know you and you are Iraq's friend'.
SUSANNE OSTHOFF Joan Collins is the queen of the archetype. How do you get that? You get it in the storytelling, obv...
E. DUKE VINCENT And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
BIBLE I think the hardest to replace has been Johnny Collins. He was great to play with. You could always ...
RICHARD GOUGH When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER In that instance I realized that I was going to live or die. It's kind of like your experience, Susa...
HELEN BOLLING That's Susan. She's always doing stuff like that.
KRISTA RAPPAHAHN You could just tell that their aggression on defense was better and we didn't handle it very well at...
BRETT SOMMERVILLE You could tell he was a bit special nine years ago. There was a buzz around him.
JAMES QUINN [About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as...
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT The winds must come from somewhere when they blow…There must be reasons why the leaves decay.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Each job is going to be different, and without knowing the specifics of the job they were talking ab...
JOE WHEELER The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. B...
KEVIN AYERS The level of anger and emotion that comes from Mr. (Zachary T.) Fardon and Mr. Collins I don't think...
BRADLEY E. LERMAN Bert was dominant especially early on when it mattered most. You could tell it was an inspired effor...
ALEX AULD She was very traumatized. You could tell she was scared. We couldn't get her out of her crate.
SARAH YOUNG You could tell when the kids almost spelled it. It was a little nerve-racking.
KATHY LONG Why?' He asked.
'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe beca...
MICHELLE HODKIN Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, ...
LEAH WILSON I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.
JOSIE MARAN I can tell you unequivocally there was no cover-up. We certainly are interested in finding out why t...
CRAIG NESBIT I couldn't tell you why. Maybe it was because we were a small school in the middle of nowhere.
JEFF HORN You take your hat off to Roger Clemens. You could tell he was ouchy there a little bit.
TONY LA RUSSA Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could ...
GLENN DANZIG You could tell the difference. When she got that fourth foul, you could see immediately the look in ...
JEFF FROELICH Lace Collins really had some great leadership tonight. I was really pleased with her play.
ANNA SPEAR And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, m...
EDDIE MURRAY Fort Collins is a good team, and playing a team like this will make us a very, very good team.
DAVE AUDAY Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
GARY COLEMAN If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
RACHEL JOHNSON Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you san...
GEORGE ORWELL It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
COLIN POWELL All games are big, but you could tell this one was going to be a little bigger. They (Ole Miss) were...
DIETRIC SLATER It'd make things a lot easier if he told us who he was. You do have to tell us who you are.
CAPT. DAVE WULFF Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?'
'Sometimes.'
'So why don't you do so...
LAUREN OLIVER I could tell by his body language that Andy was ready to save it.
COLIN LEE It was pretty straightforward. It was a great landing and I'm sure Eileen [Collins] will be happy wi...
LEROY CAIN He was pretty confident coming in. He was ready for the game. You could tell. In big games this year...
GREG HEATH Susan Polk defended her life against a vengeful, aggressive man who was also her husband.
DANIEL HOROWITZ You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE As much angst as Phil undoubtedly shouldered, he protected us from that. And you could always tell (...
CELIA WESTON You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', ...
JESSICA RAINE He was cool before it was cool to be cool, 'American Masters' creator and executive producer Susan L...
ISAAC HAYES I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT Let me tell you why I suck as a sellman....
CHRIS FARLEY I just want to know why they left my baby to die. Just tell me why you left him, why didn't you just...
LORI LANE He was always proud of the fact that anyone could come in, and he could tell what size he wore.
JEFF FLAHERTY I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell'...
CARL LEVIN You could tell immediately that care and passion had gone into writing it.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT It's not surprising. You could tell that they were right there last season.
KRAIG CLIFTON Science tells us how some things work. People tell us how things could work. Religion tells us how t...
CAROL COVIN I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody as...
JOAN DIDION You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
NOEL GALLAGHER Seeing him out there as his usual confident self makes us play that much harder and really get excit...
JUSTIN MCCAREINS I first saw Kelly when he was catching for Baylor, and I was the pitching coach at Oklahoma State. Y...
JOHN FARRELL I'm a booster of Terry Collins .
TOMMY LASORDA Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. ...
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SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You...
SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...
SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell...
SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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