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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... ANDREW TO If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM It didn't turn out as well as we would have liked, of course. We only (had) three points on the boar... JOEY GALLOWAY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT [So in addition to getting out and appreciating the butterflies' beauty -- in backyards, in parks or... CHIP TAYLOR Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD It's not anything that's going to be built in the next five to 10 years. GINA BUSSCHER Two hundred cars touring with their tops down sounded like a lot of fun. We came to check out your w... JOYCE GIBSON I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get to the... GREG ANTHONY Putting Edgewood down kind of put that burn to rest. I was pretty confident from the start. I knew w... JEFFERY SCHMUDLACH (My daughters) say we need to downsize, but I was planning on living here for another 10 years. Afte... ANNA ROGERS There's not this pressure on them of seeing Larry Bird or Isiah Thomas or Jerry West circle the cour... BOB GIBBONS Last year was pretty rough after having such a strong start. This year, we put even more time into i... CLAYTON SMITH So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Water users can get together and finance and fund projects better if they're working together. We wa... PHILLIP SALETTA It's incumbent over the next 10 days to get Senator Feinstein on board. LAURA REIFF Even the guys that started last year for us have gotten better. We're better than we were in the spr... ERIC PRICE I need to get a good start and put together 15 good laps. NATHAN RAMSEY I'm not even going to count last year. But in average years, we get around 30,000 people visiting th... JEAN GRANT This drill lets him eliminate everything else and concentrate on getting the ball into the glove. He... CARLOS GARCIA Everyone was getting a nice bat on the ball. They're starting to hit like I want them to hit. I told... CONNIE WUNSCHEL This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more... BILL GATES I was planning a hunting trip next year if I didn't get in this year. I didn't need to be around the... BRUCE SUTTER We can't look at the state just yet, though. We need to focus on this sectional. There were some clo... BERNIE RUETTIGER We moved singles into doubles and doubles into singles. We put the juniors together to see what migh... GERARD SULLIVAN (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate.... CHARLES LEMONIDES A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can su... GARTH ENNIS We need to start Game 1 where we finished off Game 70 and not let anything go backward. More than an... MATT GIFFORD You always end up with three classes you need and two classes you have just because you can't get in... ERIN HERTZOG We're playing for 2006 and 2007. It's not going to get any easier for us this year. We put a lot of ... ERNEST VOGT Even though Dr. Bob wasn't able to go on the trip, Rachel and I were really interested in being a pa... KAY SCRUGGS Though the Congress is only in minority in the UPA coalition and is dependent on other parties for s... RAM MADHAV 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 We were not playing as well as we needed to, and part of that was being inconsistent because of the ... HOSS JOHNSON We've got amazing young talent and we're just going to keep getting better every year. When I go out... ERNIE MEJIA It was tough getting into a rhythm. Instead of staying with what was working, we moved on to do othe... CHAD ELLIOTT This is the first year we started it. Last year, we had four corporate sponsors at $2,500 each, but ... EMILIE MIMS I think we are getting hot at the right time. Now, we just need to put everything together, and make... COACH RUSTY TAYLOR More than anything it would be togetherness, for everybody to come together and be more of a family ... DUSTIN KELLER Current organizations have served us well, but they are not going to get us to the next level where ... ANTHONY TOPAZI We have to get our offense on track. We have to get some more points on the board. We knew the first... MARK MALONEY My main goal is to try to get these guys to return next year. It was a young group, and we need to t... ERIC POTTS Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together. MELANIE BROWN We need to look at long-term planning - for 10 to 20 years. With growth, we need to plan buildings a... BILL DODSON Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring... ALEXA VON TOBEL There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting t... JOSEPH FINK It's something the fund is going to get more aggressive about getting into than in the past. But thi... DAVID ADAMS It's a real shame because there should be more out there we need to get more on board! HEATHER WILLIAMS Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it! MANUEL MONGRAIN I didn't think things were going to be as good as they are now. But, we're all coming together now, ... GERALD NELSON Even though he was uncovered, they were preventing him from getting out and blocking anybody else. I... LANGSTON WALKER We'd be running in circles for the next 10 years if we tried to do everything that people have sugge... CRAIG CARPER Everything is crucial because even though it has been months since this has happened, they're still ... ARTHUR STEIN We got off to a slow start after hitting the ball well in the first inning. We had a real good fifth... GORDON GODFREY Competition's going to get a lot more intense, ... We know that one of the biggest products, Viagra,... NED RILEY As we get closer to the mid- to late-fourth quarter and even the first quarter, we'll start to see h... SCOTT MEYERS We knew that there were a lot of us (whose contracts) were up this year; we knew there was a lot of ... AARON KAMPMAN We have got to get geared up to do far more than we ever have. Offering a cup of cold water in Jesus... BOBBY WELCH It's tough, we lost the game and (the fans) were very, very tough on us, ... Because we were like a ... MARKO JARIC Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be. We're certainly doing more today than we were even ... DR. JULIE GERBERDING The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we h... LENNART NILSSON We can't put four good quarters together. Against Independence (79-61 loss Dec. 16) we were up 34-30... BOB GUTHRIE Though Riverside Manor residents are already drinking public water, a win would be more than a moral... 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