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Everything continues to revolve around oil after we got licked pretty good yesterday. Everything is a knee-jerk reaction now.


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What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices.
JIM AWAD It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake.
LEE FERRIDGE Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a...
TOSHIHIKO MATSUNO It's a knee-jerk reaction to a surprise.
CARL WEINBERG their typical knee-jerk reaction.
HENRY HYDE I think the most relevant thing is the market was down 120 yesterday. I think we're going to have a ...
LARRY RICE in the short term we could see a knee-jerk reaction higher.
LAWRENCE EAGLES The knee jerk reaction is to say that when interest rates go up, these stocks go down, and that stil...
JAMES MCDERMOTT You have to take each situation individually, ... Don't make a knee-jerk reaction.
JOEL DICKSON My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
MATTHEW VAUGHN It was an emotional knee-jerk reaction. People often sell in panic.
JOEL BRUCKENSTEIN You're seeing a knee-jerk reaction to the tremendous gain in energy prices. It's also a reaction to ...
DONALD SELKIN We need to take a little time and do this right, rather than have a knee-jerk reaction based on emot...
COMMISSIONER ELMO RICHARDSON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD any kind of political interference doesn't help at all... there is a little bit of a knee-jerk react...
JUSTINIAN The bin Laden tape has caused a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the market.
VICTOR SHUM The industrial production number is a big surprise. The expected knee-jerk reaction was certainly ev...
KIRBY DALEY The reality is that the knee-jerk reaction by the governor's opponents to take him down is to call (...
BILL WHALEN My immediate, knee-jerk reaction was that we can live with this, ... On the other hand, this is bigg...
WAYNE HALE may just be a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that 90 cents a share was so much better than expected.
GARY FRAZIER While these (price cuts) are a reaction to a very competitive market, these are not directly a react...
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EVAN OLSEN Emotions run high in this game, so it is what it is. He made a great play and I'm sure the fans were...
ROB DAVIS This was not a knee-jerk reaction. It was not based on one game. It was a feeling in the program its...
SAM BAKER Investors had to decide this (Monday) morning whether last week's rally was real or just a knee-jerk...
BRETT GALLAGHER Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. I...
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JIM CLARK Due to the sensitivity concerning H5N1 in Southeast Asia, there appears to be a knee-jerk reaction t...
JIM CLARK The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
EDWARD ABBEY Everything went pretty good for us tonight. I've got no complaints.
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MATT CARTER The initial knee jerk reaction was a powerful rally in the morning. As cooler heads prevail, it's cl...
ANTHONY CHAN We got pretty much everything we wanted except for the spin-off.
WILLIAM ACKMAN Berryville is so good. We had to scrap for everything we got tonight.
VIC RIMMER I know I was wrong yesterday to say those things, ... But today, those guys made me feel better. Tha...
CARLOS SILVA In 2000, it was very knee jerk,
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JIM GIBBONS We got pretty good insurance, and we'll continue to have pretty good insurance, ... It's better to h...
BILLY JACKSON At that point I just had to release everything that was in me. My emotions, as you can imagine, were...
AHMED PLUMMER No knee-jerk response should lead to long-term contemplation.
ALAN ROBERT NEAL I'm unabashedly a progressive, but I'm not a knee-jerk, either,
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.
IRVING S. SHAPIRO sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
ROWENA BEAUMONT CHERRY We should find a temporary bottom here. I've been watching the news ever since the market sold off y...
GREG KUHN You've got to watch the knee, everything. I'd rather not be on them, but I do anything to help the t...
CHASMAN DAVIS The doctors checked on my knee, and they said it's good. I feel pretty good right now. I'm ready to ...
JOSE CASTILLO Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my pre...
RICHARD M. NIXON When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larr...
ALLEN IVERSON Everything hurts until you become good at hurting everything around too.
SARAH KEDDAR Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
HEATHER WILLIAMS If the earth doesn't revolve around me then what should it revolve around?
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER When I first heard about it, I said, 'I'll believe it when I see it,' ... That was my knee-jerk reac...
FRANK ROMANO What we are seeing is Russia playing the spoiler for Ukraine because this administration is not very...
IVAN LOZOWY In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.
JACK STRAW We got some good earnings news from Cisco and from Pepsi. Oil has also been pretty tame today.
CHARLES ROTBLUT Timing is everything.
MOLLY SIMS Timing is everything.
TOMMY SHAW Now everything in Villa Nation is good.
KATHY MCCARTNEY Now everything has got a seal on it.
BRIAN GRIFFIN Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free t...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK For consumers, it really is in pretty good shape. Everything should be pretty well normal.
RODNEY MICHAEL It's going pretty good. Right now my biggest thing is learning the plays and getting everything down...
CLINTON POLK I got tripped up and got my knee driven straight into the ground. I'm feeling pretty good now. They ...
SHAWNE MERRIMAN It was a bit of moral justice that soon after everything happened, we got the goals.
CARLES PUYOL I think we got a couple pretty good goalies right now. We're pretty excited and they have some good ...
DAVE BOITZ I can say that they thought it was successful surgery, and we expect his rehab should be good. Now, ...
WALT JOCKETTY They took it to us pretty good. Whatever the controversy, they took advantage of it. They took advan...
ADAM KENNEDY Everything from now on is a must win. We've got to keep our heads up.
CRYSTAL KEMP We had nothing left. As a team they gave everything they had yesterday to get here.
JOELEEN AKIN We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
TERRY PRATCHETT Sometimes now was enough.
Sometimes it was everything.
MARY BALOGH I said, 'John, is everything OK with my paperwork?' He said, 'Larry, you're on the ballot.'
LARRY LONG Given what's happening in Europe, which could be a knee-jerk reaction to what happened in the U.S. F...
GARY DUGAN Yesterday was a pretty good up day, but we were well oversold, so we shouldn't probably get too exci...
LINDA DUESSEL It takes a good hour to walk around and see everything. It is a nice little getaway.
LEE SIMS Einmal hat ihm einer im Schlaf die Schuhe ausgezogen, reingeschissen und wieder angezogen. Um diese ...
HEINZ STRUNK But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. T...
JOHNATHAN SAFRAN FOER He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertak...
MARLENE VAN NIEKERK I would say that to extrapolate a sea change in the industry from one tragic situation would be noth...
JAY TAYLOR Timing is everything with relationships.
RASHIDA JONES Patience & waiting gives you the opportunity to cool down and avoid that knee-jerk, defensive reacti...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
NICK TOSCHES The No. 1 thing is to fly around and make something happen and keep working hard. I feel so good rig...
SHAWNE MERRIMAN He's got to feel pretty good about himself coming right out of college, pitching in the playoffs and...
BOBBY COX It's not too good right now. Everything is starting to go up.
ANGELA VEITCH Yesterday, every bite I got was a decent one. I'm going to change and fish some new areas [today] an...
LUKE CLAUSEN We did exactly what we wanted to do, we got great looks at the net, we moved the puck around well, w...
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LARRY MCMURTRY Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
LARRY MCMURTRY You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...
LARRY MCMURTRY If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ...
LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends&#...
LARRY MCMURTRY No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...
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