He's an agitator and if you let him get to you then he's effective. But we've got agitators too, we just didn't happen to have our agitators going that night I guess.
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Related Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up, BRENDA JONES [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var... ALEX ADAMS God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Agitators on the bottom came in around 1920. JOSEPH SHAPIRO Hes doing better than what we thought. JAMIE KING Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD I think you've got to stay out of your own way. That's the worst thing that can happen to you if you... CHAD CAMPBELL No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere... NATHAN ELMO MELO Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser, PETER GOULD We felt that he got of jams the other night and he's our ace, so we were trying to let him get out o... DIRK WILLIAMS My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now. BARBARA UPTON It was so nerve-racking. But we have worked too hard in the season to just give it up then and we ..... BAILEY HANSEN Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class... OSCAR WILDE (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve... JAMES HETFIELD When you get to your 11th drummer, and then things start going well, you can get him to do just abou... BEN CLARK Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that'... MARC LEVITAN We just keep harping on the fact that if you remain humble and don't get too full of yourselves, goo... ROGER HUGHES Hes learned to never trust anyone with his heart. People lie, cheat, hurt, steal, and play. He cant ... ZACH MOUNCE You don't see that too often. I guess it was our lucky night. DOUG PALOW We know that this league is always going to be tough. You have to come to play every night, and if y... CURT DEHAAN So don't fall in love, there's just too much to lose; if you're given the chance then I'm begging yo... MAYDAY PARADE Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you'v... BARBARA BROCCOLI Dickinson got what he deserved. Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away... OZZY OSBOURNE In the past couple of games, it seems like (our infield) is starting to get things going a little be... GARY MCCLURE You want every shot he takes to be contested over a hand, and you don't want to let him get anything... WES MILLER I can't say we're playing well, but the kids are still playing hard. We just don't have anybody you ... DENNIS RUETER We don't want to put too high expectations on him. We know he's going to be a good player. If he pla... DENIS PAGAN This was not a spontaneous public action, ... It was closely organized and closely coordinated by a ... ANDY JOHNSON This was not a spontaneous public action. It was closely organized and closely coordinated by a seri... ANDY HADFIELD You just never know what's going to happen. We've got to find an answer. BOB MULLER If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to... JACK HANDY Until you get to spring training and see what kind of product you have on the field, then you can ma... TIM WAKEFIELD A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU He thought if you're going to have this happen to you, why not let someone else live, even though yo... KAREN BRASWELL You hate to see a game like this. Even if you win you feel bad. But we got a chance to get our bats ... JEFF RODGERS As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking... JOE THOMPSON We just try to get better. You have to just work hard and work on everything that went wrong. I'm no... DOMANICK DAVIS And this is how things go. If you are too miserly, he will spend too much because that will become j... OSHO You were gullible," he said. And then, "When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't... JENNY HAN I think we have the common beliefs that you have to have a solid run game - you have to run the foot... FRANK CIGNETTI SR It's hard to really look at somebody and go: "Hey, maybe something nice will happen." You just don't... LOUIS C.K. They got a little bit of pressure on him and we didn't protect. It was a combination of both, ... We... CHAD FOX You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen. IDOWU KOYENIKAN I kept waiting for Ben (center Ben Wallace ) to come back in. I guess (coach) felt that if things we... ANTONIO MCDYESS We had four hits and they walked six of our batters but we just couldn't take advantage of it. If we... EMILY MARTIN Dan's been our main scorer all year. If anyone's going to get a game-winning goal it's going to be h... GREG MAXEY You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get ... QUEEN LATIFAH I can't repeat that in the paper. You've got to let him know you can't let him run around like that.... CHRIS NEIL We have the pin for the bubble. We're not going to let these guys come in here and ruin a Senior Nig... CARL KRAUSER Am I upset with myself right now? Yeah I am, ... But there's going to be games like this. Just got t... MATT HASSELBECK I'm not going to get myself hurt." I'm too important to let that happen. ~Jaypaw ERIN HUNTER Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are ... HELEN SUZMAN If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything ... ALICE COOPER You're never feeling comfortable out there, ... You just try to trust your swing and let it go. If y... JASON ELAM You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you'... ALAN BALL Several of agitators and cops were injured when the police intervened to quell the ransacking mob. W... ASFANDYAR KHAN Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body,
Jenny's like to cry;
For she hes weet her petticoats
In... MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN When we got an offer to have it made into a movie, you just don't think it's gonna happen to you. MICHELE ALEXANDER [Gilliam] has a very free imagination. There's nothing you feel you can't do as an actor. The audien... JEFF BRIDGES That was just a simple play to see if we could get something. It was supposed to be a harmless play.... ANDY HILL It's like a fire. If you have kindling and you have to put something on that fire to keep it going t... DAVE SIMMONS He never stops (running). You have to get your mind focused because they are going to set triple scr... FLIP MURRAY We'll just go until we can't go anymore, I guess. If you stop you're going to get run over in this s... GREG ZIPADELLI I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I think if you are going to be effective, it's not just experience ---- some people go into office a... ALAN UKE You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, ... PETER LYNCH I've been in tough situations. I've lost games before; we all have. We just have to keep our head hi... GERRY MCNAMARA If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... ... MARTIN VAN CREVELD I'm going to run and get my head to the outside and try to reach whoever the contain man is. If he p... JOE THOMAS The play was set up because we didn't win a battle along the boards. Then, Samy tried to get (Wrigle... BRIAN CURRAN There's a difference between losing a game and getting beat. If you lose a game, then you have made ... GREG KING There's a little gap there for (Terry) to try to sneak into, and he didn't quite get it done. ... Fo... LON KRUGER Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be... JOJO MOYES In this job, you've just got to up and move if it happens, ... It kind of bothers you. But you have ... ANDRE MILLER I think he's a lot more ready offensively than he was, but I still get on him about defensive lapses... RON WILSON There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, sta... CHARLES BUKOWSKI While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for person... DANIEL H. PINK You never know what's going to happen over here, you just have to wait and see what's going to happe... CHAD HARVILLE you're @ home?"She could hear him moving around..."I'll let you go then." "What if I dont want ... MELISSA MARR If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's u... KEVIN APPIER Khabibulin will give them good goaltending. But he's going to have to be great, not just good, every... JOHN GARRETT If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's wh... ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo... DON MASHAK It was what we were looking for. Just an easy work to let Edgar get a feel for him. I wanted to let ... FRANK BROTHERS If you have a dog and you love him too much, then some day you will have to bark yourself. VIKRANT PARSAI there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him ou... CHARLES BUKOWSKI What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER We let it slip and it's hard to get a handle on exactly how it did slip. We got the first goal, and ... BRYAN SMOLINSKI Sorry I had to let you go but I couldn’t hold on anymore. It kills me to let you go but its even w... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that... CHAD KROEGER I would let you stay the night and then have you for breakfast,” Gary said. T.J. KLUNE The disappointing part about this loss is that we would have been in control of the conference if we... JOE KUHN Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", be... JACK HANDY I think this is the first time they really got to see him and be fair to him. I don't think they've ... NIKLAS KRONWALL Don't ever let them tell you that you're too stupid to do something. I'm not saying it's going to be... MEG CABOT Esther, I don’t know what I’m going to do without you when you go. I don’t know how I can get ... ESTHER EARL Caring for staff is not just a matter of giving them superannuation. You have to look after health a... ERIC HARRISON Caring for staff is not just a matter of giving them superannuation, ... You have to look after heal... ERIC HARRISON Sometimes you get too relaxed when you're up like that. You just have to keep going. NANCY LOPEZ
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BRANDON SANDERSON You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with c... BRANDON SANDERSON The old Words must be spoken again. BRANDON SANDERSON I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will ris... BRANDON SANDERSON Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to s... BRANDON SANDERSON Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero? BRANDON SANDERSON To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the mos... BRANDON SANDERSON The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but i... BRANDON SANDERSON Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it . BRANDON SANDERSON NO MATING BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing. 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