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KELLY JONES Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I When you see stuff like that happen, you have to put your heart out and try to help people in their ...
LONNIE GRAHAM I thought my focus was there but obviously that shows up in stuff like shooting around the basket. I...
HANNA ZAVECZ The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good...
JASON CALACANIS I like to play physical. I try to go out there and control the boards, play defense, and help the te...
OLLI AHVENNIEMI I try to go out for everything. I go out for any acting stuff that comes up, and voice-over stuff.
ANDY KINDLER We thank everyone who came out ... I am proud to have so much help and support from my hometown and ...
CHRIS WEBBER I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also...
LOUIS TOMLINSON I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduc...
BEN ELLIOT What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
TED ALLEN I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
RAJEEV SHUKLA He looked like the old Ben. A lot of guys go out there with less stuff than he had today.
CHAD MOELLER I call him 'Pretty Ricky,' ... I like him because he's one of those guys, he plays hard. If you pull...
VINCE CARTER I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out...
KURT ANGLE Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
BEN CASNOCHA Look, Jenna, it isn't like Wayne is perfect. Our crew is a bunch of overgrown misfit children. Wayne...
STACEY BALLIS Coach Byrne always comments that I'm like a coach out there. I love to help the underclassmen. I'll ...
KRISTEN BLAHA [She is also clearly tickled by the memories of meeting the stars who have guest appearances on the ...
BEN STILLER I just try to do whatever I need to do, whatever coach asks me to do to help the team out. We defini...
KATIE MONTGOMERY You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try ...
KATE BOSWORTH They definitely took us out of some of the stuff we try to run. We just didn't come out ready to pla...
BRYSON KRUEGER Congratulations go out to Ben. We'll go back to work and try to improve tomorrow and give it another...
MAT MLADIN I'll always choose a teacher with enthusiasm and weak technique over one with brilliant strategies b...
DAVE BURGESS I don't like to have people do stuff for me. I don't like to have runners go out and get me meals - ...
DAVE GROHL I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act l...
TERRY PRATCHETT When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean an...
AL PACINO You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I ...
KATE BOSWORTH I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inceptio...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN It's not even funny how much (Ella) is like Ben, ... She's definitely a ham.
CHRISTINE TAYLOR I like his youth and enthusiasm. I think he brings an enthusiasm to the community that we sort of ne...
MAYOR JOYCE SOMERS It's role reversal. Now, I'm the upperclassman. I think it's pretty cool. We have some good freshmen...
CRAIG FORYS I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your l...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN He comes over and lifts the foil off the pan. I can see that it is golden and crispy, and the scent ...
STACEY BALLIS If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It was pretty intense. But we've got a good one in Ben. We have to help him out. That's our job.
MATT DUFFY It was definitely a fluke, but these things happen, ... It was an accident. But that?s football. You...
DARWIN WALKER I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL He's definitely a player, and he's definitely going to help us. I'm excited for him to be able to ge...
DAUNTE CULPEPPER We're definitely going to work all our moves in and maybe try some bigger stuff so we can win it.
ALLISON SZATEK If I can contribute and help out, it feels good. It's nice, especially when stuff goes on.
SIDNEY CROSBY I feel like I'm a guy that can step up and make big plays. I can go out there and try to make a big ...
BRANDON CALEB I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
THE HELP I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,...
THE HELP Ben - Sir Ben - is always a lift. He's always interesting to watch, so you just try and remember you...
MORGAN FREEMAN I didn't want to recreate an old song, like Missy (Elliot) or Madonna. The black-and-white ad has be...
JASON MRAZ Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it ...
TERRY PRATCHETT I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from ince...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I just try to come out and give my all and try to help our team win. It doesn't matter how many poin...
ISIAH MARTINEZ To this day, I have an open door policy. I seek out interns and young women and try to help them. Wo...
GRETCHEN CARLSON I like to feel like I am not bored. I also like to be busy and try everything out.
AMBER FREEMAN I do have a couple of people. I have someone in Germany that I like to try out. I heard good things ...
NADIA PETROVA I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
STAN GETZ I did The Sorting Hat, and it was the Gryffindor, and I was like, 'I'm not doing it again. I...
JARED GOFF I find that when you do yoga, you don't crave unhealthy food. But I try to always let myself eat...
RENA SOFER It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or...
JON COURTENAY GRIMWOOD I'm not a politician. I have an opinion, and I like to help the good guys out if I can without overs...
JULIA LOUIS DREYFUS I think being on our home court, having more fans here and everything like that will be a huge benef...
MALLORY VOELKER Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn...
LIL MAMA He's the catalyst of our offense. I know Ben doesn't put up numbers like Peyton Manning and other qu...
HINES WARD I like the way (Bochy) made Ben bunt,
DAVE ROBERTS I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
LATRELL SPREWELL Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you ...
CHRIS TUCKER I like to experiment with stuff. Sometimes I mess up and sometimes it comes out pretty good.
DON ROSS I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain fe...
JACK OSBOURNE Definitely, at times, it is hard. We get into it about stuff, but neither one of us likes to go to b...
LANCE SMITH I try. We've all got to help out every single way we can.
HELEN RODEN That's what we try to do. We definitely wanted to get after it and play tough defense, and tonight I...
DEREK SONDERLAND Milk and cookies, anyone?" Elliot reappears from the kitchen with a large platter of chocolate chip ...
STACEY BALLIS Ben and I built Ben & Jerry's on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and en...
JERRY GREENFIELD I feel like I need to play to try and get ahead. Next year I'll set a schedule and stick to it. I th...
BUBBA DICKERSON I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballg...
JEAN LOUISA KELLY I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the p...
RASMENIA MASSOUD I try to block this stuff out a little bit 'cause it's the only way to kind of live.
JENNIFER LOPEZ I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to ...
JACOB DEGROM Let me tell you what I mean when I mention ‘stuff.’ Stuff is physical and metaphysical; it is th...
OLIVE ROSE STEELE I was actually shocked that they went down like that, week after week after week, and being that two...
APRIL MCCLENDON But right now, the nationals and the Olympics are my goal. I try to go to as many competitions as po...
ANDREW OH I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All thi...
AVIV NEVO No, none of that stuff, though I'd like to try it sometime. Just old-school working out,
LINDSAY LOHAN I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to ha...
WILLIAM TEMPLE Usually I try not to read that stuff. For someone who writes openly about her life, I have the thinn...
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ELLIOT RICHARDSON I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. N...
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JANE ELLIOT The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line...
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GEORGE ELLIOT When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present...
CASS ELLIOT They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
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CASS ELLIOT If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
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CASS ELLIOT Honesty is all you need.
CASS ELLIOT He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.
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ELISABETH ELLIOT She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man.
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ELLIOT MINTZ It would be in the category of weeks as opposed to months.
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ELLIOT MABEUSE He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne k...
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ELISABETH ELLIOT Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un...
ELISABETH ELLIOT When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu...
ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
JIM ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne...
ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona...
ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to...
ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot...
AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh...
ELLIOT WASHINGTON Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
JIM ELLIOT This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What...
JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ...
JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are...
JANE ELLIOT