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I got my first Palm Beach County Championship in track. I'm running like I should at this time of year.


Michael Burke

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COREY CLAITT This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.
ANDY BRANDON We're definitely chasing them. They're the best team in Palm Beach County.
BRIAN JOROS Certainly a site at the north end of Palm Beach County is better than a site to the south.
TED ASTOLFI You don't really know where Palm Beach County ends and Broward County begins. We just felt this was ...
VINCE ELHILOW This will be my first time running the long course. So there will be a learning curve running a DP f...
PATRICK LONG You're overpaying. It's a bad business deal for the School District of Palm Beach County.
DEAN TURNEY This is a wake-up call for Palm Beach County that we need to start looking at our wages and the gap ...
KATHRYN SCHMIDT It is like closing all the gas stations in Palm Beach County because the price of gas is too high. I...
BRENDA TALBERT The main objective I will have on behalf of this board is to keep Scripps in Palm Beach County. But ...
BURT AARONSON The first time I lost my teeth was in hockey. I got them knocked out again this year.
ERIC ZASTOUPIL We're staying headquartered in Palm Beach County, but we're building the new facility to keep up wit...
WALLY SANGER 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 haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting a...
JENNIFER SAUNDERS With reciprocity, any couple legally partnered anywhere in the world will have their relationship re...
RAND HOCH Fortunately, given the opinion that we got today, that vote count is now going forward in Dade Count...
DAVID BOIES I got my first taste of it last year. This is a lot of fun. I wish every game could be like this.
BRET MEYER I like everything so far. I can't right now find a weakness. When I walked in here this year, I was ...
BILL DILLON I have lived in many places. The median income in Palm Beach County is one of the highest - around $...
ED WEST I will not be satisfied until all veterans in Palm Beach County and the surrounding area get the car...
ALCEE HASTINGS I liked running here a lot. I felt like I was generating a lot more momentum on this track. It's too...
BRUCE BROWN I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standard...
JEREMY CORBYN I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.
JOHN TORTORELLA And now I got myself together and finally understand.This time I'll take your heart in the palm of m...
MUSIQ SOULCHILD I remember watching that national championship game (against Kansas) at my home. He was running the ...
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TED ASTOLFI With that quick access to (Interstate) 95, it doesn't matter where Scripps went in Palm Beach County...
TED ASTOLFI It wasn't enough and some of the other regulars didn't [participate] because of the hurricane damage...
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ERIC PATTERSON Ironically, it was back at the Prince William County Fair a couple of years after my first entry tha...
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AL BEYE J.Crew embodies the customer in Palm Beach and particularly in North Palm Beach. It's a classic cust...
AL FERRIS Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream.
50 CENT She didn't like the off-track the first time. I think she just runs better on the dry track.
D. WAYNE LUKAS Given the importance of the election and the fact that the present margin is approximately 300 votes...
CAROL ROBERTS I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angel...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was trai...
SHEILA E. A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ...
CHRIS CORNELL My volunteers are all ages. I have students from Palm Beach Atlantic University, working mothers and...
JUDY HILLBERG I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time...
GABRIELLE UNION We actually really hate each other. The first time I met Sara, I was so tired, I got off this nine- ...
EMMA ROBERTS I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year&#...
MICHEL PATINI I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remem...
ISABELLA BIRD I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
ABBI GLINES It was love at first site. I thought I should have a bald cat as well. So I got my first Sphinx from...
JODI PLISZKA This is the reason I came out for track. One of my friends who was a gymnast freshman year told me t...
BRITTNEY BERNARDONI I love running cross country....On a track, I feel like a hamster.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and l...
ELIZABETH ROBINSON SCHWARTZ On my first day of Jr. High I was in Geography class, and the teacher asked us if anybody knew the n...
JESSICA SIMPSON When you're looking at a population where 78 percent is age 65 or older, people are dying and you ha...
IRA SHESKIN It was a time in my career that I wanted to take advantage of a great opportunity, test the waters s...
CORY REED We've got David Carr and Michael Vick at quarterback. We've got Marvin Harrison and Roy Williams at ...
CHRIS WIDGER Last year, playing against Rockford at home, I hurt my right shoulder. This year, in Rockford, I hur...
COLIN CHAULK It would never be both Michael and myself running because as a mother ... I would never put my child...
PAULA ZAHN I'm really excited because these are my first wins (at state). I kind of expected the 200 IM, but I ...
AMANDA FAULKNER A large amount of my time was spent running around - I think I made at least five trips to several p...
DON BARNETT We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national champions...
ELLIOTT AVENT This is going to be the first time we're racing solo. I would think that there will be fewer yellows...
WAYNE TAYLOR My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relations...
HOLLY SMALE I adore Palm Beach and feel very comfortable here. Women here know a lot about jewelry, but I think ...
LILIA LOPEZ We should be ranked in the state for the first time ever this year.
JOE KONRAD Asia has been great to me. I played a good round of golf this afternoon and there you go. I've got t...
ADAM SCOTT It's definitely a litmus test for us. We've got two of the championship teams from last year and San...
CRAIG WHELIHAN I try not to stick out here. I just try to hang in. Last year was more just a prep. Now it really st...
COLBY RASMUS You never like to end a day like that, ... But this is my 31st start and I finally got double-digit ...
DEREK LOWE I've never had a year like this, ... This is the first time I've had to overcome this many at one ti...
CHAMP BAILEY This is the first year (anyone has gone undefeated at Union County), and I've had some good ones. If...
KYLER COHEN (Silver Creek is) very similar to Pueblo County. They're just as big as County and they have guards ...
ZACH ODELL I feel like I am on a mission this year. A mission to win that darn league championship.
SUZANNE MURDEN I was mad at myself yesterday. But today I am happy to take advantage of the car. I have everything ...
ANDREAS WIRTH We feel really special to be part of the only basketball program in Lower Bucks County to win a dist...
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TED ASTOLFI It's the first time I got dumped in my life,
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EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE