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I know for a fact that most of our smaller wineries would have to close up under provisions of that bill.


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RICK BASS Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
RICK PERRY I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side...
RICK ALLEN If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost ...
RICK RENZI Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ra...
RICK PERLSTEIN Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.
RICK YUNE I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
RICK PERLSTEIN Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g...
RICK PERRY I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ...
RICK YANCEY I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the b...
RICK BAYLESS There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But th...
RICK PERRY Um," Grover said. "Percy?"
"Yeah?"
"I thought you'd want to know."
"Yeah?"
"Cerb...
RICK RIORDAN We ought to be bragging about Florida!
RICK SCOTT It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
RICK MERCER Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my ...
RICK PERLSTEIN Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That�...
RICK RIORDAN You can keep watch, in case – you know, the lake decides to attack us or something." - Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
RICK MOODY Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve...
RICK SANTELLI He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
RICK RIORDAN Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally emba...
RICK RIORDAN I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Wes...
RICK RIORDAN Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I me...
RICK RIORDAN I wanted to argue but I found I couldn't. Athena was pretty darn smart.
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of lov...
RICK RIORDAN Headache!" Zeus bellowed. "Bad. bad headache!"
As if to prove his point, the lord of the univer...
RICK RIORDAN