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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation... IM NO JUNG I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate... IM NO JUNG The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove... IM NO JUNG Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'W... PETER THIEL I started practicing with him, and he just started getting better. He's a great learner. DON BRADSHAW I was hoping good things would happen to this team because of how hard they worked. There was no fin... BERNIE GURICK I was there in 1959. That was a long time ago. EDDIE EINHORN There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any othe... KATE ADIE The awards started at a time when there was no form of recognition for reggae in the world. EPHRAIM MARTIN He's a quick learner and he's confident. HERMAN EDWARDS One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. TOVE JANSSON I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics th... RETTA We just really like to sing together at rehearsals every week. KATHY ROBINSON [The deadline] came when I was preparing for the Scouting Combine. But it's no big deal; I can take ... DEREK ABNEY There is no point coming here next week with a long face because you can't change the result, PAUL LAMBERT You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd ... SCHOOLBOY Q Right after World War II my grandfather, Gus Anderson, started this company because he felt there wa... RAY ANDERSON Seems like there was one, but it's been a long, long time ago, ... I'm 69 now and I've lived here si... HENRY JORDAN I was a little quick and stabbing at the ball last week at the 84 Lumber, and this week I'm a little... DAN FORSMAN The healing started a long time ago. We've buried a lot of it. CEO FUST The healing started a long time ago. We've buried a lot of it. CEO CHARLES FUST I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd jus... LENNY ABRAHAMSON Luckily I'm a quick healer. HEATHER MILLS There used be a nice house over there, but that was a long, long time ago. RICHARD O'BRIEN No, no, for a long time, I couldn't look at it, ... I thought that it was politically incorrect, you... JANE FONDA Maxwell Arbus was the reason Saul lost an eye?" "Yes," Millie answers stiffly. "But that was a... ANDREA CREMER They beat me all the time. They were just quick. Aisha was too strong; I was just a skinny fool. She... OKESENE ALE Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN At that time, we were only open twice a week, two hours a day, and had room for just 24 cars. There ... BURTON FREDERICKSEN When I first came here there was practically no spirit, nobody went to the games. BOCHEN UANG There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all. JEFFREY FRY I don't ask for favour from those i just met and those ℓ̊ have met for a long time.. OLASOT I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was... ROBIN WILLIAMS We sort of look at our years at 'Letterman' as comedy grad school. I don't mind seeing jokes and hea... CARTER BAYS I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that cou... MARIA BELLO I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo... MATTHEW SWEET I'm overwhelmed that a solution was found within the time limit. It's really been an emotional rolle... COLIN NEDERKOORN There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met. EMILY ROSSUM I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met. EMMY ROSSUM I wish we had met away from all these battles. I wish we had met in a land of peace without social c... JIHAD ELTABEY I told you. I told you a long time ago he was a winner. He's just a winning basketball player. BRIAN SCALABRINE There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born. ANNA HELD He put Edison on the map because a long time ago teams had no respect for Edison. I have nothing but... CIP SANCHEZ The tears were there, waiting to make their escape. But she wouldn’t let them. Not this time. She ... ELAINE WHITE She and I met long, long, long ago for an audition on another movie that I was not allowed to cast h... JOHN MADDEN I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. OSCAR WILDE I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time... DAMIAN LOEB I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding becau... BODE MILLER I think to come back and horseshoe out for a birdie summed up my week really. I don't know whether i... GREG OWEN When you’re 24 you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We are not done with that journey. Right now, this thing wasn't about week to week, it was about fin... BILL COWHER There is no quick easy way to the body you want... commit yourself now to your workout and get start... TRACY ANDERSON I moved on a long time ago. It doesn't matter. I knew it was going to be tough to beat them and prov... JUAN RINCON It was a tough mistake. But luckily it was on one of steepest part of course, so I didn't lose momen... BENJAMIN RAICH No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor tha... ANDREW BARRETT The day before we met, we actually spoke on the telephone for the first time. I knew we had a connec... GARY SUFFIR I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very ... FRED DAVIS We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I k... MARISSA MEYER Kayla is a quick learner. She is coming along swiftly both offensively and defensively. ALEXIS RANSTROM I wept because i had no shoes, until i met a man who had no feet. RUTA SEPETYS It started at 4 (p.m.). By 7 there was no more. LAUREN CASADY The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA As soon as they announced us as the winners we stood up and we started walking to the stage and ther... CHRIS HUFFMAN I don't want to start slowly, but that just seems to be how I've started since I was very young. Hop... MORGAN ENSBERG There is no further comment at this stage. PRINCESS DIANA I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you�... STEVEN WRIGHT About 40 years ago, it's stunning to think that the NCAA had never started an all-black team before.... JOSH LUCAS I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weep... CATHERINE JONES PAYNE There was no other reason to come back, just basketball. I wanted to win and have fun at the same ti... SHAY DORON 'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and... GEORGE LUCAS My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ... VANESSA MORGAN There is no quick solution. This is just hard work. GORDON ENGLAND I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ... TAMALA JONES We met by chance, one split desiscion to turn right instead of left made no sense at the time but it... NIKKI ROWE I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't mem... STEPHEN CHBOSKY He's a special young man. He's sharp and has great people skills. He's a quick learner. J.D. will ma... BUCK SHOWALTER I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest... DON RICKLES Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in... NINA CONTI From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing... RICHIE HAVENS There was a long, traversing roller section on the course and I lost my rhythm and some speed and sh... MAELLE RICKER That was a long time ago, friend. DOUG MCCLURE I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to... GENA PROCHASKA 6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was deva... YITZHAK NAVON This should have been started here a long time ago. It promotes girls being involved at school and b... ASHLEY CHANDLER I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. DENIS WAITLEY No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, ... BENNY GREEN We are just killing ourselves. We've got to take a long look at ourselves in the mirror because we'v... DERRICK GIBSON Once Howard Dean lost the Iowa primary, there was no licking of wounds; there was no baying at the m... NEIL ABERCROMBIE I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet. YIDDISH PROVERB We got together (as a defense) and met and let it be known that the way we played last week was unac... ANTHONY MONTGOMERY It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. KIM EDWARDS Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive bec... ABHIJIT NASKAR It's a long spring and longer season, and who knows what will happen. Just a few weeks ago, I had no... JOE BORCHARD It's very stressful because there is such a short period for rehearsals. It allows us to become a ve... LINDA WALLING I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a... JULIA SWEENEY I was really nervous going into sectionals. I think I drained myself by being nervous the whole time... GREG SCHROEDER
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