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Related We live in a society of {more, faster, and extra.} So we feel the need to respond {more, faster, and... EMILY LEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Our e-mail, [as is] typical of most companies in the United States, was not tightly managed from day... LARRY HAWKINS Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster... OLIVIER MEGATON We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently. DAVID NEELEMAN We need to be a little more aggressive in the central midfield and we need to be faster, which is no... JAMIE ESTES ALICE WATERS I wanted to find some products that had broader implications than just our ability to send e-mail fa... CHRIS SHIPLEY RALPH LAUREN Here we were supposed to be having fun, and my heart kept beating faster and faster every time I tho... FLORENCE MATHE MARTIN SCORSESE In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, &... CHRIS STAPLETON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD As time has progressed, we've gotten better data from more satellites, and faster computers, CHRIS COX The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get. ADAM PEATY To be more successful...do things better, faster, with less time, effort, and money. LORRIN L. LEE BEN SHAPIRO I just love the storyline, I thought it was hilarious - I loved that part when we opened the door, w... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS ROBBIE COLTRANE RUTH REICHL CRAIG GROESCHEL I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER Goner is one of the most incredibly fast-moving and potentially dangerous e-mail viruses we've seen.... 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BOB MENENDEZ I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much mo... BRITT DANIEL Asking if I would miss it is like asking where I would be without e-mail. Our society is so connecte... JEFF BRADSHAW We?re just trying to play faster. From what I saw with some of the kids we have I thought we could t... TIM ARMY EDWARD SNOWDEN ARIEL SHARON We need to move forward, and I think the faster we can have an Iraqi authority in charge of things, ... AHMAD CHALABI We need to invest a great deal in the effort to re-establish the proximity of our relationship with ... JOHN MANLEY J.A. REDMERSKI I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the U... MARK STEYN I thought our defense was starting to figure them out. We like to play fast, but I thought we were p... ED ORTEGO I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not ado... VIRGIL GOODE That was the turning point. They were trying to slow the game down early on. We switched some things... JAY CORBY We've gotten caught in a time warp where our economic realities have changed faster than our expecta... LIZ PERLE YUVAL NOAH HARARI To grow faster, interest rates need to go down more. JASON VIEIRA We tried to respond to every E-mail we received within three minutes. ANDY GUENTHARD LE CORBUSIER CARL HONORE I gave them a realistic goal that we wanted to come down here and at least reset the state record. C... ANDY CAPELLAN We finished about where I thought we would. We had a lot of personal records and ran faster than we ... CLINT CHAMBERLIN This beta gives people a faster and more dynamic way to experience Yahoo Mail. KAREN MAHON G. WILLOW WILSON WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON BILL CLINTON High current density changes everything. It makes everything faster and more powerful. If you want a... 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ALAN CROTZER Especially when it comes to sex offenses, history is a big predictor of the future, ALAN CROPSEY When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse, ALAN CROPSEY Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start ou... ALAN CROPSEY He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C. ALAN CROPSEY When you have a chance to make plays and don't, you can almost be assured the final score will not f... ALAN CRAWFORD You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or th... ALAN CRAWFORD Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 ... ALAN CULPEPPER The Olympic Games tends to be a little more of a coming together of all the nations, so it's differe... ALAN CULPEPPER Our sport needs spectator friendly and all the help it can get on that side. That adds to the allure... 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ALAN CRANSTON For [customers] it means that they can shop for 'Linux applications' without having to worry about w... ALAN COX I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off un... ALAN COX What matters are the applications. ALAN COX I'm going to Disneyland! ALAN COX It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused, ... Hope will rebuild ... ALAN COX He's a great kid. ALAN COX They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon the... ALAN COX I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the re... ALAN COX Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there. ALAN COX The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. It's the main site of action where everyt... ALAN COWMAN The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. It's the main site of action where everyt... 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