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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.


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GALE SAYERS Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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GALE SAYERS Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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GALE SAYERS We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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GALE SAYERS There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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GALE SAYERS I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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GALE GORDON I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
ZONA GALE The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the...
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GALE NORTON These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the fi...
GALE NORTON It's what we work out over the next few weeks.
BRENDON GALE But, having said that, there is a strong awareness of the players that we will have the situation re...
BRENDON GALE It exceeds community expectations and it displays we are committed in the fight against illicit drug...
BRENDON GALE Most people would understand that there should be recognition of the value the players do bring to t...
BRENDON GALE It is such a departure, free agency is a significant shift, so that will be a discussion for another...
BRENDON GALE feel free to call... as questions arise.
GALE NORTON communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.
GALE NORTON without leaving a footprint.
GALE NORTON I share your commitment to protect the environment of Florida's coastline as well as the entire east...
GALE NORTON a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing e...
GALE NORTON This new partnership is an example of how the public sector and private industry can work together t...
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GALE NORTON Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regul...
GALE NORTON His intention has been to take responsibility for what he's done. He knows he has taken somebody's l...
RICHARD GALE Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds ...
GALE NORTON The general mood was disrespectful and scornful.
WILLIAM GALE They're happier because they have one bill instead of two or three.
GALE GIVEN Instant tickets are impulse purchase items. They don't go on a shopping list.
DAVID GALE The decision to go from an individual state lotto game to a multistate game is a natural evolution. ...
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GALE NORTON I believe he understands the concepts.
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ERIC GALE The market is still recovering from a pretty strong close to June.
ERIC GALE He had the backbone to fashion his own agenda.
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DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE We were tracking this project really early
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DAVID GALE We are very excited to be
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DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE It lifts some of the barriers that keep us from competing on a level playing field.
GALE GIVEN We look at it as trying to meet our customers' needs. We know some people are going to drop one serv...
GALE GIVEN Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Men try to intimidate women out of the kitchen.
GALE GAND They have performed well all year. They are where we expected them to be.
GALE GROSS It was a personal record for Josh by more than two feet. He had gone 47 feet in our previous meet, s...
GALE GROSS All we're asking for is some time.
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GALE KLEINKOPF There will be a tremendous amount of work after the roll-out.
GALE KLAPPA If it's not easy to get the information, that region will lose that opportunity.
GALE KLAPPA The lack of a regional effort up to this point has been an impediment.
GALE KLAPPA We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, .....
GALE KAUFMAN This is the first election that's about him .
GALE KAUFMAN Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
GALE KAUFMAN There is so much anger about the governor holding this election that we're not worried about turnout...
GALE KAUFMAN This governor is spending $80 million of taxpayer money on an election that voters resoundingly have...
GALE KAUFMAN I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. ...
GALE KAUFMAN It's a phony election that he creates on issues that every poll says voters don't care about and he'...
GALE KAUFMAN We don't want them to play in 35 mph winds. It's not fair to either team.
GALE HOWARD She wants to go out with a good year as a senior. She's focused.
GALE HOWARD It was my dream for several years to own a Friesian.
GALE WOLFE So we're looking forward to a matched pair of driving horses pulling that sleigh next year.
GALE WOLFE It took a full two months from the day I paid for her until I got her.
GALE WOLFE There aren't any shelters out there.
GALE RUSSELL We were called by the Lord to do this mission.
GALE RUSSELL That's what separates shelters from the mission.
GALE RUSSELL We run the business 24 hours a day. We're grateful for Amazon. It has provided us with a lot of oppo...
GALE PETRONIS We saw the potential in Orlando; it really seemed like it was going to take off.
GALE PETRONIS In a family business, it's the third generation that presents the big problems. The first generation...
GALE PETRONIS Different states have different attitudes on this,
GALE NORTON Our approach has been to have a balanced energy policy, and today's decision indicates that balance....
GALE NORTON We don't have an international market
GALE NORTON Eating together is important family time; it validates the importance in family and offers good soci...
GALE MILLS We offer it to all schools, grades 3 to 8.
GALE MILLS ? Natatakot ako na baka hindi ako alalahanin ng mga tao kapag nawala na ako sa mundo. Hindi naman sa...
GALE KELIER We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back to...
GALE FORMAN It's an audience that appreciates what I have.
LAURA GALE It will be a little city out there by 5 a.m..
JODY GALE I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion
ZONA GALE It's totally possible that that happens.
TRISTAN GALE If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS (One character on another:)

"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we g...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

"Well...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS