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If I'd stayed up there I'd be out of a job now,


Alex Sanderson

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Where id was, there ego shall be.
SIGMUND FREUD Where id was, there shall ego be.
SIGMUND FREUD Can I see some ID?"

"WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON...
ADAM REX If I paid less attention to details, Id trust easier.
KEYSHMA.SOSA That's what campaigns are for, to get the name ID out.
DOUG COLE ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still ...
BRUCE SCHNEIER If ID card is everything, what do ration-card stands for?
VIJAYRAJ BHATT After a witness makes a positive ID, if the investigator says something that validates the ID before...
BRIAN CUTLER Have you ever used a fake ID?
JAY LENO The ID evidence was flawed.
BOB LONG One of the victims, she made ID off a photo lineup.
TOM SCHEBEN Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
JOHN MAYER it's dangerous to your career to be identified as an ID proponent.
MICHAEL BEHE Name ID is not going to be enough for him this time.
KATON DAWSON The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card ...
KAREN EVANS Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use ...
MICHAEL JACKSON Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
UNKNOWN Id rather be told am beautiful than get a poem saying I look like sunshine
KIMBERLY SHILENJE The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negativ...
RUSH LIMBAUGH We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system.
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
STEVEN WRIGHT Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
STEPHEN WRIGHT Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncra...
GUY KAWASAKI Id go over frequently and visit with her.
BETTY B. GIBSON From now on, when one goes to the polls, they will have to show ID, per Prop. 200.
BRAD NELSON As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) We're hoping that he's well preserved, and that the ID will be rather easy.
BOB MANN In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for vote...
PETE GALLEGO Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
JOHNNY HART With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Mini...
ANTY ZHENG With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Mini...
ANTY ZHENG If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In Taunton, nine out of 21 establishments did not ask for ID and in Middleboro four out of nine fail...
DAVID DEIULIIS Showing your ID is a far cry from being searched for explosives.
CHARLES SLEPIAN Checking of students' ID cards is not enough to ensure security, all bags must be checked as well.
HABIB RAHMAN A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of ...
ADAM COHEN You have to be careful what ID-IQs are used for, what gets tucked into them.
JAMES MITCHELL Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of ever...
ANDREW YOUNG The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young pe...
ROBERT CLARK When they found her, they found her with her (nursing) ID. Her thoughts were that after the storm pa...
SHERYL TURNEY ID cards could be of some value in the fight against terrorism but they are probably of quite limite...
LORD CARLILE You can't just give people an ID card and everyone relaxes.
GRIER WEEKS I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ...
ANDREW YOUNG We do not require ID for children because there are no children on the list. If it's a child, ticket...
CARRIE HARMON He didn't want her to be around her friends. I used to call her everyday until she said 'don't, beca...
CATHY CRAFT If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and g...
EDWARD SNOWDEN It's best, though, to get premises ID done early rather than wait.
DR. GEORGE TEAGARDEN The philosophy here is one ID card has [multiple] technologies on it.
DAVID OLSEN murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Florida is already 98 percent in compliance with the requirements of the Real ID Act.
FRANK PENELA It's the kind of thing that keeps us of up at night. It underscores the need for ID on the animals, ...
JULIE MORRIS Id rather fail a million times than give up, for to fail again means to succeed once more but to giv...
MOE ZEE If they don't have the proper ID or the handicapped person is not in the car, they can be warned, ti...
JOHN POWER I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
ADAM COHEN Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
PHILIP ROTH They asked if we knew anybody who had a nipple ring. I said that my brother did. I got his ID out of...
RINDA JEAN WILCOX if Beer was water-and i was a duck- id swim to the bottom and never come up- but Beer's not water an...
LAUREL CLIVE We have scout teams who go out and ID where the birds are. And when we find birds using a field, we'...
HENRY SCOTT Until filing deadline, we'll be prepared to face a wealthy self-funder with statewide name ID. That'...
JASON MILLER Before Caller ID and cell phones came around in the '90s, people could memorize phone numbers in the...
ALI BABAR Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
JOHN BURDETT A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Fre...
GUY KAWASAKI Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hisp...
ADAM COHEN It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our v...
VIRGIL GOODE We know as a fact that No. 61 obtained a fake federal agent's ID to commit felonious crimes.
JAN CALDWELL The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obt...
BILL FLORES That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
BOB EHRLICH I teased Geoffrey. I told him he had become my id, ... Every antisocial thought I ever had, he was g...
DOUG WRIGHT We have some good images of the suspect. We just haven't been able to ID who he is.
CRYSTAL CANDY Your user ID, your password, if you're purchasing anything online, credit card numbers, bank account...
BARBARA ANTHONY Civil liberties groups, conservative groups, immigration groups ? we've all been saying that Real ID...
ALLEN GILBERT Our stand is that the national ID would diminish the freedom and privacy of law-abiding citizens. Ju...
BRANDON HENSLER They talked about how nobody checked your ID, and you could always give your ticket away to someone ...
DIANE SLOAN It is already clear that the new slogan for the ID movement is going to be 'Teach the Controversy!' ...
EUGENIE SCOTT Of course the new version of the ID card should have our traditional name on it, and the household c...
MAYAW BIHO Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO FEMA said we needed to show an ID or a PG&E bill, anything to verify our previous address.
PATRICIA JOHNSON Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are re...
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI You always have a harder time if you have an incumbent who's reasonably popular. Anybody challenging...
TERRY JONES Foley, Savage and Bret Hart have been doing just fine outside of the world of wrestling, ... What el...
BRET HART We're outraged at that, ... It turns out to be a piece of sleight of hand on Intel's part because th...
JASON CATLETT We're outraged at that. It turns out to be a piece of sleight of hand on Intel's part because they w...
JASON CATLETT ID cards are always free. We don't want anything to stand in the way of families being able to get t...
LISA CULLEN It is another form of back door compulsion in the same way that ID cards have been bolted on to pass...
MICHAEL PARKER Will every governmental agency have access? We feel creating a national ID system opens the door to ...
BRANDON HENSLER We were able to stop him and attempted to ID him. The information he gave us was false.
WILLIAM HARPER My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN Basically we call it caller ID on steroids. This is a great opportunity to leverage all of the techn...
ERIC DISHMAN It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel ins...
BAPTISTA MANTUANUS The charge is that she (Thomas) punched someone in the face and then she chose to give police a fake...
LAURA MCELROY They're more likely to compare each photo to their original memory and make a positive ID if there's...
BRIAN CUTLER Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) All the arguments inserted in the standards are only found in the literature of intelligent design. ...
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BRANDON SANDERSON I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith,...
BRANDON SANDERSON What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set asid...
BRANDON SANDERSON It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm...
BRANDON SANDERSON I wanted to move. I needed to move. But in those moments, I could more easily have lifted a s...
BRANDON SANDERSON Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting sati...
BRANDON SANDERSON That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”
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BRANDON SANDERSON Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his bo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Oh, thank you, I thought, feeling an overwhelming sense of relief. Dancing was stressful—but murde...
BRANDON SANDERSON Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't h...
BRANDON SANDERSON Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa...
BRANDON SANDERSON There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so." BRANDON SANDERSON Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasna...
BRANDON SANDERSON As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”
“Wow...,” I breathed.
She ...
BRANDON SANDERSON Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open.
"And he makes h...
BRANDON SANDERSON Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourse...
BRANDON SANDERSON You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?"
"I suppose."
"AR-15?"
"Ugh. AR-15...
BRANDON SANDERSON Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r...
BRANDON SANDERSON I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each...
BRANDON SANDERSON You've never heard of bagpipes?" Cody asked, sounding aghast. "They're as Scottish as kilts a...
BRANDON SANDERSON One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, i...
WILLIAM SANDERSON Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"
"I consider...
BRANDON SANDERSON We are forecast overnight frost and minus two, so we need to have a look in the morning and take it ...
JAMES SANDERSON Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orph...
BRANDON SANDERSON Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
BRANDON SANDERSON The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things ...
BRANDON SANDERSON But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.
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