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It didn't take long to see there would be this much interest. They're developing fast.


Jean Butler

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GILLES DUCEPPE Much, much better, ... Best it's felt. I did everything in fast motion, as fast as I could, just to ...
ABRAHAM NUNEZ It would be like joining any organization that you would take interest in.
CATE MOYE Who's going to buy this? I suppose the networks or the broadcasters might be interested. But I can't...
HUGH DOW I'd like to see it, ... There's an interest in doing it. If it's not done this year, it would be nex...
GEORGE RADANOVICH I guess what I like the least about this is would be that there doesn't seem to be too much interest...
JULIA ROBERTS we'll be there a relatively long time ? I would see it in months, not weeks.
LOUISIANA TECH I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I would hesitate to speculate on how long that would take, because I just don't know how much follow...
RON DEHAVEN Nobody knew how long it would take to heal from this injury.
DAVE FULLERTON There are certainly terrorist groups who have an interest in developing that capability.
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JESPER PARNEVIK The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN It would not take very long to recoup our money, ... It would be a very short payback.
CARL ROGERS As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e...
E. M. FORSTER It's been worth the wait. We're both going to be 70. We didn't think it would take this long, but we...
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BOB LUCAS Look at how fast technology is developing.
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NORMAN AUGUSTINE If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Ea...
NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Ea...
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE The credit story did not change that much. I would have liked to see more color on how fast they wil...
BRAD RUBIN At this point we're monitoring to see what the outcome will be, and we'll take it from there.
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JAVIER PENA theyre missing whole streets.
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MATTIAS GRENMARK I would love a robot butler.
BRETT RATNER I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this....
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JOYCE DAWLEY I don't think I'll ever know as much as she does. It would take a long time for me to catch up.
ASHTON DILKA There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON We would very much have an interest in bidding on it.
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DAVE SIRULNICK Based on our experience, I would think there would be more interest.
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JOHN DALTON This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
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SOURCE UNKNOWN The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would ...
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN It's about giving back. We're fortunate to be in a position to make an impact on the lives of kids. ...
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PAUL ARCHEY I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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GEOFF LEWIS I'd much rather do this than take a bus. It was a great way to see the city.
LAUREL HOLLOWAY It is in our long-term interest as well to start addressing this challenge,
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LORENZO CODOGNO But I'll tell you this -- there's no way we could be out there racing at those speeds. It was neat t...
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BRIAN GREENWOOD Apple better get lobbying fast. There may be provisions for free commerce and antitrust that would g...
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JOEY TALLADINO Initially, our intent was to develop them for use in developing countries, and then it became clear ...
VICTORIA JENNINGS I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
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JAN DE BONT We see the border dispute... from an energy security perspective. We have an interest in it and woul...
BENSON WHITNEY If I had just done Dayton and (Butler and Warren) counties, we would be profitable by now.
TOM PEEBLES My true destiny clear for the first time in this journey, I quietly pleaded, "It has to be this way....
CAREY CORP It's been a great teaching opportunity because we've been able to look at the map, look at the Unite...
JENNIFER STEWART If it takes in 30,000 people, the queues will be very long and buying lunch would take a very long t...
HENRY TANG The Federal Reserve has lowered the bar on what it would take for them to lower interest rates,
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THOMAS SANGSTER Gravity is something that people take for granted ,but you would not no that it was generated by the...
GARY F EVANS... We asked, 'Do you plan to stay?' and 'If there was housing here, would there be some interest?'.
BARBARA CLEMENTS It was near impossible to deal with. I hadn't been out that much since the very first year I played ...
JASON BEILSTEIN I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn...
SARAH DESSEN To promote Sino-Indonesian cooperation accords with our fundamental interest as important developing...
ZENG QINGHONG There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.
MARK TWAIN Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON I never find books that interest me, something that doesn't take a long time to get into.
DAVID HORN There is a climate now where it is possible to get measures into place fast. Measures that would oth...
MAURICE WESSLING It seems like there has been so much talk and controversy, but nothing concrete. It would be better ...
CANDY DUNCAN We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
SAMUEL BUTLER I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I ...
HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
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BETH MACKIE There have been interest. I would say, based on how it has been communicated, (the volume of interes...
DAVID GEDDES I had no idea it would take that long.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER