It was a lot of equity and people's fortunes that were just taken away in one 12-hour period.
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CONNIE STEVENS It's unbelievable what he's doing for our kids. Joe gives so much away. There's a lot of love in tho...
DANNY LYONS A lot of studios talk about a 12-to-1 ratio -- they come in with 12 ideas and one of them makes it,
ANDREW STANTON I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fo...
PETER MATTHIESSEN The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the pr...
DEIDRE HALL We talked about a lot of things over a period of time. It was just he and I.
LOU LAMORIELLO Corporate scandals, equity market problems, a lack of transparency, a lot of greed -- it was not jus...
DELOS SMITH I don't feel it was a 5-1 game. It was just one of those things where we got a late goal at the end ...
BRENDAN FLAHERTY Within an hour and a half, the reservations were taken up.
DENNIS COWAN Once we were a part of Equity, we were able to get a salary, and then because we were employing ours...
GLENNE HEADLY A lot of the kids felt like their whole world was being taken away.
BECKY SHIPLEY He missed that a lot because it was taken away from him, literally overnight, when he became ill. An...
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JOANNA CASSIDY A lot (fewer) balls were hit to me, and I just got stiff and cold, ... I'm trying to put a lot toget...
BARRY BONDS The first period I think we were lucky to get out of there with just a goal deficit. To tie it up th...
PETER HAFNER Federal-Mogul was a good paycheck and it was a steady paycheck. All of a sudden that's taken away, a...
DONNIE THOMAS One by one, my sons were taken from me, ... Saddam took away my sons, he took away half of my heart.
HASSAN ALI How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away wit...
AMINATTA FORNA We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-...
CASEY KASEM It was something that it's taken a lot of people a lot of years to get to, ... The last five laps of...
DUANE CAMPBELL These guys got it. A lot of work was put in over 12 years.
JEFF RINEHIMER A lot of us weren't ready for it. I'm thankful that we have a guy like Joe that will come out and pu...
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SARAH NIE My stuff was better than it had been in my last two (starts). It was just a strange game. I made a f...
CHRIS CARPENTER For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was staine...
JAMES LASDUN Fifteen years ago, the average was probably about 50 patients in a 24-hour period.
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CAMI GRICHEL I was glad to see Pierre win. In the past there have been a lot of situations where I've taken it aw...
BUCKY LASEK I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, ...
DAN ANDERSON She just stood on her head today. She saw every one of our shots in the third period, and the ones s...
ANDREA NICHOLS The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a vo...
DAN CASTELLANETA We got it all taken care of in about two hours. We were surprised how quickly it all came together. ...
DOUG AMOS Mostly, it was just one-one-on coverage out there, ... It was easy to just stir things up over the m...
NICK ADAMS The audience was just mesmerized by it. When it was over, there was this period of just silence. The...
LEE DELORME He was fiercely loyal to Bill, just as he was to Joe Moore after he came in the following year, ... ...
KEN BROWN One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of gre...
MARIE RUTKOSKI In the early years, 8, 10, 12 points that was a lot of points for one person ... It was a much more ...
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CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking l...
ADRIAN BENEPE This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back, ... We unpaved a parki...
ADRIAN BENEPE Obviously it helps having a guy like Joe Thornton to make the plays he made in the first period.
RON WILSON We were sitting there bombing away and they weren't going in. It was one of those nights where the s...
LOREN STOKES We had a miracle, and it was taken away from us.
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JASON JENNINGS We were, like, 12 or 13 and it was like, 'Hi, do you like me?' ... It was just like puppy love.
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JACK DANIELS Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
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ANITA LUNDY There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his...
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GENO AURIEMMA We're expecting the flows will rise in the Red Earth community in the next 24 hours, and probably hi...
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MUHAMMAD ALI I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL They didn't have a whole lot of great scoring chances. It's kind of an easy game. There were a coupl...
ANTERO NIITTYMAKI There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically...
CHARLES DICKENS In any area that Sanderson Farms builds, the economy is generally improved.
BOB BILLINGSLEY There were a number of issues, a number of gaps, that we could not close. Equity was a key part.
MARK MACLEOD America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and ov...
ELIZABETH WARREN I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
HALEY BENNETT They were sort of the forebears of the Southern gothic movement. They used a lot of Southern imagery...
JOHN MORAND We've grown a lot, including all this stuff that's happened to Jermaine. We've grown together and ju...
JAMES HUMPHREY My thing was, ’Everybody just relax,’ ... The game was never out of reach. When things were goin...
JEFF FAINE My thing was, Everybody just relax, ... The game was never out of reach. When things were going ...
JEFF FAINE This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to...
WILLIAM KIDD Every single mountain bike rally I was in, at least one person got taken away in an ambulance. It ma...
CHRIS WONDERLY I woke up about a foot away from her. There were no cushions and it was apparently, one of the cause...
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FRED DAVIS I had 12 great years in Pittsburgh, and that one doesn't matter. During my time with Seattle, they w...
FRANCO HARRIS Not taking anything away from Joe T, but there are just some things Shockley can do that Joe T can't...
DEMARIO MINTER An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Joe kept us in the game in the second period, then he came out in the third and gave up a couple of ...
PETER DOHERTY Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of p...
GILBERTO MADAIL Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified s...
VALERIE PLAME It was frustrating all around, there were a lot of things that went wrong. A lot of it we brought on...
BARRET JACKMAN Concrete Boots and The Fighter were the last two songs we wrote. It seems to be the way that our new...
BEN WINDSOR I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my o...
MUHAMMAD ALI In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there wa...
WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO We showed a lot of character and I think our second period was real strong. It carried over into the...
TREVOR LETOWSKI the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Without the budget, things suffer ? teachers can lose jobs and programs can be taken away. It's not ...
MICHAEL PAYTON This Hall of Fame came a whole lot quicker than the other one. No waiting period. That was a a nice ...
EMMITT SMITH It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Man...
CHARLES TUPPER It seems like he has a lot of peoples' interests at heart.
CHARLES MEYER I thought we were dominating from the first shift. Even when the score was tied after the first peri...
JAROMIR JAGR Guys get frustrated like Frankie did, and I understand that, ... If it had taken place out of sight,...
ADRIAN BELTRE I get away with a lot of stuff that no one could get away with in reality!
MILA KUNIS I was almost in tears when I walked in there and saw that I was going to be a part of that, answerin...
BRIAN DAWKINS I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Mos...
THOM YORKE We had to start on the beam, and in gymnastics that's tough. There were a lot of butterflies and a l...
DUNCAN CHASE Each plane was making two or three missions a day. Some of them were just terrible. They were gettin...
DOLORIA CHAPIN We came out without a lot of energy and it was fairly close to halftime. But we were able to pull aw...
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BRANDON SANDERSON Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to s...
BRANDON SANDERSON Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?
BRANDON SANDERSON To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the mos...
BRANDON SANDERSON The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but i...
BRANDON SANDERSON Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.
BRANDON SANDERSON NO MATING
BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
BRANDON SANDERSON The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, wh...
BRANDON SANDERSON There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good ...
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 ...
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