It's been a long time coming. A couple of years ago I thought it might never happen, but this year I thought it could, more so than any other year. I can't put it into words how good it feels.
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It ha... CAMBRIA HEBERT It was a good year. I became closer to this team than any other team because of everything we've bee... JEFF BOWER It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago an... ELLEN BURSTYN Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... It was a tough situation last year. We were never in the game at all after the first minute or two, ... FRANK SORIA revealed the Norton, Ohio $1,000 winner. We crashed this car into the wall three or four years ago a... MARK MURPHY It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years.... BETH ROBERTSON What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... DEYTH BANGER We talked about putting four quarters together. I don't know if we have all year. We might put toget... CHAD SPENCE Freshman year, that's all it was. I would go in and just train and everything. Once I saw how good I... KAIT COOK We've been waiting quite anxiously for about a year to be able to give him proper respect and honor ... BRENDAN MALLON It feels great, what more can you say? The first championship was definitely irreplaceable, but it f... MATT CATHELL It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and th... ELLEN BURSTYN When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to i... BARBARA EHRENREICH I had a good year, but those guys had good years, too. It could have gone to any of us. I know it wa... JASPER JOHNSON There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It?s really awesome. It shows how good our program is. It means a lot this year, especially because ... 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JUSTIN MORNEAU I felt really good coming into the game. My arm felt the best it has all year, the best it has in a ... DEAN KIEKHEFER It's hard to put into words the disappointment and shock that it's all over now. I always thought I ... COLE SCHMITZ It occurred to me last year that we were coming up on a 10-year anniversary, and I thought, I've bee... FRANK DARABONT Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping... PATRICK O'BRIAN After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watch... ASHLEY WAGNER My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ... ATTICUS SHAFFER I graduated 17 seniors last year. We've got a nice young team coming in. I thought if there was goin... DICK LONG It ate at me all year long. I know one play can't lose a game, but I didn't want it to happen this y... ASHLEY CORRAL It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a sta... HUBERT MARTIN It's definitely a different team this past year than it was two years ago. I don't want to say that ... BRYAN MATTISON It has been a long time coming. If he had not received a knighthood this year I would have carried o... ANN HUGHES Thirty years ago I thought I would never put myself through this again. But I felt I had a duty to r... KATHLEEN HAM You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And s... CORMAC MCCARTHY This is going to be a good year. I'm more positive this year than I have been in a number of years. BILL MENDENHALL When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA I couldn't believe it. I thought it was a very close race this year. COLLEEN VELLTURO As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is pe... KAZUO ISHIGURO Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year i... LEE WESTWOOD It's been so rosy the last couple of years, people are starting to say how much better can it get? P... CHUCK ALVEY A lot of people thought I wasn't ready last year. I think they saw (this year) that I could do a goo... JEFF BATTLES That felt good and I am happy I did not drop any shots. Andrew (Buckle) and Simon (Dyson) are five a... SHIV KAPUR I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican ... BILL LASWELL I wish I had put a bet on, but thought it might have been disrespectful to the Holy Spirit. ANN WIDDECOMBE Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life. LORII MYERS It just ticks me off. I never in a million years thought it would happen to me. DEAN DEFORD How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactl... GEOFFREY CANADA Twice in international cricket I came close to it so I thought it didn't happen before, it might not... IRFAN PATHAN I am biased, but I thought we had several more who could have made it. I am glad for Brian. He had a... JOEY DOWNS It might have looked more physical, but I thought it was the perfect type of basketball game. It was... KIRK DECREMER I thought if we'd ever taken the lead, I thought that thought might start coming back into their min... HAL MCMANUS I thought about it the year before when a couple of guys on the soccer team went out. BLAKE SAUER Pump gas and hydraulic cams are for minivans......... WAYNE SMOTHERS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I hadn't really thought about it, but I wonder how many people spent the same kind of days here a hu... CAROL ANDERSON I was in absolute disbelief. I never thought something like this would happen. I didn't even know I'... HELEN MOSER PETERSEN I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't... LISA MARIE PRESLEY It's been a remarkable year for us. It hasn't been perfect. But it's at the point now where I wish I... SARAH LOWE Before this year I hardly raced for the past couple of years. I'm just trying to get back into it an... DANYELLE PHELPS I loved Emma.' The words, so flat and final, explode into the air. 'But she lied to me. I thought pe... J.P. DELANEY Since we lost our quarterback from last year, I thought I should step up because I have some experie... GARY OWEN The economy hit a brick wall in February and March. The risk of a recession is higher now than I tho... CARY LEAHEY When I got into coaching, I never really thought much about how long I'd do it. But after the first ... BOB AYRAULT It is a small world. 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CHIPPER JONES It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but ins... CHIPPER JONES He's a very determined kid, a hardworking kid, but I guess I never thought it would get to this poin... CYNDI SHARP I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. ... JAMES STEWART
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Part of it is economics. There is... ESTHER DYSON I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of hi... ESTHER DYSON Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal. GEORGE DYSON Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I f... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-n... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American pr... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves u... 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mathematics and physics, which was so enor... FREEMAN JOHN DYSON He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rap... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his hero... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you g... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words &... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone dar... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and Go... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation;... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Ain't no gay filter for the cash. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day,... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jack... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply out... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fat... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON