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Mandatory reporting is something we need to get started on as soon as possible. You can't make targets if you don't have anything to measure.


Terry Tamminen

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JOHN TERRY I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the pr...
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TERRY BROOKS Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what mig...
TERRY TEACHOUT Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
TERRY PRATCHETT There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...
TERRY PRATCHETT It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and th...
TERRY PRATCHETT My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my...
TERRY WOGAN I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying...
TERRY BRANSTAD Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwid...
TERRY TEACHOUT The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.
TERRY BRADSHAW Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, t...
TERRY GLAVIN I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.
TERRY CREWS The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...
TERRY EAGLETON Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, bu...
TERRY SAVAGE It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being o...
TERRY RILEY Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
TERRY RILEY By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that...
TERRY PRATCHETT My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with ...
TERRY CREWS When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddi...
TERRY CREWS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS