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HARRY STYLES When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY We are going to demolish all of them.
JIBRIL RAJOUB You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) So why are you going to piss them all off? Unless somebody does something where they destroy themsel...
PETER HILL We are not coming in saying we are going to walk all over them. We are going to come in confident th...
DAVID BOLLAND There are three very good candidates and we would be lucky to get any one of them. There are two of ...
GRANT MAYER All these games he's trying to play with Antonio's mind, to me are not going to work,
BUDDY MCGIRT Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employ...
DANIEL H. PINK There are always germs, and you're never going to get rid of all of them.
CHERYL MENDELSON We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.
DAVID ADDISON Some of them have found replacement housing, some of them are going to be stuck. We are not going to...
DWIGHT PRICE Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN They are excited about the opportunity, but what is good about this team is that they are relaxed an...
HANS KLEINSCHMIDT Barriers aren't going to work. They are going to get around them, they are going to innovate. The ne...
LAURA STARK However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be...
REBECCA MACKINNON All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD All of us are pushing the envelope. All of us are going to go for gold or get nothing. Mediocrity is...
EMILY COOK We are going to have to work with people, ... We are going to be telling them they need to move or b...
BARRY ARNOLD Are they going to make them take off all their tattoos?
JON BARRY Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If they are paying out all of their earnings as dividends and reinvesting none of them, that's worri...
HAYWOOD KELLY I think I can work with any of them. We are going to continue investing, whoever wins. We think long...
CARLOS SLIM These kids are athletes. ... These kids want to win. They are not going to just lay down and let tea...
CATHY SCHETTER He's in a little bit different boat than all of the other pitchers here, but we've said all along we...
JOE GIRARDI The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime
EDWARD GREY The legislature is going to be receptive to a five-year phase of increase. They realize there are so...
JOANNE TURSCHMAN I like that Best Buy has all these balls in the air, but they are not all going to work.
GREG MELICH I think I (have had to wait) because of the illegal immigration problem. They are going to give them...
MARIA DUQUE It's going to be years, not months, before we do them all.
AL VER There are ongoing projects - we're not going to halt them.
AKIRA CHIBA We are not going to tolerate this, ... If they decide they're going to violate the law, we are going...
CHARLES BRONSON If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you hav...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We are going to miss them, but the supporting cast is better because of them. They are just flat-out...
GREGG TROY Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everythin...
BERNARD GOLDBERG Some people are very nice, until you get to meet them
BEN OAK Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Our people are going to be with us, and her people are going to be with her, and there's plenty of t...
KINKY FRIEDMAN Not all doorway page techniques are misleading users.
MARKUS SAGEMANN The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long yo...
DEYTH BANGER One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are goin...
ADELAIDE PROCTOR Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE We have three freshmen kicking for us this year and all of them are going to do something.
ANDY GIBBONS But the question is, 'Are those same strategies going to work when users are viewing user-generated ...
CYNTHIA FRANCIS How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT It's not going to be an up-and-down game where a lot of points are going to be scored. All the littl...
DONNIE JONES So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but eve...
TRACY MORGAN Sometimes the greatest things happen when they have no rhyme or reason to. Life and logic might be a...
JAMIE SCHOFFMAN People are illegally swapping files all around the country. With these lawsuits, we're saying we're ...
KORI BERNARDS I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. ...
GALE KAUFMAN Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you are going to exercise, there are other good reasons, ... But protection from breast cancer is...
BRIAN HENDERSON Some of these places may not be as familiar, they are not going to be as heavily visited, which mean...
AL NASH People are going to bring them home to work on something Sunday morning, they're not going to be abl...
STEVE JOBS We are not going to blow them away, the wicket is quite slow,
ANDREW STRAUSS One terrorist attack or two terrorist attacks are not going to sway them.
RAANAN GISSIN Things are going to be different. Just not the way you want them.
JOSEPH SIMMONS We're going to bring virtualization to all users out there.
DAN CHU To the victims and people out there, our hearts are going out to them. We're not forgetting about th...
CARMEN ELECTRA All of them did some good things. All of them have some things that they need to clean up. It's stil...
JONATHAN SMITH These are going to be tough games. UCLA's got their big three kids. We are going to have to make the...
JOANNE BOYLE I think some people are going to look at this after it's done and wonder where all of the money went...
GINA GOBO I'll tell you how optimistic I am: I've been married less than a year, and I'm building my wife a ne...
ARNOLD PALMER You are going to have victims who are already scared as it is, who are not going to call the police ...
ILIANA HOLGUIN Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. VAN VOGT People are living longer because of pharmacology, not because they are healthier. There could come a...
DR. MIKE HUTCHINS The youngsters that come in here are 15 days behind, and everything is all Greek to them. Everything...
CHUCK AMATO These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them ...
DAN GALLAGHER Some came over the last four years (due to) the drought. So all of them together are going (back) to...
IQBAL KHAN We ask drivers to be extremely cautious in terms of how attentive they are to all that is going on a...
HOWARD PAYNE They're going to be tearing down old buildings, not new buildings. All of the old buildings have got...
LEONARD SMITH It's important that patients not assume that the hormones of pregnancy are going to protect them fro...
LEE COHEN Our Soldiers need to know that we're not going to leave them out there, that we are coming for them,
JOHN HORTON (The challenges) are unlimited. But (continuing to win them) is probably not going to happen.
TY HALPIN When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE We're not going to come out and hit our heads against a brick wall if something is not going to work...
HINES WARD If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
ANUJ SOMANY While majority find business in berating the spoilt brat “Problem” for distressing and disturbin...
ANUJ SOMANY To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t...
GARY F EVANS... I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
GREAT APE It's going to be very difficult to find things that we could do to them that are not going to hurt u...
PETER CLARK Positive people on the other had are not those who deny what is going on around them for some pie-in...
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY We respect their confidence and we're not going to tell them they have to leave. We're going to tell...
GAYLE POST There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about t...
KEVIN CORRIGAN Our kids just play well as a team. They've had great work ethic all year long, and none of them are ...
ISAAC MARTI In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;...
C. JOYBELL C. Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the ...
GARET GARRETT There are powdered salts, chunked salts, salts shaped in different ways with various additives to wo...
MICHAEL MOSS They are all going to reopen as something, but what they are going to be is still a work in progress...
KATHRYN GALLAGHER We need to identify to make sure we're not dealing with something done illegally. What's to say ther...
JOSEPH DOMINICK We are trying to let the victims know they are not forgotten and there are services in the community...
JUNE RENFROW We are all in this thing together. We're going to pull all the segments together and that will make ...
DAN MALTBY All these obstacles, (investors) are seeing right through them. Where is the liftoff going to come f...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

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GARY FLAKE It will be the pre-eminent applied research laboratory for Internet technologies. This is a very exc...
GARY FLAKE It's a much more continuous process.
GARY FLAKE Historically, the software industry has been an industry in which it was fine to have months or year...
GARY FLAKE I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
GARY WILLIAM FLAKE I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer ...
GARY WILLIAM FLAKE If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if w...
JEFF FLAKE Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by th...
JEFF FLAKE The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate a...
JEFF FLAKE I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irrespon...
JEFF FLAKE If you look at fiscal conservatism these days, it's in a sorry state. Republicans don't even pretend...
JEFF FLAKE I have to be a little pessimistic. There is no real stomach for fiscal discipline right now.
JEFF FLAKE $50 billion is simply too much to give FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) all at once an...
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JEFF FLAKE If the total cost of the hurricane recovery effort approaches $200 billion, as some have suggested, ...
JEFF FLAKE There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of t...
JEFF FLAKE There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress.
JEFF FLAKE If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they're going to return to the genuine article, an...
JEFF FLAKE There was virtually no control at the border. They would go back for birthdays, for Christmas, for h...
JEFF FLAKE The leadership structure has evolved with earmarks and leadership PACs where [the result is that] le...
JEFF FLAKE We need more honest government. We need a more open process, a more honest process.
JEFF FLAKE You'd be sending home parents who brought kids here when they were 2. Do you leave the kids here wit...
JEFF FLAKE It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an ele...
JEFF FLAKE It was intense. This is a tough one.
JEFF FLAKE I think the heavier lifting is the budget-process and earmarks [reform]. Lobbyist reform is blaming ...
JEFF FLAKE The enormous cost of this proposal will only hasten Medicare's insolvency, and we'll have to rely on...
JEFF FLAKE The Scanlon thing, the Cunningham thing, I think you have more people waiting for the other shoe to ...
JEFF FLAKE It's inexcusable, ... We're going to march ourselves right into the minority and we have no one to b...
JEFF FLAKE I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.
JEFF FLAKE Our real leverage has come from the fear that DeLay will not have a post to come back to. They are d...
JEFF FLAKE My guess is that most states would gladly forgo 10 percent of their funding for the ability to make ...
JEFF FLAKE You can't defend it,
JEFF FLAKE Many of us thought even before Katrina we couldn't afford this benefit. We certainly today have to t...
JEFF FLAKE We can't afford that new benefit.
JEFF FLAKE [When U.S. congressman Jeff Flake visited Havana recently, promoting legislation to let Americans tr...
JEFF FLAKE In the end, I think this looks like nothing more than an extremely expensive way to buy votes.
JEFF FLAKE The White House wants (immigration reform), and many of us in the House do so as well,
JEFF FLAKE People need to keep in mind that the grass is fuel right now. It's not vegetation. It's fuel. Even t...
MARC FLAKE They were definitely given the opportunity to seek other shelter.
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GARY GYGAX Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig...
GARY ZUKAV When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le...
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GARY ZUKAV A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to ...
GARY ZUKAV The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a p...
GARY ZUKAV There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The o...
GARY ZUKAV We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...
GARY ZUKAV The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters...
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GARY BAUER People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger ab...
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GARY WRIGHT Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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GARY WRIGHT The more far-out artists, the better.
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GARY WRIGHT Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'...
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GARY WRIGHT Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa...
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GARY WOLF The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u...
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GARY WOLF The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
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GARY WOLF For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ...
GARY WOLF If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ...
GARY WOLF During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
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GARY WEISS Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regula...
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GARY WEISS Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively prea...
GARY WEISS The flip side of humiliation is pride.
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GARY WEISS Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
GARY WEISS In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as w...
GARY WEISS Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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GARY WEISS You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when t...
GARY WEBB After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S....
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GARY VAYNERCHUK Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement...
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GARY SPEED You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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GARY SINISE I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
GARY SINISE But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
GARY SINISE If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last t...
GARY SINISE I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
GARY SINISE I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficul...
GARY SINISE The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma...
GARY SINISE I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm ...
GARY SINISE I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
GARY SINISE I study to learn, to be an educated person.
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GARY SINISE I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their ga...
GARY SINISE I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I kn...
GARY SINISE My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go...
GARY SINISE You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t...
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GARY SINISE Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
GARY SINISE I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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GARY SHTEYNGART I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ...
GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa...
GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t...
GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret...
GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it...
GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se...
GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
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GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph...
GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
GARY SHERMAN The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ...
GARY SHERMAN The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t...
GARY SHERMAN Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu...
GARY SHERMAN One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film...
GARY SHERMAN I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent c...
GARY SHERMAN I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events t...
GARY SHERMAN I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems ...
GARY SHERMAN