One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.


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BROOKE ELLIOTT
Farming and agriculture is a high-tech business. There are machines that are doing the work of men. ...
ROB DAVIDSON
It was one of those parties where everybody came. Boy, did we have fun.
JULIE THORNTON
When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ....
TOM TUCKER
We all known that [the Arkansas delegation ] does a great job for the Delta region, but we don't hav...
LEE POWELL
Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm
TURKISH PROVERB
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a...
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS
We have 60 acres here and we farm 56 acres of it. It's one of the ways we raise money for our charit...
FRANK PEZZORELLO
Right now we're just going to take it one game at a time. We've got Delta and we've got Rifle. We're...
CHRISTY MADISON
W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for ...
CHRISTINA RICCI
Even if they have plenty of capacity now they might own another 200 or 300 acres and get a permit no...
JAMES CLIFT
Kerry Burke was our number one fielder today and she scored the run that got us on the board and tha...
KARA SUHIE
When did you last have fun being dignified?
KATE REARDON
By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
HOZIER
From the start of the game it was fun. That was a big thing. We wanted to have fun and have a good t...
BRAD GUZAN
It was like I was throwing watermelons up there, and they were Gallagher .
BRANDON CLAUSSEN
We currently have 18 conservation easements totaling about 1,825 acres. The largest is 700 acres, an...
BRYAN PIERCE
What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.
CHRIS EDWARDS
I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black...
DELTA BURKE
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard ...
DELTA BURKE
In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin...
DELTA BURKE
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transit...
DELTA BURKE
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
DELTA BURKE
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all th...
DELTA BURKE
And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.
DELTA BURKE
Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.
DELTA BURKE
I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.
DELTA BURKE
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
DELTA BURKE
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap
DELTA BURKE
Eve wasn't a size6 and neith am I
DELTA BURKE
I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very...
DELTA BURKE
I like it when I strut.
DELTA BURKE
They have a real good team. So did Sickles. We played real well in this tournament. It was fun.
LARRY SANDBURG
We are falling behind. We have boil water warnings - 300 to 500 at any given time,
BOB MILLS
We haven't received any indication of any changes for Delta fights at this point. We don't comment o...
CAROLYN FENNELL
We have the best chance now that we have ever had to make some substantial changes and improvements ...
LESTER SNOW
It was a great quarter by any measure. We did not have significant one-time effects as we did throug...
ALAIN BELDA
We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!
J.K. ROWLING
He did not sign the 300 items that evening.
CHARLES BRETZ
The Delta is a conservative place, ... District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have ma...
CHARLES CAPPS
We thought it was not too bad. Steamboat allowed three goals to Delta. We gave up two. Steamboat let...
DAVID COPE
People don't have fun making music all the time.
KEN HILL
We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO
At no time in the past has there been an opportunity to protect 74,000 acres for $350 million in one...
EVA ARMSTRONG
We have selectively matched in markets where we compete head-to-head with Delta.
JEFF GREEN
I have fun at work.
CAROL KANE
Cox shrugged. "if that's what it takes to get laid, then I'm a fuckinin'poet. Other times I'm a fuck...
MADELINE SHEEHAN
Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.
JOE PERRY
I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the mov...
HARVEY KEITEL
We are gratified to have a tentative agreement that benefits everyone associated with Delta Air Line...
LEO MULLIN
That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing he...
MICHAEL AYERS
We sit around and we're happy when we have $300 in our savings account, but when you graduate if you...
NATE SMITH
Yeah, it was pretty fun. We did a good job.
ADAM GERVAIS
We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 p...
ERIC HEIDEN
There was no further comment on air at that point in time because we did not have further informatio...
CAMERON BLANCHARD
Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a place,-- In a c...
CHARLES MACKAY
We know customers have a choice when they fly, and we know they value an on-time schedule. Everyone ...
LEE MACENCZAK
We had a 20-acre field that was kind of high and they just leveled it out. Now, we have planted 20 a...
DORIS JEAN
At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
BEN E. KING
You don't have to spend $300 today. Do it over time.
GARY BROWN
He was a person that loved to have fun, so we thought what better way to make us feel better, keep h...
BETH CHASE
I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time. That I did not have time with you...
SARAH J. MAAS
The high years for Utah County were back in 2001, when there was 56,000 acres of grasshoppers and in...
LARRY LEWIS
I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
GAINES ADAMS
We usually have 300 take out and around 500 dine in.
CARRIE MCCABE
It was fun. We had a good time,
GREG ODEN
She was having fun out there today. I told her yesterday on the 18th hole, I go, 'Michelle, we'll ha...
CAMILO VILLEGAS
There's another show saying they have Delta today but Delta is a Seven lady.
DAVID KOCH
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no...
CAB CALLOWAY
We could really have a fun time in the next couple years.
LISA BLUDER
Fire numbers and acres did not really tell the true story of what type of situation we really had.
KIRK CASANOVA
We told the kids to go out and have fun. Unfortunately, OHS had a little more fun than we did.
JASON BUCKLEY
This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY
Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to ...
MICHAEL LINENBERG
It's almost a snapshot in time, ... This crewman, whoever he turns out to be, he's somebody who went...
BOB MANN
That was fun. That's stuff we do in practice all the time, plus that crowd reaction really got us go...
COURTNEY FORTSON
Our first production was held, we had a great time, and so we did another one. And then another one.
KATHY CAMPBELL
We bought 1.64 acres of some stuff that was dear to us, ... We just thought it was in the best inter...
JIM WRIGHT
One of our goals is really to refresh and contemporize the Delta experience, ... We're bringing the ...
PAUL MATSEN
It's live at Delta Venus for a reason. Delta has been our starting point and we owe a lot to that pl...
DANNY CHAVES
Two years ago, I kept all the tires we replaced from potholes in one week and there was a pile of ab...
ALAN JONES
I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out...
DEBBIE MEYER
I feel good. We struggled big time in San Jose, so that was not fun. [The trade] worked out good.
MARCO STURM
We had a hard time stopping. Our girls are that age and it was fun.
LESLEIGH DRYE
We would tour the West Coast every four or five years. And every time we would finish we'd say, that...
JOHN DOE
When it's time to have fun, we have fun, and when it's time to work and get better, that's what we c...
VERNELL BROWN
My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won r...
JENSON BUTTON
By allowing Delta to merge with Continental or Northwest, we would have three extremely large airlin...
HENRY HARTEVELDT
I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.
SARAH SUTTON
Nous dînerons en Enfer ce soir !
LEONIDAS
I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father tim...
FLAVOR FLAV
It was just something we did for fun and for the thrill of it.
GERRY BISHOP
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 an...
TIM CAHILL
This is one of the most industrialized, highly engineered delta systems in the world.
ROBERT TWILLEY
There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road t...
JACK RAMSAY
It was just one of those things in history that you did the right thing at the right time.
ISAAC HAYES
[When the Lewis Co. bought the land it knew it was zoned agricultural and was limited to one home fo...
DAVID HOLTZ
if the request is for almost 500 acres, there is almost no way of fighting it; we have a hard enough...
BRYAN TURNER
If there was one improvement we did improve on, we did not have as many turnovers. That helped and o...
JAY JOYCE

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I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black...
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And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard ...
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In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin...
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I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.
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Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly ...
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Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine.
DELTA GOODREM
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I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
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I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.
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I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.
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It's nothing. He did it playing soccer.
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Hi Hobart, it's great to be here,
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Yeah, I wear them all the time, ... All my cupboards are full of them.
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I knew straight away it had to be the first single.
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I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.
DELTA GOODREM
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a ve...
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I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, b...
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I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
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If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.
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Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.
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I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.
DELTA GOODREM
I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still h...
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I don't have any expectations.
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I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
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At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.
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I can't be all things to everyone.
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I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.
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I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The whole thing was beautiful to see, just perfect.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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The balance of power.
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EDMUND BURKE
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
EDMUND BURKE
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH BURKE
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the...
EDMUND BURKE
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
MICHAEL BURKE
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE