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BOB MCINTYRE Coach told us to take it one possession at a time, get some defensive rebounds, come down on offense... AKEEM WRIGHT Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn... RICK RIORDAN We told our guys all week these are two good teams and it's going to come down to one or two plays. ... DICK LEBEAU That rivalry goes through everything, even what student goes to what school. Contrary to public scho... CARL WILLIAMS He told me he could get one more person in school, but I would have to come on the GI Bill. I did, a... FRED CONE They sacrifice, and they come here to New York and find a 50 percent dropout rate. Some of the kids ... ABBY SMITH During the spring and summer, that is when you compile your list of who you are going to be looking ... JIM MASTRO And all next day and all the next it went on. It went on till one could hardly even remember a time ... C.S. LEWIS I told him he should come down here, put on some pads, let me kick off to him and let me try to tack... JAY FEELY Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell... JAMES STEWART (The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has ... JIM ARTHAUD It's absolutely unreasonable to think a school district can focus on all those things at one time an... DAVID MOSRIE When Matt was able to shut them down, his confidence grew 100 percent. He got stronger as the game w... BRUCE STEINBECKER It would have been hard for me to come back if I went down. WARRICK DUNN At this point, we probably have 70 percent of our regulatory signs back up, and probably 30 percent ... RICHARD THOMPSON This committee this morning is an example of how ineffectual a committee can be -- with less than 50... DON BLAIR He would be in our meetings, then run out to take batting practice. 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ICE T I hope more Japanese players could come out even among the top 50. AI SUGIYAMA At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom ... TANYA TUCKER She's halfway through the treatments and reports from her doctor are favorable. The tumor is 50 perc... LARRY SMITH He told us at half-time he hadn't wanted to come up here and scream at us. He sort of did. JOEL CLINTON My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could c... BRAD FELD This morning around 7:30 a.m. they called the radio station and asked if we could come. We came with... AL SANCHEZ He came up to me after the state meet and apologized for not breaking the record. There are very few... BOB LIEBER We're taking it one day at a time, we're not looking ahead. We've got to take care of business each ... CAROL SIMON Only if i suffer to win your Heart will i value your love for me, so its good you come down hard on ... STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU A good friend of mine is friends with John Malkovich and he told me John wanted to come down. ANTHONY MARCELLA By putting this structure together, we're able to do all of this. The administrative burden on our d... JEFF WELZ If the central bank acts this week, it will probably come up with ways to limit rate increases to ea... AKIHIKO INOUE At that point, I was just baffled; I couldn't believe it. I told the guys that they needed nine runs... BRETT MACKEY Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day MARCUS AURELIUS This is where Danny and I could come. We could come for refuge away from the stress of what was goin... AMY WILLIAMS Right now we get 93 percent of our energy from burning fossil fuels. If all of these projects come o... JEFF DEREN No one would have complained if they had stayed with the 40 percent growth forecast. This is a sign ... ANDREAS THEISEN At least 50 percent of them want to come home. 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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. JIM MORRISON Make measurable progress in reasonable time. JIM ROHN Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. JIM MORRISON I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be... JIM DAVIS I stop short of being a workaholic. JIM DAVIS When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash. JIM DAVIS I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek. JIM DAVIS I can go everywhere and no one recognises me. JIM DAVIS I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea... JIM DAVIS Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing. JIM DAVIS I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories. 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I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. JIM CARREY Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel... JIM CARREY Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased. JIM CARREY People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera... JIM CARREY Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain... JIM CARREY I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred... JIM CARREY I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w... JIM CARREY If you've got a talent, protect it. JIM CARREY My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. JIM CARREY I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ... 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JIM HENSON Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag... JIM HENSON I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. JIM HENSON Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o... JIM HENSON When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t... JIM HENSON At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s... JIM HENSON It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop... JIM HENSON I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ... JIM HENSON At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in... JIM HENSON When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them... 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JIM GARRISON The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ... JIM GARRISON This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s... JIM GARRISON I'm not in the business of harassing anybody. JIM GARRISON It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr... JIM GARRISON My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi... JIM GARRISON It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why. JIM GARRISON Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait... JIM GARRISON It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig... JIM GARRISON It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass... JIM GARRISON I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful. JIM GARRISON I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa... JIM GARRISON I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill. JIM MCGOVERN I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ... JIM MCGOVERN In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr... JIM MCGOVERN A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ... JIM MCGOVERN Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch... JIM MCGOVERN I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. JIM CARREY A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch. JIM BROWN My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l... JIM GAFFIGAN I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ... JIM CARREY Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their... JIM MORRISON There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. JIM ROHN I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami... JIM DRAIN Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p... JIM RAMSTAD I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ... JIM HIMES If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ... JIM ROHN Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t... JIM CRACE I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it... JIM MORRISON Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip... JIM GERLACH You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river. JIM HARRISON The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o... JIM WEBB Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America... JIM BROWN Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. JIM COOPER Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At le... JIM ROHN I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d... JIM BROWN I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ... JIM BROWN Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management. JIM LOEHR Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror ar... JIM FERGUS I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A... JIM THOMPSON British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o... JIM STURGESS With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on ... JIM DOYLE I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and r... JIM BROADBENT During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper. JIM PATTISON The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d... JIM LEE The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we... JIM COSTA Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. JIM ROGERS Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual med... JIM GERLACH Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not... JIM RYUN I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around th... JIM CARREY Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun... JIM BUTCHER There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level ... JIM HIGHTOWER What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitioni... JIM HIGHTOWER In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police ... JIM RAMSTAD A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly... JIM LEHRER My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. JIM CARREY I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy... JIM LEHRER Success and money can really be quite blinding. JIM HARRISON Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. JIM BACKUS Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. JIM FOWLER There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives. JIM ROHN Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have ... JIM ROHN A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those wh... JIM ROHN The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not b... JIM ROHN In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of... JIM GERLACH It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ... JIM BISHOP There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney.... JIM BROWN There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors. JIM MORRISON A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and... JIM BUNNING An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not<... JIM BUTCHER We started Vector with the goal of creating a development platform that would foster and bolster the... JIM CANTRELL When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatev... JIM GAFFIGAN When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle t... JIM CRACE Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you ri... JIM STEINMAN Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in ou... JIM RYUN Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration. JIM ROHN By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. JIM ROHN Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applyin... JIM ROHN Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals JIM ROHN The book you don't read won't help. JIM ROHN Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. JIM ROHN Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you ... JIM ROHN Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. JIM ROHN Money is usually attracted, not pursued. JIM ROHN As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try ... JIM CUMMINGS A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the... JIM JARMUSCH The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. JIM ROHN Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's somethin... JIM ROHN If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. JIM ROHN Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. JIM MANZI Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or m... JIM HENSON I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always for... JIM MORRISON Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and... JIM BUTCHER The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol... JIM MORRISON [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. JIM HENSON Sleep is God. Go worship. JIM BUTCHER A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. ... JIM MORRISON People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about... JIM MORRISON I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who... JIM BUTCHER There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. JIM HENSON Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. JIM DAVIS Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. I... JIM BUTCHER A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind. JIM BUTCHER Either you run the day or the day runs you.. JIM ROHN Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better. JIM ROHN You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. JIM ROHN Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundre... JIM ROGERS Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be sw... JIM ROGERS Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react a... JIM ROGERS Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil que... JIM BUTCHER School prepares you for the real world... which also bites. JIM BENTON My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. JIM VALVANO I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft... JIM MORRISON You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said pr... JIM BUTCHER You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It... JIM SHEPARD People are strange . . . JIM MORRISON Where's your will to be weird? JIM MORRISON Whoever controls the media, controls the mind JIM MORRISON If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a s... JIM FIEBIG If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess ... JIM ROHN Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. JIM ROHN Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. JIM ROHN There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators. JIM FERREE Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it th... JIM ROHN How long should you try? Until. JIM ROHN I never thought I didn't have a card to play. JIM LOVELL If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer! JIM CARREY Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. JIM PALMER Income seldom exceeds personal development. JIM ROHN Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. JIM RYUN