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We will probably hire about 3,500 people globally, one- third of that in the U.S.. As we grow we con...
BILL MCDERMOTT

Customers have a mandate to grow their businesses today. They cannot afford to wait until 2008 or 20...
BILL MCDERMOTT

SAP is obsessed in building the best applications software in the world. That includes CRM applicati...
BILL MCDERMOTT

We are entirely focused on delivering value to our customers now and are not distracted by the chall...
BILL MCDERMOTT

The vision and strategy they have gone for is very flawed.
BILL MCDERMOTT

We just delivered the highest third quarter performance in the history of SAP America and the twelft...
BILL MCDERMOTT

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.
MCDERMOTT

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do t...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an omino...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Cl...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categoriz...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to t...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the ...
CHARLIE MCDERMOTT

Shea had a fantastic performance. I don?t think this league will have as talented of a match-up insi...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

Being a playwright is lot of work. There are a lot more venues around here this year than years ago.
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

They had gone nine possessions in row with one point. Then (Lewis) comes in and makes those shots.
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

He has a feel for what we want to do (in a game), and he offers good suggestions. He?s always talkin...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

We make sure we get the ball in his hands at the end of games. In the late stretches of a game, he?s...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

He guarded like crazy and made big shot after big shot. There was never a word about Farley until th...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

These were two very good teams that played right down to the wire. We had our chances. We were in a ...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

It's a worry, although we still don't know the extent of the damage.
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

We guarded pretty well except for the last five minutes of the first half. (Eastern) really went aft...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

He?s one of the better defensive point guards in the league, and not just on his guy. Steve knows ho...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

Avalanches are going to be much larger than most people have ever seen.
BRENDAN MCDERMOTT

The person that was skiing was actually able to get themselves up onto a tree and keep themselves ab...
BRENDAN MCDERMOTT

They actually got to the top and were skiing down a ridge, which is normal avalanche safety.
BRENDAN MCDERMOTT

We've been called out with search and rescue this week more than we have in so many years. And there...
BRENDAN MCDERMOTT

Life was just has hard, if not harder, for women in small (fishing) towns. Men went off to sea, (wom...
BOB MCDERMOTT

Apparently a new family had moved into town and found two giant penguins hanging in the garage. Ever...
BOB MCDERMOTT

I prefer to think the kid who took him has grown up now, and has his own kids. He now probably knows...
BOB MCDERMOTT

I mean, it's been 12 years. I figured some kids took him and used him for target practice or somethi...
BOB MCDERMOTT

I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddin...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
ALICE MCDERMOTT

We went to Aspen, Colorado last year, and to Park City, Utah this year. The second big trip is durin...
DAVE MCDERMOTT

We've got (Iowa coach) Steve Alford and (Iowa State coach) Wayne Morgan to thank. If they were not w...
GREG MCDERMOTT

I wore it, just so the guys could remember how good we are and what we've accomplished. We didn't wa...
GREG MCDERMOTT

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the mos...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should r...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready f...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
ALICE MCDERMOTT

It's an amazing testament to somebody who is so willing at all times to push the barriers push the e...
JOHN MCDERMOTT

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in ...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

This teaches problem solving in a changing environment. I wish I had a program like this when I was ...
MIKE MCDERMOTT

I irritate the wife because of my private dancing.
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

'Rosemary's Baby' is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being ...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

We are surrounded by story.
ALICE MCDERMOTT

It's one more concert for them to do and it's right in front of the courthouse. They really have a g...
MIKE MCDERMOTT

It's kind of a highlight for the kids. They like that it is something different.
MIKE MCDERMOTT

We realized we'd be sending her home to a dangerous situation, and there's no way we could do that.
MIKE MCDERMOTT

We communicated well. But we are nowhere near where we should be. We played as good as our competiti...
MIKE MCDERMOTT

Jess plays the whole game inside and battles hard. She?s just a warrior.
DAVE MCDERMOTT

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my fir...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

Even though I knew we were fatigued, I sensed something was missing. We got that back this week.
GREG MCDERMOTT

They're a dangerous, dangerous team. Especially when we're a little bit wounded in the guard court.
GREG MCDERMOTT

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

His foot was really bothering him tonight. He probably shouldn't have played at all. Had John Little...
GREG MCDERMOTT

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
ALICE MCDERMOTT

The statement was very similar to the statements he's given previously,
JOHN MCDERMOTT

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

On most nights, if Crawford and Stout go 4-for-19, we're going to get beat by a lot.
GREG MCDERMOTT

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, ...
BRIAN MCDERMOTT

I'd rather be contributing to my 401(k) than tapping into it. But you feel better being an active me...
NEIL MCDERMOTT

The trees serve as cover to the ducks, frogs and turtles. They will break down overtime anyway.
DAVID MCDERMOTT

We challenged our kids. Someone wrote in one of the papers that no one would want to play Shamokin i...
DAVE MCDERMOTT

I am a sailor, you're my first mate
We signed on together, we coupled our fate
Hauled up...
JOHN MCDERMOTT

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

That's why I'm so proud of this particular group, because they busted down that barrier.
GREG MCDERMOTT

Shaw was outstanding. To his credit he hit some big shots with a hand in his face.
GREG MCDERMOTT

Do you know anything about hearts, Jona? The Senta know hearts. Hearts are not one organ. Inside a m...
J.M. MCDERMOTT

She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a no...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

Harry Truman said, 'The buck stops here.' Well, the buck stops here. You're the last stand before th...
NEIL MCDERMOTT

I think (Thompson) understands that.
GREG MCDERMOTT

Part of me could have stayed at Northern Iowa forever and sailed off into the sunset. But the compet...
GREG MCDERMOTT

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I think it is reasonable to assume we could have a definitive recertification of all the ballots by ...
MICHAEL MCDERMOTT

We put those signs up right away to inform our visitors.
DAVID MCDERMOTT

This is kind of the big game. We practice for this all year. The first punch was just a warm up.
CHARLEY MCDERMOTT

I think they chose Iowa State for reasons other than wanting to be in Ames and wanting to be a Cyclo...
GREG MCDERMOTT

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle c...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
J.M. MCDERMOTT

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentence...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.
JIM MCDERMOTT

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
JIM MCDERMOTT

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system, ... But it has to have some compassion.
JIM MCDERMOTT

Most of us agree there's going to be a tax cut. The question is how much, how soon and who gets it.
JIM MCDERMOTT

We're right on track. We're going to do it all over again this year.
JIM MCDERMOTT

Our desire is that Mr. Hussein allow unfettered inspections, we do not want any question about that ...
JIM MCDERMOTT

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, a...
JIM MCDERMOTT

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Our tournament is great, because you can come and get up close to the pros and get autographs after ...
JUDY MCDERMOTT

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. M...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions th...
JIM MCDERMOTT

(Lindsey) has stepped up for us in other games, but we have to give her a lot of credit. When she go...
DAVE MCDERMOTT

She's a big reason why we're still moving on. She's been doing it all year.
DAVE MCDERMOTT

They're playing a lot better now. They're playing for their playoff lives. They're a lot more experi...
DAVE MCDERMOTT

It was a poor shooting night again. We had the opportunities, but the shots weren't falling. We held...
DAVE MCDERMOTT

Sure it's a disappointment, but the kids didn't give up. Give them credit for fighting back and maki...
DAVE MCDERMOTT

We have to hope for some things to happen now. We have to bounce back from this.
DAVE MCDERMOTT

Hopefully our point guard?s going to be OK. (Danville?s) coaches were telling them to foul, they had...
DAVE MCDERMOTT

We just want to have a good time with good friends.
DAVE MCDERMOTT

The best benefits by far, though, are the friendships acquired.
DAVE MCDERMOTT

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

An index tracker is a simple and cheap way in for people who want to buy equities and not monitor th...
DARIUS MCDERMOTT

We rate all Japanese funds as a nine or 10 out of 10 on the risk scale, but for those investors look...
DARIUS MCDERMOTT

I would argue...that if you use a discount broker you could do as well as a fund of funds.
DARIUS MCDERMOTT

My concern is that he has only looked after much smaller pockets of money before this. People will w...
DARIUS MCDERMOTT

We would have been in deep trouble without him.
GREG MCDERMOTT

They don't want anything to do with us. In terms of trying to get any sort of home and home deal, it...
GREG MCDERMOTT

We lost a game but we stayed in the rankings because our league is so good. Obviously, people unders...
GREG MCDERMOTT

Anytime we can have a four-point lead and those guys haven't scored a point, that's a luxury.
GREG MCDERMOTT

This isn't just about Theresa and our family.
GREG MCDERMOTT

I get a microphone in front of my face four or five times a week, and it's an opportunity for me to ...
GREG MCDERMOTT

Obviously, this has taken on a whole new meaning for me. The approach I've taken this year, and from...
GREG MCDERMOTT

Sometimes you get caught up in those things just because everyone else does it, but you don't unders...
GREG MCDERMOTT

This has been a dream job for me. I haven't thought too much beyond this, but you never say never.
GREG MCDERMOTT

When you mention Northern Iowa now, people equate it with a place that has a good basketball program...
GREG MCDERMOTT

The Schwarzenegger administration should protect our children and not the special interests and get ...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

It's a very cool place. It's a great place to shoot, there's character and charm to it.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

it's really nobody's business.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I was happy it wasn't about the guy's looks, but about what his struggle is,
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of m...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I was grateful for ['The Practice,'] but it was a long time and I just wasn't available [for anythin...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

We would anticipate filing (for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) in the first half...
JAMES MCDERMOTT

Once the dust settles, these companies become much more growth oriented, ... They in fact become hea...
JAMES MCDERMOTT

You have to be ... very careful with credit-card companies -- that they're not experiencing above-av...
JAMES MCDERMOTT

The knee jerk reaction is to say that when interest rates go up, these stocks go down, and that stil...
JAMES MCDERMOTT

It's hard right now. I feel terrible for them because of how hard they worked.
MARK MCDERMOTT

Like I told the kids, everybody did something during the game that helped us, and everybody did some...
MARK MCDERMOTT

We're shooting 70-some percent on the year as a team (at the line), that's why we did that. We did a...
MARK MCDERMOTT

With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more ...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever ...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for e...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning buil...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay,...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the b...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common den...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're wait...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Fiber has been associated with a lower risk of diseases such as Type II diabetes and obesity. By inc...
LISA MCDERMOTT

You are removing different parts of the whole grain when you start to process them.
LISA MCDERMOTT

I don't need one. I'll type and answer my own calls. I'll do whatever it takes.
LINDA MCDERMOTT

When I do something, you'll get my all.
LINDA MCDERMOTT

I had to do a lot of paperwork for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the county, pay vendo...
LINDA MCDERMOTT

You're going to get your money's worth, because I'm willing to work.
LINDA MCDERMOTT

Trial counsel could have used Heaton's admissions to argue reasonable doubt as to the prosecution's ...
LINDA MCDERMOTT

He is real anxious about the appeal.
LINDA MCDERMOTT

I certainly don't think our client is going to be executed on Tuesday. It's very likely that we're g...
LINDA MCDERMOTT

It's likely we will ultimately end up with the same result.
LINDA MCDERMOTT

We will certainly be asking to join that petition. We will be asking for a stay.
LINDA MCDERMOTT

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I w...
CHARLIE MCDERMOTT

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!
CHARLIE MCDERMOTT

We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD.
JUDY MCDERMOTT

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.
JUDY MCDERMOTT

The economic impact, obviously, is enormous for the area. The national television coverage is for al...
JUDY MCDERMOTT

This is a very strong field, with winners of majors, and some of the top up-and-coming golfers.
JUDY MCDERMOTT

If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangero...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

Everything Ashley Humphrey did was this guy's fault. Blame it on Mr. Humphrey.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT

It sounds like a long time and it is a long time, but it is not death.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT

He's not willing to pay for a study if the decision has already been made.
JOE MCDERMOTT

Well, I think the cell phone calls, the letters that he wrote in jail, those were pretty damaging. A...
JOE MCDERMOTT

So now everybody who paid higher taxes has to go back and recalculate 2002 taxes.
JOE MCDERMOTT

This is a challenge for tax practitioners now, too.
JOE MCDERMOTT

The state can't take that hit all at once.
JOE MCDERMOTT

Heating relief or exemption is a very hot topic ... especially for people on fixed incomes.
JOE MCDERMOTT

We did some of these cosmetic-type improvements so when people come to the grounds, not only do they...
JOE MCDERMOTT

When a family comes in, they're getting more for their money.
JOE MCDERMOTT

This is my 18th fair and I've never heard as much buzz about this one and the previous one.
JOE MCDERMOTT

I don't think he's as bad of a guy as what the D.A.'s office wants to say.
SEAN MCDERMOTT

This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY

President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON

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