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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We want to lease out the building. We found a tenant interested in leasing the building, but we woul... PHIL FRAME We knew we were going to have to do it through the back door because we knew we didn't have enough t... HARVEY STARBUCK If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we d... JUDY DANIELS We are going to have a party. Setting out back in April and trying to get the $27,000 to pay the bal... LEE PRESSLER A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS This has been building. We felt we had a good chance but we also knew it was anyone's game coming in... BEN ROY We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battli... ADAM ALLEN We knew they were going to make a strong run. We just needed to make sure we kept being aggressive t... BOB NOBBE We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept batt... ADAM ALLEN Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL Everyone knew coming into the state tournament that those three teams were the teams that everyone w... DAVE VANDEVEEGAETE We might have 10 tenants in a building, all of which have different goals and aspirations for how mu... SCOTT NELSON We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building gre... JOHN WARNOCK We knew they were going to go on a run. We saw them on film so we knew they could come back. BROOKE QUEENAN When we took the job three years ago we knew we had some building to do. With the players that have ... JOE LEGERSKI We really needed this new school building. The old one has gotten into bad shape and it's to the poi... JAMES MCLEAN I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY Slow but sure, we kept spreading it out, and we never were going to let them come back within striki... CHAD CLUVER We knew that we couldn't run the ball outside and we had to get the ball in between the tackles, bec... KIRK MAYS I don't think we've done enough to train ourselves and the staff and media people that are in this b... DICK GEPHARDT The kind of building we were looking for was his philosophy. We want so much happening in this build... STEVE WILSON We needed to get our swagger back. We kept saying this week we were going to focus on a way to finis... CHRIS CLEMONS Definitely. I was hoping right there that we could get something going, and we did. We scratched out... DAMON HOLLINS We are always building new hangars, warehouses and other needed buildings, but we never get to the p... JAMES SAXTON we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We knew that types of medications being dispensed in schools were increasing and we had no informati... RICHARD MCGARVEY We were doing tape backups. But with the hurricanes, we started to think about what would happen if ... PHIL HARTMAN That was a good pitching battle. We were trying everything to get a run across and eventually got th... FRANK BRAMALL In every game, a good opponent is going to make a run. We knew it was up to us to clamp down on defe... ESSENCE CARSON We started building this team a few years back, and did have an inkling we could do well. We've got ... KYLE PRAY I knew we'd eventually bust out. You just never know when it's going to happen. We were taking good ... PAUL KONERKO We love this house. We've talked about buying and building for years, but we get out there and we ca... JOY COTTON We were never able to get that all-important three-goal lead and knock the wind out of their sails. ... BOB EMERY We knew they weren't going to quit, and they didn't quit. We knew we had to get a lead and keep buil... KYLE LOOMIS Going in with a month to prepare, we knew it was going to be an exciting game. We kept running. I'd ... ANTONIO PITTMAN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ... LINDSAY THOMPSON She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN In the first period we were all over them at the start, but then we got away from our game. We knew ... BRIAN CAMPBELL We started to get a little nervous, because we knew the whole season was on the line. So we took a d... CAITLIN HYDUKE We thought we might have to get by with our present facilities for a year before building. Now we ar... ALVIN LIEVSAY We are negotiating a final lease with the owners of the building. We have some details still to work... JAMES STARK We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling. ANTHONY DOERR For the next three games there's no fear of a letdown. It's all about what we do. If we go out and w... DONTE WHITNER It's good to have Fenwick and West as a new tenant in the building. JIM COLLINS Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO Our defense was the difference for us in this game. We knew going in that they were not a good three... JOSH MCKAY After the 'T,' we were right back. We needed to score on that (next) possession. When they came back... BILL MCNEES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Once we identified the instrumentation we needed, we had to act fast. It was September 20th, and the... BEN MCGEE At that point, all bets were off. We were moving into the final stages of issuing a contract for the... HUGH HOLUB Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, b... TIM MCGRAW We should have the shell for the 50- by 80-foot building done by then and then we can start finishin... JIM THOM I knew that for my team I needed to get something going since we were flat. She had been throwing in... ASHLEY LONCARICH I'll just say that hopefully they've drained the mud out of the building, and the termites aren't go... PHIL JACKSON Basically the meters were getting so old that they weren't selling any parts necessary for upgrading... ROBERT HENDRY The whole game we didn't have a doubt that we would come back. We knew that we were going to have th... BRIAN HERNANDEZ We have not used maintenance money for building of the admin building, and we're not using maintenan... DAN HOLLAR [The franchisees had borrowed heavily to buy the company.] We were staring a 20% interest rate in th... BOB WEST Right now it's just amazing. The last two years we lost in the Sweet 16, and we finally broke the cu... DREW WILLEKE They had me a little shaky, ... But the guys told me, 'Coach, sit back and relax, we're going to win... GEORGE PRINCE For us to get out of that with only two runs (was) basically the reason why we won. (We kept) the mo... GREG BEE We were sure he was hibernating in the wall or it was totally out of the building. He was gone for s... NANCY MOORE It's that Prairie tradition and all. They came out knowing they were going to win. I don't think we ... KRISTI KINGMA This team, we were hurt from last week, and we wish we had certain plays [against New England] to do... TROY WALTERS We need to get all our kids healthy. Then we'll be set and ready to make our run (in league play). W... LARRY BIEBER In Power6, we basically combined everything we could (throw) at it in terms of fundamental atoms and... BERNARD MEYERSON When I became chief of the life squad, my goal was to build a nice building where we could sleep and... CLETE OAKS We were a little tentative, and who wouldn't be? This game, you're building toward it your whole car... LUKE DAY At the end of the first half, all I could think of was that we were playing a good half against a go... JAY CORLEW We were going to retire to Louisiana, but my brother died and then my sister-in-law died, and we los... DEE WHALEY We felt we were having good at-bats throughout the game and it was going to come for us. We hit some... GREG BUCHANAN We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it... FRANCES TOWNSEND The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are a... DAVID HARDY I knew that if we kept the lead, then we had a good chance to bring it home. We had a little trouble... DEBBIE SKELLY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We knew we were playing really well, so we knew that if we kept shooting we'd get the puck in the ne... MAARTEN GALANTOWICZ Prior to [the interception], we were just trying to get out of the half. But when we get the pick an... DON BROWN We obtain the property for our investor, and then do all the work of getting a qualified tenant thro... JASON SANT We were really inspired by the Lord to open this place. We originally bought it in 2003. We had it f... JEANNIE OCHOA We're getting rid of all the material we can't use. It's worn out or no good for the tourist railroa... KEN DORR We basically never had a lease. DAN BRICKER We knew they were slower, so we wanted to come out and run them. Coach wanted to set that press up s... BEN BOYD We needed a few stops; that's what we were thinking. I wasn't really actually worried that we were g... LAURYNAS MIKALAUSKAS The more wins we get in a row, the more [the freshmen] are going to see how good we are, and its jus... ASHLEY KELLY We knew that we could score. It was really about getting the stops that we needed. CANDICE WIGGINS
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BRUCE HICKS It would be devastating. Delta would not operate. We would not fly and there are no contingency plan... BRUCE HICKS Today's outcome will not disrupt Delta service. Together with our pilots and all of our employees, w... BRUCE HICKS Last month we came precipitously close to filing for bankruptcy. We were fully prepared to file bank... BRUCE HICKS The question is whether American restructures its costs outside of bankruptcy court or through the c... BRUCE HICKS I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to... BRUCE LEE I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe t... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie dow... BRUCE COVILLE The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits. BRUCE LEE Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious eve... BRUCE LEE A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. BRUCE LEE Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of... BRUCE COVILLE Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. BRUCE DICKINSON I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. BRUCE JENNER Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity pre... BRUCE MARTON To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good... BRUCE CATTON In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new bu... BRUCE BARTON Circumstances hell! I make circumstances! BRUCE LEE Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. BRUCE HENDERSON To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month,... BRUCE JENNER If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how t... BRUCE JENNER Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty... BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo... BRUCE LEE If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th... BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min... BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct... BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you... BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh... LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik... BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa... LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin... BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o... BRUCE BARTON