The exercise was a success.


Ben Parker

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DAMIEN CHAZELLE
Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE
Ben was a big pickle fan.
CHRIS MULLINS
Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.
JOE GODINHO
Ben has the grassroots organizing skills, leadership experience and Minnesota political know-how to ...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.
STEVE FRANK
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER
Ben was a good sport although the raft was very Heath Robinson, made in no time out of next to nothi...
DAVID GRIFFITH
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm o...
ROBERT CRAIS
It's difficult but we were able to establish the run. Our offensive line and Willie Parker did a fan...
CEDRICK WILSON
Ben was great. The energy he played with for 56 minutes was unreal.
FLIP SAUNDERS
You is getting nosier than a parker.
ROALD DAHL
Ben had a pretty good day. His last home run was huge.
DOUG SANKEY
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a...
TYPEWRITING EXERCISE
Liam (Smith) stepped up in the second half. That's kind of how he's played all year. Ben (Parker) pl...
RAY DRAKE
I'm having difficulty trying to get a grasp of it. Today was an inside-the-parker. I can't believe i...
KAZUO MATSUI
As a Child, Exercise was a Nearly Unconscious Effort; as an Adult, the Effort to Exercise Nearly mak...
STEVE THOMPSON
It's Big Ben vs. Gentle Ben.
RICH YAMARONE
When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned...
DOROTHY PARKER
Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was cor...
A. JAMES CLARK
The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON
There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he...
RICK YANCEY
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
CHARLIE WATTS
Ben and I built Ben & Jerry's on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and en...
JERRY GREENFIELD
[She is also clearly tickled by the memories of meeting the stars who have guest appearances on the ...
BEN STILLER
Mastery” is an inappropriate image for depicting epistemological success; knowledge is an exercise...
MYRON BRADLEY PENNER
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON
Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving...
DAVID AMRAM
Ben is tough and smart and can also get to the cage. A full season from Ben elevates the entire team...
DOM STARSIA
a reasonable jury did find in favor of Dr. Parker.
BOB ROSE
This was insane!

Yes, he was hot, but so was Nick. Yes, he was nice, but so was Nick. Yes...
RACHEL HAWTHORNE
John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not ...
GAYLORD NELSON
They were really clinging hard to Ben. Ben does a good job distributing the ball, and we got the sho...
TRAVIS BROWN
Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.
HOLLY BLACK
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
BEN CASNOCHA
I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I...
THIERRY HENRY
He just gave of himself and was very active in borough politics. Anybody who came in touch with him....
HAL HONIG
He’d been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the...
JOHN CLELLON HOLMES
I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.
CURTIS JACKSON
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes t...
STEVE ERICKSON
It is quite possible that if so many people are saying the same thing what they're saying could be f...
SUCCESS THOUGHTS
Take in today as another opportunity to do better at what you attempted to do yesterday.
SUCCESS THOUGHTS
Let’s do our best to stay encouraged and encourage someone else in the process.
SUCCESS THOUGHTS
This was an appalling exercise.
SAM AKAKI
Coming out of last spring, we had a lot of confidence in John Parker and what he could do. If Brodie...
DAVE RADER
I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduc...
BEN ELLIOT
Kenny Parker from Parker Electric is doing all of the electric. Wolff Brothers Supply Inc., all of t...
LYNNE BLACK
A lot of kids came and went over the years. But Parker kept coming back.
GREG NICHOLS
[For the November 2004 National AIDS benefit performance of Pippin , she played Catherine, opposite ...
LAURA BENANTI
Ben - Sir Ben - is always a lift. He's always interesting to watch, so you just try and remember you...
MORGAN FREEMAN
Well, I like Charlie Parker, Ella, Billie Holiday.
AARON NEVILLE
I thought Peter Brown give us a nice life in the first half and I thought Ben really answered the be...
DICK HUNSAKER
I couldn't do anything except ride the (exercise) bike and do some upper body work to stay somewhat ...
EDDIE JOHNSON
It was a great cross from Ben Strand, and Nick did his thing. We just stuck in there.
DERYCK LIM
Candace Parker did a great job of attacking and it opened things up.
CAPPIE PONDEXTER
HIV is already there [in the region] and it is not something you can blame on anybody.
BEN PARKER
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director...
BILLY ECKSTINE
Ben made a great block to free me. I was anxious, but I calmed myself and made a great throw.
ANTWAAN RANDLE
From the standpoint of Ben, obviously Ben did what he did ... but we believe there were errors in bo...
JAMES BURKE
My cousin's gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
Once he was gone, the guys didn't really flow in their offence as much. There was a lot of pressure ...
ANDREW BOGUT
Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, o...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
When Ben took the job to go up to Cleveland, one of the first things I did was I gave Nate a call,
ROBERT MASSEY
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for orig...
JONI MITCHELL
Edgar Johnson, unlike Major Parker, has quite an extensive criminal history. The judge did what he t...
COREY SMITH
I expect to manage the game and do exactly what Ben would do if he was in there.
CHARLIE BATCH
Late in the fourth quarter, everyone hit a critical shot. Tony Parker hit one, Bowen hit a couple an...
PAT RILEY
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the c...
MARC ANDREESSEN
We are very pleased with the way Ben closed out his conference career. Ben has always been an extrem...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND
Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girl...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS
People forget that Ben is a terrific actor,
MATT DAMON
Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl!,
QUENTIN TARANTINO
The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, a...
GREG COX
The entire was season (a success).
BRIAN FANELLI
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if...
BEN CARSON
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.
ADRIAN BELEW
To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
DAVID SPADE
What happened to you?" she asked.
"Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face.
STACEY KADE
Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured.

"Always," Parker said.
GREG COX
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE
It was pretty intense. But we've got a good one in Ben. We have to help him out. That's our job.
MATT DUFFY
A Man Who Never Leaves, Can Never Come Back.
BEN STARNS
I like the way (Bochy) made Ben bunt,
DAVE ROBERTS
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER
I kept waiting for Ben (center Ben Wallace ) to come back in. I guess (coach) felt that if things we...
ANTONIO MCDYESS
Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even thoug...
LIV TYLER
We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL
One of the things we wanted to do was find a way to make exercise fun.
ALOHA KISHINAMI
I don?t think anybody ever had a bad word to say about Ben. When you needed a friend, he was there. ...
HAL HONIG
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornograp...
LEON URIS
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
OSCAR WILDE
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
OSCAR WILDE
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster
OSCAR WILDE
We were there on Sunday morning after church and the amount of children walking by the Ben Franklin ...
LANA STANLEY
The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.
ROGER STONE

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The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&...
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-c...
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it w...
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyon...
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeas...
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initiall...
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style,...
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and...
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I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
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I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l...
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
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I hope it goes through.
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We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us.
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I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous.
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Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God,
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Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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Oh, it is sure as it is sad
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You want your coach's blessing.
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You're measured by championships no matter what.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
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Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER
If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
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There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
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Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER
In youth, it was a way I had,
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I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
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Some men fawn and flatter,
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DOROTHY PARKER
I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER
Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER
Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER
He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER
Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER
They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER
Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER
He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al...
DOROTHY PARKER
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc...
THEODORE PARKER
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER
Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER