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Related There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play. JASON CAMPBELL Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only m... DONALD MILLER . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, ... JODI LYNN ANDERSON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes? CASSANDRA CLARE She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that rig... NICHOLAS SPARKS What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I don't think, budget-wise, we could afford to start a program. But I can't say that even if we did ... ANN MARIE DILLON I don't think, budget-wise, we could afford to start a program, ... But I can't say that even if we ... MARIE DILLON I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I ma... GRETCHEN RUBIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL We have some mixing to do at the recording studio tonight. We'll go over there at about 1 A.M., and ... STEVE ALEXANDER I could not see myself going back into the studio without Tommy Dowd, our beloved producer who passe... GREGG ALLMAN From a budgetary standpoint, we?re nowhere close to the Tour de Georgia or Tour of California. They ... MATT BUTTERMAN The budget problem we can deal with, but let's get people in Michigan back to work. Having someone w... DICK DEVOS To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI Ben Harper came to us with some gospel songs in mind, and that worked. I thought that was a good ide... CLARENCE FOUNTAIN You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play any... WAYNE KRAMER 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 idea to write fresh, radio friendly pop songs would get an extra dimension if I could use two di... MIKE RUTHERFORD With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the ... FRANKIE VALLI Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called ... THAD COCHRAN The venture capital business is a batting game. If you hit one out of four, you're a solid player. B... DAVID ROUX I knew it had to hit the rim before it could be in play. I was trying to let it hit the backboard fi... DAVID HOSKINS I believe in 'last in, first out' budgeting, ... If you go to any company, any family budget, that's... GIL GUTKNECHT We knew it was kind of new, but we chose to go with the frozen egg. We thought for the expense, anyt... JARED KENNEDY I knew we could hit the ball and we could play with anybody, and I think the girls proved it. If you... BILL MCCHESNEY we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON If we faced issues that required little more than a few turns with a Phillips screwdriver, then we p... MIKE HUCKABEE We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them righ... ZAC BROWN It's one of those things [where] you get the luxury of so much time here at Indianapolis to test tha... DARIO FRANCHITTI I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a... B.O.B Even when we want a treat, we're finding we can get a decadent taste with whole grains. It used to b... CYNTHIA HARRIMAN We are in a position right now of already having to rethink our budget estimate for 2006. JUDY JACOBS We knew we had to do something to get the tempo back in our favor and it worked. DOUG NOFZIGER We spoke with her agent, explained what we envisioned for the role and waited to find out if she mig... DENNIS LYLE When Jasmine put that goal in we all knew we could pick it up and get right back into this game. LIZZIE FARRELL I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta... CHRIS CHRISTIE I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespear... HARRY CONNICK, JR. For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afrai... HUBERT SELBY JR. Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spe... PAUL RYAN We just tried to stay composed ourselves. We knew if we could get them frustrated, it would be to ou... KORY PEPPENHORST We thought we could get through the day and go back (Thursday night) and fix things right. BOB HAUS The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that w... JOHN LANCHESTER We knew we could hit him. We just had to get out in front and sit on that first pitch fastball. BRYSON BENDALL Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love lov... MAREN MORRIS We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. BURT RUTAN We dream. We aspire. We hope. Sure, we can get down too. But it's not about that. It's not those mom... ZECHARIAH BARRETT We knew they were going to go on a run. We saw them on film so we knew they could come back. BROOKE QUEENAN Offensively, we were really concerned with getting back to mixing and matching and not being one-dim... CHARLIE WEIS Most of us lost everything, ... and if you do have something, you're not getting into New Orleans an... ANTHONY CANNON If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if w... JEFF FLAKE This is the essence of mixing. Expressed informally, ‘mixing is if we can get everywhere from anyw... PEITGEN JüRGENS SAUPE I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... R. KELLY For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. M... IRVINE WELSH He knew that we would have got £100,000 more for him from Sheffield Wednesday so decided to let Kil... JIM JEFFERIES We're well aware these notices could be demoralizing to staff, and that's not something we want to d... JACK DAVIS If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow... ANTON CHEKHOV I knew what the big cheer was about, but then I had to go up there and try to get a good pitch to hi... JOHN OLERUD We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook the... JEFF LABAR A budget is something we go without to stay within. UNKNOWN I knew if I just hit a bit of the right one, it would go where it should. ANETTE NORBERG We didn't do a whole lot right tonight. We put ourselves in a hole early in the game, but we still h... BRET WARNACK We hit the ball hard all day. We could have scored more runs with 10 hits, but we hit several balls ... LAURIE MARKATOS We were really pleased with the development of our defense. Ben Davis played about as well as it cou... BEN DAVIS All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunt... ALAN KAY We knew we could jump right back in this thing in a heartbeat the way our offense has been going thi... DREW JOHNSON We knew it would be months before we could go back. COLLEEN ALATALO Whatever could go wrong, did go wrong. We knew that we had some great kids coming back, but we also ... MARK WELCH We felt we were having good at-bats throughout the game and it was going to come for us. We hit some... GREG BUCHANAN It is pretty bizarre, but this team has to get back on the right track. It's tough not having him ar... LEONARD LITTLE We realize that they're on a limited budget, so we want to do as best we can and not burn their time... BLAKE CLARK Especially being in the middle of the lineup with Ryan behind me, if I get on base, that could be an... CHASE UTLEY I'm sure The Eagles will go into the studio eventually, probably in the fall after we get back and g... DON HENLEY We got the kind of total team performance I knew we'd need to beat a team of this caliber. ... To co... CRAIG GIBSON We don't talk anybody into taking a ride. She did one lap, hit the red button, came in, wanted to go... SCOTT JASEK We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ALAN BEAN Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M That was the key to the game. We were cruising right along but they got two quick runs without reall... GARY POWERS In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institution... DAVID CAMERON We practiced against their full-court pressure. We knew that if we got the ball to the middle we cou... JASON WINFREY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Even before the movie was such a big hit, we asked (Focus Features) for memorabilia. Next thing we k... MARIA SCHMIDT We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government t... JAMES LANKFORD Yeah, it is frustrating. But it wasn't anything we could control. Couns hit a hard line drive right ... CHAD TRACY If we had not started being aggressive when we did, we could have been caught with our britches down... FRED MCCLURE The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben... BETH ORTON You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o... ERIC BURDON You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory ... ERIC BURDON You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you
can't, go back to the factory o... ERIC BURDON We believe we have the right to know what's know going on. Day to day we get to work wondering if th... CAROLINA REYES
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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him. BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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