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Related There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all. JEFFREY FRY I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... prob... KYAN DOUGLAS We just kind of want to sit down eye to eye and look at them and see if they are gong to commit to r... LARRY GREGORY For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy ju... LEE CHILD New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec... PATRICIA MARX If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men ... DAVID LIVINGSTONE When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no li... MATISYAHU I knew I paid taxes, but I have no idea what they go for. It's just one of those things you don't qu... LINDA WRIGHT There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, b... DAG HAMMARSKJOLD If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want ... DAVID LIVINGSTONE There is no question about that. We do have to step up to the plate in that area. I think we are con... DAVID LESLIE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER There is no precedent for this, but there is no question who put this situation in motion. If they d... CHRISTOPHER MCGRATH My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, o... MARY-KATE OLSEN There are instances when we are called out as far as Benoni, but that doesn't happen very often beca... OUPA MATJIE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER people are like barbie dolls they're beautiful,pretty,caring,fun and everything.....but if you look ... HAGAR IBRAHIM There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down. SOURCE UNKNOWN They're just names that you would question as to how come there were so many people of those origins... KARLA ESLINGER Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at ... NINA LACOUR Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. MARTHA BARRON BARRETT On the road, just like anybody else, we try to be patient and see what they can bring. We expected t... ALEXEI KOVALEV There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that the... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and gettin... GUY PEARCE That just a forcing function though. To really understand the carbon cycle, you have to look at the ... INEZ FUNG I was just walking down the street, ... and I saw my step-dad's truck sitting at the end of the road... CRYSTAL DAVIS I need them, no question. There are hundreds of people who need to be seen. I'm not talking about pe... JOE DAWSEY Walking somewhere is similar to walking through snow. You walk and reach your destination. But, as y... SS038NICK When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off ... BRIAN ENO I just love children of this age. There is no edge to them at all, they are delightful. COLIN WALKER I used to walk my dogs down that road just about every evening, and I'd see her (Ms. Evans) sitting ... LINDA SHULTZ When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE We have issues in the Madison Heights area. Some drivers don't understand that because there is no m... ED HOPKINS People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as... M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. So... ELIZABETH HURLEY Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If there is no food, there is no water, there is no basic life-providing resources, as an officer yo... JOSEPH ESTEY It's not that we're out there promoting this idea, but the question gets asked would we move our cor... GARY KELLY I don't look at this as a setback. There are often hiccups in coalition politics so we sit down and ... AMBIKA SONI I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem... JOHN ZORN No logging permits are given to this area, there is no transport system _ not a single road. BRUCE BEEHLER A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down fro... UDONIS HASLEM It's not their fault in some respects, but there just hasn't been enough software available. It's al... HIROSHI KAMIDE It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who l... DARIO FO When we first got there, we were the only hospital in a six-county area. They just came walking in. CHIP RICH It's going to be a battle, there is no doubt. Neither team is ever scared of anybody, and they just ... AL DYER There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just ... REBECCA SUGAR Prior to [the interception], we were just trying to get out of the half. But when we get the pick an... DON BROWN There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like t... BABYFACE You can't think about it. I don't know anybody who can really comprehend that number of eyes watchin... DAVID RADFORD Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations w... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I think there's a lot of intelligence out there, but that's just my guess. Question is: Are ... SETH SHOSTAK People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is lo... AYN RAND There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are jus... HENRY J. EYRING There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to... RAHUL DRAVID You have all these offenders in that area who could be anywhere. There is no mechanism in place for ... LAURA AHEARN With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. Af... LEE KRASNER Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just r... JOAN CUSACK Most men’s eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very ex... CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they we... TERI GARR These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just... JASON MOLINA I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibilit... JOHNNY DEPP Fire crews are telling me that there is a helicopter on scene and they are telling me there is nothi... DAN MCCARTHY Defensively we just broke down. They kept coming at us pretty hard. Regardless if they got the bounc... ANDREW LEACH But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the s... JAMES BALDWIN We want to allow for the idea that there are different kinds of journalism, ... The courts are just ... ANNALEE NEWITZ We just want to make sure that future employees realize that there is no free lunch in this world. A... DUANE MARSH We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, t... JAMES REILLY The pictures are really interesting, ... As you look at them, you recognize areas, yet you don't rec... ERIC HANSEN We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on ... MARGARET ATWOOD People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is lo... AYN RAND Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK They're certainly the favorites. There's no doubt about it. They're as good as anybody we've played.... LOU LEFEVRE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER Indians look at adoption differently. Once you're adopted you have all kinds of relatives. They look... PAUL BURKE There can be no question a stable and democratic Iraq is in the vested interest not just of Germany ... GERHARD SCHROEDER Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers... EMMA TENNANT With a hologram, like when your teacher is one of them, if you aren’t looking right at them, they ... M.T. ANDERSON What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should b... LARS ULRICH Life is all about rides. This is something I've always wanted. There have been hard bumps in the roa... DANIEL FELLS For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Not all of the talented groups we have in the music department will be performing, because there are... GRAEME LANGAGER Look, all I've told people is we have multiple offers. Beyond that it's really difficult to gauge th... DAREK BRAUNECKER When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth... JENNY LEWIS If you really wanted them to, they would just jump in the boat for you. But, no one really wants tha... JAY EBBEN We do not deceive like the NRM. They put pipes on the roadside and then you think they are bringing ... MIRIA KALULE OBOTE I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might ... BERYL MARKHAM I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try ... MIKE SINGLETARY Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it become... AUDREY HEPBURN We had signs that directed lab and radiology patients to that waiting area, but there was no sign th... CONNIE SCHROEDER My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special thing... ANAT COHEN We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or l... LAKSHMI MITTAL It's at their own peril. They are in a canker-laden area and there is also greening in South Florida... LIZ COMPTON I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them th... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You've got to look at the big picture. It's not all the offensive line. That's from somebody with th... LEONARD DAVIS There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a... WILLA SIBERT CATHER
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BARBARA LYNN I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'... BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi... BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against... BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de... BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop... BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ... BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t... BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei... BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds... BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi... BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages... BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what... BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere... BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons... BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different... BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ... BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur... BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins... BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic... BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a... BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome... BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new... BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. BARBARA KRUGER