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GEE NASH I think my guys were just a little bit too fired up instead of being relaxed for the game.
LARRY GILBERT I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
BEBE REXHA I think they definitely had the energy this game. We were definitely a little flat and they were def...
BLAKE TRAVIS Maybe they'll pressure me a little bit more. If they do, then we'll just do something else.
KRISTIAN HUSELIUS We've chased pitches a little more the last couple, three days. We've got guys maybe over-anxious at...
ERIC WEDGE Maybe it tames the partisanship a little bit.
MARC WILSON This season we wanted to sort of lighten it up and make it a little bit more transparent ... a littl...
GREG MYLER It's a really emotional experience. For next year I'm going to work hard maybe improve a little bit ...
BRITTANY BEAUCHAN I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgi...
RACHEL NICHOLS I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
EARL SCRUGGS Maybe we ended a little bit of a hex.
GARY SHARPE Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.
VINCENT TAN The receivers are maybe a little bit shy at the top, but maybe thicker and more plentiful in the sec...
FLOYD REESE We tried flipping our lines a little bit to lend maybe a little more balance. We're just trying to b...
DON JENNINGS I think we made a big step. We came in fired up. I've never seen us more fired up.
NEHEMIAH WARRICK We're just fired up to play them. We've got a little bit of a vendetta against them, and it shows. E...
BARRET JACKMAN I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionat...
KENNY CUNNINGHAM Maybe so, maybe I have. I choose my battles a little bit more now. But on the stuff that's important...
NORRIS ASHLEY I was a bit more fired up. I got my equal personal best, and I'd love to get closer to the world rec...
GIAAN ROONEY To be honest with you, I think last year it maybe was a little bit more potent in the lineup,
BRANDON BACKE Everyone keeps bringing it up. Maybe it's helped us keep our focus a little bit. As a team we've gro...
MARCUS HAHNEMANN They all complement each other. They want to win games. Jeff was the focal point last year. That's c...
TOM WILSON Against Detroit, I don't know if he was a little psyched up and he was maybe overthrowing a little b...
MIKE SCIOSCIA I would hope the rivalry — the Austin-Decatur rivalry — would take a little bit of the steam out...
DARRELL HARRIS I would hope the rivalry the Austin-Decatur rivalry would take a little bit of the steam out o...
DARRELL HARRIS I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic...
BRENDON URIE We talked about how lackadaisical we came out last game. Coach [Willard] Coker told them they were N...
DAVE ROBBINS Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit mo...
A. LOU VICKERY These kind of places are a little bit more styled and a little bit more personal.
TIM RICE He'll never beat Roger Federer unless he becomes a little more aggressive so I think it's time for h...
MATS WILANDER I don't know whether it will shake riders up, but this will be a little bit different, so maybe peop...
DAN TANGHERLINI I'm feeling a little bit more relaxed now and a little bit happier.
GRAEME SMITH We got a little bit less growth and a little bit more inflation.
IAN MORRIS George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little ...
MIRA GRANT I think maybe the magnitude of the game bothered us a little bit.
CRAIG DAVIS He is enrolled, and he's with us up here. We just have to get him in shape, and maybe teach him a li...
CHRIS CHANEY We shouldn't fall off like that and we did a little bit. Maybe we weren't prepared. We have to work ...
CHAD SPENCE A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.
P.G. WODENHOUSE I think things might change a little bit, knowing that you have some security. But now there is pres...
DERRICK TURNBOW He is flat-out over anxious. He has come out of his game a little bit and maybe put more into his sw...
MIKE SCIOSCIA The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We ne...
MELVIN WATKINS I think a lot of sides would have left it maybe a little bit earlier.
JACQUES KALLIS theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT I think they called it a little bit different. They let a little bit more go.
JOZEF STUMPEL I think our guys kind of stepped it up and maybe wanted it a little bit more and won some 50-50 ball...
SCOTT BOWERS Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just m...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Every day [the assignment] got a little bit more dangerous because they got more guns in action -- t...
DOUG PRICE People were thinking about this all weekend, about the prices going up, and maybe some people are a ...
GIRI CHERUKURI I like it a lot. I get to use my speed a little bit more and run around a little bit more.
MARK ZALEWSKI Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more ab...
JONATHAN COE They were stealing change and CDs, maybe some credit cards, when they stumbled onto these things. I ...
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS I guess the world isn't as bad as we're brought up to believe it is. Maybe all we're doing is spread...
JON BON JOVI Sometimes it's just about survival, it doesn't have to be pretty golf but functional golf, ... Maybe...
KAREN STUPPLES She's one of those players that brings leadership out onto the court with the way she plays. She's a...
GRACE SCOTT That's the way we always stage, it wasn't too much different, a little bit, maybe.
BRIAN HOUGH She can post up and shoot the three, she's a good passer, maybe a little bit more aggressive offensi...
MIKE THIBAULT All the games now are important. It's us just coming together as a team, fighting a little bit harde...
GLENN MURRAY He's a little bit more fiery,
TYOKA JACKSON Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON We put Kaitlin Smith up top to give us a little more speed and that played a difference, ... We had ...
LESLIE FOSTER The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playin...
NATALIE MAINES We slowed down a little more. The first time we were surprised by their pressure. We let them speed ...
JAMAAL TATUM I cried a little bit in the race car on the way to the checkered flag. Well, maybe not cried, but at...
DALE EARNHARDT JR It's a little more alive, a little more aggressive. The rhythm is stronger and a little bit faster.
AIRTO MOREIRA I don't think it's anything serious, the surgeon just wants to clean it up a little bit more,
DAVID O'LEARY I couldn't really tell if it was white or wheat. Maybe a little bit of both.
ERIN GUDEUX There were some games that things weren't working very well, we weren't getting the protections, and...
JAY FIEDLER The college-aged players are a little bit more mature and have the opportunity to move a little bit ...
KEN JOYCE I think if they had been a little bit more patient ... I think they could have gotten a little bit m...
MICHAEL TIEU You have a little bit more direction.
JANET ROEMING Romeo smiles a little more. Maybe that's good.
JOE ANDRUZZI I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know...
ERIC MILLEGAN I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
VICKI LAWRENCE I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't rea...
KELSEY GRAMMER I didn't hear Jeff and didn't see his nose, so I just kept going. Actually, I think I did try a litt...
DONNIE SCHICK I hope not. He works real hard and sometimes I think maybe he presses a little bit.
BLAISE ILSLEY Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration sho...
THEO EPSTEIN Maybe there's a galaxy with a planet that's just a little more tilted, with a sun that shines just a...
AMY REED Greed is a little bit more than enough.
TOBA BETA We were a little bit more desperate today.
MARTIN STRAKA We hit a lot of balls hard today. It was nice to see. I think if our base running would have been a ...
DENNIS DEPER we'll need a little bit more of a concession.
BRAD STONE We do have regular store hours now and we're a little bit more accessible to people. We are growing ...
JEANIE PITZENBERGER With Fountains of Wayne, after 'Stacy's Mom' happened, we started making a little bit mo...
ADAM SCHLESINGER He's got to listen a little bit more, that's about it. I think he played pretty good. He's got to li...
DELCO ROWLEY Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything ...
ANN BRASHARES Hopefully, some good will come of this. I thought the sentence was a little harsh, but maybe it was ...
GREG PRINGLE I think they did well, showed a lot of poise, but are going to have to do a lot more if we are going...
JOE PATERNO I think the housing market certainly fired up real quick, maybe too quickly, and now it's probably j...
IRA CORLISS The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all t...
SHANIA TWAIN I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.
BILLY HIGGINS How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
DAR WILLIAMS With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and a...
JOAN ALLEN I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym.
EHUD OLMERT We've got big guys on the front line. Me, Jeff and Roy. Jeff and I are athletic and Roy, he's 7-2. S...
BRANDON BOWMAN maybe makes Bobby Siller's words carry a little more meaning.
BILL THOMPSON In the second half we opened it up a little bit more, ran a few counters and came back with a few pa...
DICK MYNAHAN Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
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