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LIM HAW KUANG The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
JOHNNY RIVERS![]()
It's worth about a half-billion dollars now. He had magazine publishing, too, with Liberty. It's iro...
QUINCY JONES![]()
A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
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FRANK KUDLAC aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr...
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Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.
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EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
EVERETT DIRKSEN We're talking about over a half million dollars worth of stuff, including cars, computers, recreatio...
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DAVE RILEY Our lobbyists are talking about a new arena, and the development around the new arena.
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This is the world of sixty billion dollars saint.
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I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, y...
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JEN MCDAVITT By the time of the game, there will be three new hotels within a half mile.
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For each 1 percent pay raise it is about a $600 million, so a billion dollars won't cut the mustard.
IKE SKELTON![]()
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
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There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
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BETTY GRABLE![]()
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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WASHINGTON IRVING![]()
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
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EMMA CLINE![]()
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ERIC BEDER We just matched Southwest's intensity in the first half â?¦ they dictated the game in the first ha...
ANTHONY ALLEN We just matched Southwest's intensity in the first half â?¦ they dictated the game in the first ha...
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EVAN EICHLER This is totally different - that was a huge game, but there's so much more here. Back in New Jersey,...
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JIM WALLIS We take pride in going out and working hard at practice. We enjoy being around each other, so it'll ...
JARVIS HERRING Last time out we really had a bad stretch in the first half to start the game. They really shot the ...
JEFF NEUBAUER They grab and gamble all over the court. We haven't faced that this year. We turned the ball over 14...
MIKE HULTZ It's amazing. People are starting to treat it like a football game. Girls are saying they have to bu...
DANE BRADSHAW That was the whole game plan. Just to move the ball around and when you have opportunities, shoot.
ANATOL POPOVICH I live about a half a mile. I'm not that worried about myself. Its more about the kids who could be ...
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This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had...
LEONARD NIMOY Joe played a nice game at the point. We are starting to mesh as a team. This is the time to come tog...
JOE KUHN In the last five minutes of the game they were pounding shots on us. They had the ball down at our d...
BRIAN MUSTY This is a big business. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
HOWARD HERTZ Interest on a billion dollars can add up pretty fast.
MICHAEL DILLER At that time we have to mail out 6.8 billion dollars to the various shareholders.
EDWARD BILKEY We were talking the other day about how we haven't lost a league game this whole year. Not too many ...
DARREN SHEPHERD
KAREN WOODALL Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.
THAD COCHRAN I think what we're doing today is selling into the rally. We're positive on the market for the time ...
BILL ROE You can only imagine that they could end up spending an incremental billion to billion and a half [d...
BRENDAN BARNICLE
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in ... ROBERT CASEY
There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion. ALEXANDER HAIG They were so anal and uptight about following everything to the letter before the IPO, but here was ...
DANIEL YOVICH This outpaces anything we have had. The 9-11 donations ended up being $1 billion dollars (collected)...
RYLAND DODGE Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven bill...
SAMANTHA BEE That half-a-billion dollars didn't benefit one child in this state. He has got to show us a business...
ASSEMBLYMAN GREENWALD That half-a-billion dollars didn't benefit one child in this state. He has got to show us a business...
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD It strikes me as being unique that a company can see half a billion dollars in income go away and se...
ANTHONY BUTLER For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue abo...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA So far we have invested some US$3.5 billion in China and we hope to invest another half a billion th...
LIM HAW KUANG The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
JOHNNY RIVERS
It's worth about a half-billion dollars now. He had magazine publishing, too, with Liberty. It's iro... QUINCY JONES
A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money. EVERETT M. DIRKSEN It's a whole new ball game and we're used to being at home, so it's going to take some adjusting. As...
FRANK KUDLAC aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr...
RAJA
Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day. DONALD TRUMP A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
EVERETT DIRKSEN We're talking about over a half million dollars worth of stuff, including cars, computers, recreatio...
ERIC POTEET If the music business grew by a billion dollars, if the paperback book business grew by a billion do...
CRAIG KORNBLAU
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. RICHARD BRANSON A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
EVERETT DIRKSEN
Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers. LESTER PIGGOTT This is a very critical month. There'll be a whole zeitgeist shift. We're talking a lot about tradit...
HENRY WEINGARTEN Most of the teams raised about a half-million dollars to do this.
DAVE RILEY Our lobbyists are talking about a new arena, and the development around the new arena.
DAVID MOREHOUSE We played some good stuff in the first half. We moved the ball around.
IAN MCINTYRE This agreement could provide the US business community with 100 billion dollars worth of new opportu...
DAN CHRISTMAN This was a big ball game. The whole week, we'd talked about treating it like a playoff game. They we...
TONY PITTMAN This is a scandal, ... This is only the tip of the iceberg. ... We're talking about billions of doll...
HARRY REID
In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,0... BERNIE SANDERS I remember when Joe Calzaghe fought Jeff Lacy, and there was all this hype about Lacy being some sor...
LIAM SMITH This sounds like a small percentage, but you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that w...
BOB HARTWIG Our ball pressure was key in this game. We pressed them the whole game.
CARL BOEN All of a sudden, half a billion dollars of liabilities just vanished. No one appeared on their behal...
HOWARD SEIFE
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps... JACK WELCH It's still a small town in many respects, and there's a finite amount of dollars.
DARRIN SMITH
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, per... JACK WELCH Late in the first half, this was a one-goal game, but we really dug down and showed the toughness th...
CINDY TIMCHAL It all adds up. If you're talking about a $1 difference and you're talking about a million books, th...
EVA MOSKOWITZ
This is the world of sixty billion dollars saint. TOBA BETA He catches the ball and releases it so quick. I think that?s what?s so impressive about him. I think...
MAURICE CHEEKS A Billion dollars isn't what it used to be
NELSON BUNKER HUNT
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more...
JASON BIGGS I am thrilled with today's victory. But this is a win for all New Yorkers. Today's decision means an...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN
Life...is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball ga... ANITA BROOKNER It's much ado about nothing in some respects,
RICK APPLEGATE We had a tough time getting the ball to Bobby (Howard) in the second half, and Eric really stepped u...
BOBBY HOWARD A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The governor has saddled the state with a billion dollars in new hidden taxes just to protect his re...
BRIAN MELENDEZ We are talking about pumping millions of dollars into a project that will provide access to more peo...
DOYLE WELLS Obviously, if it becomes 17-6, it's a whole different ball game; there's no doubt about it.
ERIC CARDINAL Second half is a whole new ballgame,
AHMAN GREEN
I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, y... MARK RUFFALO What we're looking at, as we look ahead a few years, is a default, a half-finished site and a develo...
DAN DOCTOROFF The figure is expected to hit 28 billion dollars this year,
WEN JIABAO
The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately ... MITT ROMNEY In the first half we were definitely on our heels. Providence had just installed new turf and it too...
JEN MCDAVITT By the time of the game, there will be three new hotels within a half mile.
JULIE FRISONI
For each 1 percent pay raise it is about a $600 million, so a billion dollars won't cut the mustard. IKE SKELTON
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. MAE WEST
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones HELENA RUBINSTEIN
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana... LESLIE MCINTYRE
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky DEBORAH KERR
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,... PETRONIUS
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... HELEN LAWRENSON
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn... CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl... WASHINGTON IRVING
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi... GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD
They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to... EMMA CLINE
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball g... ANITA BROOKNER
They'd double-booked the whole place, so at the same time, Playboy was shooting films there. So we'r... VILLE VALO I think that Oakley in some respects does all its stuff by itself,
ERIC BEDER We just matched Southwest's intensity in the first half â?¦ they dictated the game in the first ha...
ANTHONY ALLEN We just matched Southwest's intensity in the first half â?¦ they dictated the game in the first ha...
ANTHONY ALLEN This changes how we think about evolution and, in some respects, disease. That's the part that's exc...
EVAN EICHLER This is totally different - that was a huge game, but there's so much more here. Back in New Jersey,...
JOE ANDRO
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childca... JIM WALLIS We take pride in going out and working hard at practice. We enjoy being around each other, so it'll ...
JARVIS HERRING Last time out we really had a bad stretch in the first half to start the game. They really shot the ...
JEFF NEUBAUER They grab and gamble all over the court. We haven't faced that this year. We turned the ball over 14...
MIKE HULTZ It's amazing. People are starting to treat it like a football game. Girls are saying they have to bu...
DANE BRADSHAW That was the whole game plan. Just to move the ball around and when you have opportunities, shoot.
ANATOL POPOVICH I live about a half a mile. I'm not that worried about myself. Its more about the kids who could be ...
JOHN SINCLAIR
This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had... LEONARD NIMOY Joe played a nice game at the point. We are starting to mesh as a team. This is the time to come tog...
JOE KUHN In the last five minutes of the game they were pounding shots on us. They had the ball down at our d...
BRIAN MUSTY This is a big business. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
HOWARD HERTZ Interest on a billion dollars can add up pretty fast.
MICHAEL DILLER At that time we have to mail out 6.8 billion dollars to the various shareholders.
EDWARD BILKEY We were talking the other day about how we haven't lost a league game this whole year. Not too many ...
DARREN SHEPHERD
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