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To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.


Richard Thompson

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BARBARA THOMPSON decided to let it go.
BARBARA THOMPSON It will help in lifting morale on campus. I don't think any university can stay competitive without ...
BARBARA THOMPSON Just a couple times a year we'll have eclipses that are not much more than an hour. We can stand it.
BARBARA THOMPSON We love the bingo. You tell them the people on Social Security will sit at home in a rocker and die ...
BARBARA THOMPSON I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Grow...
LEXI THOMPSON We had a lot of kids over there, but they were there legally. They were in the band, cheerleaders an...
BECKY THOMPSON There are things in your life - nobody's perfect, of course - things you just need to cleanse.
BECKY THOMPSON You need to release, to humble yourself, and realize that you have things in your life you need to t...
BECKY THOMPSON I learned that it's hard to work in the Army. My dad wanted me to tell him that he's a big hero to m...
BECKY THOMPSON Our major concern is the safety of our students. We hope traffic flows slowly and smoothly.
BECKY THOMPSON Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so s...
EMMA THOMPSON We needed to play good and win or we'd go home. We're going to have to turn around and do it again t...
BEAU THOMPSON Kevin did a good job. We also did well inside. We got good games from Cory Jordan and Jared King not...
BEAU THOMPSON (Davis) played well for us while he was in there. He got two cheapies. He's been really good for us ...
BEAU THOMPSON I guess all you can say is they outplayed us in every aspect of the game. We did a terrible job pass...
BEAU THOMPSON I thought he dominated the game with his speed, defensively. Overall, except for a little lull at th...
BEAU THOMPSON We played good the last 4 minutes of the game. That's really what it took for us to win this one.
BEAU THOMPSON We gave up too many points in this tournament and we've got to get better defensively. This was a qu...
BEAU THOMPSON Cory was very efficient with what he did down at the post. He's capable of that night in and night o...
BEAU THOMPSON We get a technical foul that's very deserving. That was the end of the game. After the technical we ...
BEAU THOMPSON We played pretty well the second half. We got a good game from Lee Turner. He rebounded the basketba...
BEAU THOMPSON Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their ...
BENNIE THOMPSON In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, th...
FRED THOMPSON How can the government say it is serious about reconstructing the Gulf Coast and edge out small and ...
BENNIE THOMPSON [Thompson said, for example, that oil pipelines in the Southeast have been identified by DHS as crit...
BENNIE THOMPSON This is the best run, cleanest shelter that I have seen!
BENNIE THOMPSON