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We didn't want to get rid of firefighters.


Eleanor Walker

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We wouldn't want to get rid of that, no. No way.
FRANK BARRON We want to work together to get rid of this evil among us.
RIAZ AHMED We definitely have to eliminate those mistakes. If we want to get to where we want to be, we have to...
JAMES THRASH I think it belongs to the family and we can get rid of it any way we want to.
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CAROL PATTERSON We want to get rid of the (licensed) vendors that buy the spot only for Halloween weekend.
CAROL PATTERSON If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.
ALDERMAN MOKROS If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.
ALDERMAN DAVID MOKROS We want to get the information out to other firefighters so that they don't make the same mistakes w...
JESSE HODGSON If you want to get rid of the perceived meaning of curse words, you’ll have to get rid of the feel...
ORLANDO WINTERS The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
GEN CHARLES HORNER If you want to be successful and productive, get rid of your illusions.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
CHARLES HORNER We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they...
JAMIE FOXX We want an XML format so that we can get rid of the 40 or so instances of files from different softw...
LOIS HUGHES We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of diff...
JEAN KELLY Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
DARYL HALL We will get rid of him,
BARHAM SALEH A lot of the residents in Lemay put out stuff they want to get rid of.
LARRY INABNIT You don't want to get rid of all your ants either. They're natural predators to termites.
BRET CLAY We must be willing to get rid of the life we
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every want is a cage so get rid of wants and free yourself.
SATYA KALRA We can get rid of red tape.
CHARLIE DANIELS Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
HUEY NEWTON We don't want to use our pavements as a linear landfill, just to get rid of things. Some things simp...
MICHAEL O'CONNOR You never get the totality of Eleanor in The Lion In Winter,
JEAN LECLERC they hate their phobias and want to get rid of them. But these women with anorexia simply think, 'Th...
WALTER KAYE We must get rid of all the guns.
SARAH BRADY Just when I wanted to get rid of her, now I don?t want the season to end.
GENO AURIEMMA One of the quickest ways to get rid of the lease payment is to get rid of your car.
DAVID HOLLAND Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to se...
JOHN WAYNE We must gradually arrange things to get rid of foreign (aid) injections,
BORIS YELTSIN David, you don't want to get rid of the cracks and the crevices in the building because that's where...
SARAH VOWELL I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
B. F. SKINNER You can argue we can get rid of recycling and save the city a million dollars, but why don't we try ...
ANDREW GOLDSTEIN I got nothin' to hide, nothin' to keep hidden, just want to get rid of the pain, just to be ridden.
TOMMY POLO Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.
LANA TURNER If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.
BOB HARPER Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me?
JOHN SHORT I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think w...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We want to show our firefighters what they mean to us, and working to give back to them in any way w...
JEFF THOMAS I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I...
KATE MOSS I want to thank the volunteer firefighters without them things would've been ugly.
DON HAMILTON If we do not get rid of (Chavez), we are going to have another Cuba here.
CARMEN HERNANDEZ I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
MIKE TYSON It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid...
MATT BOMER The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
FRANK BUTLER A tense situation is prevailing in the country and people are living under anarchy. They want to get...
SHEIKH HASINA We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.
JOE SINSHEIMER Sometimes people are boring not because they are boring but because they want to get rid of the pers...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN It's not just be on the Walker Cup team and have that star after your name. A lot of these guys want...
BOB LEWIS I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this....
DONALD MILLER We probably don't want to build a Grizzlies Stadium, because it'd be hard to put up and hard to get ...
PAUL PIERCE Get rid of me now,
HOWARD STERN Here's them trying to get rid of him.
LISA SAMPSON There almost certainly are victims in the houses, but we won't know for sure until we get reports fr...
CARLOS SANTANA To enhance our speed, we must get rid of speed-breakers like procrastination, mental laziness etc.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you want to get rid of a doctor spouse, eat apple a day, coz an apple a day keeps all doctors awa...
DR HITESH C SHETH If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your...
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MAO ZEDONG It's like having a cobra in the nursery with your grandchildren. You get rid of the cobra or you won...
THEODORE HESBURGH You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.
PATTI STANGER get rid of that mind set.
JERRY GREENFIELD They can't get rid of me.
JAMES GRAVES If you have a 40,000-square-foot showroom and you need to get rid of five, six, 10 frames, you will ...
LARRY ALTERWITZ Basically, they delayed it by not allowing the firefighters to get on in and get into the complex.
GILBERT BENNETT If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. ...
ELLEN DEGENERES The aim is to get rid of his pain, get rid of the swelling, make it a functional joint and, if he's ...
ERROL ALCOTT How do we get our business to work when we get rid of the people who do the work? It's a plan for ex...
JACK HANLEY We don't except junk. This is not about getting rid of an old computer. We want usable equipment.
GEORGE CISNEROS It does get rid of the odor problem quickly, which we thought was beneficial.
BRIAN MACKE How long will all that take? We must get rid of the tax lien.
LEO DOBROVOLNY We want to make sure people understand that this does not equal getting rid of all their insulin sho...
ROBERT GOLDSTEIN We just feel really good right now. Now we have to get our game plan together, add to our positives ...
CRYSTAL KEMP He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get r...
IVO DAALDER Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
PHYLLIS DILLER I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
ADA YONATH Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out
PHYLLIS DILLER To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOY I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilt...
ORSON WELLES Overall the block will have a beautiful look, ... when we get rid of our eyesore.
GAIL WEBSTER People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there ...
REBECCA MCNUTT The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
RICARDO SEMLER The way to get rid of that is to legalize people.
ENRIQUE LOPEZ If we're gonna get rid of parole, we get rid of parole - go back to full time sentences, truth in se...
GARTH MCVICAR He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
RAINBOW ROWELL We are moving because the premises in Walker Street are better located for us and better suit our ne...
KAREN MCGREGOR We really want to get rid of the stereotypes between the Notre Dame women and the Saint Mary's women...
JENNIFER GRAY We made some mental errors tonight that we need to get rid of. We are just real happy right now to b...
LARRY STAHL We could accomplish a lot more if we'd get rid of our ifs and and's; and get off our butts.
UNKNOWN You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.
MALTESE PROVERB Herd! Your first duty is to get rid of your shepherd!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You really need a shredder if you have information you want to get rid off, but you do not want to t...
JEFFREY ROBINSON Most of the people Italked to would love to get rid of smoking,
DAVID JENSEN The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.
WALTER S. ROBERTSON We had a few silly fouls that we'll need to get rid of if we are to step up at the next level.
CAROLYN COMPTON I've been getting rid of some clutter — anything that doesn't serve a positive purpose in my life �...
JAN DENISE I've been getting rid of some clutter — anything that doesn't serve a positive purpose in my life ...
JAN DENISE They gave me medication to stop the pain, but they didn't do anything to get rid of the (problem). I...
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ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
ELEANOR MARX Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A...
ELEANOR CATTON The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
ELEANOR MONDALE In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imag...
ELEANOR CATTON I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or med...
ELEANOR CATTON