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Related If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Doing a fabulous job on Rita doesn't undo the fact that people perceive the first few days of Katrin... CHARLES COOK If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you&... NATALIE PORTMAN Just when we thought we were making progress getting the Katrina evacuees placed, along comes Rita. ... ALTON JOHNSON This is drumming up fears that the damage to the economy from Hurricane Katrina will be exacerbated ... DAVID MOZINA Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed ... ELLEN TAUSCHER Doing a fabulous job on Rita doesn't undo the fact that people perceive the first few days of Katrin... CHARLES COOK We have a long way to go in our fundraising to meet the needs of people from Katrina, let alone what... JOE BECKER The president is doing the right thing to assure people that the federal government is much better p... CAL JILLSON Normally, we're never satisfied. CRAIG GROESCHEL We have to take the positive things we?ve learned from all the games we have played, use them to get... COREY WEBSTER We went down there as they were winding down from Hurricane Katrina, and the day we got there, they ... JOHN LUTHER When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and w... JENNIFER KONNER It?s like (hurricanes) Katrina and Rita. You realize we?re not insulated against this kind of stuff.... GREGG PATTERSON If Katrina never happened and Rita was the only storm coming, I think a lot of people would have sta... DERRICK POPE 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on t... BILL GATES If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effec... J. D. VANCE Rita won't have anywhere near the impact of Katrina. ALAN NEVIN We didn't dodge a bullet with Rita; we took a couple bullets in the legs with Katrina and Rita, ... ... TOM KLOZA We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more o... ANTHONY KIEDIS We have made substantial investments in the region, and our new deficit projections will include cos... JOEL KAPLAN There was a shortage of capacity before Katrina, which got worse, and which is now under threat from... JUSTIN SMIRK Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Katrina blew a big hole in the product market. If Rita doubles that, we are in for some serious prob... JAMAL QURESHI The estimates for Katrina are at the lower end of expectations. The estimates for Rita are expected,... GERONIMO We continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,... DAVID LEMMON Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought t... THAD COCHRAN Had Hurricane Katrina not come through here, Rita would be the event of the decade. GIL JAMIESON By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all t... RICK DANKO The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recessio... STEPHEN HARPER We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it. WALSHY FIRE I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not... JIM GAFFIGAN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so f... SUSAN POWTER I get my competitive edge from my mum. When we're together, we're competitive about little t... JESSICA ENNIS-HILL A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable. JOSEPH PRINCE We have a long way to go in our fundraising to meet the needs of people from Katrina, let alone what... JOE BECKER What counts, of course, is what the trend would have been absent hurricanes Katrina and Rita, AVERY SHENFELD I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell produ... BOB EDWARDS We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn... YOKO ONO I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don... CARLI LLOYD Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're sc... MICHELLE OBAMA There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better... MARLA GIBBS We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is... ALAN VEGA We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maxim... WARREN STEPHENS We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not. ANTHONY T. HINCKS I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's bet... ANNA PAQUIN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l... PAUL WATSON We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying ... CAT POWER All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way. SAM WALTON We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware th... SHERRY TURKLE If we're not compelled to gain a deeper understanding of good and evil, how can we make the worl... SCOTT DERRICKSON It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you... MORGAN WOOTTEN We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't. JERRY FALWELL, JR. We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doi... BENNY GREEN We would have scored a lot more if we could have gotten the ball back more often. I was surprised by... BUDDY POUGH God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I... JOHN BYTHEWAY Things are better than they ever have been, ... At least they were before Katrina. CAROL BROWN We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're s... GARY ROSS With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're s... RAY LEWIS I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that a... JOHN MALKOVICH If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. STEPHEN COVEY We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just al... GABE NEWELL I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom wa... ELLE KING We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up ... JASON WOLINER These are serious numbers. The question is whether this is a trend or a reaction to Katrina and Rita... TOM COLE We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to f... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in... JACKI WEAVER All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that mak... JOHN ASHCROFT You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, y... LIAM GALLAGHER We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobil... RAY NAGIN You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have ... WENTWORTH MILLER Hopefully we won't have another event, ... It's like your washing machine. First, Katrina was kind o... RAY NAGIN We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned fro... DAN QUINN The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're m... DAN PINK I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd... COLIN TREVORROW We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're... EDDIE VAN HALEN The stability of the coaching staff is a big factor. We have everyone back and we?ve added a few guy... DAVE WOOD The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effect... NARIMAN BEHRAVESH If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways ... CORY BOOKER The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we... ANTHONY FOXX Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challeng... ASHTON EATON I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the s... DOUGLAS HODGE A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no ... ROBERT HURT But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t... K. ERIC DREXLER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a... BARBARA KRUGER We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal ... ASTRO TELLER I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things togeth... DAVE VAN RONK Some of the recent job gains in construction reflect rebuilding and clean-up efforts following hurri... KATHLEEN UTGOFF Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from t... RICK FOX As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at pi... SHEENA IYENGAR We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings t... JAMES YOUNG Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of ... TERRI BLACKSTOCK Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, f... 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