Allan Slater quote: "Well, it's a little bit of a mix of hope and distress. Hope because we still see three of our friends obviously alive and also a bit of distress because the other friend, Tom Fox from the United States, is not shown."

They're very supportive of what we do. They're making the point that we have helped many detainees.
ALLAN SLATER

Most of the kidnappings are of Iraqi citizens.
ALLAN SLATER

They're very supportive of what we do.
ALLAN SLATER

We want to make it clear to the kidnappers that these people were working for the good of the Iraqi ...
ALLAN SLATER

Seeing three of our four friends was very distressing. We are really asking the kidnappers to consid...
ALLAN SLATER

One of the best things we can do for ourselves and for our detained friends is to keep doing our wor...
ALLAN SLATER

When these people are released - and I believe they will be - they will be dumped onto the streets o...
ALLAN SLATER

If we left Iraq, we would be abandoning our friends.
ALLAN SLATER

The confirmed number by the American forces now is 14,600 Iraqis detained in American prisons alone ...
ALLAN SLATER

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. ...
KELLY SLATER

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting....
CHRISTIAN SLATER

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.&#...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed ...
KELLY SLATER

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a b...
HELEN SLATER

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running....
NIGEL SLATER

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sex...
PHILIP SLATER

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner ...
NIGEL SLATER

I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thi...
KELLY SLATER

Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natur...
KELLY SLATER

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Hey you little sneak, how much time do I have? You cheeky bastard
CHRISTIAN SLATER

We read some of (Fox's) writings and sang a hymn that he had changed some of the words to a little b...
ALAN SLATER

We asked (the parish pastor) if we could have a service for our friend there, and he agreed. He said...
ALAN SLATER

It certainly looks better than it has in past years.
ALAN SLATER

I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swin...
TOM SLATER

In my 13 years at Winfield there would be occasions to subsidize the junior varsity team. This is a ...
CHUCK SLATER

I'm thrilled. I'm glad the prosecutors felt this case was worthy of dismissal. I'm really happy.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

It is only 10 minutes but it is high intensity and you work almost to the point of total fatigue.
BILLY SLATER

Mum and dad still live up there and everyone's OK, although (the cyclone) has affected people I know...
BILLY SLATER

They always give it to me a bit up here.
BILLY SLATER

I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and shar...
KELLY SLATER

When you start seeing an area that was all tundra, and now all of a sudden, you see more shrubs or y...
ANDREW SLATER

Thawing permafrost could send considerable amounts of water to the oceans.
ANDREW SLATER

For me, this new album represents his best collection of material in a long time. All of his records...
ANDREW SLATER

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of yo...
KELLY SLATER

When I was at Florida, I had told him I really liked him. And when he decided to leave Miami, he rem...
TOM SLATER

When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.
KELLY SLATER

Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was al...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

All too often we get mired in the short-term battles. The PC industry is good at increasing megahert...
MICHAEL SLATER

In private they're talking big time about England's reverse swing and this is a huge hurdle for them...
MICHAEL SLATER

I still think we're going to win the Ashes.
MICHAEL SLATER

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of poc...
MICHAEL SLATER

Both players were going so well that I was intrigued by their decision to take the offer of bad ligh...
MICHAEL SLATER

The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for peo...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The case is dismissed and we are very pleased with the outcome. It was everybody's decision that it ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The case is over,
CHRISTIAN SLATER

and Young Guns II.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals ...
PHILIP SLATER

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing fo...
PHILIP SLATER

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more f...
PHILIP SLATER

You do not build a rail system and it is there forever. It has to be replaced or rehabilitated every...
CLIFF SLATER

From the starting kickoff we controlled the tempo of the game, playing hard for all four quarters. T...
DAVID SLATER

We met and talked about playing smarter. Some of the guys had struggled with what club to hit and ho...
DAVID SLATER

Sweet Bird of Youth.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.
KELLY SLATER

Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's fi...
LAUREN SLATER

It's funny because depending on the day or where we are, my favorite surfer is either Andy or Bruce.
KELLY SLATER

To receive a 10-point ride is a blessing in itself, but to have it honored by giving to those who co...
KELLY SLATER

Now is the time to determine whether or not it will be a two-horse race for the title,
KELLY SLATER

I haven't surfed that much in the past couple of weeks,
KELLY SLATER

I haven't surfed since Japan—not even one wave.
KELLY SLATER

If I were to win on the Gold Coast, I think it would probably force me to look at going for another ...
KELLY SLATER

It was a fun trip for her.
KELLY SLATER

What we're trying to do is create futuristic surf communities.
KELLY SLATER

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.
KELLY SLATER

It's all about where your mind's at,
KELLY SLATER

I was just living in the moment, ... That's something I've been trying to do this year. I wasn't wor...
KELLY SLATER

Good catch -- I mean, a good throw.
KELLY SLATER

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.
KELLY SLATER

When I started surfing, I'd forget about everyone and everything and just go out and surf, ... I sur...
KELLY SLATER

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I suppos...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

He gave me a pat on the back and said not to worry. He said there were no hard feelings.
BILLY SLATER

His style is not to go too deeply into the homework, but to surround himself with key people who del...
WAYNE SLATER

[Kelly Slater dijo desde el saque que Mar Ohno es un tablista que no debería ser subestimado por na...
KELLY SLATER

so I won't miss my cartoons.
KELLY SLATER

It may have been one wave in one heat but by him winning he gained 178 points on me and if I'd won I...
KELLY SLATER

Andy gets ahead of the pack, it will be, but if he falls between Fanning and Munro then they could s...
KELLY SLATER

I call him 'Danger' and he ripped the other day,
KELLY SLATER

It's not really about the stations; it's about people's lifestyles. All the pretty pictures in the w...
CLIFF SLATER

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The thing is, everything you read about me is true. That's the scariest thing...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

That was a little uncomfortable
CHRISTIAN SLATER

True Romance.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

This is the process. It just shows that someone can accuse you of anything.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

It's a magical start. It kind of gives me a nice little cushion there. If I just surf loose and get ...
KELLY SLATER

When it comes to juveniles, we can arrest them, but with the system set up the way it is, the fines ...
KEN SLATER

The Easter shift really exposed the soft underbelly of those retailers that have been struggling.
TODD SLATER

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who woul...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

This won't be a habit for us. It's over. It's done. All that losing ended today.
DIETRIC SLATER

I don't think most of us are mentally ready (for the NIT). The mindset is 'it's over, let's just wor...
DIETRIC SLATER

We wanted to show him we can play a little defense, too.
DIETRIC SLATER

I didn't want to come out of the game.
DIETRIC SLATER

We were playing like an intramural team.
DIETRIC SLATER

We should've played like that from the jump.
DIETRIC SLATER

Coach was so mad, he didn't even fuss at us. We were ashamed at ourselves.
DIETRIC SLATER

That's what we're looking for.
DIETRIC SLATER

They were talking so much on the court, too, and we wanted to shut them up. They were like, 'You're ...
DIETRIC SLATER

All games are big, but you could tell this one was going to be a little bigger. They (Ole Miss) were...
DIETRIC SLATER

I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. R...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

In 2011, Mark Brooks, a consultant to online-dating companies, published the results of an industry ...
DAN SLATER

This information is very important to the public.
DEREK SLATER

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,
MICHAEL SLATER

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time ...
KELLY SLATER

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send yo...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big,...
KELLY SLATER

We can fund it out of toll revenues.
CLIFF SLATER

I've got to give credit to Berryville for keeping on even when they were down by 17 points.
GLORY SLATER

We needed more people to step up and score. I was displeased with the defense down the stretch, but ...
GLORY SLATER

We acted like social services, just giving the ball away.
GLORY SLATER

You still have to play to win. Losing can't be an option.
GLORY SLATER

We didn't quit and we hung in there. We didn't lie down and die.
GLORY SLATER

We did do some good things (late).
GLORY SLATER

We were playing not lose instead of playing to win. When you play not to lose, then your offense is ...
GLORY SLATER

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

We were practically hugging each other in the water it was so good.
EVAN SLATER

That's the big one. It had huge repercussions and is considered one of the top five big-wave discove...
EVAN SLATER

He defined a whole genre of surf photography. He was a very competitive person, so he always wanted ...
EVAN SLATER

It is going to be unique to Fort Wayne. It will be in the center of town, and something that people ...
MARK SLATER

We were outraged, to put it mildly.
MARK SLATER

It's the next level of triple-play [data, voice and video], the ability to differentiate per custome...
MARK SLATER

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and th...
PHILIP SLATER

The time has come for Australia to drop Matthew Hayden,
MICHAEL SLATER

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely...
HELEN SLATER

Please don't follow in my footsteps. I'm already knee-deep in them, and am sinking rapidly...
TONY JAMES SLATER

TMT, too much testosterone. Way more dangerous than TNT.
ROBERT L. SLATER

And then came the three-toed sloth. Stupid sloth. It was a crazy-looking beastie, all arms and brist...
TONY JAMES SLATER

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of choles...
ALLAN SHERMAN

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
GARY ALLAN

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
ALLAN SLOAN

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other ha...
ALLAN SHERMAN

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for ...
ALLAN RAY

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally betwee...
ALLAN MASSIE

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious ill...
ALLAN BLOOM

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrum...
ALLAN BLOOM

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi...
ALLAN BLOOM

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the unive...
ALLAN BLOOM

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - t...
ALLAN BLOOM

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industr...
ALLAN BLOOM

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great...
ALLAN BLOOM

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the thro...
ALLAN MCNISH

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll ...
ALLAN BECK

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
ALLAN BECK

Today, Audi has showed America the potential of diesel power. This is a historic day for Audi and fo...
ALLAN MCNISH

It's a little unfortunate. Sometimes we come up against problems.
ALLAN MCNISH

We had our share of trouble today, but that's natural in development. This was the first real endura...
ALLAN MCNISH

It was fun to really blast the car around the track.
ALLAN MCNISH

Airbus has made a substantial commitment within the United States, where we procure more than 46 per...
ALLAN MCARTOR

We've seen a couple carriers already decide to move some early A380 routes to San Francisco because ...
ALLAN MCARTOR

It's no secret that San Francisco is delighted to entertain any of these carriers. Once they move th...
ALLAN MCARTOR

If airlines feel like they are not going to be able to be accommodated, then they'll start looking a...
ALLAN MCARTOR

Robert believes in our system of justice, and he looks forward to his day in court. He's confident t...
ALLAN MAYER

This is not the first time Carey has made ridiculous accusations against his brother. We're not goin...
ALLAN MAYER

The movie star is past its peak in terms of its power. Which is not to say it's not very powerful, b...
ALLAN MAYER

The entertainment media is changing. The currency a movie star had was the ability to put people in ...
ALLAN MAYER

There was a fair amount of misinformation circulated by the media, and Jason Catlett was part of it....
ALLAN MAYER

To be fair, he has a personal history of charitable works like this, so it's not as if this is some ...
ALLAN MAYER

We can, however, confirm that no one is suggesting the tape depicts anything but the activities of c...
ALLAN MAYER

We have heard second-hand reports that the tape allegedly shows consenting adults, including someone...
ALLAN MAYER

The conventional wisdom is that Tom Cruise shot himself in both feet and the stomach. And he's tryin...
ALLAN MAYER

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to ...
ALLAN MASSIE

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsib...
ALLAN MASSIE

Ahh -- Fred Fielding -- the new consensus choice. (He was) John Dean's deputy. He knew it all.
ALLAN LICHTMAN

[The White House maintains it had no role in any DNC fund-raising. But one expert calls that] passin...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Bush has to give a compelling reason to voters to make a change. In times of peace and prosperity, t...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Maybe second term presidents have been on the mountaintop too long, breathing rarified air, and thin...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

A lot of Richard Nixon's very dangerous and un-democratic tendencies were reinforced by the sounding...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Second term presidencies have been remarkably difficult in the post-war era.
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign aff...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.
ALLAN LICHTMAN

This is a very tough one to turn around,
ALLAN LICHTMAN

The notion of limited government and frugal government has been shattered by this administration, wh...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

The big banks are very enthusiastic and we will back them; we see ourselves as a platform for these ...
ALLAN JONES

The boys were sparkling beforehand and it was a matter of calming them down. They kept their discipl...
ALLAN JONES

Global warming is the greatest threat facing the planet today and we are close to passing the tippin...
ALLAN JONES

The benefits to both clubs are obvious. The quality of the A-League being what it is, this is a supe...
ALLAN JONES

I am running out of opponents. They are all either dying or getting hurt.
ALLAN JONES

Holy smokes, you were a state senator? No wonder I got beat.
ALLAN JONES

I am going to be 95 (today). I feel like 95 right now.
ALLAN JONES

I am a kid. I thought I would take these old guys. But, no way.
ALLAN JONES

I mean, things have to fall into place and you have to be very lucky, but I'll tell you, to a man, I...
ALLAN JOHNSON

We fly back right after the game, because being on the quarter system, we start school the next day....
ALLAN JOHNSON

Well, it's a little bit of a mix of hope and distress. Hope because we still see three of our friends obviously alive and also a bit of distress because the other friend, Tom Fox from the United States, is not shown.

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Well, it's a little bit of a mix of hope and distress. Hope because we still see three of our friends obviously alive and also a bit of distress because the other friend, Tom Fox from the United States, is not shown.

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