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Related It's great to be here. A lot of people questioned whether we would be here. But there is one thing y... DAN DOCTOROFF I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There ... SALLY FIELD It would suck for me to just be in the studio. We definitely want to tour, but two of us are married... ROMULO COSTA What we are trying to do now is develop consistent play for three periods. In the first two periods ... GEORGE DEMELLO I thought both teams played real hard. We knew it would be competitive coming in and, you know, when... JOE FAVERO We have a set list, but we work up a lot more (songs) than we're gonna do. That way we can throw thi... TOM PETTY We would have left campus earlier, but one of our buses broke down right before we left. We had to w... CRYSTAL HAWKINS We do what we do because we love it and we try to be successful at it and to make it as fun as possi... ALEJANDRO ROSSO In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a hal... MARK SPITZ In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school... TYNE DALY We were so pumped up last night for our two girls. I think they were just as pumped up for their gir... BILLY WALLER You know, I thought we might end up third. We knew Columbus and New London were the two teams we'd h... DON EGGENBURG We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It was a tough situation last year. We were never in the game at all after the first minute or two, ... FRANK SORIA We did not think it would be as difficult culturally as it was for the players to adapt, ... On the ... ANTONIO CUE I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids... ERNIE ELS We now know a great deal about adolescent sleep. Biological clocks shift by two hours after puberty.... JODI MINDELL In our own defense, we thought we were meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures for a movie deal... MATT DAMON I think we're gonna stay for a very long time because we really want to grow older and play differen... CONNER BROUGH You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my br... ROBIN YOUNT We didn't start thinking about this game until about a week ago. Coming to White Plains, we're ready... BOB CIMMINO I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any pr... BARACK OBAMA We are doing eight gigs in two weeks. We have never played in Colorado before and we couldn't be any... KLIFF HOPSON I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far.... TAHEREH MAFI We do have regular store hours now and we're a little bit more accessible to people. We are growing ... JEANIE PITZENBERGER If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But th... PETE SAMPRAS We haven't played up to our level of expectations the past two games. The more we play together and ... KATIE AARON I know we're going to be tired. We're going to go in there and get two [points]. If we do that, we'l... JEFF PYLE Always singing for the great state, for sure, ... But, you know, you don't want to do a song just be... GEORGE STRAIT An exciting part of our existence right now is [the prospect of] getting to go out and play from 28 ... ANTHONY KIEDIS We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem... SAMUEL GOMPERS Wins are always important, and this time of year you always want to play and not have games cancelle... DAVID PERNO We have six wheels in the dirt. Mars now is our sandbox, and we are ready to play and learn. I have ... CHARLES ELACHI Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you'r... AARON TVEIT We have so many medical bills and we really appreciate your donations, but most of all we appreciate... LISA WENGER You'd have to be in line for two hours. Grocery stores would close at 5, and then you'd go to the re... MEREDITH GROVER I thought we had two good practices coming back from Christmas break and thought we were prepared fo... JOSE FERNANDEZ The difference in our abilities by the age of eighteen had less to do with the number of hours we pr... CAL NEWPORT That would be like us sitting in the kitchen for two hours with our mouths open waiting for a cookie... DAVID NIEVES But we have done the same when we have bowled. You just have to stay patient sometimes and keep hang... MARCUS TRESCOTHICK That whole area is going to be developed in the next 10 or 15 years. Three or four years ago, we nev... HARRY KINNAN If we want to make Tiger Woods's or Al Gore's face, the best thing would be to have them com... JIMMY LAI I wish we could go to the movies." I stared at him. "We're in a creepy dungeon. There's a chanc... RACHEL HAWKINS We never would have thought that when we were kids we would be here, ... We just thought that we wou... LEROY BURRELL We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our c... LARRY PAGE I am dreading it. I don't want anything to happen to either Bryan or Steve. It would be better if we... SIR ALEX FERGUSON Our mind-set and preparation have changed so much over the season. We are two totally different peop... AARON PARCHEM It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. Y... KRISTAN HIGGINS We're trying to upgrade and play tougher teams. But you never know how tough they're going to be. We... DONNIE JONES They made it difficult to run our offense. We could never really get our offense going. I need to do... JOE DESANTIS I don't think that's a problem for us because we've never been in this position before. If we really... JENNA JONES I couldn't do anything more. Alonso keeps finishing second, so we just need to do the best we can. Y... KIMI RAIKKONEN I would say for the most part we haven't had anything like that in almost two years. That's as effec... DANNY MACIOCIA The two permanent thing in this world are change and responsibility as a parent.In 1 second, we coul... RHEA CASTOR MANGA Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding... ERYKAH BADU My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now... LARRY KING Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people w... CAROLINA HERRERA Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of ... COLSON WHITEHEAD When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove ... ALBERT EINSTEIN We came out on one and two doubles and didn't play within our game. We calmed down and played within... JAN BROGAN At some point we all have to grow up. Sure, high school might be the best years of our lives the way... MELYSSA WINCHESTER I don't even know who we play next week. I don't want our kids to know who we play when. We play Cha... ALAN CHADWICK We felt like it would be a good opportunity for the kids, not so much as a reward, but just for a ch... BRAD HANKINS The only thing we would want to be out here for is soccer. But we did a good job of keeping our rese... EMILY COLE We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We were paddling every day before Worlds for at least two hours. That really helped as far as gettin... JAYNE BERRY We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for o... LARRY PAGE [Two hours after that,] we became inundated, ... We weren't prepared for it ... the images were just... ALFIE DENNEN We were in trouble at times, and yet our kids never quit. We got some big stops and I thought we pla... DAN STOLZ We were two very different people and led two dramatically different lives. [Messina] went off in hi... KENNY LOGGINS We thought we might have to get by with our present facilities for a year before building. Now we ar... ALVIN LIEVSAY Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when he ... CHELSEA HANDLER They might not be visible on two or three trips or 50 hours of observation. But now we're talking ab... JEROME JACKSON We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are... JASON ALDEAN Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been ... ROALD DAHL I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our o... HANNIBAL We drove six hours for rooms that we thought would be here. DIANE SMITH What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determi... GEORGE EASTMAN Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more major... JOHN MCENROE We were kind of going through a transition. I wanted to be home for my daughters more. Even though I... MARIETTA BACHMAN He was only there for two hours. He never got a chance to know what bunk he was going to sleep in. GINA JONES I don't know; we had a lot of guys two years ago who showed up every night, and you knew exactly wha... BROOKS ORPIK It hit me when we got out there what we were trying to do. It hit me, and I never got through the me... JENNY PETRIE When we played them last year, they were real physical on the inside. I told our girls we would have... KURT GREENE They were two great games...in four hours and 15 minutes. There was some great pitching on both side... CHASE TIDWELL This was a big win for us, but we've got to learn to play more consistently for the entire game. I t... HALEY MCINTYRE Right now we're preparing for every possibility. We really don't know what to expect. We're looking ... CLINT SINTIM I thought this would be a tough year for us. We had a lot of new kids and it took longer than I thou... JASON BECK I think everybody's working harder in practice. Everybody's hitting harder, they're trying to get re... ADAM SCHULTZ Our match with North Bend was outstanding. Both teams played very well and all the games were very c... CARL BONE You know those pills like Viagra, well they say that if you have an erection for more than 36 hours ... CARLOS MENCIA It has been different for me because I played on the outside the whole summer. But now it is best fo... KAYLA MORRIS First time I tried to 'egg beater,' I thought I'd drown. I was always bored with swimming. It was ne... FOREL DAVIES All I know is I could bend for two hours. LYNDSEY MEDDERS The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever N... DAVE HAYWOOD After we beat Regis to open the playoffs, I found out we were going to get to play Kearney and that ... ASHLEY GRONEWOLLER Don, now, is writing songs. He's never written songs before and he's adding a whole new aspect. I me... JASON STOLLSTEIMER The children get so excited to be on campus and around college students. I have seen so much growth ... HANNAH FESSLER What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and mo... PENNY JUNOR
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JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor... JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. JONATHAN SWIFT What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n... JONATHAN MILLER Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. JONATHAN SWIFT Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re... JONATHAN RABAN One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h... JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to... JONATHAN SWIFT Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. JONATHAN KOZOL Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio... JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. JONATHAN MILLER For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e... JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations , JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ... JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men... 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