When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.


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A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE
If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE
They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE
It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE
You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE
I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE
They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE
What we are seeking is for the federal government to pick up the gap, ... The amount that they offer...
ALLEN WALKER
I'm attached to my sailors. I'm not attached to my ship. (As) long as I bring my sailors back home t...
ALLEN WALKER
If I had my druthers, we would have been finished with this months ago,
ALLEN WALKER
I like living in a smaller town better than I do the city. People in Memphis are spread out doing th...
ALLEN WALKER
We lost everything in the house as far as the house goes. Didn't have no insurance on none of it.
ALLEN WALKER
It finally seems to be the right time. We seem to have an increased interest in nursing in our stude...
ALLEN WALKER
A lot of the romance of the West is in here.
ALLEN TUCKER
So, we are probably right about on average for the year. It was just a tough way to get there.
ALLEN TUCKER
Our neighborhood has seen plenty of rain this year,
ALLEN TUCKER
The weather this year sure has been a challenge.
ALLEN TUCKER
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them
ALLEN TUCKER
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
ALLEN TUCKER
There's so much love that has been sent to that area, ... And I'm proud to be one of the senders. Bu...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT
This is quite a time. Maybe the most unique time ever for me. But I can't thank everyone enough for ...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT
It's surprising to me how much has happened in such a short length of time,
ALLEN TOUSSAINT
Dr. John is phenomenal. Dr. John is a heavyweight and one of the nicest guys in the world -- unhurri...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT
Southern Nights.
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Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues).
ALLEN TOUSSAINT
Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my bod...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT
[Yet other artists and culture mavens say that the city has always swayed to its own meandering rhyt...
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holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
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