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Yes, things have been difficult -- but don't let anybody tell you it's been all bad.


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ANDY BEEN I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.
ANDY BEEN I am a satisfied man.
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JOHN GALSWORTHY When you want something so bad, you can't let anybody take it from you.
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KURT VONNEGUT, JR. I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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CHARLES DAVIDSON It had been so long since i'd let myself fall for anybody.
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SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON I Dont Believe that Anybody Feels the Way I Do about You now.
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CHERYL STRAYED I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
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HARRY KROTO All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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SAMARJIT SHANKAR For all that has been,
Thank you.

For all that is to come,
Yes!
DAG HAMMARSKJöLD All your long years we have been friends. Trust me as you once did, let it go
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CATHY LANCASTER For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
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JACK STRAW Both the Prime Minister [Tony Blair] and President Bush have committed themselves to a vital role in...
JACK STRAW to ensure that both sides stick by the commitments which we have already entered into.
JACK STRAW There are now discussions taking place on other aspects of the negotiating framework, principally on...
JACK STRAW I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead,
JACK STRAW absurd, at best.
JACK STRAW That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalitio...
JACK STRAW As far as 'Syria next on the list', we made clear that it is not,
JACK STRAW We should take stock on Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming w...
JACK STRAW exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
JACK STRAW Frankly I'm not holding my breath for any confessional statement from Saddam Hussein,
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JACK STRAW theological-political divide, which could open up even further down the boundary between so-called C...
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JACK STRAW What we are discussing is what we have to do, the very clear undertakings given by the European Coun...
JACK STRAW The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrate...
JACK STRAW The government's dossier catalogued a range of other procurement activities, and referred to intelli...
JACK STRAW That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved i...
JACK STRAW The British government's position is that prisoners -- regardless of their technical status -- shoul...
JACK STRAW I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.
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JACK STRAW We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible ...
JACK STRAW Our position in terms of paying ransoms has been very clear and consistent. The United Kingdom does ...
JACK STRAW It's another terrible terrorist atrocity, ... Their fight is ours, our fight is theirs.
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JACK STRAW Because it was quite dark in that corner I was being pushed towards shaking hands with somebody just...
JACK STRAW Saddam's weapons pose a grave threat to international peace and security, ... We must not shrink fro...
JACK STRAW The Iranians are tough to negotiate with,
JACK STRAW Each of these tests is demanding but eminently deliverable. We are working as hard as we possibly ca...
JACK STRAW Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and...
JACK STRAW There was no consensus for that proposal. It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render y...
JACK STRAW There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and rend...
JACK STRAW We should take stock of Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming w...
JACK STRAW The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fa...
JACK STRAW There might be other assistance that can be offered.
JACK STRAW Your circumstance is entirely hypothetical, and I'm quite clear it won't arise.
JACK STRAW In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.
JACK STRAW We want to see these talks resumed because we not only believe this is in the interests of the inter...
JACK STRAW notwithstanding the great difficulties.
JACK STRAW That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil,
JACK STRAW Iraq has no history of democracy.
JACK STRAW We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday,
JACK STRAW I'm very pleased to announce that agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's acces...
JACK STRAW [LONDON, England (CNN) -- Saying he is] very, very sorry ... handled sympathetically and quickly.
JACK STRAW As soon as I leave this briefing ... I am going to find the people I think are responsible and encou...
JACK STRAW That's always been our economic development model.
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JACK REED The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils.
JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will.
JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
JACK CANFIELD If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma...
JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea...
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JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
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JACK ZIPES 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their...
JACK ZIPES Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ...
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JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
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JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
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JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
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JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
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JACK WELCH Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone.
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JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
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JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f...
JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years...
JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
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JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
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JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio...
JACK STEINBERGER I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...
JACK STEINBERGER I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to...
JACK STEINBERGER I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
JACK STEINBERGER