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BRANDON DAVIS She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.
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HELEN DONOVAN The teachers have worked really well with the students, too, as far as the work assignments.
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The Doctor...
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OLASOT Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who
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JUNIOR SEAU Junior had a great day making it into the regional finals ... that was big.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, it's true.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR He made the right protection calls. We had communication problems and execution problems. If you lin...
JEFF FELA I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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HELENE NELSON assignments are not an option.
JIM COX You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest
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DEE ANDERSON Amy Carter loved to bake her own cookies.
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DEONTAY WILDER I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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ENGIN ATSUR We had a bunch of guys out there who weren't really sure what they were doing (last season). We've g...
GRANT WISTROM It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I've lost the TARDIS as well.'
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DWAINE KNIGHT The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.
ALICE FISHER Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
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ELISE CRUMMIE Five sisters. That must have been hell."
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DAVE BARRETT You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.
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AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN