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background board finance forward fred global invaluable knowledge pleased prove view welcome
We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company. Kevin Burke
background dancer goes leg
My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
background direct family grew honest movies time took
I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor. Noel Wells
background build continue director executive funding growth help museum national somebody work
We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.
background days licenses responses reward talk trying
We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.
background believe head information knew life lost months role running stuck study wicked witch
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated! Rachel Tucker
background behind checks hands known looking publicly scenes sure
What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal. Tom Smith
background bodies knew regulate small trying
When we did our first international shipment, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't have a background in logistics. I had no idea how it works. I knew FedEx could get it international. As a small business, trying to get through different governmental bodies that regulate that, I didn't have a chance.
background check districts faster fully school teachers
We're going to have fully certified teachers that have had a background check and it's going to be done faster ... than school districts can do it.
building wells climbs
When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it. Alain Robert
build built existing next people roads walk
We want them to build next to the existing hospital. People who are are able to walk can walk to it and it's already got all the roads and the infrastructure that would have to be built at the new location.
build couple franchise
We want to try to build the franchise around Adam, Homer, Edwin and a couple of other guys.
build links london strong
We want to try and build very strong links between London and Beijing. Ken Livingstone
building-something building
...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something. David Sedaris
build built hated radio remember
Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them. Lucas Till
building difference game games guys last tired
The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die. Mark Parrish
building mode postal service throughout
The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.
building capital covers electricity except expenses improvement needs regular school
The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.
course debate human outcome shape
The outcome of that debate will shape the course of human events, Karl Rove
course last meet places track
When you've been going to places for 35 years, of course you think about it being your last time. Each track meet has something you remember.
course good huge knowing looking love
I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands.
course given gone paid reason
When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They packed him up and tossed him out. If they had just paid him, he probably would have just gone his way.
course lower stay tool whether
Whether or not (the WASL) has demonstrated its effectiveness yet, I think it's still too new to rate, ... But it's important to stay the course and not lower standards, and let the tool do its work.
course enjoyed experience facilities field good great trying work
We've always got a good field here, and the course and the facilities are great. We've all enjoyed the experience here. I think it's great that they're trying to work it out to stay. Juli Inkster
course people
I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl! Katie Featherston
course evaluate focus line mountain opportunity run ski strategy whenever
Whenever racers ski a course for the first time, the strategy is to focus on the line and to take the first run as an opportunity to evaluate how the mountain reacts.
course happened network reason talked together work
We would very much like to work together again. And we've talked about it for years. For some reason it's been elusive. She would take a movie idea to a network and I would not be available. And of course Voyager happened and it's just been - it's not been in the cards. But I'd give my eye-teeth to work with her. Kate Mulgrew
easily fighting great kept kids mentally plugging position tent tough
We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.
easily easy unless
Unless it comes down really hard, it'll be very easy to manage. It'll be easily treatable with salt.
easily life seniors york
Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.
easily lives
We can easily get our lives out of balance. Joseph B. Wirthlin
easily good hear peace reach since talk time true
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. Lester B. Pearson
easily excellent food
A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other. Oleg Cassini
easily mexican shuns therefore
The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them. Octavio Paz
easily outcome realizing
I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become. Takeru Kobayashi
easily peace whose
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure. Thomas a Kempis
fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
happens things-happen
Everything happens for me, not to me. Byron Katie
happens ferry i-can
I can never predict what's going to happen. Bryan Ferry
happens
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for. Catherynne M. Valente
happening obsessed starts
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language. Dorothy Allison
happen youths
When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen ....
happened known supposed until
I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present. Mariel Hemingway
happened last moderate shows steady
When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.
happened happens paper
It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment. Holly Holm
happened justify last sit three
We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year, Jon Gruden
lose
We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).
loser given riders
I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day. David Millar
loser winner economy
So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers. David Korten
lose morning people wake
When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?' Newt Gingrich
lose morning truth wake
Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. Nick Flynn
lose love musical
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that. Lauren Worsham
lose safety sight
We're not going to lose sight of safety,
loses
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went. Edith Piaf
loses
I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love! Edmond Rostand
opportunity deuces letters
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.
opportunity men often-is
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
opportunity female lovers
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
opportunity mind glory
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
opportunity extremity
Our extremities are God's opportunities. Charles Spurgeon
opportunity honor denial
When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
opportunity library today
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. Alan Moore
opportunity voice people
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
opportunity giving people
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity. Alan Green
player games profound
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.
player sight league
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. Alan Pardew
player nhl cities
I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy. Alain Vigneault
player league different
All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed. Al Kaline
player long stylist
In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after Al Hirt
player thinking long
I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect. Al Barlick
player dictator guilty
Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty? Chris Christie
player trying being-the-best
I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be. Chris Bosh
player games watches
When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.
possibly respond state
We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event. Michael Brown
possibly saints state
LSU did everything it possibly could to accommodate the state of Louisiana, the Saints and the NFL.
possibly sopranos subtext women
Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that. Kristin Davis
possibly
I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box. Lilly Singh
possibly
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can. Ian Mckellen
possibly radically work
Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with. Anna Paquin
possibly
My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.
possibly realistic release releasing seriously soon spring thinking worried
No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more. If I were Sony, I wouldn't be that worried about releasing as soon as I possibly could.
possibly protect
We did everything we possibly could to protect her.