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blocked britain handful high human involved people standing
I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office. Helen Sharman
blocked capitol certain flow free house people streets wall
We're not going to put a wall around the Capitol, ... We're going to have perimeter security. We're going to have certain streets that have been blocked and certain ones that are open. But we want a free flow of people into this Capitol with people doing tours, doing the things that people need to do in the people's house in the Congress. Bob Ney
blocked defense hang heads open picked shots
We responded particularly well tonight. When things didn't go our way, we didn't go into one of our tremendously long droughts and hang our heads and look defeated. We did the reverse. We picked it up on defense and blocked some shots and got out in the open floor. Scott Skiles
blocked clarity further order procedure seek written
We blocked the written procedure in order to seek further clarity on the decision. Peter Power
blocked cannot constantly crowd moving post rebound separates
She cannot be blocked out. She's constantly moving without the ball. You think you've got her but you don't have her. She's able to rebound in a crowd and that separates her from a lot of other post players. Gary Blair
blocked few might move tinkering
She blocked well. We'll keep tinkering with our lineup. We might even move up a few players.
blocked since year
Since I've been here, which is just a year now, we have been blocked at every turn, John Tory
blocked game played ran threw
We ran better, we threw better, we blocked better. We just played a better game this week.
blocked cars police several streets ton
Several streets had been blocked off and there were a ton of police cars there.
blocks defense outside passing played serving tougher
We started passing well. We played defense a little better, we started getting blocks outside and we were serving a little tougher ourselves.
blocks four games missed played serves sloppy three
We still missed too many serves and we played a little sloppy in games one and two. We played better in games three and four and there were streaks where our blocks were real good." ()
blocks efficient pass running sustaining tackling
We have to get better technically in all phases. Sustaining our blocks (running game), pass blocking, being more efficient passing, getting a better pass rush, tackling ...
blocks constantly dominate falls lords opposite push rather sings swift taylor teaches time tweak
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it. Nicholas Kristof
blocks call football plays practiced separation testament toughness treatment whether
Whether you call it a low-grade separation or a contusion, he practiced every day. He won't get treatment for it. He blocks out pain. He plays through it. It's a testament to his toughness as a football player. Gregg Williams
blocks families family fun lots reunion spread
We're spread out over two blocks and there's lots of fun things. Some families make this a family reunion event. It's a feel-good kind of thing. There's something for everybody.
blocks both concerning current effects hope identify learning mechanism molecular offer present processes relapse remains study treating type types underlying understood
To our knowledge, the current study is the first to identify a molecular mechanism that blocks both retrieval and reconsolidation of any type of memory. While much remains to be understood concerning the cellular processes underlying the effects of ERK in drug-stimulus associations and other types of learning and memory, the present findings offer hope for treating cue-elicited relapse in addicts. John Marshall
blocks folks histories popular scholarly
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov. Rick Perlstein
blocks followed life series stepping stones stumbling
Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....
correction cost customer effect far focus led market negative ongoing online reduction renew retailers retailing
The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a whole. It has actually led online retailers to renew their focus on customer service, cost reduction and profitability.
correct noticed people starting
We've already noticed that people are starting to correct their behaviors. Greg Turner
correct win
We spotted them a two-goal lead, ... To win in this league, you've got to play for 60 minutes. We've got to find a way to correct that.
corrects frames opposition remarks
A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture. Gretchen Rubin
correct function functions good looks message people trying
We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard. Michael Graves
correction hal needs sees
We have to get (Juan) going. I think (hitting coach) Hal (McRae) sees the correction that he needs to make.
correct people period time
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was. Natasha Trethewey
correct learn
We don't have any excuses. We didn't play very well. We'll correct our mistakes. We'll learn from them. Mike Nolan
correct defensive mistake sit talking team totally watching
Watching with buddies, you're talking about look at that dunk, look at that 3. You sit down with a coach, and he's talking about look at this defensive mistake that team made and how to correct it. So you're getting a totally different look from him. Marcus Ginyard
easier odd people pleasant prepare rattling seemed sights smells travels
Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind. Michael Specter
easier seeing single
We are seeing applications merged into a single device. They are getting easier to use and more streamlined.
easier extra pass stretch struggled
We struggled at times scoring. We made that extra pass down the stretch for easier shots.
easier images people talk web
We're in a do-it-yourself mega-trend where people can do it themselves. It's so much easier to write to the Web, talk to the Web and put images on the Web.
easier shows ifs
It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. Louis C. K.
easier
We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves. Mark Recchi
easier free hard paid whenever
Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him. Brad Soderberg
easier extra motivation next opponents time
We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.
easier fix good hated positive swing though
We would've hated going into the bye at 4-4, ... It's a big swing for us, even though it's only one game. We had some good things out there, but there are still things that need to be fixed. It's easier to go back and fix them on a positive note, going into the bye with a win. Greg Ellis
funny humorous mind
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. Charles Dickens
funny morning self
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
funny death witty
He would make a lovely corpse.
funny kings humorous
It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
funny people literature
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
funny christmas xmas
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
funny law people
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
funeral littles pay
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave Charles Caleb Colton
funny marriage wedding
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
gains action terrorism
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen. Alan Greenspan
gains potential returns
The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.
gains opportunity selling
The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.
gains applause harder
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause. David Hume
gains facts celebration
It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive. Denis Waitley
gain ground playing points teams western
We have to get as many points as can right now. We have to get some separation. We have a lot of teams playing each other in the Western Conference. We are going to gain some ground on someone. Barry Trotz
gain hear identity starting
We're starting to gain an identity and confidence. We're starting to build. You can hear it in the banter on the bench. Ken Hitchcock
gains increases seeing split wage
We're seeing the productivity gains split up between wage increases and profits. Scott Brown
gained supposed
I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to? Kristin Cast
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
offense slow
We started so slow and they started so fast. We can't put our offense in that kind of hole.
offense struggled
We struggled to get into our offense a little bit.
offense struggled
We struggled on offense with our spacing and timing.
offense worry
With the offense we have, all you have to worry about is (making) your pitches. We know the offense is going to score. Aaron Harang
offense played
We didn't play very well. We played well in a couple, but not so well otherwise. Our offense just didn't really get going. Adam Kennedy
offense served
We served real tough. It made it so they (Box Elder) couldn't get into their offense whole lot. Shane Jones
offense playing respond running score
When you're playing a running offense like they have, you've got to score as much as you can and as often as you can. We scored early, and they didn't respond for a while. Charlie Whitehurst
offense summer tony worked
We worked on this offense all summer with Tony Jones, but he went out with an injury,
offense played
We didn't show up. The offense played great.
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
running eye two
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
running pain boys
I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
running church-bells religion
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. Charles Studd
running europe usa
My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.
running wall real
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
runs
We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.
runs sinister
Sinister Minister, you can't control. He just runs off. . . . He's a runaway train.
runs score
We didn't score any runs. We had opportunities to score runs and we didn't do it. That was it. Alan Trammell
runs sold untold widely
It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions. Howard Fast
runs score
Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming. Gautam Gambhir
runs
He's a big kid, who, for his size, is agile, runs well and is still powerful. Joe Nelson
runs
He runs real, real fast. And he's very instinctive. He just can diagnose and get to the right spot. Dick LeBeau
runs says service test
We've done test runs on and off for two years now. When someone comes to you and says they want ferry service for Newburgh-Beacon, you get right up there and test it.
runs says service test
We've done test runs on and off for two years now, ... When someone comes to you and says they want ferry service for Newburgh-Beacon, you get right up there and test it.
sets
It all sets up for a lot of drama. Gregg Marshall
sets term using
I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind. Alastair Reynolds
sets team
We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.
sets since
I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart. Cass Elliot
sets setting smart tendency vocal
When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.
sets
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
sets
When the application sets are similar, there?s movement. Mark Polansky
sets
When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus. David Hallberg
sets settle standards
He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less. Matt Hasselbeck
setting work
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind. Kevin Henkes
setting various
There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.
setting whatever whether
She's our unquestioned leader. She does so much, whatever we need, whether it's points, rebounds, assists, setting up plays. She does it all. Mike Harris
setting unable women
In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk. Veruschka von Lehndorff
setting
I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.
setting
I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party, Ariel Sharon
setting team win
I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy. Gilbert Arenas
setting
We've got the possibility of setting things right, Ruby Dee
setting talking teenagers
We've got two teenagers we're talking to right now, and one of them has confessed to setting the fire.
studied
I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study. Edward Brooke
studied
Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school. Idina Menzel
studied women
We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.
studied theory
I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. Flea
studied
I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect. Poe Ballantine
studied
I studied martial arts before I studied dance. Robert Battle
studied tape watched
I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying. Marcelo Balboa