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We have seen a tremendous amount of cargo coming into the port. It's sort of a miniature major port all of a sudden down there. Robert Cross
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We have a small amount of evidence at the scene, but we don't think it was intentional, ... The driver probably doesn't even know he struck anything.
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We have asked the workers to pay for a portion of their health care. The amount is negotiable.
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We have no firsthand knowledge because of the amount of devastation at the Mississippi properties. We are obviously very concerned about our 8,000 employees.
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Whenever you get to the desert, an inch is a significant amount of rain and that is not normal.
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Whenever you get that dramatic of an increase, it bears watching. It's always hard to measure the amount of fraud in the market. A lot of investors don't complain.
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When you're trying to learn and establish yourself and be consistent in the major leagues, it's hard to do that with the amount of pressure everybody from the outside is putting on you. But obviously all three of us were able to continue to be successful, move on and do the things everybody expected us to be able to do. Chris Carpenter
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When Felix comes here, you want him to play a decent amount of time in the outfield. You can't just pull a name out of the hat and say, 'Let's put this guy at first and Felix in the outfield.
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We have pushed out the timing of the monetary policy easing to June and reduced the cumulative amount through 2006 to 75 basis points.
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Whenever you can get a muni-bond at or over 6 percent, that's a very attractive rate.
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There are a lot of girls I've found attractive, but we could never date. If a girl can make me laugh, that's really attractive to me. I have a soft spot for southern girls who are sweet, like Taylor Swift! Spencer Boldman
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I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing. Tom Rath
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The outlook for new car sales is actually not so bad. Job and wage conditions are improving, and that's creating the environment for automakers to boost sales as soon as they roll out attractive vehicles.
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One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us. David Milne
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The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.
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The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct effect on their earnings and stocks can also become less attractive to bonds.
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We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.
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We are maintaining intense efforts on good merchandising, marketing and the gauging of customers' tastes and demands. We are focused on introducing many new products that we believe will be attractive to our customers.
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We want to provide consumers a quick and convenient place to pick up a bottle of wine. Like some of our other popular proprietary brands, Thousand Oaks will be a high quality, great-tasting wine available only at 7-Eleven.
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We have no knowledge of any country not sending its best team. In fact, all member countries are committed to send their best teams available for the championship.
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We have some brochures in Spanish and that really suffices and we have our library card application in Spanish and we have our Web site available in Spanish as well. Really, that's what people need.
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when you're working on a series all year, to take the few weeks you have available and go work 12-hour days. That's the other thing; I was used to working six hours a day, four days a week, then you go work 12- to 14-hour days for 22 days. That's considered an easy shoot, but I was still like, 'Oh, man. I've gotta get back on a sitcom.' Patricia Heaton
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We have precisely enough -- that is, 20,000 doses -- available to us in Hungary, so that if the situation comes up where bird flu spreads to domestic poultry, that the surgeon general can decide to vaccinate people who breed or who work immediately with those birds.
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We've seen a tremendous response to Desperate Housewives products made available to date, so extending the franchise into the world of fragrance makes perfect sense. Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere, connecting them in a very personal way to this popular series.
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We have so far a situation that is not satisfactory ... it's very difficult for many people to predict how much (vaccine) is going to be available two, three or even five months after a pandemic has emerged.
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We have Sodje back next week so that is a boost, Phil Stamp will be back training he's suffered with a virus the last week so he will be looking at two weeks to be available for selection. We'll have a look at the situation next week but bringing in a player on loan is an option.
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When in doubt, it may be worth going with the cheapest plan option available until you have further time to evaluate because you can make your switch in the November enrollment period.
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We have said for some time that Windows 2000 will have a slow ramp because companies take time to test and deploy new operating systems. Windows 2000 is basically a second half of 2000 story.
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We have to go back to some of the basics. Those basics are the parents have to get involved in the young people lives. The parents have to know what their kids are doing. The churches are going to have to get involved. We are going to have to start educating our kids. John Morrison
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We have to find ways to continue to change consistent with our basic values and our common community and humanity. Bill Clinton
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We have no legal binding, we basically are trying to work with the parties to see if there's an interest on their part to resolve this amicably. If we feel that the parties are not willing to resolve it, then we're done.
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We want people to hold hands and create a bridge of support for the basic human rights, dignity and equal respect of immigrants in this country.
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We wanted to try to start establishing our bench more, so basically we're playing three guys and giving those guys a little bit more minutes. Flip Saunders
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We were basically priced right out of Orleans.
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We were basically on the edges of roads. When the wind starts kicking up again, any of those fires could get pushed on to roads and in to grass.
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We were around the business so I think we got our basic mechanical skills from him.
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We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.
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We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.
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We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.
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We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review. Henry Hyde
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We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.
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We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.
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We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.
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Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us. Paul Pierce
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track. Marc Guggenheim
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We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap. Pierre Berbizier
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We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.
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Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.
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When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.
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When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.
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We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers. Tom Segev
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We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.
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We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT, Atal Vajpayee
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We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth. Brigham Young
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We've seen water rushing down the arroyo, if we get another rain what's gonna happen to the cheap fill, is it gonna run into our backyard?
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We've seen upside in all the railroad stocks over the next year, ... remains the cheapest railroad in our universe. James Valentine
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This was never designed as ambulance space, ... It's cheaper for us to move somewhere else and start from scratch than try to refurbish this. Joe Johnson
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We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them. Michael J. Saylor
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To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices. Mark Helprin
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We have had such cheap credit for a relatively long period that there may be some sort of market fatigue.
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Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. Timothy Noah
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Whether we see it this day, this week or this month, I think the market is cheap and it will turn.
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When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.
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We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.
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We've seen hazelnut prices peak at $11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from $2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.
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We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.
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We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross over. We turned them down. Instead, we are taking the cross with us.
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The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.
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The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.
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... The fact that middle managers think their companies are mismanaged is particularly alarming.
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The creation of these sites is akin to the government aiding and abetting an illegal underground economy that puts legitimate companies out of business.
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What these guys are saying effectively is that pricing is tough. There's not a lot of growth, so you've got to get your cost structure in line to be able to play.
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Whenever you do a revival it begs the question 'why now and why here?'. I can't think of a better place to do the show than London right now, and I can't think of a better theme to do than the cost of protecting the world. Rob Lowe
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We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.
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We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation. Andy Burnham
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We were tough tonight though, I don't want to make out we weren't. We battled and scrapped, but we also switched off, and that undid all the good work, and cost us two points, and that's why I'm frustrated. Alan Curbishley
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The extra cost is the major reason why the market is slow to react to the campaign. Zhang Jun
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The fact is, we are going to get it done sooner and it will cost customers less. Jim McDonald
costs fixed
There are a lot of fixed costs that we are not able to control.
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The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent, Richard Williams
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We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.
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I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going. Ashwin Sanghi
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The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.
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The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.
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ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market. Hugh Johnson
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We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.
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There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities. Kaki King
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We did extremely well. If this had been a team thing we would have won easily.
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We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork. Kevin Quinn
meet possible second visual walks
When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium. Ridley Scott
meets product require service
The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations. Paul Hewitt
meets readers written
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.' E. L. Konigsburg
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We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.
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Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't. John Key
meetings attraction
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God Aiden Wilson Tozer
meeting people
We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.
meet people
We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day. Omar Epps
meetings staff year
We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.
online people shop
I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has. Kacey Musgraves
online parody
We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments. Timothy Simons
online
There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people. Amy Heckerling
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many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.
online space
Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.
online percent represent room sales total
Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow,
online point talking value
There comes a point at which you have to say, 'Where is the value equation?' when you are talking about online media.
online
What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed? Howard Rheingold
online steven
I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic. Gina Bellman
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So far, we've not seen any impact, but we're reviewing our options to see what we need to do to keep it that way.
options various
There are various M&A options we will explore.
options
I feel like there's still some options open.
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There are a lot of options with stripes.
options people
There are many more options than most people know about. Most people are pretty uninformed about long-term care.
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Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form. David J. C. MacKay
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With options expiration today, there was not as much volatility as we had expected. We were in range-bound trading.
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The options there go all the way to a fly-in subdivision.
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The options are out there for consumers. They have voiced their preferences through their purchases.
perceived poor spending
The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.
perceived
What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me. Oleg Cassini
perceived
The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.
perceived threat
I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats. Marianne Williamson
perceived pure shot
You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.
perceived
Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual. Phil Klay
perceived wants
OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,
perceived substance
The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S. Park Chan-wook
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The reality is for most of the East, the ingredients just didn't come together to produce the type of storm that many were claiming.
producers
The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists. Mike Nichols
producers
The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid. Mindy Cohn
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On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me. Catherine Deneuve
produce
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
producers
There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with. Michael Keaton
produce record
I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well. Kenneth Edmonds
producers automobile vehicle
You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle. Bob Lutz
produced
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
produced proper
Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.
produced ultimate
We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal. Del Harris
produced
It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period. Richard Hatch
produced
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
reports science tragedy
Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.
reports seen trying whether
We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.
reports
There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.
reports steps terms
What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.
reports talk useful willing
We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.
reports
We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.
reports vague
Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness. Arthur Helps
reports unless
Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.
reports seriously
The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate. Bob Bennett
selling-more goal priorities
Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities. Don Cooper
selling encyclopedia right-now
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. Bruce Springsteen
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers
selling soon supplies
We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,
selling
Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.
selling stopped
For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.
selling
We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.
selling figures industry
Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry. Mark Cuban
selling
We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.
steps action projects
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. David Allen
steps surprise reader
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. Dave Gibbons
steps one-step-at-a-time easy
With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it. Jane Smiley
steps backing-up steady
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. Alan Bean
step
We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.
steps should
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
steps steps-forward
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. Brandon Sanderson
steps taking
We are taking steps one at a time. Jack Jones
step win
We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there. Al Horford
stop trying
We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.
stopped vehicles
Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.
stopped
You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching. Enrico Colantoni
stop
We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,
stop
We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.
stopping
How about not equating death with stopping? Alanis Morissette
stopping action truth-is
Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned Charles R. Swindoll
stopping range bombing
Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better. Ed Pastor
stop team three
We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.
using-people gay evil
One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can. Alan Chambers
using-your-talents giving bird
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Bernard Meltzer
using
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
using
That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget. Alfred Hershey
using windows
We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.
using word
I find myself using the word 'executives' now. Andrew Mason
using whether
I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact. Aerin Lauder
using
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.' Ban Ki-moon
using work
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt. Lucy Liu