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There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter. Robert Klein
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Should consumer services start to reinvigorate as anecdotal evidence suggests, the outlook for the sector as a whole should improve substantially. The data is very much consistent with the Bank staying on hold next week. Gavin Redknap
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Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal evidence that analysts know the economy's moving faster and all the pre-announcements that come out now.
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Most people make plans about a month before they travel. We haven't seen any anecdotal evidence showing people are canceling plans for the weekend, ... Americans have gotten used to terror alerts after having gone through the drill before. I think the difference now is that people do want to get away and they're putting more importance to that than being holed up in the house in fear.
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We've seen a steady, quite dramatic decline in a lot of runs, including ones we've had counters on and anecdotal information from towns. Over the past several years there has been a sharp drop. There's always fluctuation but it's been more dramatic than usual.
anecdotal delightful evidence
Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing. Christina Baker Kline
anecdotal data evidence gets odds
The data is squarely at odds with the anecdotal evidence one gets from those in the industry,
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For so long, an individual who owned a small business or had influence over pricing somehow, would say, 'Prices aren't rising, so we can't raise prices, either.' Now they can see, with this data and through anecdotal evidence, that others are raising prices, and they may feel they can raise their prices now.
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Growth in real gross domestic product amounted to 4.5 percent in 2004, and preliminary anecdotal evidence suggests that this performance may have been exceeded somewhat in 2005.
cards credit customers easily money pay sure tickets
The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.
cards game sit
We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.
cards florist full greeting service silk table
We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.
cards last looking owners
We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,
cards honest transgender
Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it. Eddie Izzard
cards deaths family leave meant officer send thinking
We also send cards to acknowledge illnesses, births and deaths in the family. One officer who was out on leave for a while told me how much it meant to him that he got a card from us and that we were thinking of him during that time.
cards confidence consumer few filling last number people responses weeks
Very few of the responses will have a post-attack impact, ... In the last two weeks people have ... been very distracted. Filling out response cards to consumer confidence surveys has not really been their number one priority.
cards great guys knew team though
We knew they had a great team out there, and though we got way ahead, we knew that they would come at us today, ... Twenty-one years after doing this, the guys are so excited. The way they set about their task, it was in the cards from the first day.
cards report
We've never done this. It's not our place to give out report cards on the states.
christmas children sometimes
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. Charles Dickens
christmas men alive
And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
christmas honesty hands
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
christmas new-year years
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!
christmas heart men
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
christmas memories years
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.
christmas daughter heart
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
christmas children home
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)
christmas girl father
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
confidence wonder evoke
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
confidence hands two
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute. Charles Caleb Colton
confidence important wells
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. Alain Prost
confidence fall sky
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. Al Neuharth
confidence great mike shoot three
We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly. Jay Wright
confidence great mike shoot three
We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.
confidence shining firsts
Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines. Chogyam Trungpa
confidence ignorance overcoming
The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge David Storey
confidence long people
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there. Carter G. Woodson
consumers energy high higher lost oil pay prices though
The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.
consumer positive strong
We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.
consumers expect general gentle happier housing market pickup recovery retail sales seeing stronger wealth
We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.
consumer continued corporate economy slowing spending
There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.
consumer growth income retail robust signs source spending suggesting wage
There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward. Scott Brown
consumer education impact insurance life provide rather unbiased
We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works. Bob Brown
consumers huge positive revision wages
While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.
consumers customer department issues resolve seem service telephone
We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.
consumers tried
We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,
credit hull moral
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. Alan Bennett
credit days puck saw skates speed today
The one thing you saw today was a flow, it was up-and-down. When you play that way at that speed and that tempo, things are going to happen. They got the game-winner off one of our guys' skates but that's a credit to them because they got the puck to that point. Some days the bounces go your way and some days they don't.
credit free great injuries played suffered team
The other team played hard; they executed a great free kick. You have to give them credit. We suffered some injuries but you have to give the credit to the team that played well.
credit danger falling great histories people weakest
The people who have the weakest credit histories are in great danger of falling into a predatory environment.
credit great quite rhythm shut struggled
We struggled for rhythm the whole game. That's to their credit. We didn't play great but again, credit their defense. We had that one spurt, but they shut us down and we couldn't quite get over the hump.
credit finished goes good sign
We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that's a sign of a really good team.
credit environment hit looking sorts strain
We're in an environment right now where there's a lot of strain in the profitability of credit cards, ... Issuers are looking to hit you with fees and those sorts of things.
credit guys halftime hitting sticking
We started hitting shots. You credit the guys for not panicking at halftime (and) sticking with it.
credit domestic growth product
When you've got credit growth that already exceeds (gross domestic product growth), that's a lot of new credit." ()
data people needs
People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts, articles, graphs, data, infographics, interactive content - even short pictures when you Tweet. Chris Bennett
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The positive tone has more to do with the economic data that showed some signs of life in the economy. We've got through the Enron debacle and some selling that represented investors looking to lock in profits earlier on. Now we're starting to get a serious picture of what next year looks like, and it's probably the first serious step toward an upward move in the market.
data fortune fun hacking seeing shift theft
We are seeing a shift from the destruction of data to the theft of data. They are going from hacking for fun to hacking for fortune.
data economy saying starting tends
There are data saying that the economy is starting to recover, and there are data saying that it tends to be weak, William McDonough
data interface link management platform services single voice
We're integrating voice and data services on one platform -- with a single management interface and a single link to the Internet,
data facts judgment
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping Dee Hock
data used connected
Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it. Eben Moglen
data inquiring scientist
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified. Edwin Powell Hubble
data finals body
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. Charles Francis Richter
estate others rarely sue
We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.
estate percent
The real estate has shrunk by more than 50 percent and is going to be shrunk again,
estate huge otherwise proceed result waste
To proceed otherwise would result in confusion, duplication and a huge waste of estate resources.
estate fortune palaces peace proposed vast
Many of these proposed Peace Palaces never come to fruition. Much of Maharishi's vast fortune is in real estate investments, Rick Ross
estate expected land rise shares
Shares such as real estate are expected to rise on expectations for land prices.
estate fraudulent involved
She was involved in nonexistent or fraudulent real estate transactions.
estate family items personal
We don't have a lot of Henry's personal items because when he died, his family had an estate sale, ... Henry's belongings were dispersed.
estate handed masters require states thousands throughout thus
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious. Fanny Kemble
estate good life market near trying
I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough. Barbara Corcoran
evidence cycles has-beens
There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed. Alan Greenspan
evidence exists full possibilities range
The possibilities could range from a full evidentiary hearing, a mini-trial, to just arguments on the evidence that exists or something in between." () Jack McConnell
evidence contrary knows
I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary. Edward Gorey
evidence circumstantial-evidence
Circumstantial evidence is evidence. Bernard Goldberg
evidence houses occupying survived
We have no evidence they have been killed in that attack. We know at least that Qusay, his son, has survived and he is occupying some houses in the Diyala area,
evidence hoping
We have no evidence that he is deceased right now. We are hoping for a rescue.
evidence point
We have no evidence at this point that this was not an accident, Robert Francis
evidence nuclear saddam weapons
What there is now is evidence that Saddam has reinvigorated his nuclear weapons program. Richard Butler
evidence jury opportunity present saying
What we're saying is, 'Give us the opportunity to present our evidence on battering that the jury didn't hear.'
further issues promoting solutions start step
We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.
further joint preparing teams
We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together. Jacques Rogge
further mark published reporting speaks stand stories sure throughout
We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.
further gain ira tactic
This (The IRA plan) is just a further delaying tactic to gain further concessions.
further information matter provided review study
We're going to study the matter further and review all the information that will be provided to our office.
further indication trying wrong
When we conducted a further investigation of his so-called hospitalization over the weekend, the indication was they didn't think anything was wrong with him and they were trying to get him out the door.
further hands heights higher ordinary people perform push teams-and-teamwork towards
Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.
further gone sweet
We're in the sweet 16. We've gone a lot further than we thought we would. Drew Mitchell
further less likely sales slow
With Vista further out in the future, sales are less likely to slow down now.
indicate needs record team
We're a team that needs a lot of things to go right for us to win. We're improving. Unfortunately, our record doesn't indicate that.
indicate pluto
I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.
indicate spring type
He's getting better. I thought this spring that he didn't indicate to me that he was that type of (one-dimensional) hitter. He indicated to me that he was a lot better. Pat Gillick
indicate shooting
Eyewitnesses indicate that the shooting could be drug related.
indicate reflect support
There is nothing to indicate that those contributions reflect anything but support for the re-election campaign.
indicate stressful
There is nothing to indicate that this was a stressful situation.
indicate record satisfying
We've come a long way, ... Our record doesn't indicate it, and it's probably not satisfying to a lot of people, but it's going to take a while. Sylvester Croom
indicate uncommon whenever
Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text. Melanie Rawn
indicate possible stage
I won't indicate at this stage that I'm sympathetic to this or that possible change. John Howard
marketing phrases idiot
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. Alan Moore
marketing advertising timing
Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills. Al Ries
marketing company ultimate
Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.
marketing mind building
Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
marketing cows looks
A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
marketing world needs
All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing. Akio Morita
market
We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.
marketing advertising products
Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. Edwin Land
marketing coaching good-coaches
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching. Bernard Ebbers
modesty virtue
Modesty is not one of my virtues. Alan King
modest upbringing
I had a very modest upbringing. Balthazar Getty
modesty elegance highest
Modesty is the highest elegance Coco Chanel
modesty wore
She just wore Enough for modesty - no more
modest soothe thy
If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear. William Collins
modest ifs
One gets on better in life if one is not over modest. Anne Frank
modest persons
I'm a very modest person. Drew Brees
modesty sometimes virtue
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. David Halberstam
modest success
I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened. David Heyman
point woods
The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,
point stop
The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.
point
The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.
point
The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.
point
The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs. Livan Hernandez
point reach
The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions. Jan Egeland
point succeeded
We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.
point thinks
We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point. Tom Renney
point state
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. Michael Ondaatje
rebound
With the rebound in the semiconductor industry, we think it'll do pretty well.
rebounds
We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.
rebounds shots
She got some big rebounds and some big shots for us.
rebound survive time
We've got to rebound and become strong. It will take a little time to do that, but we will, and we'll survive that process.
rebounds stopped stops
He got some big stops and rebounds for us and stopped them from getting some rebounds and that is what he's here for. Avery Johnson
rebound team
We had a team that could have competed in the championship game. But we didn't rebound well enough.
rebound team
to rebound and defend. That's what the team needs.
rebounds saw stuck surprise
It didn't surprise me because they saw that they were getting the rebounds and they stuck with it. Joe Crawford
rebound strong three worried
I was worried about the boards. They've got three strong girls, and we had to rebound with them.
reluctance
I think anybody can relate to the reluctance to have to lead sometimes. Geoff Stults
reluctance higher summit
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. Gustav Mahler
reluctance lack-of-confidence
All reluctance is a lack of confidence. Todd Duncan
remains whether
Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.
remains
We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words. Edward Hall
remains
Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. Nicolas Roeg
remains uncertain
In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective. Carlos Ghosn
remains
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite. Vidya Balan
remains
My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus. Sanjeev Bhaskar
remains
I don't know. That remains to be seen. Marty Schottenheimer
remains
'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go. Azzedine Alaia
remains trend volatile
Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.
weakness impotence
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. Edgar Friedenberg
weakness misery shame
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
weakness retreat
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. Benjamin Netanyahu
weak poor-richard
Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot. Benjamin Franklin
weakness compromise power-corrupts
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. Barbara Tuchman
weakness driving conviction
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go. Abraham Lincoln
weakness doe rebellion
The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Richard G. Scott
weakness evidence
There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.
weakness vulnerability
Vulnerability is not weakness.
weakness impotence
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
weakness misery shame
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.
weakness retreat
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
weakness compromise power-corrupts
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
weakness driving conviction
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
weakness doe rebellion
The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.
weakness evidence
There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.
weakness vulnerability
Vulnerability is not weakness.
weakness dangerous myth
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.