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basis expense hire legitimate whether
We have no basis to know whether it's a legitimate expense or not. What do any of us know about accounting? That's what we hire professionals to do. Marc Ward
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What these numbers have done this morning is raise a question: Does the Fed have the nerve to raise by 50 basis points (a half percentage point) next week?
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We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.
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The exposure will be great and plus -- it's Aerosmith! ... They're legends. It's going to be really cool. I mean, how cool would it be to be on a first-name basis with Steven Tyler? Brett Scallions
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There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war. Suzanne Collins
basis constantly disliked learn school
The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels. Stephan Pastis
basis regular
I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest. Tom Hopper
basis challenges computing directed easy exploit future grand power predict towards unexpected
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices. Tony Hoare
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The outlook for rates is to the downside on the basis of the slowing growth environment. Any view that the relatively high nominal interest rate structure will be enough to insulate the New Zealand dollar is dead wrong.
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We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.
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We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.
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We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.
building looking mean means poor seasons
We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.
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What these seniors have done is impressive. I told these guys that it used to take, eight, nine, 10 years for T.J. to win 29 games, but these guys have helped build a foundation.
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What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.
building large number people sure whenever
Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.
build expand relate uses whenever
Whenever you build an institutional use, like a hospital, or a courthouse, there is going to be expansion, and the uses that relate to that institution are going to expand as well,
building coach future general incomplete
When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing. Marv Levy
change heart path
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Carlos Castaneda
change china climate entire exchanges facing famine join problems promote solve states united
We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
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We have schools teaching yoga, rock-climbing, martial arts, fly-fishing, ... If a kid is in a program that hasn't changed from when the parents were in school, it's just not OK.
change lead lucky small
We have a small lead over Werder Bremen but things can change quickly. We were lucky in this game. Oliver Kahn
change lead level slight
We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.
change guidance plans
We have no plans to change the guidance policy.
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We have no choice but to act. Climate change is the worst threat the world is facing from an environmental perspective. It's putting at risk our relationship with the planet. Stephane Dion
changes governance magic overnight pass public situation wants
What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet. Dan Bartlett
change course matter score threat whenever
Whenever we need some kind of big play to change the course of the game, we look for Crosby to do it. He's always a threat to score no matter where he has the ball. Matt Barnes
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We're just trying to cut every possible expense that we can. Most people just see Ritter Park and don't think about everything else we do. It's very complex and complicated and there's got to be a solution because I can't give up.
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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. Elliott Abrams
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings. Jim Yong Kim
complex heel inches known napoleon total
I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more. Laura Wasser
complex direction music ourselves seriously song taking trying
We did most things in one take. We never play a song the same way. We're trying to take our music in a more complex direction without taking ourselves too seriously and not having fun.
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We started this for the right reasons, ... We're on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence of Americans for probably a long time to come. You'll see us downsize, I hope, immediately. But it is still going require us to be there for a while to come. Saxby Chambliss
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Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.
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When you take those three complexes alone, you're talking about hundreds of units.
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We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.
difficult five league percent shots
We have to get some shots to go in. We haven't shot 40 percent yet in five league games. That's pretty difficult to weather. Dan Monson
difficult team turn
We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.
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We have played two really good teams who had something on the line. It was very difficult to win in San Angelo and (the Odessa High) game was very much like a playoff game for them.
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We have a young team this year and we're playing a difficult schedule. So I would say that I'm probably drawing from it even now, the things you have to do with a young team and how you have to handle them. That was an experience with that very young Duke team. As seniors, they made that first Final Four and the rest is history from there.
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The fact that she has multiple moves makes her difficult to guard. She used her up-and-under quite a bit. We fell for her fakes a lot.
difficulty sure treaty
The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed. Arthur Henderson
difficult hit players
When I'm in the zone, it's difficult for players to hit me. That's what I've been working on -- getting in the zone. Jose Contreras
difficult loving strengths
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are. Sharon Salzberg
healthy enemy normal
Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden. C. S. Lewis
healthy legal-system pay
There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays. Alan Russell
healthy mind wonder
Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities. Charles de Lint
healthy purpose way
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose. Charles Dickens
healthy feet-and-walking trekking
Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...
healthy opponent ready trying whoever
We're just trying to get healthy so that whoever our first-round opponent is we're ready to roll. Lawrence Frank
healthy important spirit
It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one. Diane von Furstenberg
healthy soil grows
Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow. David Agus
healthy mind allergies
We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies. David Suzuki
miraculous sensation
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation. Ellen McLaughlin
miraculous people regular worked
Two regular people have worked to make something miraculous happen. Adam Roberts
miraculous
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean. Alejandro Jodorowsky
miraculous talking
We are not talking about a miraculous solution. Ehud Barak
miraculous second
I think they're only in the first or second inning of a turnaround. They've done a miraculous job, but I think there's much more to come.
miraculous
I think it's a miraculous recovery. I think she's doing wonderful.
miraculous otherwise
You have to have some hope, otherwise I wouldn't be getting into this exercise, ... It may take some time. I don't think we are going to have a miraculous breakthrough, but at least it's a beginning. Kofi Annan
opportunity risk littles
There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk. Carol Leifer
opportunity giving history
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Carlos Fuentes
opportunity rest saw whenever
We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day. Duncan Fletcher
opportunity
When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.
opportunity missing palestinian
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Abba Eban
opportunity land america
When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me. Aasif Mandvi
opportunity space people
Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing. Alan Stern
opportunity player order
There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter. Alan Rusbridger
opportunity men space
So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not. Alan Shepard
passages knows
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' Cesare Lombroso
passages
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
passages ifs keep-going
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. Joyce Johnson
people eating-disorder body
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. Carre Otis
people ends process
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place. Carol Roth
people technique should
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people. Carol Kane
people stuff-happens critical
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
people source materials
They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.
people concerned
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. Carol Shields
people want bills
All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt. Carol Moseley Braun
people parent trying
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
people ordinary would-be
I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do. Carlos Beltran
remarkably
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake? Yeardley Smith
russian-athlete
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? Anna Kournikova
russian
It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy. Lucas Till
russian-writer
There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. Natan Sharansky
russian-athlete
I'd like to be known for my character. Soundarya
russian-athlete
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber. Anatoli Boukreev
russian-athlete
I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
russian
We've got to do something. You can't play Russian roulette on this. John Sparkman
russian-revolutionary
From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. Mikhail Bakunin
russian
I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. Mikhail Baryshnikov
soviet today
If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.
soviet-union soviet
Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union? Joe Biden
soviet-union soviet
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty. Vladimir Putin
themselves tried turned
I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young. Robert Redford
themselves training work
But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.
themselves turning
We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents. Bill Cosby
themselves
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich Schiller
themselves
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed. Stephen Covey
themselves ultimately whom
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
themselves truth
Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse. Aaron Swartz
themselves
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible. Jorma Taccone
themselves
Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.
unions degrees different
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. Brian Herbert
unions communism china
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad. Bill Ayers
unions facts quitting
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible Arthur Schopenhauer
unionist
When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist. James Nesbitt
union
I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this. Lech Walesa
union
I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened, Tony Blair
unions students active
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
unions pay preference
My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union. Bill Shorten
unions tradition trade
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.