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athens chinese city key lake salt succeed successful transition
This successful transition... was key to the Sydney, Salt Lake City (Winter Olympics) and Athens Games. We know our Chinese friends will succeed in this transition too. Jacques Rogge
athens found georgia university visit
We found out when the University of Georgia at Athens called and told us that they wanted to come and visit to see what we do because we were No. 1. Eunice Foster
athens beat came good impressed plays teams
Usually 4A teams do not have 11 (good) players, but Athens does and came up with the plays it need. I was very impressed with them. I think we can do better, but we got beat by a good team.
athens people
We want to make these people feel like Athens is their home.
athens both changed learning life meet pressure since
Life has changed dramatically for me since the 2004 Athens Olympics. With every meet I'm learning more. I have no real pressure on me since I have both breaststroke (100m/200m) world records. Leisel Jones
athens australia course finished games gold hoping huge result ride since terrific track won worlds year
Since I've finished Athens and then of course worlds in L.A. (where she won gold in the 3000 metre pursuit) this year was a terrific result for me. I've never represented Australia at commonwealth games it's going to be huge and I'm hoping to ride track and road.
athens eat greek influenced maze myth pick send seven youths
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them. Suzanne Collins
athens helping inspired plan toward work
I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization. Yanis Varoufakis
athens berlin capable cold contagion december europeans eurozone lots messing perfectly terrible war
For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
calling answers levels
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)... Chris Bohjalian
calling uncomfortable okay
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that. David Sedaris
calling course developed files members prior release sealed
There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation. Louis Stokes
calling came consider education later life theater
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. Michael Moriarty
calling reason categories
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Marianne Moore
calling fresh fruits giving kids love people start taking wondering
The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.
calling hike rate reason
The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do. David Rosenberg
calling disclose elected electorate knowledge limited policy political public talk voters
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads. Jack Germond
calling race sick
We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there. Jaret Wright
corridor electrical found heavy large smoke
When (firefighters) arrived, they found heavy smoke in the corridor on the first floor, ... They made their way into the storeroom, and there was a large electrical panel (on fire) there.
corridor country northeast route traveled
Traditionally, the Northeast corridor is the most heavily traveled route in the country.
corridor shut
If we put contra-flow in place, then we shut down that corridor very quickly.
corridor notorious transit
Fifty-nine is a notorious transit area. It's a corridor that is used by smugglers.
corridor location main since street
We like the idea of 66th Street since it is the main corridor to the (Tyrone Square) mall. It is more visibility. The location was appropriate and available,
corridor include plan sensible shows vision western
The recommendation to amend the Western Corridor Plan to include Transmission Gully is eminently sensible and shows vision and leadership. Brian Roberts
corridor high proximity street traveled
Our proximity to (Route) 55 is not as great, but we feel the High Street corridor is going to be more heavily traveled than it is now.
corridor definite elsewhere excited expanding grow locations looking louisville targeted
We've targeted 20 locations we feel we need to grow in. We're looking at the Brighton-Fort Lupton area. The whole I-25 corridor is a definite must. We'll be expanding in Louisville and Lafayette. I'm also excited about expanding elsewhere in Weld County.
corridor office side west
It has all the makings of a new office corridor for the metropolitan area. I-55 could be what (Highway) 40 has been on the west side of the region.
distance men world
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm. Charles Caleb Colton
distance character order
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.
distance knees remember
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor. Charles Stanley
distance lying night
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth. Charles Spurgeon
distance men law
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
distance home house
The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.
distance reality love-is
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment. Alan Ball
distance joy mind
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance Akhenaton
distance book writing
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years. Aiden Wilson Tozer
driving truck inns
Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube. Dave Barry
driving force activism
Activism has always been the driving force for change. David Swanson
driving love soon together
We started driving around together as soon as we got our licenses. We love to drive.
driving experience jump lost precious sudden turned upside
This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost the most precious thing there was to her. Her intoxication had nothing to do with that.
driving factors market nice reminder step
When you step back and put it all together, it's nice timing. It's a New Year's reminder of the geo-political factors that are driving the market higher.
driving easy interstate
It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate. Carl Edwards
driving girls help run
When you run with those girls every day, you can't help but get better and that is what is driving them.
driving home safely
We want everyone to get home safely who may be impaired from driving for any reason.
driving hurricane imagine looked loss months six
When we were first driving through the town, I was at a loss for words. It looked like the hurricane had just come through the day before we got there. I can not even imagine what it looked like six months ago.
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." Charles Dickens
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.
needs normal spirit
If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.
needs speak ashamed
He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.
needs lord rejoice
When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.
needs inbreds values
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not. Alan Greenspan
needs wealth rich
I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to. Alan Bennett
needs enough boycott
When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective. Al Sharpton
needs bronx bodyguard
I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx. Al Pacino
needs logic found
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
needs way sticks
The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.
offered
After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers. Andy Wachowski
offered requests
We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a hand. Brett Gardner
offered time tv
When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids. Kelli O'Hara
offered supporting
I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done. Bill Hader
offered scripts stack
I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them. Nicole Holofcener
offered
When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it. Logan Marshall-Green
offered written
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me. Zach Braff
offered office talking turn
We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.
offered option turned
I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant. Robert Powell
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
within
I would say it's more within my expectations.
within
We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate. Michael Mann
within work
We will have to work within the budget.
within work
We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.
within
We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,
within
Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.
within work
We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.
within
We should be able to energize it within one or two days.
within
They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.