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background board finance forward fred global invaluable knowledge pleased prove view welcome
We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company. Kevin Burke
background dancer goes leg
My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
background direct family grew honest movies time took
I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor. Noel Wells
background build continue director executive funding growth help museum national somebody work
We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.
background days licenses responses reward talk trying
We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.
background believe head information knew life lost months role running stuck study wicked witch
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated! Rachel Tucker
background behind checks hands known looking publicly scenes sure
What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal. Tom Smith
background bodies knew regulate small trying
When we did our first international shipment, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't have a background in logistics. I had no idea how it works. I knew FedEx could get it international. As a small business, trying to get through different governmental bodies that regulate that, I didn't have a chance.
background check districts faster fully school teachers
We're going to have fully certified teachers that have had a background check and it's going to be done faster ... than school districts can do it.
character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
check complaints complaints-and-complaining respond
We are proactive. We respond to complaints and proactively check neighborhoods for violations.
checked creep noticing ourselves realize until
We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier. Ariel Garten
checkers checks people science somebody
There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers. Michael Shermer
checking citizens connected happy history name russian special stopped war
We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
checking good half intensity last minutes pounding quality second slack straight
We started out really good and were just pounding them, going straight down and having some quality passing, and intensity was high, and then we started to slack off, but then the last 15 to 20 minutes of the second half we started checking and working together.
checking condition couple equipment great last ready spent timing weeks
We spent the last couple of weeks getting everything in order, checking out the equipment and the timing system. So, I think we're all set. I think everything is in great condition and we're ready to go.
checked feared headache term
When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me. Leander Paes
checking companies ears eyes great technology
We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.
check happened
We actually don't know what it was for. We will have to check what happened later.
conclusion
and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions. Carl Hiaasen
conclusion consider contrary east impediment israeli law matter middle occupied peace policy public successful toward
U.S. Policy toward the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories is unequivocal and has long been a matter of public record. We consider it to be contrary to international law and an impediment to the successful conclusion of the Middle East peace process.
conclusion ultimate-truth organized
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents... Arthur C. Clarke
conclusion reader careful
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? Djuna Barnes
conclusion deliberate forward hopefully speed successful
We're going forward with all deliberate speed and hopefully we'll be able to come to a successful conclusion soon.
conclusion controls government impose increases needs president price tuition
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. Timothy Noah
conclusion continue elasticity lifetime order
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation. Elizabeth Gilbert
conclusion minister prime reached
we have reached the conclusion that there should be a prime minister for all Iraqis, not just one group.
conclusion reached suicide
We have reached a conclusion that they were suicide bombings.
extensive violent
She does have a pretty extensive history. But she's never been a violent person.
extensive force hired patrol private property
The property was so extensive that he hired his own private 'police force' to patrol it.
extensive learning pilot rehearsal writers
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters. Kim Cattrall
extensive isolated time
Because of the extensive damage, there are many isolated outages that take more time to restore.
extensive intensive relationships thinks
No one thinks of them being overwhelmingly important, but our relationships with them have been really intensive and extensive over the years.
extensive meet players staff
I have mandated to our staff to get out and meet coaches. They need to see our logo. They need to know that we are out doing extensive evaluations on their players academically and athletically. FAMU will be visible. Rubin Carter
extensive muscle pounds training worked
I did extensive training and through that worked with a nutritionist, so I put on about 15 pounds of muscle mass. Kristanna Loken
extensive gain looked nba ounce room shape weight
He wasn't winded at all. He looked really good. Definitely, NBA shape is different, but he had extensive weight room work. He's always working out. He's going to be 50 years old and not gain an ounce of fat. He's a freak.
extensive resources state
There is no state with more extensive resources than Nevada.
found presence-of-god absolutes
True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
found frustrating
I never found it frustrating not speaking. David Selby
founders humans
The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. David McCullough
found industry bits
It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out. Catherine Bell
found late post scandal whatsoever yesterday
The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.
found good help jason jefferson job richard struggled
We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight. Mehmet Okur
found friendly offer ourselves quickly shocked together
We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.
foundation emotion reason
Emotion is the foundation of reason. David Brooks
foundation donation
I am the donation to the foundation. Baron Davis
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
hard-work easy-work problem
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. Alan Perlis
hard-work jealous thinking
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. Alain Prost
hard-work acting joyful
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. Al Pacino
hard-work actors today
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it. Akshay Kumar
hard-work mind lasts
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
hard-work mean pursuit-of-happiness
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.
hard-work thinking focus
Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work. David Krumholtz
isolated near
But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.
isolated larger piece wore
I think it is an isolated situation. It's just a piece that wore out. I don't think it's symptomatic of a larger problem.
isolated
I would characterize it as an isolated problem. Donald Rumsfeld
isolated nutrients obtained people studied useful
Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them... Dan Castellaneta
isolated
We wanted to kill the clock. We wanted to get Lance isolated so he could make the shot.
isolated people
People said, 'Maybe this is an isolated event,'
isolated
After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.
isolated terribly twenty
During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting). Abraham Maslow
isolated seems
It seems to not be an isolated incident. Richard Kelly
jason favorite-person persons
Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse. Charlaine Harris
jason matthew perry
'Hatching Pete' was so much fun. Mitchel Musso and Jason Dolley, as well as Josie Loren, who was also in '17 Again' with Sterling and Zac Efron and Matthew Perry are in it. We just had a blast filming. Tiffany Thornton
jason lads
I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander. Wayne Knight
jason somewhere true truth
I don't think he showed us the true Jason Dubois when we got him. I'd like to think this is the real guy, but the truth is he's probably somewhere in between. Mark Shapiro
jason knowing lose possibly waiting
I couldn't possibly lose that fight, knowing that Jason was waiting for me to come back with the belt,
jason
I love Jason Bateman. He's so funny. Alison Brie
jason ends
Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history. Deion Sanders
jason kid tough
He's a big kid. It's tough for a kid like that (to play back-to-back games), just like it's tough for our Jason Martin.
jason last night time
Last night, I started with Jason. By the time I was all the way through, it was time for Jason again.
mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
plays puck results start
We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this. Patrick Marleau
plays season trying
When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy. Wayne Chrebet
plays run
We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him. Chauncey Billups
plays
Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did, David Gower
plays
Make one or two more plays than they do.
plays youngest
I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.
plays
Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC. Edward Hall
plays ready touched worried
We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him. Jeff Banks
plays shady
Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich. Arthur Clough
police pool genes
Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
police brutality police-brutality
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality. Al Sharpton
police tools illegal
Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade. Chris Chocola
police themselves
Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?
police ironic tests
MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. Eddie Izzard
police society wardens
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. August Strindberg
police needs safe
We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. Dick Durbin
police citizens function
I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. Dennis Kucinich
police bills politician
The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio. Bill O'Reilly
reporters humorists
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. David Sedaris
reporters reporting stand
We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.
reports talk useful willing
We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.
report timing
We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important, George Meyer
report running tells
Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.
reported signals
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives. Jean-Marie Lehn
report run since time
One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that! Ronald Biggs
reported tribe
One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.
report success terrific thrilled
I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.
talked
What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,
talked
She talked more around him, responded more to him.
talked
Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too. Tony Gwynn
talked
Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. Nancy Gibbs
talked thinking
When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.
talked until
No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in. Lindy Ruff
talked truth
To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out. Lynn Samuels
talked tweet
The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded. Khloe Kardashian
talked unusually
My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way. Richard Flanagan