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One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast. Jesper Parnevik
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If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith. Dennis Prager
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Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West. Edward Abbey
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Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London. Mariella Frostrup
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it. Lars Mikkelsen
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. Mel Brooks
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There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles. Alexander Siddig
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To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat. Ann Strother
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The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. Charles Marion Russell
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I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided. Big Sean
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Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She's somebody I've always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps. Ndamukong Suh
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New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales. Douglas Brinkley
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I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents. Denis O'Hare
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When we were fundraising to go down to the Detroit area, we figured we had to raise $10,000 to $15,000 to finance the trip. It's four nights in a hotel plus all the means.
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We're so influenced by Motown and the mid-'70s and the rock sound Detroit had.
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We have a number of spots that we're looking for in the Detroit area. There are technical positions that are hard to fill. David Hall
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When I played in Detroit on a line with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, we got used to each other, but it took time. And the more we played together the better we knew where each of us was on the ice. Also, the players must have enough time to interact with each other. Gordie Howe
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I thought Detroit played very good defense, ... They picked up our picks and screens, and then, once we got behind, I think our players were just trying to do too much by themselves.
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We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more. Paul Thomson
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There is no such thing as a leap into literacy. David Petersen
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. Marshall McLuhan
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. Matt Taibbi
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Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions. Ursula K. Le Guin