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abysmal acceptable almost assisting aviation barely billion compared developing federal grants improving job million minimal security spent
We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards. Kim Petersen
abysmal benefit consumers designed impossible numbers suggest understand
The (poll) numbers suggest an abysmal program. This benefit was designed to make it impossible for consumers to understand it.
abysmal ahead encounter performance proved talk tough
Tough talk ahead of the encounter proved to be just that with the second-half performance abysmal in the extreme.
abysmal city extension granted management operator
No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.
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Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid. Dennis Hastert
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Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
abysmal animal animals cases cautious declare emphasize pleased situation violations welfare
We're pleased that they (USDA inspectors) did go out there but still feel cautious about this situation because the regulations that the USDA enforces are minimum, and I emphasize minimum. In cases where they declare that there are no violations of the Animal Welfare Act, animals can still be languishing in really abysmal conditions.
abysmal ended ending epidemic folks odds plane rate success
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
abysmal came team took
We came in here and that team just took it to us and took it away from us. It was an abysmal night. Pat Riley
ambassador brand disney
We are a highly-visible brand ambassador for the Disney brand as a whole.
ambassador american-producer coconut committed famous hotels less los prior several
We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. Lew Wasserman
ambassador athletics best both canada canadian great heritage leader natural olympic roots team wayne
Wayne is a natural leader of the Roots athletics team, Team Roots, and a great ambassador for our company. Both on and off the ice, he exemplifies the best of Canada and the Canadian and Olympic heritage of Roots.
ambassador case great happens intelligence iraq john matters north relating stand
What happens when our ambassador has to stand up and make the case on intelligence relating to Iraq and North Korea? ... Do you think John Bolton is going to be believed? And do you think it matters? I think it matters a great deal.
ambassador build canadian count efforts help mentor strengthen swimming
We know we can still count on him to help us in our efforts to build and strengthen Canadian swimming as an ambassador and as a mentor to young athletes.
ambassador champion great missed national since tremendous
She is a tremendous champion and she has not missed a national championships since 1992. She has been a great ambassador to the sport.
ambassador country duties government
The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
ambassador asked following region secretary situation travel
Secretary Albright had asked Ambassador Ross to travel to the region this week. Of course, she will be following the situation closely.
ambassador difficult extremely goodwill help life means people seriously takes terrific understand work
She takes her work for us extremely seriously and that means a lot to her and the staff. She's a terrific goodwill ambassador who can help people understand the difficult life of a refugee.
andrew
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began. Chris Cleave
andrew great
I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist. Leslie Cockburn
andrew blessing coach guys worry
What a blessing it is for a coach to have guys like Andrew and Horton. We don't have to worry about them when they're on the floor.
andrew hoping
We're hoping that Andrew will get through. He should get through.
andrew best conditions heat race ran robert run tough
There are tough conditions with the heat (90 degrees). Andrew ran the best race he has run this year. Robert ran the best race he has ever run.
andrew john knows proven susan themselves trust
I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind. Kate Baldwin
andrew talked
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film. Jared Leto
andrew garfield wonderful
If I could play any superhero... my favorite superhero is Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield is wonderful at doing it to the point that I don't think I should play it. Taron Egerton
andrew bringing share sullivan thrilled
I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.' Tina Brown
call clear information resources
We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.
call effort takes
We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.
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
call number
'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet. Lucas Till
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
call domestic interested whatever
I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas. Lisa Cholodenko
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
change begets
Change begets change. Charles Dickens
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. Charles Caleb Colton
change begets
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
change men rocks
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
change country littles
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. Charles Sturt
change age wells
It is not well to make great changes in old age. Charles Spurgeon
change becoming becoming-new
Everything is perpetually becoming new. Alan Watts
change way world
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
change vices computer
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. Alan Perlis
children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
defenders
Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol Cesc Fabregas
defended playoff positive time
The positive was we defended down the stretch. That's what we're going to have to do when playoff time comes. Flip Saunders
defend prepared ready stand
We are prepared to do that, and we stand ready to defend our rights,
defending good stand texans texas
We stand with other Texans in defending Texas as a good place to live.
defend ensure open ready stand steps
We stand ready to vigorously defend the NAFTA and we will take all steps open to us to ensure it is respected.
defend given iraqi manage means ourselves people prove provided security support
We want to prove to the Iraqi people and the world that we are in charge. We can manage our own security and can defend ourselves provided we are given the means and support to do that.
defend happy hard hold nick teams
We're going to play hard and we're going to defend you. We were happy to hold Nick to 14 points, which not many teams are going to be able to do because he's a big-time player.
defend difference half harder
What a difference she makes for their team. She can do so many things with the ball. It makes it a lot harder to defend them at half court.
defend people plays
Working the game, you always have plays people don?t like. That is just part of it. But this other thing, it is not true, and that is the thing I will defend myself on. Terry Porter
health disease vices
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
health men poverty
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
healthy feet-and-walking trekking
Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...
health eye noses
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
health law wellness
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. Charles Simmons
health years dollars
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it. Chris Christie
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
health mind needs
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. Byron Katie
healthy feels great-things
The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now. Camilla Belle
helping-someone achievement saving
Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible. Charles Stanley
helping conservation protect
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. Alan Clark
help understand
We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can, Mike Harris
help organize
We want to see how we can help organize the transfer. Javier Solana
helping-others names way
Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent. Chogyam Trungpa
helping conspiracy crime
Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime. David Shuster
helping-someone stories sometimes
I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes. David Schwimmer
helping ability
All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act. David Koechner
helping help-me help-yourself
Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t. Dave Barry
laboratory likely move
We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.
labor-force people individual
[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols . C. Wright Mills
labor-day celebrate going-to-work
We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work? Carlos Mencia
labor
That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that. Charlize Theron
labor superiors
Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital. Abraham Lincoln
labor market tight together wage
When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.
labor learning
Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous. Confucius
laboratory realized spent terribly time until
I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it. Donald Johanson
laboratory tests until
We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.
poor
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. August Wilson
poor backgrounds harder
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. Carol Vorderman
poorly pressure stage
We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.
poor starters finishers
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher. Alan Kay
poor
What have they done to you, my poor child? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poor-richard reproach
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it. Benjamin Franklin
poor
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand. Anton Chekhov
poor sad tired
Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him. Walter Mare
poor poverty-and-the-poor
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor. George Moore
position
The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,
position scratch trying york
We're in a position where we're just trying to scratch our way to New York City.
position-of-power people understanding
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts. Dee Hock
position several steel
We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.
position runners scoring somebody step
When we get runners in scoring position somebody has to step up.
position sure
We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.
position
We're in the same position now as are a lot of other teams.
position won
Let those who won be put in the position to govern.
position scholars-and-scholarship statement took
What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement. Abhisit Vejjajiva
rather sooner
We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.
rather
Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy. Jim Calhoun
rather rule
made it a rule ... rather than the exception.
rather record
I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler. Thomas Mars
rather work
I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself. Kate Bush
rather
I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down. Keeley Hawes
rather stated
Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.
rather strange
So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen. Suzanne Farrell
rather survive taken
She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.
records goes-on facts
I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence. David Sanborn
records bros
Get down with your old Allman Bros. records! Bryan Ferry
records tickets driving
My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally. Carl Hiaasen
record rehearsing setting
It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes! Noel Redding
records firsts
I didn't have a lot to do with the first record. Bo Bice
records enough
I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record. Blake Shelton
records
You are what your record says you are. Bill Parcells
records chill platinum
I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out. Beyonce Knowles
records why-not should
They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not? Dee Dee Warwick
violations
We know that the violations can be controlled.
violations
Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty. Kevin Murphy