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Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office. Ronald Kessler
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Luc Besson, the writer and producer, saw my picture at an agency and wanted to meet me. Kate Nauta
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Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it. Heather Wilson
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Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts. Norm Dicks
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Much of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship is classified, particularly in the area of intelligence sharing. There are two direct consequences from this situation. First, most aspects of U.S.-Israel defense ties are decided on the basis of the professional security considerations of those involved. Lobbying efforts in Congress cannot force a U.S. security agency to work with Israel. Dore Gold
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Motorola designed this integrated suite of emergency dispatch applications in a highly configurable format, giving each public safety agency the flexibility to configure business rules and display options to meet their individual needs. John Thompson
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One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances. Jack Miller
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One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies were using their help. Guy Tauer
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One of the things that attracted me to this agency was David and his vision. He's committed to investing in intellectual capital and thought leadership. Andrew Bennett
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You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me. Issa Rae
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I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it. Issa Rae
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By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33. Isabella Rossellini
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I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. Cory Doctorow
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Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that? Rick Perlstein
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It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election. Rick Perlstein
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The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science. Richard P. Feynman
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader. Robert Teeter
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Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress. Kris Gopalakrishnan
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Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly. Edward Carpenter
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Seniors should not be coerced into an HMO in order to get drug coverage, ... Is the White House Backing Away from a Comprehensive Medicare Drug Benefit? Byron Dorgan
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Mentally we know we can beat (teams) and we have confidence in ourselves. Our coach is backing us up. Kelsey Lavender
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More than the length, it's the fact that every ball is backing up. Every ball picked up mud. That's the hardest thing in the world. You can have length, and you can have longer shots to the green, but if you don't have a clean ball, it makes for a very difficult golf shot. Tiger Woods
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Mortgage rates have dropped, yes, but a weak economy means people lose jobs or feel insecure in their jobs. Some potential buyers may end up backing off from a purchase. When the economy picks up after a slowdown, interest rates usually rise, but that doesn't stop people from buying. Mark Obrinsky
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Ned was trying to get (the boys off him). I jumped in at the last moment as they were backing off and pushed them off, ... I physically lifted (Ned) out of the water and carried him out. He would have drowned if I hadn't been there. He was unconscious and under the water. Robert Tompkins
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Obviously oil backing down a little today allows investors to focus more on the relatively strong earnings performances last week. Jim Corridore
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I always go backwards when I am backing up. Charles Portis
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Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that. Mike McCue
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Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate? David Mellem
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Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important. Frank Armstrong
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Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives. Kumi Naidoo
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Last year we reached 355 fifth-graders, at a cost of $6 a student, ... We did this with the help and sponsorship of SFA, Nacogdoches ISD, Coca-Cola, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free and others. People stepped up throughout the year, and we received very positive feedback. It was a great adventure, and we will do it again. Mike Kelly
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Many, many farmers have made significant inroads into their cost structure and we have seen a very significant surge in diversification. David Hudson
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Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. Joe Baca
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Sears is on the way back to health. They're doing a good job (of cost cutting) and they are offering customers a good, recognizable value and customers are responding. Kurt Barnard
cost state
So far, we have 382 claims. We're estimating the cost to the state has been about $64,000. Stephanie Marquis
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Last year was the most violent year so far, and that gave pause, especially given the fact that a lot of the European countries think that the United States is trying to dump the Afghanistan counter-terrorism mission on them. Mike Williams
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Many of these countries don't yet have good resale markets. Stuart Law
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Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, David Gilmore
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Many OECD countries already have 60% participation in higher education, Michael Driscoll
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Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly. Claire McCaskill
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So far, we have people from 21 different states and five different countries - including Japan, Singapore and England - looking at participating in The Great Scavenger Hunt. Daniel Tieken
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Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now. Leo Bokeria
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Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. Martin Jacques
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Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. Nicholas D. Kristof
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Life without a friend is like death without a witness Spanish Proverb
death life
Life is act, and not to do is death Lewis Morris
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Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low John Heywood
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Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down. Michael Schiavo
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Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for any of it, does there? But what if I could give it back to you. Pluck out the pain, and give you another life, one you could never imagine, and it would be for all time. And sickness and death could never touch you again. Don't be afraid, I'm going to give you the choice, I, never, had. Ann Rice
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha
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Let them fear death who do not fear sin Thomas Watson
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Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there. Mark Twain
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So far, there hasn't been that massive death or disease that were predicted. Jon Ward
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When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions. Marc Faber
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make it more difficult to overcome these bottlenecks in the system. Ali Naimi
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Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make. Alain Resnais
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(Lewinsky) doesn't sound crazy. She sounds fragile, as if she is in an extremely difficult spot. Clinton Case
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Last year, we could hit the ball. That was our strength. We had inexperienced pitchers, but what is nice is that they're back. We left them in at difficult times last year so they could learn and they have improved because of it. Tim Bates
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Let's face it, it's very, very difficult to get our work in. The disappointing thing is that it looked like we were going to get our five innings in. Don Cooper
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Less than 250 seats and things could get difficult for Koizumi. Yoshimasa Maruyama
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Learning English is the most difficult part, and I hope I can do it because I really want to become a citizen. I?m happy for my friends and I hope I can do it, too. Maria Garcia
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Many of these folks are in very difficult straits. There are several investments where the investor has used their entire life savings and incurred enormous hardship as a result. It's truly heartbreaking. Bradley Skolnik
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The greatest pleasure in life is love. William Temple
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I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them. John Key
engagement compliance autonomy
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. Daniel H. Pink
engagement records treasure
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation. Al Franken
engagement alive feels
It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive. Brendon Burchard
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I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. Bram Fischer
engagement earth hazards
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all. Ernie Conwell
engagement behavior surveys
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. Andrew Greeley
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I had the constitution of a missionary. Alexandra Fuller
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The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. Albert Schweitzer
health doctors patient
Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside. Albert Schweitzer
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Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium. Bryan Smith
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Many journalists who in the past have written about the pope's health are already in heaven. Stanislaw Dziwisz
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Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us. Jim Edmonds
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Self-regulation is not enough to protect the health of our communities. Elyssa Rosen
healthy motherhood
Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure. Gillian Anderson
health jason
Obviously, we want Jason in the lineup but his health is the No. 1 concern. Mike Keane
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Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry. Isla Fisher
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And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details. Kimberly Nelson
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One hundred and 55 percent, definitely, ... Unless something ungodly happens. Joe Horn
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I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling. Kevin Kwan
hundred shows year
We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever! Trey Anastasio
hundred persons time vacant
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. Louis XIV
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I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade. Stephen Colbert
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course. Warren Ellis
partners
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most. Eleanora Duse
partners ultimate understand
You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going. Tony Fadell
partners can-do
You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner. Arianna Huffington
partners theory should
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on. Brian Greene
partnership institutions unesco
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. Arthur Henderson
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We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer. John Burke
partners fear-nothing
With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death. Ann Aguirre
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Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state. Donald Trump
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Our Russian partners have steadfastly sustained the station while the shuttle has been down. Michael Griffin
patients
L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals. Michael Moore
patients provide
If anything we'll be able to see more patients and provide more services. Richard Mansfield
patients respond
She spreads her love; the patients really respond to her. Sandra Sanchez
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We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year. Chris Hall
patients room waiting
The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them. John Ross
patients
We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain. J. J. Johnson
patients step
Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue. Rick Colby
patients
There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos. David Adamson
patients
We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded. Billy Carter
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May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends. Unknown
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(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday. Gary Parlin
poor surrounded
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. Creighton Abrams
poor side tis
Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory! Emily Dickinson
poor work
I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid. Gene Simmons
poor torture
I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman. Vanessa Ferlito
poorly putt
For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range. Ernie Els
poor source thou
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, / That foundst me poor at first, and keepst me so. Oliver Goldsmith
poor undeserving publishers
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. A. J. Liebling
receiving
Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation. Sophia Amoruso
receiving
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.' Brittany Snow
receiving should stage
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage. Cass Canfield
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It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it. Audrey Hepburn
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Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources. Jan Egeland
receiving lobbyists income
If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business. Austan Goolsbee
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I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well. Debbie Reynolds
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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. Donald Miller
receiving
We are still receiving applications every day. It's wonderful. We are interviewing still. Joseph Roth
saved
The love received is the love that is saved. Eddie Vedder
saved
As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible. Coolio
saved
Anything we love can be saved. Alice Walker
saved year
Marc-Andre has saved us a lot this year and he did it again. Sidney Crosby
saved
I was the one who saved the town. Connie King
saved season
Pau has been doing it for us all season and he did it again. He saved us. Eddie Jones
saved
We saved lives. Every day, we saved lives. Vance Moss
saved
We saved his life. And we probably saved other people's lives. Clay Ginglen
saved setting storm work
It would have saved a lot of work going back and setting up documentation of those storm preparation costs. Earl Lambert
sentence time word
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time. Bill Cosby
sentence wrote
When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going. Colleen Hoover
sentence sentences sticking subtle
I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say. Aimee Bender
sentences
When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record. Pete Wentz
sentence
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk. Jason Calacanis
sentence
My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.' Nigel Barker
sentenced total
He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended. Kraig Troxell
sentence simply today tomorrow
If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar. Sergei Mitrokhin
sentences
Make no a complete sentence. Amy Poehler
several students
Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?' Bill Hall
several
On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger. Bruce Raynor
several
I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.' David Hastings
several theory types work
I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations. Reinhard Selten
several tony
We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times. Jim Sweeney
several staying
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized. Patrice Leconte
several
I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out. Toks Olagundoye
several talk witnesses
We were able to talk to several witnesses at the playground. James Gill
several
We don't know when he's going to be back. He'll be out for several weeks. That's a big deal. Greg Strobel
thousands
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free. Don Miguel Ruiz
thousands
thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time. Eddie Compass
thousands
There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry, Ron Redmond
thousands till time
Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time. Mark Schultz
thousands wrestling
He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times. Jake Shulaw
thousands
There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me. Kay Nehm
treated
No one should have been treated like that. Mary Scott
treaty wide
My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict. Kate Winslet
treated
She was treated no differently than any other individual. Scott Andreassi
treatment
For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis. Tipper Gore
treatment
There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined. John Walters
treat work
We are having a ball. And it's a treat to work with my brother. David Murray
treatment work
Treatment is the way to go, ... It can work if you have the right model. Joe Williams
treatment
Treatment is available. It's (addictive) and treatment works. Craig Hill
treatment
Treatment for it is not all that effective, Leon Russell
treatment
For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis. Tipper Gore
treatment
There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined. John Walters
treatment work
Treatment is the way to go, ... It can work if you have the right model. Joe Williams
treatment
Treatment is available. It's (addictive) and treatment works. Craig Hill
treatment
Treatment for it is not all that effective, Leon Russell
treatment deserve-the-best deserve
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. Jane Austen
treatment
He's getting treatment every day and it'll probably be a game-time decision, Tony Dungy
treatment triumph
This is a triumph of treatment over dilution and collaboration over confrontation. Benjamin Grumbles
treatment
This is not just a treatment that reduces symptoms. B. R. Hayden
virtually
We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. Toby Keith
virtually
I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave. Harish Rawat
virtually
What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless. Travis Plunkett
virtually
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. Craig Venter
virtually work
I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies. Milton Glaser
virtually
Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie. Drew Goddard
virtually
I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled. Councilwoman Mackin