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We don?t have anything right now, no ramps or decks. No, we don?t have any ashtrays to give them, either. A pretty good amount of people are going out for a smoke, too.
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I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me. Harry Melling
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Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it. Helmut Newton
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Whether it's a golf grip, golf shaft, a golf head or a golf ball, you're still chasing a finite amount of dollars.
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We're not taking about a massive amount of time, Richard Allen
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We're not sure of the amount of sand resources off our coast (that can be exploited), ... and that's a critical issue. This isn't just a beach-replenishment project. This would be a complete restoration of these barrier islands, a matter of substantially increasing their three-dimensional geometry so they can really do something to retard surge and erosion.
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We are particularly concerned about the increased graphics requirement, so we will need to do a fair amount of testing to ensure that it doesn't bog down the systems too much with our current hardware.
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Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency. Yoshihiko Noda
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In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.
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Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face. William Colby
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As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. Virginia Postrel
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. Vincent Cassel
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook. Vikram Seth
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to. Colm Meaney
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It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike. Emma Roberts
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Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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We've been working closely with Intel and IDT on this new technology. These relationships will enable Micron to make available an unparalleled amount of memory for servers. Lee Terry
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We do a huge amount of business online, but we scrutinize things more. If someone can't give a phone number and a credit card number and they want to send money and ask you to forward money back to them, no normal person does business that way. If it doesn't seem right, it probably isn't.
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We won't know the true amount until the dust settles. E. B. White
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We believed that a minimum of one year was the right amount of time to give health care professionals enough time to fully understand the appropriate use for our medications. You don't want patients going to the doctor and requesting a medicine that they're not familiar with. O. Henry
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We are not able to control the amount of franchises that come in, but we can educate the public on the personal touch we can provide. Don Thompson
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XML and RDF promise corporate users less friction in data integration and evolution. Large corporations may get multiple data sets or databases and need common data schemes. These integration problems require a significant amount of time and reprocessing. They can make for a pretty painful data fusion process. XML and RDF reduce the time it takes...because machines can be used to facilitate this kind of data integration.
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There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is. Rupert Everett
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out. Ramez Naam
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion. Sarah MacLean
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I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.
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We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed.
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I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas. Rudy Giuliani
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The decision condemned a company for not saying yes to a company who requests a huge amount of secret technology for the future. The Windows source code is copyright. It is valuable, the fruit of lots of effort.
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The deer ran frantically through the living room, kitchen and hallway, leaving behind a large amount of blood throughout the house.