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GREG COOPER The Asian region is extremely exciting and active.
SIMON VINSON All cars interested in racing at I-44 Speedway can bring their cars and put them on display.
RANDY MOONEYHAM This is a significant discovery. It's an exciting paper. It's definitely the way you would go about ...
ANNA MCCORMICK No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
RICHARD HAMMOND Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
HENRIK IBSEN 2006 will be an extremely exciting year as we look to double and triple our customers.
CLINT ORAM Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely excit...
NASTIA LIUKIN This is an exciting thing for Beaver Lake. Of course, now it's an accepted thing.
RICH COLEMAN More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
BROCK YATES Most of the people are racing fans and like to see the cars up close.
ED STEVENS It isn't my Super Bowl of racing like it is for a lot of people. I didn't grow up in stock cars. I w...
AARON FIKE There is this myth out there that says if you're involved in a catastrophic aircraft accident the od...
MARK ROSENKER But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR We believe that punters will appreciate having access to an exciting new 21st century product and th...
JAMES PACKER Touching is extremely exciting for children. It eliminates the distance between children and art.
MIRIAM AROND An engineer is designing the runway right now.
PAT ABELN The process of designing a distribution plan in connection with the global research analyst settleme...
FRANCIS MCGOVERN We're doing extremely well ... it's so exciting.
JAN NASH We're not ready to write an exercise prescription for Alzheimer's or dementia yet. But the results a...
CARL COTMAN Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
FLANN O'BRIEN Life is an audition.
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IAN FLEMING I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
VALENTINO ROSSI All the cars theoretically should have a shot to win, which will make for some great racing.
BRIAN GRISEL Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a se...
SIMON SINEK We're looking forward to this weekend racing here at home. It's always an exciting race for the fans...
ROBBIE REISER If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.
ROGER STAUBACH It was a great thing for James to do. More than me, he is exactly what the pop world is looking for ...
CASSIE COMPTON I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTw...
DAVID MACKAY Web designing and development
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AAVENNUESOFTECHCOM I am extremely happy to be joining Racing Engineering - I will not let them down.
ADAM CARROLL James makes us go. He's the triggerman on offense. He's a basketball junkie, and he plays extremely ...
BILL CAHILL It's extremely, extremely exciting to finally do something as important as Healthy Kids Day at our t...
CRAIG DRUCKER The best thing about racing is the thrill, the fun.
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DAN WHELDON Allowing the large fraction of wetlands in New Orleans to disappear is an extremely expensive thing.
RICHARD CARSON I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.
KURT BUSCH Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
HELEN KELLER Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
HELEN KELLER Stock car racing is where it's at right now. All my heroes growing up, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon,...
ERIN CROCKER When you get into a pack of cars, then you feel the problem worst, handicapping the driver and handi...
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SCOOTY CAREY This is exciting," said J.Lo. "We are sneaky agent men, like Bond James Bond."
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ADAM REX Land that was an asset of racing was taken from racing and given to the state.
CHARLES WAIT I've been racing something all my life, whether it's been a bicycle skis, motorcycles or cars. I rem...
LEE SUTTON He's an extremely complete player, but the one thing he brings is an offensive flavor to our attack....
DON MCKEE Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.
NIKI LAUDA If you are at all romantic about racing, it is so much fun to drive these cars and to really appreci...
BOBBY RAHAL There was an inflight breakup of the aircraft,
JOHN LEE You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
BABA KALYANI James is an easy guy to like and he's an easy guy to root for,
ANDRE AGASSI Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to b...
INGRID NEWKIRK Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL It is not an enormous amount of money considering how much the aircraft is worth.
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RON MARSDEN It's a spiritual thing, the real racing fans know.
JAMIE MILLER Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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DAVE ODOM We're moving an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to Gibraltar and we're putting a number of fight...
CHRISTOPHER MEYER Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
MARIO ANDRETTI For me, the most exciting thing is the quality of employers and opportunities.
KATHY MYERS The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much...
ANDY WARHOL I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St...
NELLY What we are looking at here is a bounce that is boosted by defense and aircraft, coming back from ex...
CALVIN SCHNURE David is an extremely gifted and charismatic actor.
KATE HARWOOD Singapore is an important airline. It's really the gateway to aircraft sales in Asia. But at end of ...
CHRIS MECRAY I don't think such a thing should have happened at all. It is extremely unfortunate that such an eve...
ARUN JAITLEY It was exciting. Probably the most exciting thing in my life. It was exciting to say the least.
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SAURABH UBOWEJA We are extremely happy to have Steve back as our Chief Steward. He has a no-nonsense approach and hi...
RON BENNETT It is a complex airplane and someone would have to be an experienced pilot to fly that type of aircr...
KATHLEEN BERGEN The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's ...
ANDY WARHOL Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
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DON HAMMER This is such an exciting moment.
LISA POLYAK It's an exciting time; exciting for staff; exciting for the public.
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MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Ain't no gay filter for the cash.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day,...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jack...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply out...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fat...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON