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Related Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ... SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota... FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE I like to find old things and I picked up that arrowhead in tears, that broken point ... LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more... FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ... FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa... HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re... HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin... HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act. HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods. HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ... HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today. HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties. HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university. HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have... HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w... HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined. HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required. HE CHANGCHUI He got off to a real good start and hit a bad spell where he was fatigued. Once he got through that,... CHARLIE MANUEL He just got off to a slow start, but once he settled down he got into the game. It's too bad we coul... DAN SKOG He hit a bomb to center field with two outs. He is our No. 3 hitter and he is expected to drive in r... JUSTIN HRABY That was two back-to-back triples leading off that inning. Patrick hit the ball hard all four at-bat... CRAIG BEESLEY "He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then... CHARLIZE THERON He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then ... CHARLIZE THERON He was outstanding last year in the utility role. His fielding at short was very good. He played gre... BOBBY COX Especially with the guys behind him, he'll score runs. If he has a .400 on-base percentage, he could... CHRIS WOODWARD I saw an interview [with Pierre] and one thing he talked about was scoring runs, and that's what a l... BILLY WILLIAMS He did his part in all ways. He pitched great, he made some great fielding plays, he stole a base, h... DUSTY BAKER It was pretty cool. He talked about growing up in this state and playing at Central Arkansas. He mos... LUKE ALLEN It became evident to us that he really didn't care about the people he had in the truck with him. He... DETECTIVE SCOTT COODY A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a good hitter i... BRAD AUSMUS (The time off) was probably a blessing in disguise. He got his arm rested. He got to step back and w... JEREMY SHOCKEY I saw him play as a freshman. I wasn't sure if he could play varsity. He didn't have the freshman ye... GARY ERNST We've had trouble all year scoring runs. Even if he comes up with nobody on, the majority of times h... BRETT TOMKO If I hadn't gotten on base and Molitor singled, Carter wouldn't have gotten the pitch he got to hit ... RICKEY HENDERSON He plays both (at tackle and end) for us. It's harder to find inside guys. Great first step, gets of... BOB WAGNER He did a very good job here with his pitches. He knew he had to hit the corners, didn't get many pit... BENGIE MOLINA We saw his name on a house we liked. We liked that he seemed to know a lot about native plants, but ... CLIFF MOSES The real tantrums happen less often now. But as he gets older it's getting harder to talk to him abo... MARTIN GREEN He was OK. Not his real good outing. Nevertheless, he kept us in the game even with the early runs. FELIPE ALOU He was obviously very intelligent, very mature beyond his biological age. He got along with people r... DAN O'DOWD People have been talking about him since he was a freshman. I never had any conversations with him a... GARY LINDGREN He was very popular. He got along with everybody. ANGELA ALLEN Suppan brings consistency, but he needs to start hitting home runs, ... It's exciting. It's always e... LARRY WALKER A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. ... JENNIFER GRANHOLM In my opinion, there was not a more feared hitter in baseball. When he walked to the plate and stare... WADE BOGGS He was around the plate, curve ball was working good ... kept them off. He had one bad pitch I can t... SKIP CARR I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our trouble... LOUIE ANDRUS Ryan was on all day long. He squared up to the ball and that has been his problem this year. He had ... MARK POLLARD He had a shaky start, then he really settled down and pitched well. GARY CLAUSEN He was pretty impressive. He had a good fastball and curveball the first four innings. Then he found... BOB SCHAEFER He's got very good hands. He runs low to the ground. He's about 225 pounds or so and he has really q... TED THOMPSON We can make sure to get him game ready hitting-wise. He went through minimal rehab when he came back... KEN MACHA We had chances. He struggled with his command and that got the pitch count up pretty fast but you've... CRAIG COUNSELL I saw the van chasing one particular cow, striking it in the back. The cow fell. He backed off, and ... MAYA ESTUANI He was so much better of an athlete than people thought. Back then, he wasn't heavy at all. He was s... JACK MCMAHON I think he wanted to continue in football, maybe even try for a professional career, ... He was on a... GLORIA LEE When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I ... JEFFREY SKOLL It was difficult. Me and Pierre, a lot of people don't know that me and Pierre were real tight last ... BRIAN JACKSON I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beauti... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good sign. Wit... FELIPE ALOU A lot of people wanted to assume it's about the 600 home runs: ?He had to get to 600 home runs. He n... TOM REICH That was the turning point for Jeremy. After Pat was killed, he began to dwell on things. He visited... JANET GOODHEART He's one of the top two power hitters we've ever had here. But the thing that is so unique about him... BOB AMALIA We brought Jason here to be our leadoff hitter, so we're gonna stick with Plan A. I spoke with the P... KEN MACHA He was a late find for people. He was a heavy hitter. When we used him in the one-back set he had so... GEORGE PORRITT He has hit everywhere he has ever been, so why shouldn't he hit here . . . . He is just a real good ... CLINT HURDLE For Eric, it began long before he got here - he started off over at E.V. Cain. Throughout high schoo... LEONARD SHULL Not too shabby. Getting out of that first inning was huge for him, because you could see he was nerv... ALAN TRAMMELL We need (P.K.). Last year, a lot of his home runs were in key situations. He has the ability to be a... PHILLIP THOMPSON He started off rough. But he settled down after that and gave us some good innings. We swung the bat... DANNY PRICE This was his first at-bat with this organization. He's off to a pretty good start. He loves to play ... JOE VAVRA That really held him back, but he's a fighter so he kept playing but he was in pain the whole time. ... LOREN JACULA He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest... MARILYN MANSON We had chances. He really struggled with his command and that got his pitch count up pretty fast. Bu... CRAIG COUNSELL It's hard to sometimes remember we're here to have a good time. Jack Lemmon was the best at that. I ... HUEY LEWIS Trent threw about like he always does. He kept us in the game until our bats were ready. I'm very pl... DAVID LOYD It was good to see us able to get Wes in the game. He has filthy stuff, but got a fastball in the wr... DAN WATKINS So we played one, and then he got a harmonica and played with us. JACOB ELLER He gave us a lift. He was huge for us last year, and when he hit those shots, he looked like that pl... JOE KATICH Christian played with a lot of confidence. He was very impressive in this game. He stayed in the poc... BOB MCALLISTER He seemed all right with [the decision to retire]. He didn't sound disappointed or sad about it. It ... AUGIE OJEDA Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good hitter. Fortu... LUIS ALICEA He's a young kid that has the ability to throw the ball real well. He did today. He obviously kept u... JUSTIN SHELL That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range.... DAVE SELLON He had just one arm, and there were all kinds of legends that he was fighting a guy and when he coul... JACKIE BERRY And when he looked, he saw the canopy had folded under and then he saw the victim hit the ground and... DAVE BOOTON I had to leave Snowball for a couple hours the other day to run a few errands and, when I got back, ... JACKIE CAVACO He was real rebellious the first half of the season. He didn't want to listen to us. He had his own ... JORGE AMAYA He is a heck of a player. He played in 23 games for us this year, and he scored in double figures in... MATT BAUER He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked wit... BARBARA WAGNER He usually throws strikes, so when he threw only one strike in his four pitches something was off. T... MIKE GETKIN We were able to save a little ground around the turn. The way he switched leads turning for home, he... AARON GRYDER He was real nervous. I took off my jacket, put him on the ground and wrestled with him for about ten... ANDY PIPHER But when he came out he began to realize what we were talking about, and he had breakfast with Coach... ERNIE ZEIGLER [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ... BOB SCHAEFER I think he did really good, ... That was a tough group of receivers to start off with, and it was go... SHAWN SPRINGS
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MICHAEL STRAHAN It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl... MICHAEL POLLAN Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net... MICHAEL CAINE I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily. MICHAEL JACKSON What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca... MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his... MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b... MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st... MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr... MICHAEL ROOKER The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle... MICHAEL LEUNIG A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit. MICHAEL KORS You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. MICHAEL MOORE If you copy then it is not self-expression. MICHAEL SCHENKER I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w... MICHAEL SHOWALTER Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. MICHAEL ASTON Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo... MICHAEL MORPURGO Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... MICHAEL MORPURGO War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo... MICHAEL MORPURGO The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t... MICHAEL MORPURGO I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr... MICHAEL MORPURGO We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really... MICHAEL MORPURGO By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to... MICHAEL MORPURGO To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable. MICHAEL MORPURGO Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write... MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi... MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. MICHAEL MORPURGO