I don't know right now. I've been afraid to ask. Because if I ask, then that means it's bad and if I keep thinking good and being positive that rain will come, then we'll get some lake back into the water.
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DYLAN MORAN But I have been hitting for a week now and trying to get back into some sort of routine because I ne... KIM CLIJSTERS I don't know if there's another guy that you could say 'Well, he guarded Yao Ming and then the next ... ALVIN GENTRY Conditioning is my main thing right now. If I can get up and down the court better, then I know that... KAILI MCLAREN I am really looking forward to tomorrow. It feels good just now...If I can keep the game plan to hit... JARMO SANDELIN No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t... PAULO COELHO You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What ... HAKAN NESSER In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money ... AJAY DEVGAN You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get. BETTE DAVIS If someone comes and champions it, then maybe it will come back up. But I don't see that happening. LARRY KEATING I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the r... REGGIE WHITE Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn... MARKUS ZUSAK Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it'... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving mol... GEORGE WALD Now and then I find a kitschy series I love. ADAM PASCAL I remember thinking back then, 'Oh God, if we don't get a hit by the time I'm 20 I have to kill myse... KAREN CARPENTER When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me... RICHARD SIMMONS I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... 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BARBARA BLAKENEY ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su... AMBER FAITH HUN Well Larry, lets do this. Lets just push these trees cause I know there is going to be some in this ... BOB JENSEN If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived mys... ORLA BRADY I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I beli... ERLEND LOE All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps. MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ... MICHAEL STRONG If you ask/know WHY you should provide for your family
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LARRY PAGE The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their j... LARRY PAGE You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know t... LARRY PAGE The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always g... LARRY PAGE If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beac... LARRY PAGE For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't... LARRY PAGE We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow re... LARRY PAGE Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you lo... LARRY PAGE You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible. LARRY PAGE Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to... LARRY PAGE Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually mis... LARRY PAGE Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b... LARRY NORMAN I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf... LARRY NORMAN Art is more engaging that propaganda. LARRY NORMAN I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ... LARRY NORMAN Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re... LARRY NORMAN Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson... LARRY NORMAN Life is God's art. LARRY NORMAN I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei... LARRY NORMAN I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism.... LARRY NORMAN We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body. LARRY NORMAN But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. LARRY NIVEN I do not believe they've run out of surprises. LARRY NIVEN SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is nev... LARRY NIVEN My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. LARRY NIVEN I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. LARRY NIVEN In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up. LARRY NIVEN We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. LARRY NIVEN I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors. LARRY NIVEN