I don't think you can pin it on one person or one factor. Next year I would expect everything to smooth out and go good again. I think this has been a good learning experience for everybody.
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Related I don't think my like for it has changed. One good thing about the business is if you mess up a crop... BOB FERNAU I think this one is going to get us ready for Capital again. I think before with them we've been hes... ABBY WORLAND I'm a year at a time guy. If I have a good year, go on the next one. I want to go out on a high note... GARY SHEFFIELD I think everything you do in life is a learning experience. EMERAUDE TOUBIA I think that's been somewhat of a motivation factor for us coming into this year, to not get snubbed... MATT BRAEUER I think everything Daniel had to go through made him appreciate things more. He turned it into a lea... ANDREW MOORE This all really hasn't sunk in yet. I didn't think I would be 32-0. I didn't think I would get a pin... TOM MORTON I think he's just one of those kids who has overcome adversity and become a good player. He's overco... GEORGE YARNO I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don'... CHUCK NOLL I like that he's keeping it positive, I think it's good for this team. I think it's a good message t... CHARLIE WHITEHURST I think it would be a little disappointing, but hopefully if you're young enough you can go to the n... KIMMIE MEISSNER I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, re... BILLY DEE WILLIAMS But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it&... TY SEGALL It takes so much toll on your body physically, and I think everybody knows mentally and emotionally ... ANDREW JOHNS This whole year has been one of rapid sentiment reversals. For three weeks investors think things ar... CRAIG CALLAHAN I think I've been playing more steadily this year, ... Last year, I would have a good week, then a b... NICOLE VAIDISOVA If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go thr... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I think after the first two games we collectively thought that it would all be that smooth and I thi... MEGHAN RYAN Everything went fairly smooth (with the drill). It was a good learning experience and it's the best ... JENNY BARRIE Gerry has been great all year. I think this is the way to go out. He started off good and he's going... DEMETRIS NICHOLS Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?” “I like to think of it as ... BENEDICT JACKA If I'd had a good year last year, I might have stuck with (27). But with the year I had and knowing ... JUSTIN MORNEAU I feel good. I think everything went good. HAL SUTTON I think we can expect her to go for a bold dress on Oscar night. One that really calls attention. GALINA ESPINOZA I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you. AARTI SEQUEIRA [With the improvement in his game, Hunter Mahan is ready to continue his learning process in his sec... HUNTER MAHAN I think everyone went into last year hoping for the best. I think if you had polled the folks on the... RANDY THOMPSON The Texas A&M match was a close one for us. I think everybody would rather start over and finish the... COLT GASTON The season has been going pretty good. I think I have a pretty good shot at the state title this yea... MITCH BAKER I think the crowds are going to be good again this year. SARAH ANDERSON I haven't been doing as well as I expect myself to do, or anyone else expects me to do, ... I've lea... JUSTIN MORNEAU I think by the end of the year, she's going to have an understanding of where she has to be. I think... DAVE MAJEWSKI He's been consistent all year. Besides wearing a bad jacket one game, I think he's been good. DARIUS KASPARAITIS I'm going to give this everything I've got, go at it full force. I expect to go out and have a great... BRET BOONE I am really proud of how far this team came this year. I really want to give our players a lot of cr... BILL CALLAHAN I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical ... TOM HANKS This year has been our vice president's first full year on the job, and I think we've done some pret... FRANK WHITLATCH What I expect is consistency of doing it right every day. Each day has to be a learning experience, ... JOHN RUSSELL I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight. BRUCE ROBINSON I think it would be a good thing for us to play them again. TRAVIS MARION We were a good team this year, but I think we'll be better next year. ASHLEY POSTELL There are certainly good people who think it will be an issue and one Democrats ought to take advant... PHIL BREDESEN I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the ... MAYIM BIALIK I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last yea... GRANT HILL When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that... NEVE CAMPBELL I am working on my start, once I have a good start, I think I can go to boundaries that no other man... JUSTIN GATLIN I think this year has been a great experience for us and it's almost finished so it's great to share... CLAUDIA ALZATE I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what ... YAKOV SMIRNOFF If we had prescribed in Congress each of the relationships between the agencies, I think that would ... JAY ROCKEFELLER You can't shut yourself off from hearing it, ... I've heard everything from late first round to fift... BRUCE GRADKOWSKI I really think I can help out behind the plate. I'm really looking forward to next year. It's been r... ANDREW FRITZ Probably before that record comes out we'll be out playing shows again. The idea is just to break do... CHRIS CORNELL I think it's up to Don. Don has an incredible amount of pride in his work. I can see where he wouldn... COSTA PAPISTA The Zones were a nice end to the season. We had two seniors that had never been there before and as ... ERIC ELLIOTT It's a learning experience. This is a baby step for them. Next year we're going to expect a lot of t... TODD HINEGARDNER I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also thi... MADISON SMARTT BELL I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonde... STEVE JOBS Absolutely. I think we took a step forward last year and I reckon we've recruited really well and we... SAVERIO ROCCA I want it so bad. I just sit there and I think how close we are and how close we've been for the las... BAILEY STANLEY We do really good together. It will be kind of like this the whole year where one of us can go in an... BECCA ANDERSON I've been negative on the industry outlook for quite some time. I think next year is going to be a d... LAWRENCE HORAN Fifth place isn't bad for our first state showing. We have a really good chance next year I think. I... ADAM GREEN I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. ... GARY FRANK I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good ... JOAN DIDION I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people reac... PATTI SMITH I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. STEPHEN REA I think it's good for the younger players to get the experience, and hopefully they can get somethin... RICKY BENNETT My whole career here has been a learning experience. The coaches have done a good job of stressing t... BRENDEN HILL I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us t... ED BELFOUR Freddie's a great trainer and a great person, and I'm just glad to be back with him and on good term... JUAN LAZCANO I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ... P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ''learning experience.'' Then again, I like to th... P. J. O'ROURKE Another reason I wanted to stay here was to build a good team for next year. I have my eye on bringi... GUIDO BUCHWALD I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to do as... MATT AUSTIN I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of t... ERICH VON STROHEIM I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things an... DICK SCHAAP I don't think you can put your finger on one thing. The rookies and excitement and energy around tho... DEREK SCHILLER We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year. CHAN HO PARK I think it basically depends on who the coach is next year and maybe a little on who stays and who's... KALEN GRIMES Everyone has their own opinion on me - how I'm going to play, how good you think I am. I'm a pretty ... REX GROSSMAN I think the linebacker group this year is high caliber. There's a lot of good inside guys and good o... ABDUL HODGE I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of... NAVEEN ANDREWS Mike is doing a good job for us, but Cory has a strong arm, and I think they'll battle for the posit... JUSTIN INSKEEP Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of m... ASIA ARGENTO I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. T... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le... LARRY DAVID Couldn´t be better, ... I´ve been wanting to talk to the pastor of this place and tell him everybo... JAMES WADE I wanted to stand out in my last year and go out on top. I try not to get too far ahead. I try to ge... ANDREW SAENZ I think it was a good learning situation for him. I really do. [But] it scared the [heck] out of me. MIKE HARGROVE I've been trying everything. My swing has been really inconsistent this year. Today I felt pretty go... MARCO SCUTARO I think bowl games are good. It's good for teams that aren't in the BCS. It's a good way to finish t... GARIN JUSTICE Last year was a rough year for everybody and I think with the players Bob has brought in as a new co... BRAD GUZAN I think anybody who watched this game would come away impressed that Ohio has a good team. To go toe... TIM O'SHEA I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut ... ANDY BIERSACK I'm really scared. I've been through hurricanes, but this one scares me. I think everybody needs to ... LINDA YOUNG No one here has gone without medication or been in jeopardy of going without medication. I think it ... LARRY STEPHENS If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a ... JACK GLEESON If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top te... QUENTIN TARANTINO Our field events, particularly the throwers, were good again. I don't think Dirk or Connor [McMahon]... BRIAN DUNLAP I think, for the first time, it turned out well. Good crowd out here - it was a great game. We hope ... COREY ROLLERSON
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I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu... DON DELILLO I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin... DON DELILLO I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ... DON DELILLO A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li... DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ... DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. DON DELILLO In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. DON DELILLO I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un... DON DELILLO The future belongs to crowds. DON DELILLO True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t... DON DELILLO Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id... DON DELILLO People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. DON DELILLO It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. DON DELILLO America was and is the immigrant's dream. DON DELILLO I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ... DON DELILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe... DON DELILLO Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. DON DELILLO Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. DON HENLEY Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder? DON RICKLES When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil... DON WILLETT When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. 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I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I... DON HENLEY My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo... DON KING If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders ... DON TAPSCOTT One thing I never want to be accused of is not working. DON SHULA The person who has no enemies has no followers. DON PIATT Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment. DON RICKLES There is nothing so habit-forming as money. DON MARQUIS Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him. DON MARQUIS So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. DON MARQUIS A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. DON MARQUIS It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. DON MARQUIS Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e... DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? DON MARQUIS Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d... DON RICKLES Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. DON MARQUIS The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about ... DON MASHAK Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative ... DON MASHAK OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or ... DON MASHAK Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it ... DON EVERLY Old men need applause too DON EVERLY Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam... DON COOPER If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'... DON MARQUIS It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. DON HEROLD He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he cou... DON MARQUIS Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories. DON PIATT I am just another insect on the windshield of life. DON MASHAK Speak low if you speak love. DON PEDRO Get the job done. DON SHULA Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. DON SHULA I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well. DON MARQUIS This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they... DON DELILLO A naked woman was amazing. He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off c... DON DELILLO Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo... DON MASHAK Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ... DON DELILLO The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within mem... DON CAMPBELL In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. DON MARQUIS An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. DON MARQUIS To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents. DON PIATT Where one door closes, another opens. DON QUIJOTE Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back. DON HEROLD Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. DON HEROLD A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. DON MARQUIS I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in m... DON MARQUIS There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. DON HEROLD We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money... DON MARQUIS The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. DON HEROLD There's one thing about baldness, it's neat. DON HEROLD America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame Ame... DON DELILLO I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of c... DON DELILLO If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the ma... DON DELILLO Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. DON HIRSCHBERG Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for ... DON MARQUIS Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. DON MARQUIS It's easy to point when you can't heal it. DON WALK There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. DON HEROLD Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is s... DON WALK Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the... DON MARQUIS Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. DON MARQUIS Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. DON SHULA An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. DON MARQUIS An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. DON MARQUIS Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint DON MARQUIS Hardship makes the world obscure. DON DELILLO I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. DON JOHNSON A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. DON HEROLD Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba... DON HENLEY Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity. DON MARQUIS Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. DON MARQUIS I don't know any other way to lead but by example. DON SHULA I would rather start a family than finish one. DON MARQUIS now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ... DON MARQUIS The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy! DON MASHAK Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but b... DON DELILLO For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice. DON HUTSON Why resist temptation? There will always be more. DON HEROLD There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th... DON DELILLO Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun DON HENLEY The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a... DON BARTHELME In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the tw... DON DELILLO Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. DON GALER Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. DON MARQUIS a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely somethin... DON MARQUIS prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into DON MARQUIS Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. DON HAYS Film is more than the twentieth-century art. 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DON MASHAK If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless... DON DELILLO Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ... DON ROFF The nobler the blood the less the pride DON MARQUIS The future belongs to crowds DON DELILLO Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity DON CUPITT The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. DON SHULA Babies are such a nice way to start people. DON HEROLD It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. DON HEROLD Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. DON MARQUIS This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you DON MCLEAN An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience. DON MARQUIS Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all a... DON DELILLO If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. DON KNUTH Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it. DON HEROLD Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. DON HEROLD Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. DON HEROLD The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantit... DON MARQUIS A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies. DON PIATT Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. DON WILDER Babies are such a nice way to start people DON HEROLD Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems. DON RITTNER Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. DON WOOD No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. DON RITTNER The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. DON MARQUIS May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. DON DELILLO I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not b... DON ADAMS Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee mu... DON KING Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct. DON NICKLES ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. DON NICKLES If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortsto... DON YAEGER The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of i... DON DELILLO The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson. DON RICKLES Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're... DON WILLETT Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player w... DON YAEGER It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of ind... DON DELILLO American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. DON DELILLO Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera. DON RICKLES I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first... DON BAYLOR