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GEORGES LARAQUE I made my fair share of mistakes.
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JOE THOMPSON He has the amazing respect of at least one man (morning line-maker Eric Donovan).
GREG GILCHRIST As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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RICHARD ENGEL I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to av...
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JASON MEYERS I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
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JAMES REGO I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve ...
BRAD PAISLEY Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons...
CAM GIGANDET If I'm putting together my list of bad guys ... I wouldn't put universities at the top of the list.
AMY ZEGART I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
DAVE CHAPPELLE I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I tho...
MICHELLE ALEXANDER Oh, I'm sure I've made my share of (mistakes). I don't think I've made more than my fair share of th...
CARLY FIORINA I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even gr...
SARAH MACLEAN Our guys swung the bat pretty well considering this is only the third game they have been outside. I...
JEFF MYAER You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."
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RICK YANCEY The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
LARRY BIRD The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson,
LARRY BIRD I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn'...
JAMES MATTIS That was a hard break. I felt we deserved at least a share of the points.
DENNIS NEWALL Quite frankly, I shouldn't have even been in the playoff. I figured the guys would probably get to a...
TIGER WOODS Niche players can have one bad quarter and they don't have the wherewithal to survive that, or at le...
ROBERT WALBERG At least 30 guys are actively involved in some way or another.
JOEY TROMBLEY It seems like we've had our fair share of bad things happen this last winter. These kids were all th...
BRIAN REIMERS To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The guys I played against in practice (in college), were so much faster than the ones I played in th...
BRYANT MCKINNIE Our fight is not whether market share was lost or not. We have aggressively upheld terms of this agr...
RUSTY HILLS We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share...
GLADYS KNIGHT The two previous Republican contesters got the same percentage of votes. I thought that I might do a...
BOB JOHNSON The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curio...
TED DEMME My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ...
TODD RUNDGREN The three games we've played this season, turnovers have been our nemesis. We're losing possessions ...
CRAIG WHELIHAN My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designi...
VERA WANG The one good thing is we've played Georgetown, so we did play this and have some understanding of it...
BRUCE WEBER Tom Johnson played extremely well.
JAY HOPSON That's my story...
I decided to share it with you all guys... like or don't... I don't gi...
DEYTH BANGER Our kids have been swinging the bats all year long. Five of them are hitting at least .500 and befor...
PAUL CROFT He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not...
HENRY FIELDING He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had no...
HENRY FIELDING I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be f...
MARY LOU JEPSEN Joe Johnson played an excellent game. He scored when they needed him to score. He distributed the ba...
TONY BATTIE I couldn't be more proud of guys like Derek Jeter, Sheffield, Matsui. They absolutely played incredi...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ I think all the guys that have played in the game before me as African- Americans have to share in t...
WARREN MOON In the spirit of the game, my guys have agreed that we will share the Cup, ... Competition is about ...
JACK NICKLAUS It was common procedure for Eric Johnson to determine what needed fixing and get it done. That was w...
SUSAN CERBONE I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good rev...
JIM HARRISON I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
MARC ALMOND If the truth refuses to speak out,but decides to employ nemesis to catch up with the lie,then it may...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's the least we could do for these guys.
DAVE REED I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can ...
EZRA MILLER It's hard to find a guy who's at least my height or taller. I've been with smaller guys, and when th...
KRISTANNA LOKEN I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric ...
JACK BRUCE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Our guys think there are at least two guys in there (who could have an impact next year).
JEFF GORTON All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW I watched him around guys like George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and I realized the look in their ey...
STAN PERKINS Workers deserve a fair share of the economic pie,
GIL MCGOWAN Good, bad or indifferent, we got the win. We had the right guys at the line.
MATT MCKAY I've done a fair share of stupid things in my life, a couple of which should have put me in the grav...
CRAIG WILSON Jeff Malone was one of the toughest guys I played against during my career,
MICHAEL JORDAN I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they'...
ELLIOT COWAN I'm expecting I'll have at least 75 guys selling. I probably got 40 phone calls (Wednesday) about th...
BUTCH BEHN I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and...
GEORGE CARLIN Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe; but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Last week was great, this week sucks. I just feel bad for the team. I mean, I'll be fine. I just fee...
DOUG BRIEN We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy.
RICKY PONTING We're just a couple of plays away. Our guys have played very well over the last two weeks, and well ...
ED BRUCKER I had all my pitches, I had good stuff. But these guys played great and I didn't do it for them. I'm...
BROOKS DUNN The little I have, I share with you; the little you have, you also share with me. Together we all ha...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It made it not look as bad, I guess, ... I think if we had a little more time, we could have had a b...
JOSH BETTS All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW They are paying their fair share of the overall project.
ALAN WALTER I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were t...
TIM BURTON Eric has done a nice job at the point. Derek brings a confidence to his position. I trust those two ...
MATT HURLOCK I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of E...
JACK BRUCE By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I g...
RASHEED OGUNLARU It was evenly played. We won the second half. It was a physical match but my guys played the way the...
DON TORDOFF The rest of the guys come in by themselves, but at least 85 percent consult with a woman -- either a...
BART MARKS I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the ...
STEPHEN AMELL The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
CANDACE BUSHNELL The book was written at the time and as such I think gives a fair and balanced account of the role t...
LANCE PRICE Canada's getting its fair share of the upside and the downside.
DENNIS DESROSIERS [The only bad guy in the show is House Speaker Nathan Templeton ( Donald Sutherland ), Allen's arch-...
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR I think that does offer some nice options for some of our guys, because we do have a fair amount of ...
TYRONE WILLINGHAM The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick...
MARIO LEMIEUX Jonathan Green, Eric Magee, Cruz Johnson, Andy Sorenson and Brandon Carlisle got a good surge. They ...
SEAN HARDEN The ballpark played kind of small tonight. So guys may have been nibbling at the strike zone a bit.
DARON SCHOENROCK Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a lit...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was happy with the way the guys played tonight, they played hard, and I thought we defended well a...
DAVE HOLLENBECK The people I played with made it everything it was. We should have been there five times, at least, ...
DAVE VANKOUGHNETT At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
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ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON