I really didn't want to get that far back but the turns were really tough, I didn't really run them right. I'm a long-strider and I had to shorten them up. I felt really uncomfortable on the track.
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DONNIE GIOVACCHINI Todd (Bodine) was really strong and he ran a really smart race. I just had to make sure I kept them ... MARK MARTIN It was a feeling of that I didn't really belong or didn't really fit. Everybody had questions and wa... KATHLEEN BOGART The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but tha... AARON FUNK It (the win) felt really good. I think we wore them down in the fourth quarter and we were able to m... SCOTT ARNELL I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back... PHIL ANSELMO I felt really bad. I know what he means to Cincinnati. He is the worst person you could hit. I was r... MICHAEL GOSLING Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on. ISAAC MIZRAHI [The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop streng... DAN HARRIS I really didn't want them to come back and win this one. CODY BOONE It was good to get back on the court, ... I didn't really feel the nerves. We've been playing really... TINA THOMPSON I am really disappointed that I had to get out of the car. Burt had done a great job, and we were de... BRIAN FRISSELLE I am really disappointed that I had to get out of the car. Burt had done a great job, and we were de... BRIAN FRISSELLE It felt really, really good to get the first batter out of the way. I really liked the challenge wit... CHAD BENTZ I could have done track in the spring, but I really wanted to establish myself as a football player.... KNOWLEDGE TIMMONS I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be r... KURT FULLER He seems really tough. A couple of times, I teed off on him, but he got right back up and made a big... CHAD GREENWAY We had a tough time matching up against them. They were a really athletic team. DAN SCHMIDT I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck... M. WARD I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them. OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN Yes, we knew that they would be a little more down than usual this year, but down for them isn't tha... DENNIS KITKO We had really good possession at midfield, but we could not get that penetrating pass to get behind ... SAMIR HAJ I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of the... CHARICE PEMPENGCO It was really exciting. I was kind of nervous right away, but after a while you get over your nerves... DYLAN SUCHOCKI A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which i... NATHAN FIELDER I really believe in teamwork and competitiveness. I want competitive people. I want people who want ... ANGIE MYERS I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reac... ANDREW WILES I really think the architectural feature that I tried to get them to save really had a lot to do wit... JOE BAUER Anytime that Mark, Tracy and I get a chance to play together, we're really excited about that. I thi... ZONA JONES This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I k... WINNIE HOLZMAN It's really tough, I know my teammates feel for me and I feel for them. My job now is to help them s... BRITTANI NICHOLS I really want to get back into it. ALEXANDRE DESPATIE I felt really, really good out there, but I didn't want to take too much out of me, DAVID DAVIES I want them each to run scared and compete with one another is what I'd really like. JAMES MCNERNEY I was really surprised. There were a lot of tough competitors in our heat. I know most of them reall... GERARD DONLEVY I felt like we needed a big bucket right then. I really, really wanted to win that game. I just focu... JULIAN SIMMONS I really don't have to teach too much. I teach them how to get on basically, just teaching them the ... BRAD HOOKS I just felt good and we really want to get home-ice advantage. I really want to be ready for the pla... CHRIS MASON We threw two knockout punches at them and they kept coming. I was pleased with our guys because I fe... SCOT BUNNELL The kids really worked together as a group. I really commend them on that. DAN MOORE I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on ... HOLLIE CAVANAGH It broke up the unity that we had. When I had them as freshmen, there were about seven of them that ... EDDIE THOMAS I felt really focused and determined. Being a district game got me really psyched up and I had extra... ASHLEY HANEWICH I hated to see that because it wasn't us beating them. But you really don't want to put too much emp... AARON HARRIS I am a bit tired because the points were really long and you have to run a lot because the bounce is... FERNANDO GONZALEZ It was really tough out there. I felt I played well enough, but it was so windy and the course is pl... CATRIONA MATTHEW With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I p... RICK SAVAGE I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and re... TONY JAA I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to wor... SHERYL SANDBERG A lot of these girls were there last year and I'm hoping that will help us out having a little exper... CORBY MAURER I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being ... CAROLYN ANDERSON I just believe my best asset is as a defensive player. On the free throws, I really wanted to make t... ABBY SMITH It's a challenge to fit them on the curves, but anything that is a challenge is something I want to.... EDWARD MAGEE As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so r... CHARLES DE LINT I felt the turf course here was really great. On the far turn, it may have looked like she was reall... BRICE BLANC I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who real... OLIVIA HOLT I think it was just generally that my footwork was really not good. I just felt uncomfortable moving... PATTY SCHNYDER It didn't really swell up on me, so I came out and tried to run around on it a little bit, but I rea... ANDRE JOHNSON There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jol... BRETT ANDERSON It was a tough decision, one I didn't really want to make. But I felt it was best for my family. I m... PETER GARZA I feel really good that I got through. It's early in the season, I'm really fresh on the track. ASAFA POWELL I'm working on my mental toughness, because I get really upset sometimes. And that's what helped me ... LAUREN HERRING It felt really good. I felt like I was in a great rhythm tonight. It was good to see that. I've been... HOLLY JOHNSON I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn... SARAH DESSEN I really couldn't believe it. When they told me I had to have surgery, I couldn't believe it. I was ... JAKE LONG I though we used our depth tonight and everyone played tough defensively. We made it tough for them ... GINA JOHNSON I felt really good. The team is playing really well. That is what the goalie has to do, make the big... DREW MACINTYRE One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at... DAVE LOMBARDO The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th... DALEEN IRSHAID Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. S... JESSICA ENNIS I really don't give up on relationships.I just let them go, Hoping will coming back anyways!!! NARESH JELLA It's definitely a motivation for all of us, but what I really need is that ring. I want to put that ... NATE WASHINGTON I really felt we were kind of up all night. Even [trailing] 3-0, I felt good. We were mentally in th... CRAIG MILBURN I am really proud of the way that Courtney played today. She really put the team on her back in the ... TRICIA CULLOP I was just walking through the door from the grocery store. I had felt really good about the intervi... LORETTA MAYS Dirk is playing tough. We had a stretch there where we kind of reverted back to our old selves and g... AVERY JOHNSON We felt it was important to get back to grass-roots communication, really letting them know about th... COLLEEN VELLTURO I really thought we were going to make it to the final four and maybe the championship, but we had s... BETH TARASI From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far betw... NAYA RIVERA I felt really good, about our performance, especially by our seniors. We have thirty of them. I thin... JACK WRIGHT It was really great to have people to look up to. The team we had when I was in eighth or ninth grad... CRAIG HAMILTON When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved... VICKY MCCLURE I don't know. I was very worried about the situation. The bus forgot to pick us up, and we were scra... JOE SUBOTICKI i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something... WOW I felt really good on the front nine, but just couldn't get anything going on the back nine, ... I s... MICHELLE WIE Mark's agent called and said Mark felt he was not really going to reach his ultimate goal of getting... PAUL WOOLPERT They were really athletic. It was tough to move the ball on them. We really played well in the first... DUSTIN BAINTER There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really ... SUSANNE BIER I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so ... ADAM WEST I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. ELAYNE BOOSLER I woke up in the morning and felt really good. Really happy. I felt more at peace. It was just a goo... 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MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs... MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one... MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti... MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil. MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. MARK TWAIN When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony... MARK ZUCKERBERG Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. MARK TWAIN My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... MARK WARNER There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside... MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one. MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba... MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started. MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci... MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... 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No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ... MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu... MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly... MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec... MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes... MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w... MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff... MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated. MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ... MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ... MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t... MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st... MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi... MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to... MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ... MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people... MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find... MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood... MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out. MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol... MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than... MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst... MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh... MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ... MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay... MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ... MARK GATISS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you. MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ... MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los... MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin... MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit... MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s... MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to... MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor... MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person. MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good... MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul... MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t... MARK HOPPUS The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,... MARK ZANDI In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi... MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th... MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal... MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting... MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse... MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ... MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'... MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha... MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea... MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome. MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ... MARK RUSSELL To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it... MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. MARK TWAIN Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel... MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... MARK BILLINGHAM China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ... MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many... MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you. MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out... MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin... MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ... MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would... MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati... MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material... MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no... MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people. MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot... MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat... MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th... MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income... MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles. MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,... MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t... MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ... MARK UDALL I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th... MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind. MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him. MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi... MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an... MARK MCGWIRE O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th... MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,... MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to... MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will... MARK MCCORMACK I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas... MARK TWAIN We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.” Snorri shook his head. “A... MARK LAWRENCE Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich... MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i... MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us... MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it. MARK TWAIN Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig... MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. MARK TWAIN No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. MARK TWAIN We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th... MARK TWAIN Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ... MARK TWAIN When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend. MARK TWAIN Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. MARK TWAIN We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum... MARK TWAIN