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DIONER NAVARRO Work harder than expected to become better than projected.
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DALE LATHIM Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all t...
VINCE GILL I did better than I expected. Competing as individuals wasn't anything different. I still got a meda...
JULIE PETERFISH It was certainly better than I expected.
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MARY MORAN My goal is to become better than Tiger. If Tiger is the best player in the world, and I want to be t...
AARON BADDELEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The Cowboys kicked our butt. They executed better than we did. I never would have expected it.
BRANDON SHORT I felt pretty good, better than I thought I would.
AARON MILLER [It was] a good deal better than expected and I think very encouraging.
DAVID BLITZER I think Patrick is better off when he can just concentrate on one guy. He did a very good job chasin...
TUBBY SMITH I think it shows demand is better than expected. If they can get a premium elsewhere, why would they...
JESSE TOPRAK My target was not to justify selling Patrick Vieira. He was a tremendous player and you never lose a...
ARSENE WENGER Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I thought it would help train new staff for the summer, and it would be a reference.
LISA KELLY Most of the buzz has been really good. A lot of people said it turned out much better than they expe...
HERB BRODARICK I just thought it would be a great project for us to take on here.
BOBBY BAILEY I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach...
TOM STOPPARD I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an ...
MICHAEL PHELPS I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.
JAMES DEPREIST I thought about it, but it's a very small college, and I thought I would have a better chance if I w...
JULISSA VENTURA The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin...
BRIAN GENDREAU When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn...
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ERIN WALKER If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... It's a simple thing to triumph over your enemies; to confused them and make them unable to retaliate...
J.R. MORALES I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never ...
DANNII MINOGUE If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chan...
JIM COURIER There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our Ewing family dining room scenes would take forever, and Patrick (Duffy) and I would invariably g...
LARRY HAGMAN The commentary was a lot more optimistic than I expected it to be given the high oil prices. The out...
HELANE BECKER Rhett's definitely a great quarterback. Nothing to take away from him, but at this time, they though...
PAUL THOMPSON There were a lot of questions in a lot of people's minds. Not ours. I expected him to play well. For...
DENNIS ERICKSON The outcome was not what I was looking for in my first game back. I feel better than I thought I wou...
AARON MILLER Dolly Parton has been a union member for 30 years. We don't understand why a company that has her na...
GLENN HARRIS It's going better than I expected.
ANNE SMITH I have a better feel for what we need to do to become a playoff team than anybody coming in here. I ...
KIPPY BROWN I thought we did a good job, especially playing without them (Hill and Roberts) for the first time. ...
KAREN STEWART I never expected the movie to become as big as it has. I thought that we'd be lucky if a handful of ...
AARON RUELL Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I thought we would do a lot better than that. We made so many big numbers it was unbelievable.
JIM BROWN I thought I was in for another Patrick Sparks like last year the way he was shooting it.
MARK GOTTFRIED He is much better than Rob and I would have expected considering how sick he was,
LAMAN GRAY They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.
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MICHAEL PHELPS Who would have thought 20 years ago that this corporation would be out there promoting its new smoki...
KATHRYN MULVEY I've become more of a team player. I just have been using my teammates a lot better because I can't ...
DANIEL STAHL I really honestly wasn't looking for any results. I was just trying to get in there and help out the...
ANDREW ROMINE I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was neve...
FAY VINCENT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The girls had a good day. They did better than I expected.
DENNIS PERSON I expected it in the second period. I thought Vancouver would play more aggressive in the second per...
ILYA BRYZGALOV Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment
PEARL BAILEY Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN I have a business opportunity that I need to pursue and it's going to take more of my time than [exp...
DAVE FREUDENBERG I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's...
KAREN DUFFY I really felt good back there with the great job our defense was doing, ... I thought we pressured t...
ANDREW GREEN I felt okay after the 22 miles, actually better than I thought I would. Blake felt worse than I did,...
BILL SPENCER Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wan...
ALBERT HALSEY To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... Jeff appeared to me that he had it. If I thought I could have caught it, I would have. I though he h...
CASEY KOTCHMAN It was certainly better than I expected. You always come into these things with a pessimistic attitu...
DAVID HOWELL Coach (Mike) Noll brought a lot of discipline with him from McHenry (his former coaching position) a...
DAVID INSERRA A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
BRANCH RICKEY I really thought it would take longer for Houston to get another team,
PAUL TAGLIABUE Business is better than I expected, and it's going to keep getting better.
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CHRIS KENNY Hold it down until you come up
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EDDIE DRUMMOND I have a problem asking shareholders to vote for someone who has no intention of serving a full term...
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PATRICK KANE It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bi...
NEELIE KROES I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
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JAEL MCHENRY You've got to watch out for yourself because nobody is going to watch out for you.
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SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
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PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves.
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PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it!
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PATRICK EWING Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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PATRICK EWING Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don&#...
PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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