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I want to be a professional.


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JOHN BRYSON if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You want to make the most of those opportunities. I got a great pass and got Burke sliding.
PATRICE BERGERON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE I love Delta Burke!
BROOKE ELLIOTT This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY I just want to stay professional.
MADDIE ZIEGLER We just want Chris and his family to be able to stay as long as they want without having to worry.
BUTCH SPYRIDON I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this?

Chris: The business! The busin...
ARTHUR MILLER I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, ...
AJA NAOMI KING As far as my contribution to this industry, I want to be like Dean Devlin, John Rogers, and Chris Do...
ALDIS HODGE Chris will never be trouble. He's the kind of kid we want in the program.
DAVE SONTAG I wanted to be a professional drummer.
WALTER PAYTON We want to feel at ease, and be as professional as we can.
KATHY MYERS Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
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EDDY CURRY Yes. MLS has a chance. I want to play professional ball as soon as possible, and I want to be close ...
FREDDY ADU I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
BALTHAZAR GETTY I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke.
ROBERT MAILLET How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY I want this club to be a place that will be comfortable for women in particular. So many clubs have ...
SHERYL SWOOPES (Davis) tried to overthrow a breaking ball (to Burke) and he hung it.
NED YOST Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a t...
RUSSELL WILSON To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.
AMITABH BACHCHAN At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave ...
KEVIN HART If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid partic...
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS It's like anything else. When the public knows a name or a brand that they learn to trust, doors ope...
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OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Being a professional athlete, we all want to win the title.
LIN DAN Chris Paul has been the guy for months now, but people want to see who's that second or third guy. I...
CHARLIE VILLANUEVA I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.
BILLY HORSCHEL Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?
OLIVER GOLDSMITH To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD You have to want it to play at this level. This is probably the most stressful thing I have ever don...
ANDY GRUENEBAUM I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke. I was never really ...
ROBERT MAILLET There is a great deal of probable cause to believe Mr. Burke is a primary suspect.
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GERMANY KENT My heart aches for Chris. There is no doubt in my mind that he deserved to be in the championship fi...
STEVE DAVIS To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN All I want is for Paul to seek further professional medical assistance for his addictions.
IMRAAN LADAK I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. We have ...
DAN ADKINS Maybe Chris doesn't know the difference. This is a slanderous distortion of the record, and Chris Be...
JEREMY WARREN As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People re...
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Ful...
TODD RUNDGREN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.
JOHN TORTORELLA Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...
ARTHUR MILLER He's not playing tonight. I just ran into him in the hallway and he said he'll be ready at halftime....
BYRON SCOTT I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with ce...
JENS LEHMANN The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J. A. KONRATH To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
MARIO LEMIEUX I finally get to go on my own, with a team I started the year with. It'll be nice. Chris played huge...
ADAM ENRIGHT I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.
HANNAH TOINTON Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always ...
TOBA BETA He's paid to be a professional worrier,
KEN MAYLAND This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.
ANDY BRANDON We think it's important for the constituency we serve, ... We want to be compared to other professio...
JEFF DAWSY I try to be professional. . . . I try to do the right thing.
DUSTAN MOHR stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ...
DEYTH BANGER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.
DYLAN SMITH The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD You'll feel more professional, so it will be easier to act professional.
DEBORAH STANLEY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We lost a lot of confidence after the East Burke loss (Jan. 6). But I think we've got it back now. O...
LLOYD CHURCH That No. 15 (Burke) is as good of a running quarterback as we've ever seen.
JACK CRUMBLISS When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH The requested sale of Aegis (Burke)-class destroyers becomes more likely.
DOUG BEREUTER Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a...
MARIO LEMIEUX To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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EDMUND BURKE Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
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