I was very sensitive. Sometimes I'd get my feelings hurt because I felt like an outcast. I was traveling alone. I didn't really have anyone to hang out with. I was a golfing machine. I'd play, I'd eat, I'd go back to a private house.
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Related The ID evidence was flawed. BOB LONG The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card ... KAREN EVANS I teased Geoffrey. I told him he had become my id, ... Every antisocial thought I ever had, he was g... DOUG WRIGHT Id rather be told am beautiful than get a poem saying I look like sunshine KIMBERLY SHILENJE My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, ... Id been writing songs since I was 6 and ... LISA LOEB Where id was, there ego shall be. SIGMUND FREUD Where id was, there shall ego be. SIGMUND FREUD Can I see some ID?" "WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON... ADAM REX If I paid less attention to details, Id trust easier. KEYSHMA.SOSA Id go over frequently and visit with her. BETTY B. GIBSON Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncra... GUY KAWASAKI I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ... ANDREW YOUNG He didn't want her to be around her friends. I used to call her everyday until she said 'don't, beca... CATHY CRAFT That's what campaigns are for, to get the name ID out. DOUG COLE I was surprised by his opposition to the national ID card, but that's welcome news to us, ... try an... ARI SCHWARTZ Have you ever used a fake ID? JAY LENO I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish. MICHAEL JORDAN My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l... JIM GAFFIGAN Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare. TAMARA ECCLESTONE Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that. JOHN MAYER It was certainly a relief to get this win. It was one that we sorely needed. I really can't say enou... BRIAN HILL In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for vote... PETE GALLEGO it's dangerous to your career to be identified as an ID proponent. MICHAEL BEHE It's best, though, to get premises ID done early rather than wait. DR. GEORGE TEAGARDEN They asked if we knew anybody who had a nipple ring. I said that my brother did. I got his ID out of... RINDA JEAN WILCOX I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try t... JOHN SHELTON REED We were able to stop him and attempted to ID him. The information he gave us was false. WILLIAM HARPER turned off the BlackBerry before James could text back. I might hate electronic wizardry, but it was... BARBARA DELINSKY murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel LAURELL K. HAMILTON The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negativ... RUSH LIMBAUGH A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Fre... GUY KAWASAKI He was discovered inside a vehicle parked between two medians. A suicide note was found at the scene... PAT WHITTY if Beer was water-and i was a duck- id swim to the bottom and never come up- but Beer's not water an... LAUREL CLIVE You always have a harder time if you have an incumbent who's reasonably popular. Anybody challenging... TERRY JONES You can't just give people an ID card and everyone relaxes. GRIER WEEKS Most folks got Id and Ego living on different floors in their head’s house, in different rooms, an... KAREN MARIE MONING We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system. CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid PHILIP ROTH Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters. CYNTHIA MCKINNEY If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD That each pull'd different ways with many an oath,
"Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
[Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis... TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) One of the victims, she made ID off a photo lineup. TOM SCHEBEN I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ... RON PAUL Whoever has the gold makes the rules. JOHNNY HART When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at i... JOHN CARMACK I was quite enjoying the time, frankly. I was traveling, working around the house, golfing and helpi... BOB RICHARDS In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom ... SHAY MITCHELL After a witness makes a positive ID, if the investigator says something that validates the ID before... BRIAN CUTLER Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I said I wouldn't leave his body. They said to leave his ID on him and leave him. They could only sa... BARBARA PRATT Showing your ID is a far cry from being searched for explosives. CHARLES SLEPIAN If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and g... EDWARD SNOWDEN Name ID is not going to be enough for him this time. KATON DAWSON A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. EDGAR A. SHOAFF Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. UNKNOWN FEMA said we needed to show an ID or a PG&E bill, anything to verify our previous address. PATRICIA JOHNSON I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditi... ERIC CHRISTIAN OLSEN Whenever you make a claim to the credit card company, we actually have to prove that it was you, so ... DAVID KEITH We have scout teams who go out and ID where the birds are. And when we find birds using a field, we'... HENRY SCOTT It is another form of back door compulsion in the same way that ID cards have been bolted on to pass... MICHAEL PARKER Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE We cannot divulge details yet and I am yet to consent to any. But if all falls into place, Id like t... JASMINE TRIAS If ID card is everything, what do ration-card stands for? VIJAYRAJ BHATT You have to be careful what ID-IQs are used for, what gets tucked into them. JAMES MITCHELL We added this channel education seminar because the auto-ID channel will play an important role in t... MARK ROBERTI Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? STEVEN WRIGHT Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? STEPHEN WRIGHT Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hisp... ADAM COHEN Florida is already 98 percent in compliance with the requirements of the Real ID Act. FRANK PENELA But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER The philosophy here is one ID card has [multiple] technologies on it. DAVID OLSEN The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young pe... ROBERT CLARK From now on, when one goes to the polls, they will have to show ID, per Prop. 200. BRAD NELSON We know as a fact that No. 61 obtained a fake federal agent's ID to commit felonious crimes. JAN CALDWELL In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash ... BETSY BRANDT We have some good images of the suspect. We just haven't been able to ID who he is. CRYSTAL CANDY Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been ... PATRICK SOON-SHIONG [Moran dismissed critics who said the license bill would create a national ID.] I don't think, perso... JIM MORAN ID cards are always free. We don't want anything to stand in the way of families being able to get t... LISA CULLEN And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into ev... MALORIE BLACKMAN ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have... JOSEPH ANSANELLI We are hoping that the public will bear with us and make their effort to bring the proper ID. KAREN OSBORNE You go into their homes every night about 300 times a year for an hour, that tends to help your name... JOE SCARBOROUGH
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