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I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air.


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CURT BATEMAN I hit it up in the air and ran into the locker room. Then I heard this roar. The ball went in.
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JOHN MUIR I went outside and took a look and I could see it on top of the mountain.
TERRY WALLACE What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels...
MICHELANGELO I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and ...
COLBIE CAILLAT He beat me on the outside, not by much. I tried to hit the puck, but I couldn't, so I tried to hit h...
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JADA PINKETT SMITH I had outside leverage as the fullback went to the flat. I didn't think he was going to throw it. He...
LANCE BRIGGS If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I decided if I walk outside and get hit by a bus, everybody'll say, 'He crammed a load into 34 years...
GEORGE CLOONEY My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better. SARRA MANNING At first, I went up, but they were both on me. So I just threw it up. It fell short but (Smith) was ...
COURTNEY WATKINS Anthony (Smith) played it the best he could. It just went in.
LARRY BLAIR I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I hit it straight up, and it just kept going. I am just surprised it went that far.
MATT LAPORTA I’m going outside to get a breath of fresh air. Anybody got a cigarette I can have?
JAROD KINTZ That was just pure focus and stress and all that, man, ... I almost went insane in the car there, ju...
CARL EDWARDS When I went to the funeral, it was just ...it really hit me hard. I've never had a friend that young...
DAN KANE The ball had become wet going into the gutter after the fourth hit. I went to hit to mid-on but the ...
SHAHID AFRIDI Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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CANELO ALVAREZ I was just sliding around, swimming and hoping I was going to hit it and it went under my pad.
KARI LEHTONEN I didn't mean to hit it all the way over there. I pulled it, and it went in. Lucky.
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AMANDA LINDHOUT It's so hot outside that I went to buy vegetables, and by the time I got home they turned into soup ...
ANONYMOUS I was just trying to put the ball in the air and get a sac fly. I don't hit many that far with my si...
EVAN JOHNSON I went up there with a clear head. Just see the ball and hit it. And it's working.
JACOB HILGENDORF Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, bu...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Right before I did it, everything went silent and the next thing I know I'm just watching the ball g...
JASON GORE I felt him scrambling. I fell backwards, and when I hit the rocks I felt my back break, like a pop, ...
NANCY CAMERO One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air
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CLIVE BEDDOE In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted eve...
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DICK SCHAAP [England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.
CAPEL LOFFT I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.
AVI STEINBERG Give them credit; they shot the ball very well tonight. I don't remember them hitting any outside sh...
JEFF KIND She went out our back door and looked outside.
CRYSTAL HALL Ali played great tonight, and I thought we played well in front of her.
KATEY STONE He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to ma...
ILONA ANDREWS I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies." So I did. Then I went outside and...
STEPHEN WRIGHT I didn't want to stir anything up. When we went in, we went in. I was just more aware what we were d...
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
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ANGEL JR. When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,
ANGEL CORDERO JR. You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali
DAVIS MILLER It hit my hand and went in the net. I had my stick there. That's the way the sticks are designed. Th...
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SUGAR RAY LEONARD I didn't see a charge. He kind of turned just as Milan went to hit him. I thought it was a clean hit...
DON HAY I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, ...
CARLOS SANTANA The economy has hit an air pocket, at minimum.
BILL STERLING When that ball was in the air, I was nervous. When you look at the shot he hit out there, it was the...
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IRINA SHAYK We called a blitz and the outside linebacker and safety went and off he went. He's a great back.
JAY ROHR On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.
O Ali, Lion of God, K...
KHALED HOSSEINI A guy went down and I just shot it on net, hoping it would go in or hit off someone and deflect in. ...
JEFF COREY The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
SIR JAMES MANSFIELD I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long ...
TERRY RILEY He was penetrating, and I was cheating real hard. I left Lamar open and I just reached. I hit all ba...
DARIUS MILES Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
FRANZ LISZT One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that compe...
EDWIN MOSES As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.
DANNY BAUTISTA Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
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LAILA ALI I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working ...
LAILA ALI I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because...
LAILA ALI I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap va...
LAILA ALI Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
LAILA ALI People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If...
LAILA ALI I like to play by my own rules.
LAILA ALI My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated...
LAILA ALI You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
LAILA ALI While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind w...
LAILA ALI I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and ma...
LAILA ALI I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante...
LAILA ALI I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
LAILA ALI There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis...
MAHERSHALA ALI My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was al...
MAHERSHALA ALI I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
MAHERSHALA ALI People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
MAHERSHALA ALI In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It'...
MAHERSHALA ALI At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the ...
MAHERSHALA ALI I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, dep...
MAHERSHALA ALI Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It'...
MAHERSHALA ALI In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is diff...
MAHERSHALA ALI I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the ri...
MAHERSHALA ALI You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse wor...
MAHERSHALA ALI I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to wh...
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