I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think we've got to give him credit for raising the issue and putting some concrete proposals on the table.
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Related I did not feel that we were in sync. I think you have to give Illinois some credit for that but I al... TOM IZZO With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have... RON WYDEN and told him that this is the issue on the table; I don't know which way the vote's going to go. MYLES BRAND I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I give credit to Dow for putting the pressure on us. The last 20 minutes, we just forced everything ... DICK CAMPBELL Atkinson insists. ''I would never have taken this job if I didn't think it was completely free of ad... JASON BINN Throwing is one issue, but covering bases and getting his running back is a big point of concern. It... LARRY DAVIS We had a freshman (Jeremy Atkinson) on him. I just helped him out and was able to make a big play. JONATHAN FOSTER We'll wait for Britain to put their new proposals on the table before answering. But I think it's a ... ANA PALACIO I knew that they would probably go to him (Walker) because he is their best shooter. I leaped as hig... MARCUS MORRISON I got hot late in the game and you have to give our guys credit for finding me at the right time. I ... KYLE BELL Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demandin... JOHN FLEMING He's a good player, I give him that. At the same time . . . man, I'm not going to cause no controver... DAMION MCINTOSH This was the showdown. Either you come up with it or you don't. It's time we give Ron credit. The fa... BOB LEONARD Our guys fought back and got the tying goal. You have to give them credit for that. JASON KALIN I don't think it was really balanced in pointing out what's going on, ... To talk about Durham and t... BILL BELL I've got to give him a lot of credit, Trent would come down and match it. BRIAN HESS I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some o... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS You still got to go out there and pretend it's zero-zero. I think the team needed this a little more... DAVID KOPP I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so fa... STEVE FORBES We knew Braden was a good shooter. I had the whole defense centered around him, but you have to give... BRANDON MILLER We were off on our spacing offensively a little tonight and you have to give Nevada some credit for ... MERLE OLBERDING I give [Tomes] a lot of credit. I called him this morning when he was in class and told him he was g... BRUCE MARSHALL I have to give them credit for their planning and boldness. But that's where I stop giving credit. GAIL BEGLEY Give him credit. We had some opportunities, but he made some pitches and shut the door. MIKE SCIOSCIA He was just bunting the serve back, waiting for a short ball to pounce on and I got the perfect repl... LLEYTON HEWITT We figured they were going to try to hold for the last shot, but we didn't want them to get anything... DAVE WOJCIECHOWSKI I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me cr... KLAY THOMPSON I think you might want to give Villanova credit for that, but we also had some pretty good looks, th... FRAN DUNPHY I have to be honest and say I think NASCAR was a lot more proactive in this situation than anybody h... KYLE PETTY The thing I give Quincy credit for, throughout the entire ordeal, is that Quincy never wavered. Quin... GARY WATERS When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They p... JACK FERGUSON Putting Edgewood down kind of put that burn to rest. I was pretty confident from the start. I knew w... JEFFERY SCHMUDLACH I have to give our kids credit for bowing up and making the play there at the end. ERIC BURNETT I think everybody in the ballpark was thinking 'could it happen?' ... but there's no category for al... ALAN TRAMMELL Early on we played good defense, got some great looks [on offense] but just couldn't score. You got ... CHARLEY TOOMEY I take credit or blame for a couple of the losses. I thought I called some poor games offensively, a... MATT CAVANAUGH I'm not for splitting the job up. I think the commissioner should be the commissioner, but I think h... PAT BOWLEN He's creating, there's no question, but he's getting good looks, ... He hasn't been hit and stymied ... JON GRUDEN I have told Derek we will see him on Monday because I want him to make sure he gives it plenty of th... TONY MOWBRAY I've got to say, Disney -- which is constantly being accused of being anything but entrepreneurial a... BOB MUNROE What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It ... POUL ANDERSON I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for. ERIC SHANTEAU Even though I wrestled Ric Flair very early on in my career, it was a short match, so getting to wre... SHAWN MICHAELS We don't have any information on that. We've got some allegations but no concrete evidence. ADAM DAY You've got to give (North) a lot of credit because they had to have something to do with (our offens... BILL SPENCER For whatever reason, I made the Goblin Queen nervous. Kurag had proposed marriage once upon a time, ... LAURELL K. HAMILTON Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ALFONSO X I have to give the credit to Mr. Volpe at the announcer?s table, he makes me laugh, gives me nicknam... BEN SCHWARTZ Energy by Design rounds out our initiatives by focusing on early education. The contest was a fun op... MARGI SCHIEMANN We were able to put more pressure on their guards. We didn't seem to have that extra jump in our ste... JEFF RASILE Mr. Greenspan cannot back off from what he has been saying for some time: that he's worried about in... VINCE FARRELL I have to give the credit to our pass coverage on that play. I'd have to say that was a coverage sac... DAVID REESE I would sing softly, and if the people at the next table would want to hear what I was doing, they'd... ALBERTA HUNTER Got his bell rung. Give Davie credit for knocking him out of the game for a while. SCOTT YOUNG I would have given him a lesser fine if it were not for that, but I stopped short of banning him for... CLIVE LLOYD Did I rob him (in the July 16 bout)? I got nothing to do with the judges. JERMAIN TAYLOR I was brought up to think that if you stuff up when you're older, you're gone, and someone else woul... DEAN JONES Give Danvers credit for sticking in there. It was there for the taking on our part. GARY MOLEA Right now what's on the table that's being proposed are changes which are frankly going to change th... GIL MCGOWAN At Walsh, ... it was almost like, 'Let Rob post up and give him the ball.' ROBERT WHALEY I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at t... ZACK GREINKE There’s a huge difference for taking responsibility for one’s actions, and taking credit, and in... BENJAMIN TOMES In college, you just thought about having fun. Now you have to think about making money and putting ... LAURYN WILLIAMS You've got to give him credit. He hit a mistake. DEREK HANKINS I don?t think Mr. Lehr is the man for the job. He was never interviewed by city council. He was give... MARTIN EGGLESTON I think the main thing with him was just not to give him any easy baskets. He's a scorer, but you ha... BROCK REICHNER I gotta give our guys credit. They could have folded the tent. But we fought back. JASON KIDD You see what we're putting out there. Give them credit. They're scraping and scraping. We were just ... JACK MCKEON He has bet his governorship on these initiatives, ... He has pushed all of his chips to the middle o... DAN DALY The key to playing a guy like Bradford is putting pressure on him. If you let him sit back there he'... DAN COCANNOUER Pitching in the first game was obviously an issue. It's something we need to work on. I have to find... DAN PURLEE I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo... BRIAN GRAZER $3 billion is a big number but, to be honest, I would expect them to have issued $4 billion. (An iss... GAUTAM JAIN I wanna give some credit to the Rasmussen brothers. BOB CAPENER Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give ... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR To me, I've got more respect for him than I do anybody. (Not just anybody) would give everything the... JAREKUS SINGLETON I am sure he is very disappointed but it does give him an opportunity to play for us on a more regul... SAM ALLARDYCE We got the young kid Williams some touches, which was good, and I thought we ran the ball hard. But ... BRIAN GRIESE I thought when they got the punt return that it was going to be tough for us to keep them out of the... JEFF GRONNER We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think... EDWARD KENNEDY But at some point you've got to put the gun on the table. WILLARD HOLMES I think our two goalies deserve some credit, JULIE DAVIS We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illici... JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON It was terrible. Sometimes I would think the worst. And then some days I would think the best. I was... LILLIAN HOLLINGSWORTH I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism. ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I think it was a wakeup call. I've said for a couple of years, oftentimes I got the impression some ... MIKE BELLOTTI They were coming in here ready to give us one more big shot. They had the adrenaline going early and... BARBARA STEVENS A Democratic Congress would help some of the Clinton agenda, but I would also stand opposed to some ... JOHN MURRAY I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss MAYA ANGELOU I spent some time with him on the putting green and he was working with this aid. He showed me how i... LORIE KANE I knew a lot of people would come if there was some controversy, like when we put on 'The Vagina Mon... DOUG SCHULTZ It was tough out there, some wet balls, whatever. I think their team might have gotten a little more... BLAKE MITCHELL Couples saw me and pointed out I was wearing an Ashworth shirt. They (Ashworth) are one of his spons... DONATHON STOVER I have no idea what kind of advice my father would have given me, were he still around. More than an... BRIAN CLOUGH He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from... JENNIFER WESTER I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its... MAX WEINBERG The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I... PAUL LYNDE Weve got a lot more than a lot of people. IAN WILLIAMSON That (stinks). And it's my fault, too, because I was zero for zero, and I should be getting (to the ... JUSTIN MORIARTY
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GORDON ATKINSON See things as they are and write about them. Dont waste your creative energy trying to make things... GORDON ATKINSON If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru... GORDON ATKINSON Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin... GORDON ATKINSON One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ... GORDON ATKINSON Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less. GORDON ATKINSON I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud. GORDON ATKINSON External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or ev... GORDON ATKINSON Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. BROOKS ATKINSON In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev... BROOKS ATKINSON You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womans name and claim to love her. GORDON ATKINSON When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. GORDON ATKINSON There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p... GORDON ATKINSON This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same. GORDON ATKINSON You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone. GORDON ATKINSON I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ... GORDON ATKINSON I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ... GORDON ATKINSON This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or ... GORDON ATKINSON I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ... GORDON ATKINSON Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go. GORDON ATKINSON My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ... GORDON ATKINSON Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing. GORDON ATKINSON The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ... GORDON ATKINSON I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio... ROWAN ATKINSON We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea... ROWAN ATKINSON Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ... KATE ATKINSON I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ... ROWAN ATKINSON Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. RON ATKINSON We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't ha... RITA ATKINSON We need to be patient and move the ball well. We need balance with an inside-outside game. But if we... RITA ATKINSON One of the reasons for our success this year is clearly that 13 kids came to practice every day and ... RITA ATKINSON She said they're a perimeter team .... They're scrappy, and they push the ball up court on the fast ... RITA ATKINSON The guys just come to our gigs to pick up girls, if nothing else. NICK ATKINSON But we have just found the more we play live in the UK, the more people have started to talk about o... NICK ATKINSON I guess it is better for people to talk about us than not talk about us. NICK ATKINSON In the future we'll have to change our name to the Rats or something, NICK ATKINSON For me, that was a worry, and I sat down with him and said exactly that, ... But when you talk to so... NICK ATKINSON I got to the end of my first year, and I'd had a f---ing great time - I slept with a lot of loose wo... NICK ATKINSON