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[In addition to the Senate's administration, Sen. Oliver took aim at the recent rounds of Senate appointments Prime Minister Paul Martin has made.] Not one was a visible minority, ... How can that be?


Donald Oliver

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DONALD OLIVER I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being...
JOE DUNTHORNE When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.
GERARD BUTLER Of course, Oliver is disappointed, but he took it as a real sportsman.
JUERGEN KLINSMANN Many changes can be expected to be made to the legislation during the Senate floor debate. Sen. Luga...
ANDY FISHER Almost a year ago, in August, Oliver was in front but Jens has played very well these last few month...
JURGEN KLINSMANN Oliver Twist has asked for more.
CHARLES DICKENS [There's a business case for diversity that has nothing to do with money, Sen. Oliver told The Hill ...
DONALD OLIVER Prime Minister Gonzi could not be trusted, he repeated, since there was no visible and plausible exp...
JOSEPH MUSCAT She thought, just for a second, that they were going to bare fangs at each other . . . and then Myrn...
RACHEL CAINE Oliver was very concentrated after the decision was made. He played well just like he said he would.
FELIX MAGATH The prime minister has clearly said his visits are private ones. The difference between a private vi...
HIDENAO NAKAGAWA He's worked very hard to try to overcome that ... (but) as a minority member of the Senate, of cours...
DAVID REBOVICH It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
ANTHONY HOPKINS Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.
OLIVER BIERHOFF He was strong. He was almost like the old Oliver.
HUMBERTO COTA I expect him to go to the World Cup as the number two. Oliver gives the impression that he took the ...
FELIX MAGATH I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
BEL POWLEY Oliver Twist.
ROMAN POLANSKI I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.
SARA RAMIREZ A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
EHUD OLMERT I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
CAITRIONA BALFE What suprised me most about the real Gordon Selfridge was actually about his sons, Ralph and Oliver....
GREG AUSTIN That means that the Russian prime minister took personal responsibility [for the decision].
ALEXEI KUDRIN There can be no doubt the prime minister should seriously consider stepping down -- possibly as prim...
KARPAL SINGH From the time they brought Oliver back into the country, he was never alone, there was always a sold...
DAVID LARSON As if on cue, Fiona appeared in another of the ballroom's multiple doorways. 'Beatrice! Oliver! How ...
JENNIFER STURMAN My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
SALLY PHILLIPS Oliver Kahn will be in the ad because he belongs to the best soccer players in the world.
JAN RUNAU That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ...
ROBERT BYRD The fact that I was elected prime minister shows that the LDP has changed,
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
LIONEL JOSPIN Ken Oliver thought it was an opportunity to bring some continuity to the entire road.
DAVID GREEN I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. The prime minister had a CT scan that showed that the bleeding has stopped. He was then put in the n...
SHLOMO MOR YOSEF Basically the nuclear establishment of India dug in its heels, Prime Minister Singh backed them up, ...
ROBERT EINHORN Prime Minister Hun Sen is aware of those concerns and to demonstrate his compassion, he is sending a...
OM YENTIENG we have reached the conclusion that there should be a prime minister for all Iraqis, not just one gr...
KASIM DAOUD It was not clear which type of meeting he would agree to ... but the prime minister has agreed to me...
SURAPONG SUEBWONGLEE Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
RUTH OZEKI The Senate minority needs to stop obstructing its reauthorization. It's time for the Senate to compl...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born he...
YITZHAK RABIN It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that...
ELLEN MALCOLM I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the Un...
DAVID CAMERON No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL REEKI No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL HAMEED REEKI For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how...
FRANCIS COLLINS Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
SHIA LABEOUF I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angel...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS The suspicion must be that Tony Blair has already decided to advocate an increase in the use of nucl...
NORMAN BAKER In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observer...
MICHAEL LEUNIG A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON Compared to, say, a prime minister of England, a president has actually astonishingly few legal powe...
DAVID FRUM Bjorn Bauer can do pretty much everything Oliver can, but we just don't have those two bash brothers...
JAKE BLAIR The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.
STEPHEN HUNT Of course we will take Oliver Kahn to the World Cup. There was never any intention to leave him behi...
ANDREAS KOEPKE This was built specifically to house theaters, but also to house teaching facilities. The agenda of ...
JOE HASHAM This is the administration to continue reform, ... Even after I leave in September of next year, I d...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT But sometimes in difficult situations, all it takes is a meeting at a very, very high level. Whether...
DANNY WILLIAMS It did hurt that we went to the line seven times and Oliver Springs went 31 times. I thought that wa...
CARMEN HINES Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart....
OLIVER RIXON I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to...
YITZHAK RABIN It's not about the velocity. What impressed me was the movement Oliver had with his fastball in the ...
JIM TRACY If it was up to the youth, I would be the Prime Minister of Israel.
BOAZ WACHTEL The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury ya...
CHRIS GRAYLING No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain o...
JOHN ABIZAID Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot o...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
ALEXANDER DOWNER Netanyahu has already defeated a sitting prime minister (Peres in 1996), and he can do it again.
HANAN CRYSTAL Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe int...
OLIVER RIXON Prime Minister Koizumi made the visit based on his personal judgment.
SADAKAZU TANIGAKI He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This ...
RACHEL CAINE To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untou...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?
LOVE ACTUALLY No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER I told the prime minister that I would be ready to meet with Chairman Arafat in the period ahead at ...
DICK CHENEY I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team....
ANGELA MERKEL The prime minister has made this announcement in view of the improvement of relations with India and...
KASHIF MURTAZA I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'
DIANE LANE The opening kickoff set the tone. Oliver Hoyte goes down and makes the hit of the season. Maybe one ...
CHUCK AMATO Oliver has discovered that he can do other things (than shoot 3s), which is something we've been on ...
TOM PENDERS How can the prime minister continue to hang on [after this kind of verbal attack]? He should have re...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG The prime minister is not soft.
BASSAM RHIDA He then went on and fueled the issue in the House of Representatives based on information Heffernan ...
SIMON CREAN Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE The prime minister made a commitment to call an election 30 days after Justice Gomery reports,
MARC ROY Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT In the outgoing year members of the government and the prime minister went to regions frequently, an...
SERGEI MIRONOV There is absolutely no chance that the next prime minister will not be Viktor Chernomyrdin,
BORIS BEREZOVSKY Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?
C...
RACHEL CAINE My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the pu...
NIGEL S. WRIGHT And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder a...
BOBBY RAY INMAN I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I've received - ...
JOHN RIDLEY We're pleased that Sen. Fitz-Gerald has recognized that her bill has some serious effects and probab...
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommod...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...
OLIVER SACKS