Chris Kramer quote: "Instead of closing our eyes, turning our back on (real-money trading), and just hoping it will go away, we instead decided to embrace it and make it legal or sanctioned for those who wanted to take part in it. It's a big experiment for us. It seems to be working out."

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CHRIS KRAMER

World of Warcraft is completely owning the online game space right now. Look, Matrix Online is good,...
CHRIS KRAMER

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,
CHRIS KRAMER

I think it's a cool idea, but it probably won't get off the ground, ... There are a million nifty hi...
CHRIS KRAMER

There are a lot of other online games that are just sucking wind right now because so many people ar...
CHRIS KRAMER

'World of Warcraft' is completely owning the online game space right now.
CHRIS KRAMER

The reason we charge is it costs a lot of money. We don't look at Fan Faire as a revenue generator. ...
CHRIS KRAMER

Our offensive line played great and dominated up front. We got holes and great push, and Vining was ...
CHRIS KRAMER

We were going to donate something. This puts a personal touch on it.
CHRIS KRAMER

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing...
WAYNE KRAMER

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
WAYNE KRAMER

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l...
WAYNE KRAMER

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his...
WAYNE KRAMER

We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today...
WAYNE KRAMER

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our ow...
WAYNE KRAMER

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play any...
WAYNE KRAMER

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who ...
WAYNE KRAMER

I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever re...
WAYNE KRAMER

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about...
WAYNE KRAMER

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody ...
WAYNE KRAMER

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to le...
WAYNE KRAMER

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they ...
WAYNE KRAMER

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
WAYNE KRAMER

I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted th...
LARRY KRAMER

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there....
LARRY KRAMER

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, bu...
LARRY KRAMER

We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; t...
LARRY KRAMER

I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened ...
LARRY KRAMER

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
LARRY KRAMER

I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay...
LARRY KRAMER

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha...
LARRY KRAMER

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a ...
LARRY KRAMER

By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
LARRY KRAMER

Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to reall...
LARRY KRAMER

The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as i...
LARRY KRAMER

Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let&...
LARRY KRAMER

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But h...
LARRY KRAMER

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi...
LARRY KRAMER

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr...
LARRY KRAMER

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t...
LARRY KRAMER

We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
LARRY KRAMER

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia...
LARRY KRAMER

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ...
LARRY KRAMER

I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ...
LARRY KRAMER

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
LARRY KRAMER

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first...
LARRY KRAMER

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely some...
JANA KRAMER

The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time ...
JACK KRAMER

When the game is over it is really just beginning.
JERRY KRAMER

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on ...
LARRY KRAMER

Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ul...
JOHN KRAMER

There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and re...
JOHN KRAMER

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
JERRY KRAMER

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
JERRY KRAMER

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for i...
LARRY KRAMER

The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nati...
JOHN KRAMER

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.
JANA KRAMER

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.
HILTON KRAMER

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
HILTON KRAMER

The stress and tragedy that comes with the immediate shock of being notified that you've lost someon...
JAMES KRAMER

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's sh...
JANA KRAMER

In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad...
WENDY KRAMER

We try to follow the show, but nobody gets voted out. And of course, we make sure nobody is without ...
DOUG KRAMER

I don't like it, just like everyone else doesn't like it, but it's a safety issue, and as much as it...
AARON KRAMER

Diversity and Equality are not the same
MICHAEL KRAMER

Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and pe...
WAYNE KRAMER

People only sign up if they're willing to be found. We don't want to invade anyone's privacy. We wan...
WENDY KRAMER

Look, it wasn't easy. Sometimes it was mental torture, especially the Gregorian chants for four hour...
TOM KRAMER

Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess ...
JOHN KRAMER

To preserve and improve (these properties) is the desired outcome. We want Elkhart's neighborhoods t...
WAYNE KRAMER

I know some of the churches are planning their schedules Sunday around the new time, so it would be ...
WAYNE KRAMER

The city has received no official communication from the county prosecutor as to what his intention ...
WAYNE KRAMER

(Oleg) lives on the dark side of that American dream. He's always next door playing with Nicky becau...
WAYNE KRAMER

We'll gather to address the short-term and long-term plan for the Elco.
WAYNE KRAMER

I'm inclined to pick up the phone and ask them (state officials) why there is no guidance in handing...
WAYNE KRAMER

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.
WAYNE KRAMER

It's many different emotions in one play.
AARON KRAMER

I think we will eventually follow in England's footsteps. Donor insemination is moving in the same d...
WENDY KRAMER

It just evolved and I've been running after it ever since because it got bigger than me.
WENDY KRAMER

I felt it was my job as his mother, ... I brought him into the world with this set of circumstances ...
WENDY KRAMER

It's really a film about screwed-up parenting - but done with good intentions.
WAYNE KRAMER

The cost shift burden for employers is becoming greater. As a result, many employers, especially sma...
BILL KRAMER

Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No on...
JOHN KRAMER

Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
LARRY KRAMER

Watkins is the only game where we've gotten beat really bad. They handled us both times. They're jus...
ANNA KRAMER

We had to throw a team together that is typically what we wouldn't have. We did the best we could wi...
ANNA KRAMER

This isn't what we had hoped for. We're hoping to come back and play a lot better than what did towa...
ANNA KRAMER

I told the girls that we expect to compete in every single game. They are really starting to believe...
ANNA KRAMER

The girls look forward to playing Liberty because we have played them in an indoor league the past t...
ANNA KRAMER

Mount Vernon is supposed to be pretty good. They played some pretty tough teams last season. Their s...
ANNA KRAMER

Taking them on a trip will help build team chemistry to the next level. The girls bring a lot of hea...
ANNA KRAMER

Things are coming together pretty well. It was great to see when we came in the first day for pitche...
ANNA KRAMER

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successfu...
JERRY KRAMER

A lot remains to be done when it comes to Turkish policies towards minorities.
HEINZ KRAMER

We may be able to pick them up at earlier stages, ... But that is not the same as actually benefitin...
BARNETT KRAMER

A lot of the public is completely unaware that the strength of the message is not matched by the str...
BARNETT KRAMER

It's unacceptable to turn the ball over. I don't care if your first string or sixth string.
BILL KRAMER

The top eight states on our list are Minnesota, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Indiana, Virginia, Alabama...
JOHN KRAMER

I'm kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting pe...
JANA KRAMER

Dictators don't like to give up power freely, and in this case, Lukashenko is no exception. So I thi...
DAVID KRAMER

Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears.
JOHN KRAMER

It was unexpected and unbelievable, ... It's astonishing that this would happen on a golf course, be...
DAVID KRAMER

It's not unusual when a new chairman comes for there to be a number of vacancies at the top.
HOWARD KRAMER

Contamination of some of the equipment, when to properly and how to wash your hands.
BOB KRAMER

It was the perfect mix of ingredients for West Nile.
VICKI KRAMER

We all understood why they called the game. If that happened to one of our players, we wouldn't have...
JACK KRAMER

Within this are one hundred people's stories. It's humbling to be part of this.
AARON KRAMER

(Chamberlin) was just (staying) low and making it tough to tackle him, which is what we're taught to...
JACK KRAMER

We're hoping to get a couple of wins and get some momentum for the tournament. The win against Fishe...
ANNA KRAMER

There was a guy onstage filming the whole bloody thing. Who's this guy? Where did he come from? We t...
EDDIE KRAMER

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to ...
EDDIE KRAMER

[Hendrix plays the role of both himself and Leon.] It think it's very clever, and very, very emotion...
EDDIE KRAMER

Life was but a joke and a dream, quite frankly. We were having a good time, and we were working very...
EDDIE KRAMER

We always joked and kidded around, every day and every moment,
EDDIE KRAMER

There's gonna be one nice piece of product coming out every year for about the next 15 years. There'...
EDDIE KRAMER

Jimi's music is so universal. And kids who are getting into rock 'n' roll guitar, who's the go-to gu...
EDDIE KRAMER

I think 'caretaking' is a very apt description, ... I feel like we've nurtured them along. It must b...
EDDIE KRAMER

Exercise and fitness from Tai Chi to chair exercises to everything in between.
DACE KRAMER

I don't mind being quoted. I mind being misquoted.
ANAT KRAMER

Stephen F. Austin insists on loading the box and blitzing, they absolutely insist on it.
MIKE KRAMER

Jordan's our ace. He makes great pitch calls. He doesn't try to do too much. (Coaches) are always af...
BRYAN KRAMER

But it's not clear yet whether Turkey sees this role as a supplement or alternative to EU membership...
HEINZ KRAMER

The soul of America weeps for the dead youth of this illegal and immoral war. It is time to step up ...
WAYNE KRAMER

We just let the sunset speak.
DOUG KRAMER

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others t...
JOHN KRAMER

Usually you put a tee in the ground to let someone know they've hit a ball into your group, ... It i...
DAVID KRAMER

She made a great decision in continuing to pursue music. She'll do just fine, and she'll get great s...
BOB KRAMER

I will debate Don anyplace, anytime between now and the election.
DAVID KRAMER

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.
MIKE KRAMER

We were the generation psychoanalysts tried to change.
LARRY KRAMER

We're swapping what is working and what is not working.
VICKI KRAMER

I told someone this summer, 'If we keep playing these I-A games, eventually we're going to get someb...
MIKE KRAMER

To beat those teams, it takes an extraordinary effort, and a devil-may-care attitude. We all come in...
MIKE KRAMER

It's been coming for a while since the reduction of scholarships. This conference has a very strong ...
MIKE KRAMER

They were there. They were disappointed. We wanted to get to single-digits with minutes left. If we ...
MIKE KRAMER

In six years, that's our best home performance. ... This is the best game we've played at home, top ...
MIKE KRAMER

Our defense has been disparaged, but they're on the road back.
MIKE KRAMER

Whether it's against a giant or against a pip-squeak, a loss is a loss, and so there is no way aroun...
MIKE KRAMER

He'll be out three weeks, plus the bye week. He'll be available for our last four games.
MIKE KRAMER

I really don't know if we're be able to run the ball real well until our tight ends grow up a little...
MIKE KRAMER

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.
MIKE KRAMER

The semiconductor industry has few equals when it comes to resource conservation and minimizing its ...
SCOTT KRAMER

I read about the program in the newspaper and thought it would be a good idea. I can only teach him ...
BILL KRAMER

It's been our toughest two weeks of practice in years. We put them in some very competitive situatio...
BILL KRAMER

Colbert had a great night. We're fortunate to have a lot of great skill players. If we don't turn it...
BILL KRAMER

He's playing with so much confidence.
BILL KRAMER

He's the real deal. He's the hardest running, running back that they've had, that we've played again...
BILL KRAMER

It's a good rivalry. They do a good job. They have an impressive offense, and a real good defense.
BILL KRAMER

We have a lot of baseball fans in the area,
BILL KRAMER

Every war, every plague is God’s judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the pla...
JOHN KRAMER

We don't believe he was wearing a helmet or any protective gear. He was riding alone.
MARK KRAMER

He's a combination of a good reporter and the host of a talk show. The concept is for him to really ...
LARRY KRAMER

The story doesn't end any more when you post it, when you put it on the TV.
LARRY KRAMER

[The goal was to] treat news more like a loop, ... Stories don't end when we post them. ... People r...
LARRY KRAMER

We used to be up against a lot of stupid money that invested in bad ideas. Now that most of the bad ...
LARRY KRAMER

It's a major step for us. This is our Live 8, this is a mass-market moment for the Internet and for ...
LARRY KRAMER

When he really wanted to get juicy, he would write in Latin. Remember? I was seventeen before I real...
LARRY KRAMER

One of dad's favorite tricks was to stand a kitchen match on a clothesline pole and light it by shoo...
DAVE KRAMER

You can hear Jimi experimenting with his vocal. He's rustling the paper and going 'Oh...oh...oh I do...
EDDIE KRAMER

But such an invitation and such a stand leads to irritations with the EU.
HEINZ KRAMER

They look very promising: Shorter, accessible, they're geared to readers a little younger than the c...
JEROME KRAMER

I was angry, I felt violated . I was angry for quite a while about it, and now I would just like to ...
JERRY KRAMER

Not many people in the U.S. government view Viktor Chernomyrdin as someone who was a staunch reforme...
DAVID KRAMER

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.
STANLEY KRAMER

I do wonder how Microsoft thinks they can offer a product that competes with one that includes secur...
CHARLES KRAMER

This is a great opportunity for our middle school to witness the political process first hand,
CHARLES KRAMER

We're opening up the doors of the schools to the community and we'd like to see as much community in...
CHARLES KRAMER

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
JERRY KRAMER

Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentio...
KATHRYN KRAMER

To be free, you must think. There is no way to follow blindly and to be free.
JOHN KRAMER

Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.
JOHN KRAMER

The ring was gone . Captain gets on the PA system, pleads with whoever picked it up to give it back,...
JERRY KRAMER

Our aim is not to prevent the mill from reopening, but rather to make sure that the paper mill opera...
KEN KRAMER

The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they kn...
JOHN KRAMER

Indianapolis is one of the smaller shows, but we've been slammed over the past couple days, so that'...
DAVE KRAMER

You'll see more and more becoming available on the Web, mostly in cases where networks are convinced...
LARRY KRAMER

The first T-shirt with a rock likeness was put out by an Elvis Presley fan club around 1956, ... It'...
HOWARD KRAMER

The announcement is hardly surprising, but I wouldn't necessarily regard it as definitive. I don't a...
ORIN KRAMER

I was born and raised Catholic and now I do it full-time and on the job.
DOUG KRAMER

We wrap up each week by giving thanks. On Friday, we end with the Eucharist.
DOUG KRAMER

With this environment, the kids slow down. After 24 hours, they let go of the city rhythm. Sometimes...
DOUG KRAMER

I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and...
JANA KRAMER

If it's successful, we'll repeat it and they can get repeat work.
DIANNE KRAMER

We're really looking at what we can do with less land. As growth continues and land remains at a pre...
DIANNE KRAMER

We've hit roadblocks we've never hit before.
DIANNE KRAMER

I think the short-term solution, of my kid getting an education this year, is finally happening. But...
DOROTHY KRAMER

When I saw that I was terrified. I thought it was really awful and I'm a grown-up. And now my kid th...
DOROTHY KRAMER

Look at the mikes. There are three mikes on the drums, all Shure 58s, not what you'd call high-end c...
EDDIE KRAMER

I was quite surprised at the harshness of the probation department's recommendation. Judge Davila go...
CHARLES KRAMER

We've got more and more kids coming around. The kids are hitting the ball hard.
BRYAN KRAMER

We'll rotate eight or nine guys that can start for us. We have tier one pitchers, but then we have a...
BRYAN KRAMER

I think the experience will be huge for us. There is a certain level of comfort you get from being a...
BRYAN KRAMER

We are fortunate to have so much talent on the mound. It is a luxury. We won't burn kids out or over...
BRYAN KRAMER

We think we are as solid a team as we have ever been. The question is can we produce power numbers a...
BRYAN KRAMER

We were very disappointed, especially offensively. We just simply did not hit the ball.
BRYAN KRAMER

The defense came up big. It is nice to see when you are going through some things on the offense. Th...
BRYAN KRAMER

We did some things better (Friday). We just couldn't seal the deal. In the second half, they changed...
BRYAN KRAMER

Instead of closing our eyes, turning our back on (real-money trading), and just hoping it will go away, we instead decided to embrace it and make it legal or sanctioned for those who wanted to take part in it. It's a big experiment for us. It seems to be working out.

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Chris Kramer

Instead of closing our eyes, turning our back on (real-money trading), and just hoping it will go away, we instead decided to embrace it and make it legal or sanctioned for those who wanted to take part in it. It's a big experiment for us. It seems to be working out.

Chris Kramer

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