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Related ARTHUR MILLER E. HOWARD HUNT This is unprecedented in our country, ... There is no disaster that has had the amount of trauma for... HOWARD OSOFSKY DEYTH BANGER To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN There is no way you can have a trial in a country where there is absolutely no authority. That is th... ABDEL HAQ ALANI After so long when the polls were deadlocked no matter what happened, now we have a situation where ... ANDREW KOHUT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If it had been 33-23 the other way, there would have been no questions about parliamentary procedure... RAY ZABORNEY DARYL HANNAH If it had been 33-23 the other way, then there would be no questions about parliamentary procedure. ... RAY ZABORNEY BEN OKRI There is no more fundamental obligation of a government than to protect those who cannot protect the... JAMES MCGREEVEY There is no more fundamental obligation of a government than to protect those who cannot protect the... JAMES MCGREEVEY All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no resp... ALBERT SPEER Patch it up? There is no patching up. KENNY WILLIAMS The ruling itself really had no details that were completely surprising to anyone. The final ruling ... LARRY SEIBERT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON There is just a problem with the way Ted was chosen -- they didn't follow due process, ... No one kn... CHRIS CHELIOS DEYTH BANGER We had those four singles matches out there where, other than No. 1 singles, any of them could have ... STEVE BIETAU ANTHONY LEWIS C. JOYBELL C. C. JOYBELL C. This is a powerful club Intel wields because it is a monopolist, ... These customers have no other a... WILLIAM BAER We had no other choice but to protect ourselves. MAHIR MURAD Four months later, I was in a pool and I had no idea what I was doing. I had an idea, a dress, and a... LAURIE MCLEOD His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING C.A.R. HOARE When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held stea... JEREMY SCOTT War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK The fact is that no one is hated openly so much as one who is true to oneself consistently and no on... ANUJ SOMANY BRENE BROWN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I want to make it clear this does not absolve the players for their part in this season. In no way d... DAVE NONIS We believe there is no issue here -- there is no fundamental change in the way the company is handli... MICHAEL WALLACE I put us in a hole, and with the way Derek threw, we had no chance after that. GLENDON RUSCH AVINA CELESTE WILLIAM BARCLAY No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there ... HOWARD JACOBSON He showed me that there was another world where strangers helped strangers for no other reason than ... HYEONSEO LEE ZADIE SMITH It was a bad day all around. There's really no explanation for it other than I didn't do a good job ... GLENDON RUSCH And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the la... BIBLE There is no way that you can form iron-60 other than in a massive, evolved star. JEFF HESTER Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS They've given me back a life that I had no idea that I had lost -- I was so in the dark. ALISHA MARIGONI I was a little nervous coming in. But after it was all finished I was definitely excited and had no ... HEATHER STEPHENS BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... The people most in need of tax fairness have been targeted for no other reason than that they are lo... DAVID MARZAHL Oh, no, no. In fact, the show is so funny because... last season I had had the flu and I got really ... LINDA CARDELLINI I put us in a hole, and with the way Derek threw today, we had no chance after that. GLENDON RUSCH But the fact that there was a security breach is troubling, especially if there are no technical fix... ANDREW JAQUITH FEISAL ABDUL RAUF ANNIE DILLARD There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. SISTER MARY ROSE MCGEADY The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume the... LOUIS L'AMOUR I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that A... CASEY ABRAMS People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ... JAMES EARL JONES When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to th... BRUCE WILKINSON EDITH HAMILTON We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the wa... PETER BARRIS But it was all tongue in cheek. That said more to me about the man than anything else. I had no idea... GREG HALL is there any I could get a glass of water?"BRIAN REGAN I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterwa... SEAN COLLINS The only person you need to tolerate is your own spouse and that too in a limited way. There is no r... DR. VINOD B. NAIR EDDIE IZZARD I just heaved it. I had no idea where it was going. BILLY MILNE I was so pumped up. The louder they yelled, the harder I wanted to throw it. I had no idea it was go... BRETT MYERS EMMA CLINE I don't believe that Taylor would go willingly with this man to have an intimate encounter. She told... HANNAH STORM LAUREN MYRACLE Both parents expressed complete shock and disappointment after their son was arrested on the arson c... DUSTIN DEUTSCH I've seen a ghost in my bathroom with no face, this is true by the way, and I had a yo-yo that r... BRETT DIER We were in fourth, so we had nothing to lose. We had no choice other than to really attack. CHARLIE WHITE There is no panic, (but) we have a little bigger hill to climb in India -- it is the only major geog... EDWARD ZANDER JOHN MUIR CHANNING TATUM We had a rising dollar against the yen, temporary collapse that had no fundamental basis, and then w... MICHAEL ROSENBERG ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the... CHARLES SPALDING I had no idea! No thought there was another human on this earth with my blood. And, I thought she's ... HOWARD HOLM I blamed myself for being vulnerable. Vulnerability felt like a banner that announced, 'Come and get... CHRISTINA ENEVOLDSEN I had no idea it had anything to do with that. LARRY THOLL I've never played hockey, it was a lucky shot, I had no idea where it was going. AARON GUIEL ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI JEFFREY FRY I started to empty the dishwasher and then remembered that there was an alternative to my thoughts a... SARAH MOSS This draft in particular, no one had any idea which way it would go. JOSH CHILDRESS [He] looked exactly like Michael's idea of Don Quixote, 'the luminary and mirror of all knight-erran... ELIZABETH GOUDGE, THE ROSEMARY TREE We had one situation a couple of years ago where we had a disgruntled user who figured out a way to ... GREG DYER [The rebels] were armed to the hilt, and we had to act, ... There was no other way out. ALBERTO FUJIMORI We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t... CHRIS WEDGE JAMES BALDWIN JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no ... TIM FERRISS
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[Saturday's worm] is the recruitment of soldiers, not telling the soldiers where to aim their guns. ALAN PALLER It's not a major risk. It's not [doing] either of the two things that are terribly damaging. One is ... ALAN PALLER all the new PCs and the new Web servers, multiplied by the fear of top management about security bre... ALAN PALLER It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed. ALAN PALLER That could be a real wave of traffic that the Internet has not dealt with. ALAN PALLER There is a wave of people looking for infected machines. We are getting into the second wave of infe... ALAN PALLER It gives anyone on the Internet who comes in as a browsing user the ability to take control of your ... ALAN PALLER Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves. ALAN PALLER The only viruses using [the hole] aren't very malicious, but that has nothing to do with tomorrow. ALAN PALLER If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would st... ALAN PALLER It's something we call collateral damage, but I don't mean that lightly. This thing creates traffic ... ALAN PALLER Microsoft's delay is inexcusable. There's no excuse other than incompetence and negligence. ALAN PALLER The ISO is going to the CEO saying there's a chance something bad, and possibly something embarrassi... ALLAN PALLER It seems to me the idea of competing for resources with audit is the shortest path to going away. If... ALLAN PALLER We can't protect these systems. The skill level of most Windows users is novice at best, and the bas... ALLAN PALLER It works wonderfully if you're a bad guy. ALLAN PALLER Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm. ALAN ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre... 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ALAN PARKER ALAN BALL ALAN GREENSPAN ALAN WATTS ALAN MOORE ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political... ALAN SIEGEL ALAN RICKMAN ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t... ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ... ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I... ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h... ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w... ALAN CURBISHLEY I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises. ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over? ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky. ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what... ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another. ALAN CUMMING When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course. ALAN CULPEPPER In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could... ALAN CULPEPPER ALAN LIGHTMAN At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com... ALAN CURRY We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work... ALAN CURRY Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong. ALAN CURRY He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne... ALAN CURBISHLEY I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest, ALAN CURBISHLEY We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf... ALAN CURBISHLEY Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week, ALAN CURBISHLEY Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal... ALAN CURBISHLEY The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him. ALAN CURBISHLEY We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ... ALAN CURRY We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial. ALAN CURRY The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat... ALAN CURRY I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried. ALAN CURRY It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa... ALAN DAVIDSON We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ... ALAN CURTIS One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the... ALAN CURTIS [Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future... ALAN CURTIS But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra... ALAN CURTIS If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America, ALAN CURTIS This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct... ALAN CURRY It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ... ALAN CURRY The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to... ALAN CURRY He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops. ALAN DAVIES I think a lot of people feel it would be a mistake. ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected, ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, somethi... ALAN DAVIDSON From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer. ALAN DAVIDSON This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards... ALAN DAVIDSON They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some... ALAN DAVIDSON it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill. ALAN DAVIDSON We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracki... ALAN DAVIDSON I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead. ALAN DAVIDSON It's been a long time coming. Thank God for this day. ALAN CROTZER Here I am trying to build a life and I have nothing to build it with. It's wrong, just wrong. ALAN CROTZER If you really want the truth, leave no stone unturned. ALAN CROTZER There ain't no compensation for what they done to me. But I'm not bitter. ALAN CROTZER Especially when it comes to sex offenses, history is a big predictor of the future, ALAN CROPSEY When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse, ALAN CROPSEY Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start ou... ALAN CROPSEY He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C. ALAN CROPSEY When you have a chance to make plays and don't, you can almost be assured the final score will not f... ALAN CRAWFORD You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or th... ALAN CRAWFORD Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 ... ALAN CULPEPPER The Olympic Games tends to be a little more of a coming together of all the nations, so it's differe... ALAN CULPEPPER Our sport needs spectator friendly and all the help it can get on that side. That adds to the allure... ALAN CULPEPPER There was a moment there when we were getting concerned, ALAN CULPEPPER Most countries around the world, they just don't think that way. They think, 'I'm just going to get ... ALAN CULPEPPER I feel like the bad conditions and the tough course is to my advantage, just because a lot of people... ALAN CULPEPPER Every time we tried to get going there was some factor -- weather, wind or turns. I think we all suf... ALAN CULPEPPER For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare... ALAN CULPEPPER Basically I'm from the old school. We try to score one run an inning in any fashion. A lot of times ... ALAN CRAWFORD Our defense has been real inconsistent. We've got five weeks to fix it. Hopefully by district tourna... ALAN CRAWFORD They're nice kids to coach. They work hard. They hit their spots. They don't try to strike everybody... ALAN CRAWFORD I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, b... ALAN CRANSTON I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back... ALAN CRANSTON I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision... ALAN CRANSTON Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things ... ALAN CRANSTON The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, havin... ALAN CRANSTON The American people are much more concerned about taxes, welfare, the deficit, crime, education, dru... ALAN CRANSTON It's important to recognize that many people working together can do things which individuals workin... ALAN CRANSTON There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and G... ALAN CRANSTON For [customers] it means that they can shop for 'Linux applications' without having to worry about w... ALAN COX I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off un... ALAN COX What matters are the applications. ALAN COX I'm going to Disneyland! ALAN COX It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused, ... Hope will rebuild ... ALAN COX He's a great kid. ALAN COX They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon the... ALAN COX I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the re... ALAN COX Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there. ALAN COX The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. It's the main site of action where everyt... ALAN COWMAN The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. It's the main site of action where everyt... ALAN COWMAN The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. ALAN COWMAN This is the first time anyone has actually been able to infiltrate an antigenic variation program. W... ALAN COWMAN It's like a leopard being able to change its spots. New forms come up, and the immune system beats t... ALAN COWMAN I still believe there's someone out there for our film. ALAN COOKE If we'd made it in the conventional way, we would have lost a lot of the feeling that came from thin... ALAN COOKE We wanted to make something that spoke from the heart to the heart. ALAN COOKE From the beginning there was an element of fate about the project. ALAN COOKE It's an individual taking a journey, that's the perspective. It happened here, but it could happen a... ALAN COOKE In the 13 years I served, we never had a problem. But I feel we are going downhill. ALAN COOKE We know it's going to be a difficult challenge, we're under no illusion. ALAN COOKE It is a niche opportunity for National Savings, it won't have a big impact on us. ALAN COOK Ultimately, they still had to sell. You have to give them credit for realizing they weren't going to... ALAN COOK The problem before was that the chapter was in over its head with this building, ALAN COOK In our discussions, part of the plan is to put into writing a memorandum of understanding that the m... ALAN COOK He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn.... ALAN COOK All of the paintings in the Museum Art Online collection are known to have a status of world-wide fa... ALAN COOK If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to th... ALAN COLMES If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to th... ALAN COLMES You know what bothers me more? Whether or not a member of the White House leaked the identity of a C... ALAN COLMES sure beats being plucked off the top of your home by a helicopter. ALAN COLMES I take personal responsibility. ALAN COLMES Also, interestingly enough, some of the things he was accused of believing ...actually were not his ... ALAN COLMES the real smear here, is against the Democrats who are held up as these evil people... Heaven forbid ... ALAN COLMES I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, ... ALAN COLMES Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admi... ALAN COLMES Democrats need to be not only gracious in defeat, but positive about the future. ALAN COLMES Can we make money from this? That remains to be seen. ALAN COLMAN Singapore is gaining a lot of credibility as a good place to work. It has actually been easier for m... ALAN COLMAN It has undoubtedly harmed the image not just in Singapore, where I directly feel it has impacted our... ALAN COLMAN Although Singapore has a relatively limited pool of scientists as compared to the U.K., it has maxim... ALAN COLMAN They are a big catch. They are prominent researchers, very successful in the U.S.. ALAN COLMAN
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