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ERIC WOERTH We have a clear interest in coming to the negotiating table and shaping the transaction jointly.
JUERGEN HAMBRECHT The MTA put a fair offer on the negotiating table. The MTA remains ready to continue negotiations.
TOM KELLY It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
TED DEUTCH The union has done a good job in negotiating a buyout package that at least seems to me to be unpara...
JOHN CHALLENGER We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table,
AZIZ AHMAD The ranks are getting bigger every game. Everyone likes the underdog.
BILL JONES One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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CALVIN TRILLIN North Korea has exhausted most of its diplomatic cards available. A remaining card is not returning ...
KOH YU HWAN To come to the table with that $5 co-pay is not negotiating in good faith.
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SCOTT MCCLELLAN It's a kind of game of chicken.
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RICHARD HOLBROOKE We're happy that Pemco is ready to go back to the negotiating table. Now that we are negotiating, th...
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ANDRES PASTRANA Yields will be lower in six months. The economic statistics will start to show a slower growth path.
JOSEPH BALESTRINO It is a realization that there are inflation headwinds out there.
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JOSEPH BALESTRINO This is a very healthy labor market. We think the improving trend is in place. Everything is pointin...
JOSEPH BALESTRINO You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shou...
JOE SLOVO If you can get everyone in the same room, around the same table at the same time, you can usually fi...
HAL DAUB He's capable of doing it game in and game out. Me and Tony were out at the same time and you see the...
JAMAAL TATUM One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ...
GARY F EVANS... This scandal will get bigger before its finished.
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DOUG CAMPBELL We didn't want to get anyone hurt. Everyone knows what's at stake in the bigger picture. We wanted t...
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JUERGEN PETERS My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigge...
BETH DITTO The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Defense Ministry control all the levers of the nuclear prog...
ALIREZA JAFARZADEH The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b...
ANUJ SOMANY We definitely have a tough stretch coming up. Right now, we're just going to focus on St. Joseph and...
DREW CARSTENS I threw it out at the table at Thanksgiving dinner, where our table was filled with people who had l...
ANNE MILLING The sun's not yellow, its chicken!
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WAYNE GRETZKY If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good frie...
NORA EPHRON Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the neg...
MAHMOUD ABBAS The governor did what she does best, bring all parties together in good faith to the negotiating tab...
DWIGHT PELZ Its a chicken-and-egg argument as to which comes first.
JOE GILL I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something fu...
LORRIE MOORE We got a chance to get everyone we brought to the tournament in. Katie got an opportunity to see wha...
DIANE DAVEY I don't think it's as much a game of chicken as it is a game of bully-boy on the part of the governm...
JOHN TORY At the moment it's what I call a game of chicken. We don't want to move until we know what the thres...
MARI PANGESTU Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkis...
RAUF DENKTASH But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slaye...
TANYA HUFF We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chick...
HAYLIE DUFF I think that because guys go to the NBA so early (at bigger programs) it evens the game out. A lot o...
JOAH TUCKER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Today, we're selling $2 billion in chicken, and that's significantly up from a few years ago. We bel...
RALPH ALVAREZ Everyone will get opportunities in a game to make a big play,
DARNELL DOCKETT The MTA has put a fair offer on the negotiating table. Unfortunately, that offer has been rejected b...
TOM KELLY We've said for weeks now that we are ready, willing and able to meet Sikorsky at the negotiating tab...
ROCCO J. CALO Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger hou...
ALEJANDRO CREMADES Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, mis...
MINDY KALING You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. First you have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to know the game better than anyone els...
APURVA GAGLANI We want to get everyone at the table, ... The more I dig into this, it's a very complex issue. We wa...
BOB GIBBS We couldn't let them get any bigger of a lead. We were all a little nervous at the beginning ... but...
BAILEY HANSEN They're keeping me at tight end and seeing if I get bigger. If I get bigger, they'll move me to tack...
JEFF IDE The pie gets bigger, and we'd like to get a little bigger slice of it.
VINCE ELHILOW Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they...
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SIMON BAKER What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON Here, at the top of Lake Joseph, it's called Billionaires Row.
JAMES CROWE At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while ...
JOHN CARMACK Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
JIMMY BRESLIN For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone.
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JACKIE MILBURN That's unacceptable. We're still negotiating, trying to get that changed.
GARY FAULKENBERRY If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
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PHIL GOFF Ideally, that's what will happen. Ideally, the developers (of these areas) will react to city plans.
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DONNA GRANT Bringing a lawsuit as a class action like that is simply designed to be sensational and get media at...
JEFF PRESCOTT Northwest does not want a strike and we remain actively engaged at the negotiating table. At the sam...
JON AUSTIN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT