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DAVID BAILEY If it were Hegel, I m...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON If not, we'll likely set him up for a title defense of his WBO As-Pac title in the Philippines.
ANTONIO ALDEGUER Housekeeping? If it pays well, I might as well have a try.
ZHANG MING If you got something to say, you should say it or it's just gonna tear you up inside.
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FRANK LAUTENBERG Every goal that we wanted to accomplish, we accomplished. [Besides], we'll come out and have another...
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AHMAD JAMAL A good title is the title of a successful book.
RAYMOND CHANDLER 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying ...
BO BURNHAM I wish people would not use him as a means to justify criticism of Damien Hirst and others. There is...
KAREN WRIGHT Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, a...
VICTORIA BECKHAM I think we should compete for the sectional title. We don't have a lot of depth, but this is a good ...
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AS GOOD AS IT GETS Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a purist. The...
DANNY ANDERSON You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live ...
AHMAD JAMAL Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card ou...
DAMIEN HIRST I have a reputation of having a really bad race before a good one. I had some hard workouts before s...
DAN MCMANAMON I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.
BOB BLYER You should lead and serve by example without a title because people will and should remember you by ...
GEORGE STAMATIS Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT A win is a win. It's just some events have more significance than others. That's all it is. But the ...
GREG NORMAN It was a good win but what I am aiming for is a title and not just another semi-final or final.
RADEK STEPANEK It's not preachy. And I didn't want to use the word 'etiquette' in the title because that makes kids...
ELAINE SWANN Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it wi...
DAVID BARNES Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring!
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LARRY FARMER If you say 'shit happens' I am just gonna have to say 'guess you're not toilet trained huh'.
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JAMES DENTON We're not going just to go. We're going to win another title.
TREVIN HARRIS We try not to tip our hand as to what it's gonna be. Sometimes you want to bait 'em, let them think ...
CHARLIE WEIS If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right
BILLY JOEL Solidarity, had to be meaningful and not just a word. Malta would keep insisting that it should be h...
JOSEPH MUSCAT You win a state title in Florida and you automatically have that bulls-eye on your chest. Now, if we...
GLENN WITKOWSKI Try not to judge others. Because someone might have gone through something that you wouldn't have su...
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CAROLYN BROWN Night' is not a fiction title and we are in the process of updating our database so that the title i...
CAROLYN BROWN 'Night' is not a fiction title, and we are in the process of updating our database so that the title...
CAROLYN BROWN 'Night' is not a fiction title and we are in the process of updating our database so that the title ...
CAROLYN BROWN Men, who keep their word and show gallantry, deserve their title
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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BERNIE SIEGEL That's where the title came from. He still had things to say. It just wasn't in God's plan to say it...
JEFF PHILLIPS It's very unlikely that everything goes as planned. There's always a surprise. That's why they have ...
JAANUS UUDMAE Each of the three titles has been special in its own way. This year's title was special because we h...
KERRY LOUGHRAN It is a title decider. But it's not going to decide any titles just yet.
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BO SCHEMBECHLER When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to ma...
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CHAD REED Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.
NORA ROBERTS Try something new today, you might just like it
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BENNY BLANCO I think we have a good shot at worlds. The door is opened a little bit further for us to challenge f...
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DAMIEN CHAZELLE Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.
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DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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DAMIEN CHAZELLE When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a me...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not a...
DAMIEN ECHOLS If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements an...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWI...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because...
DAMIEN HESS If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON It's been a great spectacle -- I haven't done that for a while. It's a great opportunity to (score r...
DAMIEN MARTYN You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it awa...
DAMIEN RICE People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the mov...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE My first movie was totally improvised.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winte...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused...
DAMIEN NEWTON America's veterans have earned more than this President and the Republican Congress have provided. W...
DAMIEN LAVERA The current EU statement is the latest in a very long list of warnings sent to the Government and Mi...
DAMIEN MULLEY Carney? Gentlemen, start your Honeymooners references.
DAMIEN COX These women are sophisticated and educated about fashion. People have a misconception that this is a...
DAMIEN VERNET