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Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.


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KOY DETMER Our execution was good and we did some other things well.
DEXTER IRVIN Life is all about having a good time.
MILEY CYRUS I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
GABRIELA SABATINI We had some good pitching and the guys hit the ball really well. We got some other guys some playing...
MARK LARSEN We did some things very well, but it was a tough night to play. Kids were getting cramps. I thought ...
BOB SCHNEIDER I thought the officials did a pretty good job. There were some things. But overall, I thought it was...
SANDY PUGH We did some things right, but unfortunately we lost because of the mistakes we made. It was a good g...
CINDY FITZGERALD We pitched well and played great defense, and then we did some good things on offense. It was just a...
MATT CIMO Things started out alright and then tapered off, ... We did some good things, we did some bad things...
KOY DETMER That team was playing some defense. I was just having fun out there. It was a good time. Nicholson p...
DAVID LIGHTY We didn't play our best again, but we did some things well on offense, got some ball reversals. Our ...
DREW LEWIS If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.
PENNY MARSHALL I was very excited about the fact we did some good things. We created some good chances. No complain...
ANSON DORRANCE Time will tell. Different team. Different makeup. Different setting. Some things you come out of the...
JIMMYE LAYCOCK I like David. He's just a nice guy, but it was probably time for a change, ... He did a good job, an...
DAN POST Things started all right and then tapered off. We did some good things; we did some bad things.
KOY DETMER We had some real good matches, but unfortunately, I think we lost some of those close ones. It was k...
JEFF WEATHERMAN I think the offense did really well. We did some good things too.
ROC BELLANTONI If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.
BRANTLEY GILBERT If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER I did some good things as a rookie.
EARL CAMPBELL We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so we...
BETH MCNAMARA We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so we...
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DANA ADDIS We did pommel horse much better, but vault was rough. We had some guys try some double-folds for the...
BARRY WEINER It was a tough game all the way. Chicago played well and we knew they'd play hard. We were fortunate...
TERRY STOTTS He was just always so concerned about if I was having a good time.
JUDY CRIST Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.
STEVE BROWN [In addition to optimal atmosphere, the tight-knit staff at Kelly's made performers feel welcome and...
MORT SAHL He may have had a wounded back, but he had some fresh legs and he did some really good things. Defen...
LAWRENCE FRANK was always laughing, having a good time.
CHRIS WILLIAMS We ran into a buzz saw. We had a great week of preparation and felt good about ourselves. It was jus...
KARL DORRELL We needed that badly. It was good to get some scoring off the bench. But the best part about it is t...
BRAD CHASTEEN I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.
STERLING K. BROWN Joey did some good things Saturday and he's a good athlete.
HAL MUMME They say that three is the charm, and it was a nice time for us to get some payback. But that was a ...
GEORGE DRAWHORN We did some good things in the first half. We knew that we just had to stick with it and good things...
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JOE DENSBERGER Why is partying and having a good time bad?
TARA REID Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
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CROSBY DAVIDSON I felt I did some good things. For the most part, it was all right.
GREG ESTANDIA We put it on at the right time and were able to get some good things out of it. You have to acknowle...
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MIKE COSTELLO Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD They (the Comets) made some errors, but they had some great defensive plays. We did some good things...
CHUCK MEYER I was just having a good time out there. That helped a lot, and so did the defense.
HUNTER BLEVINS It was good for us, and good for them. They looked good, we looked good. And we all got to do some t...
FRANK CHEEK My finger felt really good. I took snaps for the first time and that was one of the things I was won...
JOE GERMAINE Anytime you start your conference schedule at 0-1, it's never good. But it is just the first game. I...
GLENN GRIFFIN He was antsy before we went out and couldn't hardly sit still. But for the first time out, he had so...
BRIAN WALKER We did do some good things (late).
GLORY SLATER It doesn't matter whether you get beat 100-0 or 1-0, it all counts as one game. That's the way we lo...
JOHN GRAHAME Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. ...
DWAYNE JOHNSON It did everything we hoped it would do. It was very positive, it outlined for us the things that we ...
DANA EIKENBERG I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
VICTOR WEBSTER Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we...
DALLIN H. OAKS When things are good, it is because we remember a time when they were not. When there was pain. But ...
BROOKE BURGESS It was a nice season opener in that we had a chance to see some good things and to get some innings ...
KRIS SAYLOR We did some things on offense, execution-wise, that we hadn't been doing earlier. Our defense played...
GLEN PADGETT Wade is probably our best athlete on the perimeter. He did some good things tonight, and Mike Stamps...
CHRIS BODEN I think Andre responded from some tough things that happened from him and he did some good things,
RICH BROOKS There were a lot of good things. We competed really well. I don't like how we let things go in the f...
HOSS JOHNSON Any time you play good competition, you learn from it. We found out today that we still have some th...
AMY BEARD I was pleasantly surprised to see things came as close as they did. We had some really good performa...
DENEEN KELLER It felt good to pretty much play the whole game. To get winded, get tired, get hit and things of tha...
BRAYLON EDWARDS We're battling. We showed some good things (in the Pacific series). We're staying after it, and I th...
MATT BOWMAN I think we did some good things. Eli was a little bit more consistent. He made some great decisions ...
TIKI BARBER There were good crowds and it was something to be able to play at the Armory. We had some good games...
DON ERICKSON ] came out in 1955, my first reviews were puffs. Then Stanley wrote a long, somewhat censorious revi...
DONALD HALL Julia is a great lacrosse player and taught us some things, but she was more of a friend than a coac...
AMBER KLAGES I didn't know if (Smith) was mentally ready to go. At the start it was ugly, but he turned it on the...
JOSH MARTIN It was a very balanced match. Milan played well and produced some good scoring chances that unfortun...
CARLO ANCELOTTI We see some good things, some negative things and things in between,
DANIEL BURNS When you start to execute things and people make plays, good things are going to happen. That's what...
BOB SPOO We played really well, especially the singles. They're a really good team. It was nice to finally pl...
MIKE CARR When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the ...
RYAN MURPHY We've been doing some things well, but we know we have to work on some things. We can be a very good...
MICHAEL STRAHAN I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
CHRISTIAN SLATER I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
FRANCESCA ANNIS I am having a good time doing nothing.
PHYLICIA RASHAD Am I complicated? Nah, I'm interesting. I just like having a good time.
GERRY COONEY We played well and did some really good things. I'm very impressed with the way the game went, even ...
JENNY TRAVIS And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks...
BRETT FAVRE The weather was awful. But, all things considered, we did a good job.
ROBERTA ANTHES When you have a lead like that, you want to try and get some other players in. We got them in there ...
GLENN SYLVEST I'll try to carry over some stuff Bob did, but there will be some new things people will see. We gra...
LAURA SELLERS I really think we did some good things tonight and the ball just didn't go in for us, and they did s...
DAVE BOYCE We did some good things and showed improvement. We still need to get better, but we're making progre...
BRANDON BRUCE We're not as good as we're going to be, but we saw some things that give us an idea of what we might...
DAN ROHRS Life was but a joke and a dream, quite frankly. We were having a good time, and we were working very...
EDDIE KRAMER We find niches where we play pretty well and that was the case in the first half. We were able to do...
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NORMAN DOUGLAS It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ...
NORMAN TEBBIT Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterran...
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap...
NORMAN PODHORETZ we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
NORMAN MACEWAN You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
NORMAN MAILER A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b...
NORMAN MAILER Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from th...
NORMAN MAILER The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS