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Beautiful day for an evacuation, isn't it?
DOUG DALENAY
Beautiful day for an evacuation, isn't it?
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Once they all are out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.
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Why not bill these people are fee for the 911 calls coming in that are not real.
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The slope was so steep that when one person stumbled, they fell like dominoes.
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The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Her suspense was terrible.
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They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.
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In our assessment, it did not call for immediate evacuation.
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Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?
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Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
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Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
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For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
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For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.
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Want a balloon?
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There is an urgent need for medical evacuation.
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Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
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FENNEL HUDSON
The evacuation went smoothly. We practice it all the time.
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Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since ou...
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Evacuation route: it didn't mean anything all summer until the last couple of weeks now I know its t...
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It just sort of made it look like they were looking for the easiest target.
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It just sort of made it look like they were looking for the easiest target.
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Resistance was the reason for the Israeli evacuation. ... This is only the beginning,
AHMED QUREIA
If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
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DOUGLAS BADER
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QUENTIN BLAKE
It will be orderly and not a mass evacuation,
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It is not a for-profit bill - it is a for-safety bill.
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I like the mayor, but it doesn't mean I'll endorse his candidacy, ... fine Democratic nominee.
DAVID DINKINS
It only has to happen to you once before you sort of know how it works.
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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
STEPHEN KING
Is it because I'm a girl?"
Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.
She looked at him for a mome...
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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Please, we can get along here.
RODNEY KING
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
DOUG KING
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, ...
FLORENCE KING
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is...
STEPHEN KING
Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
BASIL KING
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi...
FLORENCE KING
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Person...
LARRY KING
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F...
FLORENCE KING
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...
STEPHEN KING
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
FLORENCE KING
His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f...
STEPHEN KING
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value,...
FLORENCE KING
Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well ...
STEPHEN KING
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equalit...
FLORENCE KING
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes t...
FLORENCE KING
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. W...
FLORENCE KING
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
LARRY KING
I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70 points.
STACEY KING
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the pl...
FLORENCE KING
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good h...
ALEXANDER KING
Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.
ALEXANDER KING
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
MACKENZIE KING
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
STEPHEN KING
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
STEPHEN KING
I am your number one fan.
STEPHEN KING
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee...
KING DAVID
Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
STEPHEN KING
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it...
STEPHEN KING
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
STEPHEN KING