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CRAIG BELLAMY There were far more transactions than before. We were just flooded. It was terrific. We exceeded our... LARRY PEARSON That was atrocious. It hurts. We just handed them the game We had the game under control. We were ex... ERRON KINNEY I was just lucky to be here after [Saturday]. I was one person away from not making the cut. KENT JONES We have two confirmed deaths. Initially there were reports that four to six people were killed in th... MANZOOR MUGHAL I thought there would be a lot more (pressure), but I was just trying to have a good time, so I wasn... CALEB HOLMES It's a little overwhelming. Our goal was to just get to state and then once we walked through that d... JOHN WILEY Ali was at almost every practice we had. So when he wasn't there that night we thought it was strang... GENE BARBER This is just amazing for us to be here right now. We really struggled early in the season. All we ha... MATT FOWLER It was just one of those nights where it seemed like we were just a little bit off on passes coming ... JAMIE LANGENBRUNNER And before I knew it one came up and then immediately punches started coming from all directions and... JOHN ADAMS The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest. DIXIE CARTER I thought we were a little more determined in the second half. We played well but just didn't put an... CURTIS BLAIR 6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was deva... YITZHAK NAVON There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now ju... GABY DUNN [Did he embellish on the script that night?] No, ... I was in no state to. It felt like I was on ano... PAUL HOLMES There was good, there was bad and there was ugly. I think we've got to clean up the bad and ugly. I ... BOB HOWELL It was a tough pitch, but I just told myself to concentrate a little better and put the ball in play... GERA ALVAREZ I just saw it, I thought it was there and I just wanted to get in, ... I didn't want to spike the ba... MATT LEINART There were definitely a lot of highs this year. I think winning games that, coming into them, we sho... CARA HENDRY It was very exciting for us. I get one more crack at it. That's what we play for. I just wanted a ch... MARK RECCHI When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply... JUDITH BUTLER We were hopeless in the first-half, nowhere near our best and insipid, but better in the second-half... PAUL JEWELL It was just good for us to play solid basketball. We had been struggling lately, even though we were... JEFF OVERMYER But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. N... 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MAHERSHALA ALI Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved fo... MAHERSHALA ALI Family are the people that can hurt you the most. MAHERSHALA ALI I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playin... NADIA ALI I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you l... NADIA ALI I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I... NADIA ALI The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it ... NADIA ALI I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebano... NADIA ALI As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am. NADIA ALI I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down. NADIA ALI I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b... NADIA ALI Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me... NADIA ALI I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou... NADIA ALI Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance... NADIA ALI How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white fo... ALI SMITH Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, ... ALI SMITH We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance. AISHA ALI It's normal to move the pelvis. It's not meant to be lascivious. It's meant to be a form of everyday... AISHA ALI Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know a... AISHA ALI The neck moves and the shoulders move and the chest lifts and the diaphragm lifts. The pelvis goes u... AISHA ALI The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the... AHMED ALI Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go t... AHMED ALI All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam... AHMED ALI We voted for the one who can make a change, AHMED ALI People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling. AHMED ALI It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country? AHMED ALI some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situat... AHMED ALI None of the competitors is stronger than him. AHMED ALI accomplishments, and at the same time, none of the competitors is stronger than him. AHMED ALI If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him, ... does that mean we're not democratic? AHMED ALI Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up... ALI SMITH Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than pa... ZAMAN ALI