Original sin is a very commercial idea,” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?
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ASDRUBAL CABRERA My personal goal stays the same every year. Do better than the year before.
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BILL VAUGHAN The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
DWIGHT L. MOODY A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
PETER CAPALDI The money stays here locally and we do several activities in the community throughout the year.
ADAM SANDERS This is the first year we've gone commercial in a big way.
MATT HAUSMANN To make the show and get a title this late in the season after the season I had last year is very gr...
PATRICK ALLEN You’re only a first year!” Tina cried. “And you’re already getting death threats! Do you hav...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same b...
NICK CAVE We continue to be very, very strong in this area. Those who sustain us year after year after year ar...
ANDY DILL You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how th...
FRANK MILLER As long as my confidence stays up, we should do great. This is our year.
JOEY CABRET An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL What an Oscar means is that in that film, you were doing what you do better than anybody else that y...
LESLIE UNGER Repentance is as much a mark of a Christian, as faith is. A very little sin, as the world calls it, ...
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BILL TIERNEY He's improved year after year. He works very hard.
CRAIG DEACON Last year, we had 248 advance registrations. As of (Tuesday night), we're over the 300 mark. So I wo...
COLLEEN COOPER After a year or two, the number of business jets (with broadband Internet) will far outstrip the num...
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E. R. BRAITHWAITE He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year.
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PINK FLOYD I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Som...
HENRY ROLLINS We had some guys score points that are new to the varsity lineup this year. When you can lose what w...
DAVE LIPE There are very, very few companies that can boast of a balanced budget year after year without inter...
MARC SCORCA We see a commercial kitchen in here, working with local chefs, or private out-of-town chefs, showing...
CONNIE KENNEDY She's a good pitcher. She's been consistent all year. She stays ahead in the count.
LARRY VERBAGE Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard, had the idea in the winter of 2004. He started off with the i...
CHRIS HUGHES After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone"
LARRY BROWN But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin inclu...
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KENNETH N. TAYLOR It feels like our season is a little bit short, particularly with how long we went into our year las...
BEV SMITH I think to be great, you have to prove that you're the best year after year after year and show that...
SIDNEY CROSBY You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defin...
FRANK MILLER It's very sad to think last year you won the division, and this year you finish third or fourth.
ODALIS PEREZ The question mark in investors' minds has been will this year stack up as strong as 2005. This adds ...
ANGUS GLUSKIE Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he di...
T. A. THOMPSON Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he di...
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PINK FLOYD When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!
AZZEDINE ALAIA Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
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DAVID LYNCH We all know here that transportation is a big issue in the Bay Area. To see that backed up year afte...
RANDY RENTSCHLER I think the first year was all a surprise and a shock for us. This year, having weathered that, we a...
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LORI JOHNSON I think of it as the earthquake in San Francisco. You know it's on the fault. You know it's going to...
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FRAN LEBOWITZ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not po...
FRAN LEBOWITZ A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life.
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HUGH ROSS After my junior year coach Zacher came to me and said 'I was talking to the coaches at KU and they s...
CLINT JOHNSON The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you ...
ROBERT WILSON The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
ALFRED ROSENBERG There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO You can't celebrate World War I year after year after year, because there are other events taking pl...
LLOYD BROWN When you consider how big our district is, that's not very many incidents considering it's a whole y...
SUSAN ARENSMAN Have you ever told a lie? Then you are a liar. How many murders do you have to commit to be a murder...
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STACY BENNETT The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
RICHARD BACH You want to ask people to snoop around? What kind of culture (is this)? In the year 2006 in Malaysia...
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PASCAL BRUCKNER Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing t...
BRUCE JACKSON Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
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GARRY TRUDEAU Her record, year after year, is dismal on the environment.
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JEFF STRAIN After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.
LARRY BROWN We are concerned with production growth year after year after year.
GENE PISASALE An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
BILL VAUGHAN It's a matter of how do we get there. We're very optimistic that this will be in place this coming s...
META MINTON Do you think living in the street the year before contributed to your stress level?
FRANK MONDANO The Bible says the body is a temple, so I guess it's desecrating the temple. Technically, it's a sin...
MARCUS FIZER This is a segment of the market that forecasters have missed year after year,
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MARK TWAIN When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
MARK TWAIN There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
MARK TWAIN I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
MARK TWAIN