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Jane Rissler

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It's mostly window dressing. I don't think this will pass the straight-face test.
CHELLIE PINGREE [Republicans] are proposing more tax cuts, mostly for the affluent and big corporations,
BYRON DORGAN That's the technique to use -- but that's not really window dressing. That's just watching the big b...
FRANK CAPPIELLO Jane Jameson."
He grinned. "Like the porn star."
I gaped at him. "What? No, Jane Ja...
MOLLY HARPER It's quarter-end. Everybody is now trying to make their portfolios look handsome (with window dressi...
JAMES LAGO There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dres...
ROGER CARAS Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.
JANE RISSLER We have methods in this country to control rabies as far as a human disease is concerned, and we do ...
JANE RISSLER Monsanto's decision is at least a recognition that it has heard the public outcry and that the publi...
JANE RISSLER Monsanto will continue to pursue applications that will give them greater control over how crops are...
JANE RISSLER The fact that terminator technology will work to the disadvantage of the subsistence farmer who depe...
JANE RISSLER A lack of evidence doesn't mean there isn't a problem. We've never done the studies necessary to fin...
JANE RISSLER With genetic engineering and even with traditional breeding, it's important that farmers don't becom...
JANE RISSLER We are skeptical of the benefits, worried about the risks, feel the technology needs to be more regu...
JANE RISSLER They do not require labeling and they do not require food safety testing.
JANE RISSLER Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN We try to mask it and use a lot of window dressing and try to protect it, but there's not a lot of �...
BROCK SPACK If they put up something that just looks like window-dressing, it won't be supported by the public. ...
CHELLIE PINGREE theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it's unconstitutional, ...
JESSICA LANGE What Russell and Peter are proposing is a complex legal exercise.
NICK PAPPAS When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... We were disappointed afterwards when we went into the dressing room but then we were more enthusiast...
ALESSANDRO NESTA A single-day gain from window dressing would tend to be followed by a day or two of readjustment.
JOSE VISTAN You'll have window dressing to the max with respect to stocks like Global crossing, Enron, Tyco and ...
MERCER BULLARD After a bit of a recovery, the market is in a wait-and-see mode again. There is the usual window-dre...
LEX WERKHEIM Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed p...
ARTHUR HELPS Overall, I was pleased. [I'm] just disappointed we didn't put it away in the second half when we had...
COLIN CLARKE Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON This year, what we are proposing is one more step in the process.
DENNIS GODFREY Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.
JAMES CALLAGHAN We are not proposing that the Navy buy more submarines than they are currently planning. What we are...
JOHN CASEY We're not going to suggest what we're proposing is consistent with the existing community.
JOE PERRING My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn...
CANDACE BUSHNELL As the week progresses, we might see a bit of short-term strength with window-dressing before the en...
JOE ISMAIL When you're not being successful, you need to make changes. Let's hope it has some bite to it, that ...
BRIAN BRUCE Based on what they're proposing, I guess it's not encouraging.
HARRY HENDERSON When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to...
KAMAND KOJOURI It's a beautiful thing. We're definitely disappointed as a team [for the overall record]. But they'r...
DONTRELLE WILLIS Today is the last day of the first half so I think window dressing by fund managers wanting to make ...
GEORGE CHAN Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by ...
MEG CABOT Strong profit-taking interest emerged in late trade following the recent window-dressing buying. The...
ALFRED CHAN What I'm actually doing is proposing to invest in Indiana. I'm actually talking about creating jobs ...
STEPHEN ALLEN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN The danger is that they are going to talk about a variety of proposals that will look more like wind...
CHELLIE PINGREE I am proposing a balanced budget and at this point, I am proposing no rate increases. I am proposing...
KEVIN EVANS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased.
KIM ADKINS Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
THEODOR ADORNO It was nice for the kids to get a win. I was a little disappointed with our scores overall.
GARY RICHARDSON The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Dispatch was getting calls all night from people, mostly in the Middle and Upper Keys, who said part...
BECKY HERRIN We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
ROBERT PATRICK We're satisfied that what they're proposing to do will take care of the problem.
RAE TYSON We think what we?re proposing makes sense in terms of the surrounding zoning.
BRAD GOSS We were very disappointed in the way we played. We were very disappointed in how we acted.
BRAD HARRIS I would be very disappointed if we don't finish top of the overall medal table, and by a comfortable...
MAX BINNINGTON There's not a guy in our dressing room who feels down and upset. I mean, obviously, we're disappoint...
JONATHAN GOODWIN We have been disappointed with the team's performance. Results were not what they should have been.
ROMAN ROMANOV My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones...
IAN WILLIAMSON We were wild, we were crazy, we were mostly young.
KENNY CHESNEY Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was stil...
JACKIE CHAN Doing it that way makes things cleaner so the county or city or some governmental agency would actua...
JOSH EWING We try to mask it and use a lot of window dressing and try to protect it, but there's not a lot of �...
BROCK SPACK Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pu...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not surprised we were able to get the lead because I know what we're capable of. I was a little ...
TUCKER PEAVEY Apparently, he's presented it to the news media, but I have not seen what he's proposing,
LEE BROWN Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.
AMANDA CRAIG What we're proposing is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the classroom. The difference is we...
AL GORE I think a lot of what he is proposing is intended to put a happy face on the situation without addre...
MARK PUDLOW All the teams were played are pretty decent. We gain confidence from this tournament mostly because ...
MATT STONE Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyr...
CHINA MIéVILLE Most everybody needs clothes. Theyre going to need clothing--jeans, T-shirts, socks, the whole thing...
CAROL JONES He's proposing tax cuts that are clearly not affordable. If they were affordable, he would do them a...
FRANK MAURO Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?"
"Nossir. Just a warning shot...
TERRY PRATCHETT Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fou...
HESHAM ABOJAMEE The reason they were 16 stories up is because that height is suppose to be a deterrent. If you get o...
WARDEN RAMON RUSTIN I'm not one to grieve too hard or too long over golf. I'm disappointed, mostly for the girls. They t...
CATRIN NILSMARK Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.
J.R. WARD Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.
SCOTT BAIO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER What I'm proposing is that the money raised here should stay here to provide better services and sup...
DANIEL JARA What a man misses mostly in heaven is company
MARK TWAIN We were sad, disappointed, shell-shocked.
JENNA LOPEZ Naturally, they were disappointed because we felt we were the No.1 seed for a reason. But we did not...
AL PEACOCK What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
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JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
JANE TAYLOR To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.
JANE HADDAM