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Ted Shackelford

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AMERICAN CITIZEN
Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It has taken a lot of time, so it makes sense that people thought it's not going to happen, and let'...
ERIC MATTHEWS
Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN
There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER
China is sophisticated and understands U.S. domestic politics. And if they get branded a manipulator...
ANDY ROTHMAN
Ted left me with no choice but to make this sad decision.
AARON MOKOENA
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS...
When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you d...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. ...
WILLIAM POLLARD
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI
This has nothing to do with public policy. It has everything to do with right-wing politics.
RICK GARCIA
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
WILL ROGERS
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is all politics. It has nothing to do with the law.
ISSAM GHAZZAWI
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's wh...
CHARLIE HUSTON
In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW
Leaving the AFL-CIO has nothing to do with saving money, ... It has to do with redirecting that mone...
JOHN WILHELM
It has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with money.
JOE SCOTT
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD
It has to be looked at in the context of whether this interim agreement is a valuable agreement and ...
JAMES WOOLSEY
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Money doesn’t ask anyone to show the way, it always makes its own way.
VIKRANT PARSAI
We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
This is the right thing to do in his mind. It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do w...
CRYSTAL CANNEY
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
BILL MOYERS
The decision you took today has a lot to do with the decision you took yesterday.
THABISO TOX XABANISA
You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO
Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO
Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with lif...
JOHN ARLOTT
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term coul...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
It makes it really hard to show if their product has been tampered with, if it's a felony to inspect...
REBECCA MERCURI
I met with Ted during that same period and supposedly he was very unhappy, but he was very focused, ...
ROBERT PITTMAN
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh...
JOAN KIRNER
Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
TATYANA TOLSTAYA
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
Money makes a person significant and important , it has the ability to make us proud
SUNDAY ADELAJA
...but why show a devil you know his strength. It just makes me a threat to him.
PIERCE BROWN
Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL
You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE
“My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS
I figured with them coming to town, why not do a show?
DUANE BERKLAND
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a...
ANNA QUINDLEN
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed peopl...
PETER ACKROYD
I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with pol...
AMITABH BACHCHAN
Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK
Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
MANUEL MONGRAIN
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
ZE FRANK
Go to where ever dreamland you decide on. But go with passion hand-in-hand. You will never be tired ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and ...
RALPH LAUREN
Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
It had to do with ability and talent. It had nothing to do with politics.
G. GORDON LIDDY
It has been difficult for him. He still has the desire to play. But he wants to weigh all of his opt...
HERMAN MORRIS
And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
To put on a musical costs $10,000 and up. Each production has something that makes it challenging. W...
JEAN BURKHART
It's an admission of guilt. That's what makes me happy. The money had nothing to do with it,
BILL GARDNER
Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
J. C. WATTS
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
It's a lot of money, but the money has nothing to do with it. I'd pay a million dollars to have thos...
KAREN SPRINGER
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
RONALD STEEL
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy
STEPHEN LEACOCK
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
It was a political sentence, it was an unjust decision. My gesture has nothing to do with political ...
PAOLO DI CANIO
Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL
If Sony has any sense at all, it should be content with the money it makes.
EDDY STEVENS
The state has two levels of funding because it makes sense. The district's decision makes no sense.
BETH SMITH
Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI
Everybody else was money, money, money and what kind of car they could get me. I just thought it was...
DEMARCUS WARE
An executive is someone who makes a decision quickly and gets somebody else to do the work.
JOE MOORE

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It might be a case of too much in a short period of time.
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We'll probably keep going higher in yield.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our...
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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
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A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
TED KOTCHEFF
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
TED KOTCHEFF
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of ...
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There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond...
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its ...
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many ...
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-develope...
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay...
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and ...
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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
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I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. ...
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the '...
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ...
TED DEKKER
While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey...
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a...
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My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
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If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
TED DANSON
Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit...
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick...
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We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol...
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot...
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli...
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca...
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are ve...
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly i...
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole respons...
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We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oi...
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone them...
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends up...
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You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding...
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it...
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Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but...
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