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Related If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Personally, I kind of stumbled into it, many moons ago. I wanted to play in a rock band, but I could... ALAN REID We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everyb... THOM YORKE [The original 20 songs in his repertoire he hoped to record were whittled down with Sutherland's hel... WILL DANFORTH It is so important for us as empaths to maintain a sense of connectedness with life. When we put up ... ALETHEIA LUNA When they came out after that first delay, they wanted it more. And (after) the second delay they wa... BRENT STROH My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an... DAN HICKS I think we wanted it more. We came off that big loss to Hand (15-7 on Saturday) and we just wanted t... ADAM LANEHART We know that the sky is the limit for Andy. Just because he's altered that doesn't matter. Everybody... GARY HOLCOMB SR I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far mo... NEEL MUKHERJEE This is not something that we wanted, ... We dug ourselves into a pretty big hole, but we came back.... SHERYL SWOOPES We once did an album with a pop painter, ... because we wanted to help him out. LOU REED Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD As we sink deeper into the ways of this world, we put more and more distance between ourselves and G... FATHOM We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits. ADAM JONES We came out this week focused. We came out with more energy. They were only a couple of big plays th... GEORGE HALL Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN We didn't want to reinvent ourselves with the new album. We felt that we had carved our own turf on ... BUTCH VIG I think we came out with more confidence and excitement in the second game. It's our court and our g... LAUREN HOFFMAN We came out in the second half and reasserted ourselves. We started to play our style and forced the... ZAM FREDRICK Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this ... ERICH KLEMM There had been decisions from higher-ups in the past to put more of a pop sound to our music. For th... BEN WILSON We started mixing it up a little more and it worked to our advantage, and we came up with the timely... AMY HAYES We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork. HAROLD NICHOLAS We had to bounce back because we were in a slump. We just came out with more intensity than in our l... AUDLY WEHNER This border radio stuff has just come back roaring into fashion. People are more interested in the s... BILL CRAWFORD We should have come out with more fire than we did. We came out with no fire. ERIC FERGUSON More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL We did come out with more enthusiasm and effort, ... But we hurt ourselves, and that sucked the wind... CHRIS BARRETT We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohes... BRUCE COCKBURN We wanted to make something that represented what we were actually doing, ... The first album was OK... ALVIN LEE I don't think it's a thing that we can't beat them. We came out ready, maybe too ready. You almost t... HOLLY HARRIS Somewhere along the way we've gotten the message that the more we struggle and the more we suffer, t... KATE NORTHRUP Reclamation is our new thing that we are trying to encourage more and more so we can put a second us... DAN GALLAGHER Heart presence is about having more of your real self show up in each moment. It's about being menta... DOC CHILDRE An uneven playing surface will affect us more than them. They play more of a more direct, aerial gam... XABI ALONSO There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new albu... JOHN BONHAM Everybody had trepidation. But were we going to put out another album that [follows trends], or were... DAVE HAMELIN The more we hear about John Roberts' record, the more disturbed we become. That he counseled Preside... JOE SOLMONESE The first record was really just us making music and laughing a lot and having a good time in a stud... COREY TAYLOR We have a goal that with every performance. When the audience leaves, we want each person to leave a... ALBERT MAZIBUKO Resisting, identifying with, and suppressing emotions is the number one reason why we become so sick... ALETHEIA LUNA We kicked around what we were going to do. But the more we thought about it, with his record of succ... BRIAN FREEMAN You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration an... ALEXANDER PAYNE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK The seed John planted with me is to be more proactive with what we want to have happen, and write it... SCOTT CHASE The fact that 80 Member States came to this event and pledged more than $200 million is a very posit... STEPHANIE BUNKER More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is require... BARBARA JORDAN We came out with a little more energy, a little more hop to our step. DON STORY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We came out a little flat today. They played with a bit more sense of urgency and I think we just pl... JOE BRYANT From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selecte... JIMMY PAGE The more direct connection with the customer, the better, ... This is our extension of the Neiman-Ma... GROUP INC They came out with a lot more heart and passion than we did to start the second half. They shot the ... DICK DAVEY 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film ... DOUG AITKEN When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians... PAUL SIMON It's a very long season, so the more that both ( Stephen Davis ) and I stay fresh early, the more we... DESHAUN FOSTER We wanted a more classic, adult-style theme. RANDY BEAULAURIER I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person a... RORY KENNEDY That put more pressure on us because we wanted to race well, too. JANE REHEMAA We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we shall carry nothing out. When that com... JOHN MEADE FALKNER We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that th... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between b... STEPHEN HAWKING We've struggled the last six games not getting any wins, so we wanted to come out with a lot of hear... JUAN DIXON We wanted to finish the season at 14-0 in the conference. They came in with a ton more intensity tha... JOE LYNCH We discovered that more than 90 percent of [the] students have Internet access, so we're trying to p... TRACY SMITH We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sov... DAVID CAMERON The only way this pairing came about is that as a staff and an agency, we are dog-crazy. We thought ... JANINE D'ANNIBALLE The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte... TAYLOR SHERIDAN In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the th... C. JOYBELL C. More than we use is more than we want. SCOTTISH PROVERB More than we use is more than we want. GAELIC PROVERB We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the ... STEVE MARABOLI The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel... TIMOTHY J. KELLER We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and sty... GARY RYAN BLAIR It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive e... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so muc... BRAD STONE Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with o... E. M. CIORAN And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we reali... CHARLIE HUNTER We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER We wanted a transitional feel without being too trendy. We wanted to go lighter, more open with more... JENNIFER WEISS Mike Dow deserves more than a nod here. Rather than put (the property) on the market, he wanted to f... JOHN NOONAN Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are... ROSEANNE BARR We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. HENRI AMIEL We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Ind... WARREN BENNIS We talked at halftime that we have to learn to put people away. We had a big tendency last year to g... DAN PIFER I would have loved to see Paula have more success than she did, because she is the right kind of per... JON CAREY The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ... GARY WRIGHT That was a real plus for us because he saved the game. We just need more of that. Twice we had a man... DAVE SCHMOTZER There is this new trend of buying handbags and shoes that match, which was not so important a few ye... LAURA MOLTEDO What we devised for The Full Monty was a little sort of odd band full of slightly unusual instrument... ANNE DUDLEY More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and... DANIEL BARENBOIM
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