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Related With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are m... MAX MCKEOWN ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but ... MARIEL HEMINGWAY CHARLES DUHIGG Continuous feedback is essential for excellence. One must take feedback from others without any fals... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfie... ERIC CANTOR LAKE BELL MADS MIKKELSEN There's no recreating what Michael Jackson and Diana Ross did in 'The Wiz'. We're tr... NE-YO Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with t... RON LOEWINSOHN Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sittin... MAL PEET I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts acto... ARTHUR PENN PAULA HAWKINS ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each ... NINA HAGEN The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and ... CHARLES S. DUTTON ADELAIDE KANE JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. PHILIP K. DICK When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Ot... OMAR AHMAD ITZHAK PERLMAN JOHN SCHNEIDER Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if... JORDAN SPIETH [Continuity of selection] helps, ... You don't want to be going out there thinking, 'This could be y... ASHLEY GILES Things are going well. ... With respect to the economy, there's tremendous continuity and you should... JAMES GELLY Transparency and accountability need each other and can be mutually reinforcing. Together they enabl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA CHARLES CALEB COLTON I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of so... JON BURNHAM There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets an... DAVE CHECKETTS FIDEL CASTRO I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker... ATTICUS SHAFFER ANNE RICE The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elabor... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded... JAMES CHANOS TALCOTT PARSONS In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're ... KREAYSHAWN You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you'r... EMMYLOU HARRIS GINGER ROGERS JONATHAN KELLERMAN Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they thi... PAUL GREENGRASS I am confident that Tom's direction and guidance will ensure strategic continuity and sustained fina... KEN THOMPSON In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book fou... SCOTT TUROW SATCHEL PAIGE JACKSON BROWNE People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's bec... ADRIAN EDMONDSON JOEL OSTEEN NATALIE PORTMAN Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres... MIKE D JON KATZ There are a lot of question marks about the strategic direction that they are going in. Is this stil... BOB POOLER They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the worl... MICHAEL D. BARNES I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things. DANIEL WOODRELL Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you'... RIAN JOHNSON DENNIS C. BLAIR CASEY WILSON Mutually giving and receiving aid,
They set each other off, like light and shade. CHILO OF SPARTA CHILON We have fantastic attitudes and work ethic. Goals for this year are consistent, everyday improvement... SCOTT CLARK CHRIS PINE JOSEPH ADDISON JOSEPH ADDISON These are excellent recommendations. It documents a continuous improvement planning process that val... CANDACE MILLINGTON JESSICA LANGE BILL GATES MARGARET SPELLINGS To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if y... AIMEE GARCIA You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where y... ERIC BETZIG Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're f... EDWARD WITTEN What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on som... SI ROBERTSON In the past, if 'Laguna Beach' was a hit, you wait a few months and put out the DVD and then make su... BRIAN GRADEN In the past, if 'Laguna Beach' was a hit, you wait a few months and put out the DVD and then make su... BRIAN GRADEN It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction. DAVE EDMUNDS CARA DELEVINGNE I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do thin... BETH SIMONE NOVECK They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going... DWIGHT SCHULTZ NICHOLAS SPARKS Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so... EDWARD HERRMANN ELISABETH ELLIOT Existence – an experienced miracle, with continuous improvement. MARIANA FULGER He absolutely denies that he had any involvement in her death. They were deeply in love with each ot... ADAM A. KRETOWICZ Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be g... TORREY SMITH SETH GRAHAME-SMITH CORY DOCTOROW LANA TURNER ALVIN TOFFLER Danielle is so consistent. The tandem of Shelly and Danielle are an important part of our offense. T... BETH LAUNIERE CARL REINER If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confron... SCOTT KIM PENN JILLETTE DAVID NICHOLLS ZAYN MALIK There is no cure for prions. They are a protein-based disease that, among other things, targets and ... BENJAMIN PERCY NATHAN MYHRVOLD VOLTAIRE We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the firs... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) VOLTAIRE If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find... PATRICK WANG The fact there is excess capacity tells you there is going to be a consistent weight on the price of... HUW MCKAY People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, comm... LEE SMITH The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a... HERBIE HANCOCK JACK BLACK
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And speak men what they can to him he'll a... HENRY PORTER JON PORTER I had just retired and was not sure what I was going to do. I hadn't played (softball) in 35 years. ... BILL PORTER While you can sell a hot car designed for younger buyers to an old guy, you can't sell a stodgy old ... BILL PORTER Usually the soft elements rank higher than the cost. They may not pick the cheapest. We've seen this... BILL PORTER We seem to get busier every year. We continue to push ahead to be one of the top courses in the stat... BILL PORTER They can be very dangerous. They're scary places. One thing you can't argue with is, they're cheaper... BILL PORTER We had a terrific fourth quarter and finished 2005 with good momentum. Our product portfolio is very... BILL PORTER I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me... BILLY PORTER COLE PORTER I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old s... SCOTT PORTER SYLVIA PORTER I'm not going to make someone my priority, when I'm their option. AVA PORTER COLE PORTER We also played in a round-robin tournament, so both squads had an enjoyable week. CHRIS PORTER JON PORTER When I first went to Stevens Point, I never thought I'd ever be close to the NBA. I didn't e... TERRY PORTER It's kind of hard to sit up here and hold a grudge when it doesn't really matter at this point. The ... JOEY PORTER JON PORTER You can't avenge that this early in the season. Last year we beat them and it didn't matter because ... JOEY PORTER JANE PORTER Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar HENRY PORTER Retirement is postponed and we will continue to train him toward a race in the future. The timing is... RICK PORTER Canadian consumer spending is finally poised to hit the brakes after a spectacular run earlier this ... DOUGLAS PORTER The industrial sector is cruising along at a moderate but not spectacular pace, and that's a good th... DOUGLAS PORTER JON PORTER When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely e... BILLY PORTER ELIOT PORTER Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man PETER PORTER COLE PORTER JON PORTER When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on ... GEORGE PORTER The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an up... TERRY PORTER JON PORTER JANE PORTER He was just overworked. He's doing much better. DAVID PORTER In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at ... PETER PORTER When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is... BILLY PORTER As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was... PETER PORTER The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pil... PETER PORTER I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly wel... PETER PORTER You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. PETER PORTER I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the po... PETER PORTER I have no fondness for pure form at all. PETER PORTER When you're shopping for fish, ask the grocer if they're ocean caught or wild caught, and not farm r... PAM PORTER We didn't distort anything. We just beat them. PORTER ERISMAN I think our safeguards are in place and are working, PORTER GOSS I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause ... BILLY PORTER Be moderate in everything, including moderation. HORACE PORTER There's no way he can hide from me. He has to line up in front of me. And I'm going to remind him of... JOEY PORTER Because the school district lies in two counties, I have to pro-rate the amount of tax dollars that ... BILL PORTER I really wasn't. A little bit, sure, but we've been testing these systems for months. BILL PORTER E*Trade was much easier, BILL PORTER We've always felt that added competition, reduced cost, more efficiency would grow the market overal... BILL PORTER You want to wear rubber gloves when you skin these suckers, BILL PORTER We worked the factory in Korea to make the 2006 Rio even better for the money, ... And with the rece... BILL PORTER I still have a lot of confidence in their product, BILL PORTER It's important that the U.S. markets are quietly turning forward themselves. There seem to be much b... DOUG PORTER It's hard to harp on a situation that's over with. It's tough enough for him to lose. I'm not going ... JOEY PORTER We provide a lot of softball equipment and technical assistance to China and we are also sending coa... DON PORTER The government has confirmed that (the power industry) will be expected to bear the entire burden of... DAVID PORTER That's where people saw his diplomatic skills. He allowed space for perspectives to emerge and creat... DAVID PORTER We are extremely disappointed, we will be considering what steps we might now take. DAVID PORTER You cannot track someone with this system, which is what everyone seems to fear. The way we designed... DAVID PORTER A Glimmer of Hope is proud to partner with Austin Can! Academy in providing opportunities for the ar... DAVID PORTER It will be a hard sell. It's been a hard sell in Oregon. DAVID PORTER He's just overworked and had been in Atlantic City performing, the D.C. area performing, and in Tuni... DAVID PORTER Garth's music holds a magic that touches his fans of all ages, and making his titles available to ou... DAVID PORTER COLE PORTER I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weap... GEORGE PORTER Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of threes or lawns... MAX PORTER It has a huge impact on probably the only subdivision that's being impacted by the changes of this i... KEVIN PORTER Once you lose your reputation, you don't mind it. BELVA PORTER Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending. DOUG PORTER It was just heart-wrenching to see people's outpouring of sympathy and concern. DEBORAH PORTER The bottom line is that as long as equities remain aloft, there is precious little outside of Fed ti... DOUG PORTER The overriding story for the equity market Thursday was the exuberant reaction to Mr. Greenspan's la... DOUG PORTER The overriding story for the equity market Thursday was the exuberant reaction to Mr. Greenspan's la... DOUG PORTER A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect HORACE PORTER We haven't noticed anything at all. Organizers worked things out so rallies could be held outside of... STEVE PORTER COLE PORTER I don't want to hear about that, ... I know how many he's got. Why wouldn't I be jealous? He has a r... JOEY PORTER Bikers don't seem to mind the rain. It's better than snow and sub-zero temperatures, after all. CARRY PORTER I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State ... BILLY PORTER One of the things frankly we have to do is demystify (the CIA) a little bit, ... You are not going t... PORTER GOSS PORTER ARNEILL PORTER ARNEILL PORTER ARNEILL PORTER ARNEILL PORTER ARNEILL PORTER ARNEILL To a large extent, I think the TSE caught a tailwind from the very impressive gains south of the bor... DOUG PORTER COLE PORTER COLE PORTER [Bucks Coach Terry Porter said that the maximum number of minutes that forward Keith Van Horn could ... TERRY PORTER To be cut out at the eleventh hour is annoying, and it's certainly not helpful, PORTER GOSS The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists. PORTER GOSS Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes... PORTER GOSS The nominations of Ambassador Negroponte and Gen. Hayden are welcome news and a critical step in con... PORTER GOSS Dysfunctional organizations do not perform the way the Directorate of Operations performed in Afghan... PORTER GOSS An enemy that's working in an amorphous network that doesn't have to worry about a bunch of regulati... PORTER GOSS Our national federations are legitimate members, some are stronger, some are weaker. DON PORTER Forecasts of parity (with the U.S. dollar) are multiplying faster than bunny rabbits in May. DOUGLAS PORTER Given that there are virtually no other signs that Canadian spending suddenly weakened in February, ... DOUGLAS PORTER COLE PORTER Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in N... HORACE PORTER
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