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We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our country's military...
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Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular e...
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Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.
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While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery an...
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I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.
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Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.
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Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world le...
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Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of pover...
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Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent ...
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Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are e...
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Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help thei...
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No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitati...
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'Putting People First' was progressivism revived and at its best.
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL

They were just sick. Not only was the headstone pushed off its base, but the lantern they were going...
SYLVIA MATHEWS

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be...
CARTER BURWELL

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ...
CARTER BURWELL

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
CARTER BURWELL

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
CARTER BURWELL

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of m...
CARTER BURWELL

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrument...
CARTER BURWELL

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
CARTER BURWELL

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
CARTER BURWELL

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive...
CARTER BURWELL

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was ...
CARTER BURWELL

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that wou...
CARTER BURWELL

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to ...
CARTER BURWELL

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
CARTER BURWELL

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever...
CARTER BURWELL

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely fo...
CARTER BURWELL

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
CARTER BURWELL

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is ext...
CARTER BURWELL

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a r...
CARTER BURWELL

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
CARTER BURWELL

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond sou...
CARTER BURWELL

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
CARTER BURWELL

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
CARTER BURWELL

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, h...
CARTER BURWELL

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and d...
CARTER BURWELL

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
CARTER BURWELL

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
CARTER BURWELL

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that...
CARTER BURWELL

I like business and personal life to be distinct.
CARTER BURWELL

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it....
CARTER BURWELL

I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
CARTER BURWELL

I think being a little nuts is helpful.
CARTER BURWELL

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten ye...
EDDIE MATHEWS

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm...
EDDIE MATHEWS

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutio...
DAVID MATHEWS

Even small positive shifts in thinking, create huge results if you are consistent in your efforts
NANETTE MATHEWS

When you realize your life isn't heading in the direction you wish, rather than wasting time complai...
NANETTE MATHEWS

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to ...
HARRY MATHEWS

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is lef...
HARRY MATHEWS

In describing the Mound-builders no effort has been made to paint their costume, their modes of life...
CORNELIUS MATHEWS

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficultie...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most v...
HARRY MATHEWS

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a ...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is le...
H MATHEWS

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
WILLIAM MATHEWS

Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview...
ROSS MATHEWS

Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and ...
ROSS MATHEWS

It's a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don't want to say that I've ...
ROSS MATHEWS

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but o...
HARRY MATHEWS

People should never apologize for who they are, and they should never hide who they are. Hating your...
ROSS MATHEWS

I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering,...
ROSS MATHEWS

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
HARRY MATHEWS

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to...
HARRY MATHEWS

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a ...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is lef...
H. MATHEWS

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be a...
ROSS MATHEWS

Everything in life is a blessing, however, sometimes we have to work through a lesson or challenge t...
NANETTE MATHEWS

Eventually this kind of predator will strike again, and this, of course, is obviously what propels o...
CHARLES MATHEWS

We do all our work within the institutions, thus eliminating the risk of transporting prisoners outs...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

We're people who want to make a difference and help. It's time to set the record straight: We're not...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

We're people who want to make a difference and help, ... It's time to set the record straight: We're...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

We hadn't planned to come to New Orleans but when the call went out, we responded in force.
WILLIAM MATHEWS

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of bein...
HARRY MATHEWS

My DVR, like, sees inside my soul, and inside my soul is a 65-year-old retired woman. So there's...
ROSS MATHEWS

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook ...
HARRY MATHEWS

I'd love to host a game show one day. I love giving things away.
ROSS MATHEWS

We wanted to go inside to Liz. We just couldn't get it in there. And we had a tough night shooting f...
DARREN MATHEWS

I always see celebs in very weird spots. I don't always go to fancy-shmancy places, but I see ce...
ROSS MATHEWS

There certainly are some bad apples out there that give ammunition to the press and allow the perpet...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

I'll talk to Howard Stern about anything. I listen to him every day. I love him. When you go on ...
ROSS MATHEWS

There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinki...
ROSS MATHEWS

Meditation is about mindfulness and learning to strip away the illusion, revealing your authentic se...
NANETTE MATHEWS

We all come from different paths in life but we can find common ground.
NANETTE MATHEWS

It is clear to me that the eighth elementary is going to have to happen.
GARY MATHEWS

Apparently there was money stolen from other people at the youth hostel, although it's not directly ...
CHARLES MATHEWS

I leave my fats for dessert.
BRUCE MATHEWS

It was really a game of spurts tonight. We played well at times and had some rough spots.
DARREN MATHEWS

When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves...
NANETTE MATHEWS

We're all a beautiful, wonderful work in progress....Embrace the process!
NANETTE MATHEWS

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on ...
ROSS MATHEWS

She's waited far longer than she should have. Bonnie has been waiting longer than anyone on our wait...
SHARRY MATHEWS

The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on...
WILLIAM MATHEWS

Northwest was unwilling to offer a severance package that we felt met the very minimal level that wa...
JEFF MATHEWS

You relinquish your power when you blame others for situations in your life. The blame does not chan...
NANETTE MATHEWS

When you are accepting something as truth, make sure that it feels good for you. Otherwise, you are ...
NANETTE MATHEWS

When we're consciously aware, we receive the messages the universe sends to answer us through intuit...
NANETTE MATHEWS

Standing up for oneself is not always easy but it is often the only way to walk our true life path. ...
NANETTE MATHEWS

Embrace the flow of your life path, living with grace and ease while showing love towards yourself a...
NANETTE MATHEWS

You can ask others for directions about your life's path...But remember, then you're on someone else...
NANETTE MATHEWS

Love is everlasting;infinite. It has no boundaries and no barriers. Love, is just like the universe,...
DANIEL MATHEWS

You wouldn't think it would be that tricky, but it can be.
CRAIG MATHEWS

We are hoping to raise several thousand dollars from what we have. Some of it is worth a lot of mone...
BILL MATHEWS

I volunteered to be in the dunking booth. I figure everyone will want to dunk me.
BILL MATHEWS

Its incredible how many people have come out to help and contribute.
BILL MATHEWS

Its great to see every one out here and enjoying themselves.
BILL MATHEWS

Ever feel like an enigma, wrapped in a dilemma, surrounded by a conundrum? Yeah, so do I
NANETTE MATHEWS

The burger market is oversaturated. These Mexican chains offer mass-market products and you don't ha...
RYAN MATHEWS

Being normal in today's society feels as if one is stripping you of your clothes; its a horrible fee...
DANIEL MATHEWS

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
EDDIE MATHEWS

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her ...
ROSS MATHEWS

I learned from my father how to swear right and how to string it together for optimum effect/affect....
ROSS MATHEWS

I recently got into 'Scandal.' I'm obsessed. It's so good. I want to know Olivia Pop...
ROSS MATHEWS

Eric's assumption of Avanir's strategic and tactical reins augurs well for its future.
CHARLES MATHEWS

Manifestation without action is only a wish.
NANETTE MATHEWS

We're confident he ended up in Cancun (Mexico) on the 27th ... but where he's gone since then, we do...
CHARLES MATHEWS

Today's developments assist in the resolution of this situation, ... We have now secured and cleared...
CHARLES MATHEWS

The woman said she arrived in Cancun on December 27 and that day met a man named Brad staying at a C...
CHARLES MATHEWS

The actual solution to this case is still in the community. It's still out there. Someone still has ...
CHARLES MATHEWS

There is no crime scene, there are no forensics and we have no witnesses.
CHARLES MATHEWS

I think all the investigators have concluded that we are dealing with abductions here.
CHARLES MATHEWS

I was the only kid in school who ate kippers on toast for breakfast.
BRUCE MATHEWS

People remember the first thing and the last thing they ate. Everything in between has to be great b...
BRUCE MATHEWS

We came out of the locker room and extended the lead. They didn't have an answer for Stevens. Then L...
DARREN MATHEWS

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to s...
NANETTE MATHEWS

Be unapologetically you.....Don't apologize for who you are or what you are. Just be YOU and those t...
NANETTE MATHEWS

I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous...
EDDIE MATHEWS

When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what T...
EDDIE MATHEWS

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from...
EDDIE MATHEWS

The publicity in Mexico helped investigators locate Longo at a beach camp in Tulum.
CHARLES MATHEWS

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy t...
NANETTE MATHEWS

We expect to double that in the next few years.
CRAIG MATHEWS

Getting involved with the environmental groups has been great for our business. When people hear wha...
CRAIG MATHEWS

This is the best job, the best business. If I had it to do all over again, this is what I would be d...
CRAIG MATHEWS

Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.
ROSS MATHEWS

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
HARRY MATHEWS

What you want to do is advance, and we did just that.
DARREN MATHEWS

We've got to get our confidence back up and win two games in the regional tournament.
DARREN MATHEWS

Even though we were behind our girls didn't give up.
DARREN MATHEWS

It was a very frustrating game. I know our girls can execute. We just made too many mistakes.
DARREN MATHEWS

Kee was able to control the ball well and spot up and hit the outside shots.
DARREN MATHEWS

We need to have these kinds of games to prepare us for late in the season.
DARREN MATHEWS

Late in the third and fourth quarters we just had too many turnovers and let them get into the game....
DARREN MATHEWS

Our first half was one of our best all year.
DARREN MATHEWS

I wasn't playing timid anymore.
COLT MATHEWS

I wasn't used to the speed of the game and I'd get frustrated.
COLT MATHEWS

I wish we could start spring football tomorrow.
GWAINE MATHEWS

This pattern is fundamental to probably all Japanese art, particularly the performing arts or poetry...
GARY MATHEWS

There's an enormous inner concentration that's necessary to have the proper bearing on stage and to ...
GARY MATHEWS

Yes. Is it a tight squeeze? Indeed, but should we need other monies for contingency purposes, it app...
GARY MATHEWS

Is it plausible to use the contingency fund to cover these costs?
GARY MATHEWS

I respond 'yes,' though I'm not happy about doing it.
GARY MATHEWS

I've learned a lot. I've learned that pretty much everything I have is replaceable, as long as I don...
JASON MATHEWS

There was a lot of emotion and it was adding stress.
JASON MATHEWS

You can imagine the workload we were dealing with, with all the offshore infrastructure and having t...
JASON MATHEWS

I think it's just getting worse. People think it's a way to get to players, it's an adrenaline rush ...
JASON MATHEWS

Horrified, I can't put it in words, being that helpless with a guy that has a gun.
JASON MATHEWS

He stood up and told us if we didn't take the boot off he was going to kill us.
JASON MATHEWS

We booted it right there on the spot.
JASON MATHEWS

It's going to be interesting.
JAMES MATHEWS

She's ready for the boat, ... She said, 'I understand, but I trust you.' Her enthusiasm is contagiou...
JAMES MATHEWS

We were finding the sweet spot, ... I'm thinking we've got the right package to compete with Rex (Br...
JAMES MATHEWS

The task force will open up a whole array of choices to save and conserve. We want to reach our goal...
LINDSAY MATHEWS

We're going into new territory in some ways. But for Branford this means we are taking seriously the...
LINDSAY MATHEWS

We're very proud of him.
LANDON MATHEWS

We had to go see him in school a couple of days.
LANDON MATHEWS

It was a lofty goal but if he wanted to do it we would support him. That's a quite of bit of money t...
LANDON MATHEWS

With the regular ACL, she would have been walking the next day. But her muscles atrophied so much mo...
KATHY MATHEWS

At first, the knee would not bend at all. It was really hard for Jen.
KATHY MATHEWS

She was in a lot of pain. And when she came home it was really tough.
KATHY MATHEWS

We have not received those numbers in writing from the company yet.
JEFF MATHEWS

Our first inclination was to pack our bags and depart for our home stations.
JEFF MATHEWS

Both sides continue to work on core issues.
JEFF MATHEWS

They're so well coached and impressive on film. They don't miss many tackles and don't drop the ball...
JEFF MATHEWS

If they are serious about getting a tentative agreement into our members' hands for a vote, I would ...
JEFF MATHEWS

Out of the $1.4 billion in labor cost savings target, the company let this opportunity skip away ove...
JEFF MATHEWS

Daniels is a three-year starter that can beat you in so many ways. He may be the best that we'll see...
JEFF MATHEWS

We played our junior varsity in the second half. Everybody is spreading the ball out, but we're goin...
JEFF MATHEWS

I wasn't very pleased with our performance Friday. We had the 45 minute delay, and both teams combin...
JEFF MATHEWS

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
HARRY MATHEWS

The legal department tells us we have to do it this way.
MAX MATHEWS

In no way, shape or fashion do we want to exclude the mayor. This is not our money we are dealing wi...
MAX MATHEWS

And we have promised to give the city another $2.5 million, which it counts on to pay for fire prote...
MAX MATHEWS

And maybe I would feel that way too if I were in his position.
MAX MATHEWS

This makes it possible for the U.S. to continue its participation in the space station program and c...
MELISSA MATHEWS

They are using small home ranges and not traveling long distances. The only dispersers are young mal...
NANCY MATHEWS

I think it's great that the governor is focusing so heavily on preparation.
RICKY MATHEWS

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic...
SYLVIA PLATH

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
SYLVIA PLATH

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize sudd...
SYLVIA PLATH

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
SYLVIA PLATH

What I want back is what I was.
SYLVIA PLATH

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto...
SYLVIA PLATH

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
SYLVIA PLATH

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
SYLVIA PLATH

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATH

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

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There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

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