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DEYTH BANGER I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t...
DEYTH BANGER I know they discussed it at the Aug. 5 meeting and the June board meeting. There were no other meeti...
EMILY GILL …he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a...
TIM O'BRIEN I know they discussed it at the Aug. 5 meeting and the June board meeting. There were no other meeti...
EMILY GILL They got the critical rebounds at the right time. We knew they were going to be tough. They play tal...
HENRY FLECK They were really down, but by the time we got to the bars, they were right back up.
DUNCAN CHASE The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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JOHN HENCH Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes
GEORGE LUCAS It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the fi...
JOHN ARAGON We needed to control the tempo, and we did. Several times they got pretty frustrated. They got on li...
MERLIN BUTTON They ran a couple of trick plays we were not looking for at the time. We relaxed and got beat.
BRANDON MERIWEATHER We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the ti...
CRAIG JOHNSTON Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they'...
LISA KLEYPAS Then they got into chicken feed. At one time, they had 25 percent of the turkey feed business in the...
DON MICHELS They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.
ANONYMOUS Tuesdays are the worst. They are the spoiled leftovers of Mondays, repackaged with a new expiry date...
SORIN SUCIU Aside from what they did musically, the Beatles were great ambassadors. They made everything English...
PETER NOONE At first I thought we were going to build some cheap-o boat. But they?re pretty cool ? and pretty st...
BRANDON ZARTMAN We've got to take care of the ball, and we've got to defend. Last time we played, they were the aggr...
CRAIG SHAEFFER Last time the customers were very forgiving. They came back until we got it.
KATHY HARMAN The deadline is set and they think I am their pet.
SANTOSH KALWAR They were a bit nervous as it was the first time in a number of years they were playing at home at t...
ANDREW PRICE Every time we got close, they always answered the call. And the second-chance points they got were h...
DOUG CONKLIN I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN They were real nice people. They hooked me up with FEMA. From the time that I got here it was beauti...
ROBERT BROWN The labs came and we were going out, running around all the time. They were calling us all the time....
AKIM REYNOLDS The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC They were these songs now considered middle of the road, ... but at the time [they] seemed hip.
CHARLES STEINBERG The people they were mad at weren't these people. They had nothing to do with anything. They happene...
HENRY REINER They really like going to buy fresh roast coffee at cheap prices.
DAN HANDLER They were tougher than we were. They got loose balls, they got re-bounds.
DAVE CALLOWAY My initial reaction was that they were putting us in the cheap seats, so they could give the good se...
BEN ROSS People were skeptical at first. They got burnt once already.
DUANE COVERDALE As the train approached, they sounded the horn and got no response. They activated the emergency bra...
DAVID FUGITT Jack: "..You were the on­ly one I saw when I closed my eyes"
Lexi: "Then why wasn't I enough w...
K.A. LINDE You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of ...
ALFRED KUGEL They were some disappointing semifinal rounds. But I was impressed with the kids. I was especially p...
JAMES SHERIDAN They were committing hard to the center. When they got the goal, they got on injection of adrenaline...
RUSTY BRAUNER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON They (the players) were all (at the school) last night. There was a vigil. They got to open up a lit...
BOB MARINELLI The difference was they didn't get to the line too much. The last time (at Bellingham), they got 30-...
JEFF HIRONAKA Jack really matured over the years. He got to be a much bigger person, much more willing to see peop...
AUDREY MOORE At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't...
EVE ENSLER At the time I was able to move, they were able to sell.
BARBARA ANCELET It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The big hits they had were where I was behind in the count and I had to come at them. They got the h...
EDWIN JACKSON They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans.
DEYTH BANGER They were in organized sports, but in their free time they played at the park all the time. They pla...
JUDY HAWK Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 After all, we are told, our salvation has already b...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We set it up a little differently. AJ (Johnson) had been going good and we figured that they react t...
RICK CARLISLE For 40 years a man was quiet observing ,while people that were close to him at the time took advanta...
GARY F EVANS... Jack [Nicklaus]'s got to start thinking about when it is time to retire.
KEN VENTURI We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn...
A.W. TOZER In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.
ROBERT BENNETT She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Our mindset was just one game at a time. We've got to get better as a team. We didn't look at it as ...
JASON TERRY At the time they (Mary) were recruiting me, they weren't too sure about making the switch. After I t...
DELMAR CLOWN Let's face it, a lot of rich people in China aren't there because of ability. They got there because...
HOWARD SNYDER There was no danger to the guests who were on the lift at the time. They were just delayed, really.
SHANNON MCSWEENEY Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither co...
BIBLE No murderer had before or has since caused such a sensation, passed so quickly into folklore or gain...
PAUL BEGG I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally i...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I got so strong I felt like a giant, ... When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny co...
GARY PLAYER In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that: People were taught that they were created by...
SUNDAY ADELAJA My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE We knew we were decent. When the kids called the meeting, it was gut check time. We became so much b...
BRIAN CHAMPION Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulder...
TOM LANDRY They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time t...
JOHN FOWLES We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants th...
BJORN LOMBORG People don't care anymore. All they care about is a cheap ticket, a cheap quart of milk, a cheap wha...
GARY BROWN We had that one quarter where we were off. I thought we played pretty well, but we couldn't get rebo...
BRITTANY WILLIAMS By the time he (the suspect) got to the diner, this place was just swarming with cops and they were ...
KENNY RUSSELL I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control becau...
TERRY GILLIAM I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbi...
GWYNETH PALTROW I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They p...
FREDDIE WONG It's always a battle when you're playing against Jack Newman, ... I made some birdies at the right t...
LUKE CARSON They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, ...
JO BRAND They were very eager to be back at school, ... Im sure they were a little anxious because they were ...
ALTON JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walm...
BENNY BLANCO We had two semis jack-knifed, and they were blocking the freeway. We had multiple crashes, so we wer...
JEFF NIGBUR That was the Toledo team that was picked to win the [MAC] West. They played with an intensity, a fer...
CHARLES RAMSEY I kind of ripped into them at halftime. I said, 'This isn't a state playoff team' by the way they we...
STEVE ADEN At one point in time, they were just normal pets, but then we realized they love everybody.
LINDA AMREIN But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, th...
JULIAN BOND There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government....
WES CRAVEN Look at the better players of my era - Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd. They ...
ARNOLD PALMER They did wonderfully. They were on task the entire time.
ANNE SMITH At the time those decisions were being made here in Wisconsin, they made absolute economic sense.
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ROY ROMER One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added ...
ROY ROMER Thus previous work provides little evidence about the strength of force pushing decision-makers towa...
DAVID ROMER Much of the previous evidence of systematically conservative behavior involves highly stylized labor...
DAVID ROMER At the end of the game, one team will have won and the other will have lost. Thus even a decision-ma...
DAVID ROMER The decisions are comparatively simple, the possibilities for learning and imitation are unusually l...
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JACK WHITEHALL With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'...
JACK REED The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils.
JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will.
JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma...
JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea...
JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att...
JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
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JACK ZIPES I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
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JACK ZIPES Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfu...
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JACK ZIPES Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
JACK WILD I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business h...
JACK WILD I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a...
JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
JACK WILD I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Stree...
JACK WILD It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar...
JACK WILD There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
JACK WILD At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly t...
JACK WILD My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
JACK WILD I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
JACK WHITTAKER I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
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JACK WHITEHALL I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
JACK WHITEHALL Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no...
JACK WHITEHALL My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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JACK WHITEHALL My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc...
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JACK WHITEHALL I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
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JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
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JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
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JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
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JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
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JACK WELCH Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone.
JACK WELCH If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
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JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &...
JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate...
JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak...
JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On...
JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la...
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JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou...
JACK WAGNER My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe...
JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f...
JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years...
JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it...
JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use...
JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
JACK VALENTI Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at...
JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER