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This job has probably got the most screwing-up potential in the world.


Larry Speakes

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CHARLES STROSS The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
MIKE PENCE Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.
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BERNARD GOLDBERG That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary g...
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RICHARD HOLBROOKE He's a tall kid, he's got speed and he's got good hands. He's got all the potential in the world.
CURTIS PAINTER I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
NATALIE COLE The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
GEORGE HERBERT I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...
She showed me her room, isn't it good, ...
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JASON HOSENEY The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored a...
GERARD WAY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Human potential is amazing...We have the capacity to create a world that is peaceful...one that spre...
KRISTI BOWMAN Omar was probably the most well-respected, popular player they've had here, but Peralta has done a v...
RON GARDENHIRE The offense did great in the first half. Larry did a wonderful job of directing things.
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WARREN MOON Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
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BOB MOAWAD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER It's probably one of the most studied mammals in the world.
CHUCK SCHWARTZ If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.
KAI HOLM is the most heavily armed in the world and it remains an arena for potential confrontation.
LEON LAPORTE It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
ANGELA AHRENDTS J.R. has done a real good job. Before he got here they never won at all. This place has potential to...
JOE NAPPI I like playing somebody who has to apologize to their kid, all the time, for screwing up. That seems...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS This place is screwing me up. It hurts to walk and it's worse to run.
BOBBY CROSBY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hop...
ALLAN BRISTOW This was probably one of his better games. He has struggled throughout most of the season, but unlik...
DAVE LONG This was screwing. One hundred percent pissed-off, nail-raking, neck-biting, wall-fucking screwing.
AMY ANDREWS I think the last week has definitely changed her. This is probably the most important point in her c...
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STEVE MARIUCCI Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?
MATT LAUER The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
GEORGE HERBERT The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
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LARRY SPEAKES You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
LARRY SPEAKES Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
LARRY SPEAKES I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
LARRY SPEAKES Being a press secretary [is like] learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then ...
LARRY SPEAKES Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
LARRY SPEAKES You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
LARRY SPEAKES absolutely no alert measures ... are necessary at this time or contemplated.
LARRY SPEAKES as long as Iran advocates the use of terrorism, the U.S. arms embargo will continue.
LARRY SPEAKES "Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.
LARRY SPEAKES The rest of the world has certainly got past this. This kind of censorship no longer exists anywhere...
ROBERT LANTOS Anytime you see a pitcher screw up, you're like, 'Oh, I did that. You know how you've screwed up in ...
GREG MADDUX In terms of his NFL potential, he has a chance to be the best running back this state has ever produ...
DAVE LOGAN I'm scared of screwing up my kids.
TORI SPELLING Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, s...
GWENDA BOND On paper, this is the most talented team I've ever had. There's still another pedestal to achieve [t...
DENNIS DAY In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING Your soul has the innate potential to become the antidote to all the darkness in the world.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
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~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
DEEPAK CHOPRA I'm passionate about this. He's probably the most tested person in the world. Everywhere he travels ...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE To tell the world they have a workaround without sharing what it is, to me suggests they're not comf...
DON STOUT When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
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BRENDA MUSILLI I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy,...
RAM SHRIRAM We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH I've got to be in the best shape of my life. This is a contract year for me, probably the most impor...
JOSH PARRY The rest of the world has long overlooked the potential of the Arab world. George Clooney was in Dub...
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NEIL GAIMAN Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
GERARD WAY It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT Something in the last few months has got them filming the most intimate, graphic attacks -- like up-...
MICHAEL WARE Larry is the type who has everything lined up all the time. You call him for something, he already k...
BILL THOMAS The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.
MAX BAUCUS Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de...
EDUARDO PAES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES This has limited impact in predicting the potential impact of the limit in the future,
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BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO [Sunday night's show starts with Larry noticing that his pants bunch up when seated.] Five inches, ....
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ZACK LOVE This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I defi...
FLUME Siebel was in a world of hurt. For Tom Siebel to sell to Larry Ellison, this is his worst nightmare....
DAVID HILAL Regardless of any title I'll ever hold, the most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A...
MIKE PENCE Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
M. F. K. FISHER Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.
M.F.K. FISHER China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years.
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LARRY RIVERS If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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LARRY NIVEN I love superconductors.
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LARRY KRAMER I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t...
LARRY KRAMER We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
LARRY KRAMER Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia...
LARRY KRAMER Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ...
LARRY KRAMER I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ...
LARRY KRAMER AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
LARRY KRAMER I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first...
LARRY KRAMER If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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