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DAWN BALLARD The guys are excited about being in the tournament, and we are ready to play. We have worked hard al... DOUG MCCARTER We know we have the opportunity here. It doesn't come around all the time. We just have to seize the... JEFF WEHLING Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN We have a great opportunity here. We get to say what this community will look like when it's all don... LINDA GREEN I think we have a fantastic team. We might have the best team ever. We know we have to win over here... CATRIN NILSMARK This is a great opportunity. We don't want to have to go back to Florida. We obviously know that thi... DANIEL ALFREDSSON Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I think it's a great opportunity for people to come out and have fun. They're not running a marathon... MIKE HAMMOND Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL That we weren't expecting. It was great to find that people have a curiosity about it and want to kn... DAN KOHL It's another great opportunity to go out and prove ourselves to people all over the world. We have t... SOLOMON JONES I think it's a great opportunity for us. Obviously last year was disappointing, and this year we hav... JAKE GROVE It was definitely a wake-up. We are still in the Top 25, but [beating N.C. State] would have showed ... CARL ELLIOTT As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we a... URSULA K. LE GUIN As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we a... URSULA K. LEGUIN We've had a great relationship with the Hartford tournament and the Greater Hartford Jaycees for a l... LARRY PECK If we have a great tournament and we happen to win the tournament then we erase all the negative thi... JIMMY MCKINNEY Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW I want to see my family. We all want to get a great shower, get cleaned up and have a great dinner. CHARLES CAMARDA We felt that the turnout was a huge success. It's really encouraging to see that so many people at T... JENNIFER WISE I want to make sure when we came here that they felt comfortable with each other, that they felt goo... NANCY LOPEZ We have a lot of great players but unless you come together as a team that doesn't matter. We've com... SAM ADAMS We had a great car at South Boston, but we couldn't close the deal there. We really worked on this c... JACK BAILEY We couldn't be happier so many people thing this is such a great school that they want to come here. DAN STORCK If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves. CORY BOOKER The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN We talk about opportunities. And we have a great opportunity. ... You have to take advantage of your... DAN WATSON We have a great product with our doughnuts and we want the public to know we also have a great selec... STEPHEN COOPER I'm extremely excited about being back here and being part of this football program and university. ... JOSH HEUPEL Residents can't sit idly back when projects come to us for approval. We need to know what they want.... JODY ARMSTRONG This is a great show of support for Southeast. For people to come out this far ... we were a little ... DON KAVERMAN Most people know that when we are faced with an immediate perceived “threat,” adrenaline kicks i... JOSé N. HARRIS This season was so unreal. It's great to see that we made it this far and have this opportunity. CARA ENRIGHT It's great to be here. A lot of people questioned whether we would be here. But there is one thing y... DAN DOCTOROFF We think it's important that America understand the strength it has in the arts as well as the scien... ANTHONY KENNEDY Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here n... JOE AUGUSTINE Eighty percent of the people who come into a Christian book store have a felt need. That's an incred... JO PANTER We had a great team this year. A lot of people talked about us being good next year, but we thought ... CHRIS PAUL We have to make people believe that the blues festival is here to stay, and that it's being done rig... BOBBY RUSH It's a great opportunity for us. We certainly appreciate all of the cooperation that we have receive... ERNIE NESTOR A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Losing this game, we basically know that we blew our chance for an at-large bid. We know that we hav... MELANIE BOEGLIN He joined Jude in the kitchen and began making a salad, and JB slumped to the dining-room table and ... HANYA YANAGIHARA We all want to be great, but we don’t want people to know we want to be great. VIKRANT PARSAI The city choose us and we chose them. It's just a beneficial opportunity for us both. We have great ... KARL CARSWELL We took a step in the right direction tonight. What a great way to go into a tough tournament like t... BRENT HAND Obviously, young boys across America watching Selection Sunday dream about stuff like this. To be he... CAMERON LEDFORD We don't require that people compete here. I'm here for the people who want to get really, really go... DION SHIVELY We came here to win it and we didn't. But we still had a great meet and earned some strong seeds for... BILL ROYER We just had a meeting about that and most of the people who come here know that we will eventually h... HOLLY SWOAPE We need to change the perception of how the world looks at us as a country and a basketball power an... JERRY COLANGELO We know that we can play with any team. We have great pitching, fielding and hitting. It just needs ... JACKIE DEMPSEY We're gonna have some fun here. We always have a good time on this team. I've been getting out to se... EDGERRIN JAMES Since we're all in Great Falls and we have this talent here already, and some people teach, some peo... LAURA NICHOLS This year would be a great opportunity for us to fill all the volunteer spots. With Ashley's backgro... ASHLEY MILLER That's what makes it hard to come here and do this and see all these guys and reminisce and laugh an... AARON ROWAND It's a great thing for people who maybe don't have the opportunity to get (season) tickets to see th... JOSH PASTNER This is a great feeling. These girls have worked incredibly hard to be here. We wanted it so bad for... KRISSY KUKAR A lot of people play in the league seven, eight years and have never even been in the playoffs. This... ISRAEL IDONIJE I think we definitely have the potential to do that. We just have to put it together all the time no... TIM DWIGHT It's started to suck a lot of our profits right out of the business. We have to pay not only a gas b... LEO LUCIER This is a great day for the club. To sign someone with as much experience as a player and a coach as... GRANT MAYER We have come a very long way in this exhausting qualifying campaign and there is no room for euphori... ILIJA PETKOVIC We had a great time. They have a wonderful school and we want to share a little bit about our school... DONNA HUGHES Once upon a time, we saw ourselves as gatekeepers ... but you can't do that now. You want to get peo... DON BUCKLEY We found in this long journey in a short time a great capacity for honesty, a great solidarity from ... AYMAN NOUR For people who are interested in learning about how to make New York City a more humane community fo... JANE HOFFMAN We have reached great success here. We had an opportunity to serve the community and get a successfu... DOMINIC GONCALVES To finish third out of 32 teams is a great accomplishment for our kids, program and coaching staff, ... ALEX HERNANDEZ For the girls as much as we want to win this thing, they do know they still have the next week. Both... PETER GIROLAMO We got here and we got a good taste of being in the state tournament. When you get to this level, yo... GARY ROORDA We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR It's definitely an accomplishment, but we can't settle on the win. We just look at it as a step towa... CAPPIE PONDEXTER We knew Eric had the ability. We could see it in the training room. But for a kid to come here who's... JEFF BRICKER If we're competitive, we have great fans here. Calgary is a wealthy city, and Alberta is a wealthy p... AL MACNEIL I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. We have ... DAN ADKINS We have a great opportunity to have two great events back-to-back. DEREK SCHILLER We had a great tournament and we have no reason to hang our heads. We have a young team and that hur... BETH MCCANN When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to pr... JUSTIN INGRAM This is just a marvelous business opportunity. We need a Northeast facility, close to refineries her... JACK YOUNG I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are hear... MATT BOMER I'm definitely going to love my time here in New York, ... We've got a great team. We have a great c... EDDY CURRY As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wou... JARVIS COCKER Like I said, and I've said this, he's a tremendous coach (Weis). He's a great asset to this team fro... TOM BRADY We were really close all tournament and we felt we had a chance to win it. We were able to play in t... DONNIE DARR You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t... BOBBY VAN When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL
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BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a... BILL GATES Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo... BILL GOLDBERG As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and... BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho... BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o... BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more... BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p... BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ... BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust... BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f... BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to... BILL GATES