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The world is going to change. We need an action plan. We need to get organized.
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You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing
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At this point we're not suggesting that classes be rescheduled on Saturdays. That was the plan when ...
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Everybody knows that it's going to be going away at some point.
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I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
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With cell phones, your brain sees what is being discussed, not what is going on with the road.
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Ian Hislop is going to be the new Doctor Who.
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The governor made a public statement and we wrote it down. And we are going to hold him to it.
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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
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That was pretty big, we built our confidence out of that. We knew going down the stretch that we wer...
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To have citizens not part of the plan is leading us down the wrong road again.
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I think overall we liked some of the suggestions. I think they're going to have to be discussed a bi...
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The market is still fearing that we might see some more serious hurricanes down the road,
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It's not only that we talk to them. The league does a good job, and the players association, of goin...
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Action is what will produce your desired results.
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We scored too easy and at some point that was going to subside.
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My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.
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There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
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When the leases expire, at that point we're going to take the buildings down.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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The public does not translate the deficit into something that really bites them. We are going to hav...
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We see good prospects going down the road.
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There is no wish to conceal a document. There's a public statement that a document is going to be ma...
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We anticipated at some point this was going to happen,
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Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
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The business plan raises a lot of questions. Is that other money going to materialize? Is this proje...
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If we're as successful as we think we will be, we might do some expansion down the road.
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We made the decision to go down this path because we could see that Symbian was on the right track, ...
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There's going to be space travel at some point.
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We plan to keep that going. Everyone, deep down, wants that unbeaten season.
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I don't think the flag is going to come down. That's not in the cards. It's unpredictable at this po...
ROBERT BROWN
We haven’t broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), that’s not what she wanted. We opted no...
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I'm totally looking forward to representing the [USPRO champion] jersey tomorrow, and [Health Net] h...
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
-Ian Fleming
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We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted not to...
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We really made an effort to think of the constitution's implications 50 years down the road.
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I'm trying to think about the right way to formulate language, ... I believe that we should not be a...
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At this point, nothing President Bush says is going to have much impact. The only thing that is goin...
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At this point, we are going to wait for some higher authority to say whether it should be catalogued...
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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I'm still swimming.
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I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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Acting's boring.
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I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
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I don't hold grudges.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN
I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
IAN MCEWAN
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don&#...
IAN MCEWAN
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID
For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID
I'm the blackest villain of all time.
IAN MCDIARMID
The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
IAN MCDIARMID
If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an...
IAN MCDIARMID
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
IAN MCDIARMID
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID
When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
IAN MCDIARMID
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID
Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID
It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID
Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ...
IAN MACKAYE
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hug...
IAN MACKAYE
I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
IAN MACKAYE
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about...
IAN MACKAYE
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea...
IAN MACKAYE
I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly ...
IAN MACKAYE