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Amy Trask

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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE More often than not, the error is in the customer's favor. We encourage our customers to point out a...
SARAH CLARK So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Proh...
JOHN MILTON We do not believe that Mike's conduct during the tournament appropriately represents the deep-seated...
RANDY HOPPER Fans have been asking us for years about encore presentations of our games.
CHARLES COPLIN Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, da...
OGDEN NASH We'd go to Raiders games and root for opposing players if they were on our GOPPPL teams.
ANDY MOUSALIMAS The toughest part is closing out games without her, ... She was our go-to player and great at closin...
SVETLANA ABROSIMOVA At Smith, we're hoping to triple or quadruple the numbers of fans at our games.
JAMES BROWN So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We have to keep our fans watching not just at home on TV but here at the racetrack too. This is wher...
JEFF GORDON The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P.J. O'ROURKE Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going...
ALFRED TENNYSON Sure, there were people from Missouri and Illinois who grew up Cardinals fans and migrated to New Yo...
GEORGE VECSEY I'll never forget any of those kids. They've done so much more for our program than just win basketb...
DELL LEONARD We hadn't released anything for three to three and half years. We just felt like we had been away fo...
FREDRIK NILSSON We're doing a better job at practice. The games are easy. It's not me. I'm just one spoke in the whe...
JEFF HERRON Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Sometimes it's better to be the underdog. Dallas has all the pressure and all the fans expecting the...
ANTTI LAAKSONEN We knew that it would take a while to find a new label and put out a new album. We decided to put so...
ADAM KRIER We would really encourage people not to come back [to New Orleans] for at least a week.
IVOR VAN HEERDEN We meet every day with people and organizations on many issues. We expect to be measured not by the ...
JOE LAYMON Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fa...
DONNIE WAHLBERG I think it's a different feel for our fans. In years past we have been packing it up at this time of...
WILLIE ANDERSON They went out on a New Year's Eve date in 2001. They married just a couple of years ago -- May 3, 20...
DALE RICH Securing a clean National Games is the most important factor of a successful Games, ... We will do m...
LIU PENG It's also a little sad this year because these are the last shows for Louise. While we're happy abou...
KAY POWELL Music has served as a healing force many, many times in the past, and it will do so again at this ye...
CHARLIE JONES New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and...
DICK WILLIAMS I'd be happy. I think you should root for your brother. We have plenty of fans for our team.
A.J. HAWK We haven't been pushed to three games for many years and Sri Lanka are a credit to themselves.
ANDREW SYMONDS And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get ...
RICHARD MARX We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we ca...
BEN ELTON We hope to encourage new ideas and accelerate the growth of our developer and affiliate communities.
GREG ISAACS It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
CARL JUNG It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves
CARL GUSTAV JUNG It was a great feeling to not only have our first win in a couple games, but for it to be at home in...
ANNA RIORDAN We have not received the request. He (the prosecutor) is playing games in the media. When we receive...
REMI OYO We've been on the road before. We didn't have all our [playoff] games at home [in two] of the years ...
WILLIE MCGINEST Blue Planet Phenomenon.

she’s from the pink planet called Constellation
he’s f...
R.M. ROMARNEY We call this marathon eve. You know, just like on Christmas Eve, when everyone is scurrying around t...
GENA PHARIS The history here in the last few years has been such that they haven't enjoyed those kind of games a...
GUY MORRISS Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
JONATHAN LETHEM There's not anything being done here that a consumer can't do themselves, ... We encourage consumers...
BETH GIVENS We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe th...
BEN ELTON Not bad for just being created. They've come from all over, from fans in New York, Chicago, Californ...
RUSS HILL They were doing a real good job running some games on defense, some games we had not seen. Give cred...
DENNIS ROLAND The Red Bulls are committed to entertaining our fans before, during and after our games.
ALEXI LALAS We are not seeing a lot of action out of Augusta at all. We do have our local problems, but Augusta ...
WALTER REED We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Lack of parking and seating (at PAL) were complaints we got from our fans. They enjoyed the games, b...
EDRICK SWEETING We should have pride in people coming to our barn in front of our fans. Hopefully that will be the c...
LAURA HALLDORSON That was our plan all along, was to go on hiatus and it'll be back, bigger and better. The fans real...
JOHN ALLEN We are thrilled to televise 110 Cardinal games on FSN Midwest for the third straight season, includi...
JACK DONOVAN All I wanted for Christmas was a New Years Eve party that I would never forget. Too bad I got too dr...
CARROLL BRYANT We have some players on this team really busting themselves. We're just a little short-handed and a ...
FRANCIS SIMMONS We like [Holden] on our team, too. We just have to keep him on track. The two games we lost in the p...
DEAN FLORIO It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
CARL JUNG It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG We are one at the root - we just part at the branch
RASHEED OGUNLARU I don't believe anybody's looking at this as any kind of referendum. We've been in Louisiana for 38 ...
ARNOLD FIELKOW We would like to think that if you get bored at one of our games, it is because you wanted to. The r...
DEREK SHARRER That game was what football was all about. We went out there and shut them down on offense. It was o...
BRANDON WHITING We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for...
BRUCE SHELLEY Last year, we weren't getting this many people to our games. We're excited that the fans are happy, ...
STANLEY ASUMNU Neither games were bad games at all. In the last inning in both games we were tied. Offensively, it ...
KYLI HANSON We intend to file and have asked for guidance from our counsel on how to appropriately implement our...
ANNA FARNESKI For too long, we've allowed our facilities to operate without checks and balances. We just assume a ...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE We do not conduct random sweeps. We conduct carefully planned operations based on intelligence and i...
BARBARA GONZALEZ As we approached New Year's Eve, it was easier. We felt we were not on the fringe or edge. This was ...
IRENE DILLON We would be doing a disservice to our fans not to look at the opportunity.
CARLOS BELTRAN Well, fans always root for the underdog.
MARIA SHARAPOVA It's kind of like New Year's Eve at Times Square.
MARLENE LELLOCK It is very essential that our history be preserved and preserved appropriately, written appropriatel...
THOMAS S. MONSON We have issued a step-by-step leaflet to players on the procedure for doping controls and how they s...
MARC VOUILLAMOZ Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—...
JOHN STUART MILL Indoor football has a tremendous pace to it and the new logo displays our team mascot ready to not o...
LOU STEIN I'm sure none of the fans did. And in all honesty, I think the only people who thought we could go t...
SHERYL SWOOPES When all of our games are on, that's when we've played at our best.
BRAD STEVENS We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU The show goes on no matter what. All of the entertainment is indoors and most parking is covered. Th...
JOE BURNETT If you look at all the demographics, especially in the engineering and technical ranks, it's going t...
BOB BERG We're very happy with the Sun Bowl. It's a great group of people and we love dealing with them. The ...
MIKE ARESCO We would consider it a success if it keeps just one drunk driver from getting in the car. We've been...
JENNY MACK In the first year, we chose the products to go in the trailer based on our market knowledge. The fir...
BILL DEVEREAUX Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to o...
SAM WELLER My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of show...
BEN STILLER This whole thing we're doing on the road is a tribute and a tip of our hat to the fans. We figure af...
JONATHAN CAIN We had a New Year's Eve lock-in.
JON ZOOK We have to win our games at home with five of those last seven games on the road, ... We have to bea...
RICHIE ADUBATO We want the game-day experience to continue to be safe and enjoyable for White Sox fans while they a...
JULIE TAYLOR Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They've shown that for decades and decades. We shou...
TOM COTTON Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here.
Amy: Just stop it!
Rory: Just think it throu...
STEVEN MOFFAT We just encourage them to [talk with a financial advisor] so they get a good start on managing their...
MIKE EDMONDS Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an ...
ALICE WATERS It would be easy to sit back and hope the season was finished but it's not. We have two games left a...
CRAIG BREWSTER It felt so good playing on the blue in front of all our fans. It just feels so electric when we're h...
LEE MARKS It's kind of sad because we won't have those rivalry games with Bangor and Lawrence, but we appropri...
FRANK KNIGHT [This free yearly concert at Ford Pavilion in Beaumont, Texas, on Sunday, September 4, 2005 at 6PM, ...
TRACY BYRD While they were willing to root out individual cases as we brought them to their attention, we were ...
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AMY GRANT My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS