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We got a number of good things done this year. It's rewarding to turn an idea into law.


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JON ANDERSON This is a good first step. We didn't want this to turn into a partisan fight because I think we can ...
DOUG STONER A win would turn this into a good year in a hurry,
JUSTIN LEONARD We've got a big number of topics to be addressed. Most of that has to be done in the first half of t...
PASCAL LAMY This year it's our turn to get back into the playoffs again. I hope things are going to work out thi...
CATHY KING Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this bo...
RYAN FITZPATRICK This year we had a record number of eight applicants. We also had a record number of three that got ...
DEBORAH PIERCE Tonight was a good start for us. We got to see a lot of good things. I think we're going to be okay ...
CAMMIE MILLAR We hope the growth momentum will carry into this year. We hope to take the number one position this ...
HIROYUKI ODA I got to see them play against McHenry. And they are really, really good. I'd like to see them play ...
BOB KIES It's a programmer's job to make the most of limited resources to turn an impractical idea into reali...
- AKASAKA RYUUNOSUKE (SAKURASOU NO PET NA KANOJO) I've always done a lot of different things - quilts and making dolls and stained glass - but this ha...
LIN DUTTON Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing...
KENNY ORTEGA I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an e...
DARREN BOYD Patrick and I are feeling very good about this team. We saw some promising things in our first two s...
BILL HAWKEY I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
EDGARDO OSORIO I think he deserves it all. He's done an extremely good job with us. He got us through different sit...
ELLIE RADKE They have a tradition at Augie that reminds me of McHenry. They run the ball a lot and we ran the ba...
ANDY KLINK We just felt like for the team, we needed this change, ... We're going to let Casey start, and see h...
HOUSTON NUTT We played a good game against a good team, but there are no moral victories. We have to keep getting...
JEFF ZICKAFOOSE This is UT's year, or so we think. OU has just enough talent to turn this into a nail-biter.
BRIAN DAVIS We realize our offense got a lot of guys back, and we've done a lot of things to improve our defense...
CARSON PALMER We realize our offense got a lot of guys back, and we've done a lot of things to improve our defense...
CARSON PALMER You know what, it ain't up to Patrick. It's up to the people around Patrick. I'm tired of people tal...
RANDY THOMAS We have some things to point to that we think are successful. We had a record number of interviews t...
CYRUS MEHRI This is going to be a good year. I'm more positive this year than I have been in a number of years.
BILL MENDENHALL He's a great back and I'm glad to be blocking for him. He does some spectacular things out there. He...
WALTER JONES Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
DEAN KAMEN This raises the risk that we could turn over into a consumer-led recession sometime next year.
KURT J. WOLFGRUBER I thought we did a lot of good things that we haven't done on the road. The discrepancy in foul shot...
HENRY BIBBY It's been vacant for a number of years now and not been used for a number of years. We've done a fai...
CHARLES HERNDON We used to have a pretty good passing offense and the offensive line never really got any attention....
DAVE KRYSTOWIAK The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the commu...
WARREN RUDMAN Each year comes with its own memories! Memories that make us ponder! Memories that shake our nerves ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But if all good things come to an end What happens to the bad things? Do they turn into good memorie...
NATALIE NOVAK We got into their faces, got into their space and it was so well done ? it was 'we can win this'.
DUNCAN FLETCHER We're serving a lot more people this year. We are running out of the things we normally have a good ...
LINDA PATTERSON We got into a little bit of foul trouble (in the second half) but we were able to get through it. Th...
DARIN RADKE We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.
AMY KLOBUCHAR We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
HENRY BLOCK Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN A good description is a magician that can turn an ear into an eye
EDEN PHILLPOTTS I'm tickled to death, because last year we got to this point and didn't get it done.
MIKE ALLISON This year has been our vice president's first full year on the job, and I think we've done some pret...
FRANK WHITLATCH In the grand scheme of things, it's still just one game. We still have done a lot of good things thi...
GENE DEFILIPPO It's a number we were very proud of, but we know the potential is there for an even better season th...
MIKE MCCARROLL We were able to play some other guys that hadn't got to play this year. In the long run it was good ...
BRITT BONNEAU I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an inc...
BILL PULLMAN We got things done,
DENNIS HASTERT The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and ...
STEPHANE MALLARME An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an o...
HENRY FORD The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster....
RICHARD STALLMAN All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously imp...
FRANK RICHARDS It got ugly. People used this as an occasion to vent a large number of grievances.
STEVEN PINKER Mostly it's just a matter of how you get things done in an election year.
KIMBLE FORRISTER He has done some good things financially for the county and we hope he will be able to turn the hosp...
ED WARD We have playmakers at wide receiver, we have a quarterback that knows how to win and can turn a bad ...
DAN MCCARNEY We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t...
CHRIS WEDGE It is not to say that we have done an about-turn. We can't just take the Spears and throw them into ...
JOHAN PRINSLOO This was the idea, to have an all-inclusive event. This is what we planned, and this is what we got.
JUSTIN DALEY That's an outstanding number. Last year we struggled to have a team.
ELLEN GERTON It's going to happen. I'm trying to stay positive. When things go bad, they get worse. We've got the...
CONOR GILLASPIE We are concerned going into every hurricane season and we are particularly concerned this year becau...
DENNIS DICKEY It was so rewarding. Who got more out of this? It's a real toss-up.
JUDY RENACIA The National Guard is quickly hoping to turn its mission to more law enforcement.
BOB MANN We don't have the luxury of failure this year. This is a race about real Democrats, and real Democra...
FRED VISKOVICH There are a lot of good legal thinkers who question the reasoning that went into Roe, not the result...
PATRICK LEAHY You have to give our kids a lot of credit. Things didn't look very good and we just kept battling. T...
DAVID MCGINNIS I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN We had some good years (under Hilliard), but couldn't get it done in the tournament. We had so much ...
ANNE HAFELI We really sold this team on unity. Our motto this year is, 'One way, one team.' We told them we were...
RICK RIOS There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her i...
LAWRENCE DURRELL This isn't going to be some three-year study, the main idea is, 'Let's get something done,'
BOB HARPER This is exactly what we wanted. It is very rewarding. Who knows -- we may get a writer or an illustr...
CELESTINE SOFIKA We increased this year in terms of the number of presenters. Last year we had over 40 vendors, but t...
LITA SAIKI We thought last year with Dr. Patrick Moore we were on the right track. (Conference attendees) recei...
DALE LATHIM We look at a number of different fitness factors. We look at their muscular strength, their muscular...
JENNIFER PEHMOELLER It was very rewarding to help others, and we got to have a lot of new experiences.
KATYANA ELESON We've got next year to look forward to. We've got a good ball club, and we've seen the whole demeano...
DESHAWN STEVENSON Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
ANONYMOUS Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
UNKNOWN Jeremy set a good pick and we got a great look there. Jasper did what he's done all year ... made sh...
STEVE RIVES Passion can turn a dumb business idea to a great business idea & lack of passion can turn a great bu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We were very happy to make the playoffs this year. We got off to a rocky start at the beginning of t...
DARIN HARLEY We're 9-4, we've gotten off to a good start and we've done so many things well this year, but we are...
DAN FEZZUOGLIO Last year we did an outstanding job of having the really good teams here. The people of Northwest Ar...
BILL INGRAM This year we will intensify our law enforcement efforts in this field. We will require law enforceme...
ZHANG HUIGUANG We didn't want to make things up. We didn't want to turn this experience into something that was mel...
DAVID MADDEN I've got a really good group this year,
CAL HUBBARD The show was really good this year and yet we had horrible, horrible ratings, ... When we were in co...
MATT DAMON We increased this year in terms of the number of presenters.
LITA SAIKI We're looking for positive things. We're playing an independent schedule this year; the league we we...
JUAN NIEVES That means 30 percent of our 2-year-olds are likely, if it happens to come into our community, to be...
DICK MELTON This year we've decided to spread the idea of world music over an entire weekend.
ERIC EPSTEIN We understand that a lot of things happened this year. We didn't play nearly up to our capabilities ...
JEREMIAH TROTTER I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and ...
LORI GREINER Patrick is the kind of player that makes things happen for us. Other guys step up when he steps up. ...
DANNY JEFTICH There are a number of events we've done all year long on the '55 Dodgers.
BRAD HORN There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
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PATRICK KANE I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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PATRICK KANE I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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PATRICK EWING I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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PATRICK EWING Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
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PATRICK EWING Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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PATRICK EWING Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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PATRICK EWING Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don&#...
PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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