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Related It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just li... ED BELFOUR On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have t... RICKIE FOWLER BEN HOROWITZ ANTHONY KIEDIS Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. D... EMMA BUNTON HARVEY MACKAY Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, be... LANA PARRILLA J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take... BILL HALTER SURESH RAINA When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don'... MICHELLE FAIRLEY NIKKI SIXX CARMEN ELECTRA I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... KAKI KING KRIS NOEL When you have teams this good, if you have a couple things go wrong for you and they have a couple t... CLAY FITCH You have to be good, you have to stay out of foul trouble and you have to win some really close game... DOYLE WOLVERTON I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are,... DAVID MILCH KEMI SOGUNLE MARINA ABROMOVIC You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just w... AUSTIN BUTLER We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta cle... ED BEGLEY, JR. I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, somet... BETTY WRIGHT MANDY MOORE CRAIG GROESCHEL MARTINA MCBRIDE You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want the... SEAN HANNITY MICHAEL JORDAN KARAN JOHAR But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it ... NIGELLA LAWSON It?s easy to come out and play a baseball game when you?re picking up 18 to 20 wins a season. But yo... MARK MACE In a playoff situation, you either elevate your game or you go home. You have to play good defense a... GARY PIPPEN ROBERT REDFORD It's a good fact to meet a stranger,but unfortunate when they have bad intentions in meeting you aft... TOUAXIA VANG I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you d... AVIVA I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental... YVETTE NICOLE BROWN A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own... BEN SAVAGE ALICIA SILVERSTONE Never stop pushing for what you want! If something is truly important to you, stay diligent and find... STEPHANIE LAHART I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't ... CATHLEEN SCHINE You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd ... SCHOOLBOY Q KATHERINE DUNN No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are str... KATHY CHRISTIE I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this w... PITBULL I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even ... CHRISTOPHER PARKER Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. Whe... EMMANUELLE BEART KIEFER SUTHERLAND Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also ... ATUL GAWANDE has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way. WILLIAM ANDERSON JEFFREY KLUGER I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot... IRA GLASS MICHAEL JORDAN When I don't have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But w... SHAHID KAPOOR I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all ri... DYLAN WALSH JIM BUTCHER NIECY NASH CARL LEWIS I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON GUSTAVE FLAUBERT MOHAMED ELBARADEI In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good inten... RACHEL PLATTEN I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y... DAVID ANDERS DAVID MITCHELL CAT DEELEY Everything we do is predicated on our defense. When things have been going well for us offensively, ... ERIC BRYAN I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't... LATOYA LONDON LEBRON JAMES JIMMY KIMMEL MIKE SINGLETARY JESSE VENTURA If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can't g... ROMAN REIGNS DEBBIE FORD I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I... JERMAIN DEFOE I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your ... PEYTON REED AVRIL LAVIGNE RON SILVER The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ... RANDALL TERRY A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere. BURT SHAVITZ MOBY One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with peo... PAUL EPWORTH ANTHONY T. HINCKS I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made... DOMINIC COOPER J. J. WATT LEONARD COHEN NICOLLE WALLACE When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantia... RUTH OZEKI CHINUA ACHEBE When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in y... SCOTT IAN If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at ... BERNARD SUMNER None of it was your fault, the whispers in my head argue. You didn't kill him, after all -... MARIE LU SUZANNE SOMERS I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight o... LEN GOODMAN MEGAN FOX CAL RIPKEN, JR. RUSH LIMBAUGH I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first ru... MAX BROOKS J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI JOHN TRAVOLTA JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. J... CYNTHIA NIXON
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HUGH SHELTON But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv... HUGH SHELTON We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati... HUGH SHELTON Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's agel... LYNN SHELTON She touched a lot of lives teaching. And she played the organ at (Speed Baptist Church) for over 60 ... BEN SHELTON I have two older brothers, the general and David, who is a teacher. My sister, Sarah, also is a teac... BEN SHELTON A friend of my father's bet him a dollar that he wouldn't ask (my mother) out, and he did. BEN SHELTON Agriculture would dry up. There wouldn't be any agriculture. There wouldn't be enough people to get ... BEN SHELTON We need to be more aggressive with our swings, ... But they are all things we can work on. BETH SHELTON I was very pleased with our passing and defense, and we had some good heads up play, ... Overall, I ... BETH SHELTON We're going into the game giving it everything we've got and hope to come home with a win. BETH SHELTON She did very well in the tournament, but we knew she would, ... Beth is a steady player, she keeps h... BETH SHELTON We have to focus on getting hitters to transition aggressively and play strong every time, ... We go... BETH SHELTON You can't just Google help, ... There will be links and information for anyone who needs it. ANGELA SHELTON I'm finishing a book about the making of the movie and I have a comedy I'm dying to do that would be... ANGELA SHELTON I would like this film to be available to everyone, because there's very few of us out there who hav... ANGELA SHELTON I want them (the agencies) to have a way to raise awareness and funds, ... I lost my publicist and a... ANGELA SHELTON I had this plan to do this simple little film and life said to me, 'I'm glad you have a plan, but th... ANGELA SHELTON I never intended to confront my father, but it became inevitable, ... Ironically enough, it happened... ANGELA SHELTON We were taken to a foster home and my parents were never prosecuted for what they did to us, ... And... ANGELA SHELTON Marcus Allen (Former NFL running back) contributed a lot and told me to 'walk by faith and not sight... ANGELA SHELTON I threw a party and charged people $50, ... Those who couldn't come got an envelope and asked if the... ANGELA SHELTON I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, ... I would sh... ANGELA SHELTON Everything went pretty good for us tonight. I've got no complaints. BARRY SHELTON Maybe we used up all of our hits yesterday. BARRY SHELTON It might not sound like a great deal, but given that the district has been built out for a number of... BARRY SHELTON I'm proud of the way we swung the bats. Their pitchers struggled throwing strikes tonight. â�... BARRY SHELTON Over the last couple of years, we've had a team that's done really well in the district. Naturally, ... BARRY SHELTON I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that h... HUGH SHELTON For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, a... LYNN SHELTON I think that our team stepped up in so many spots today. It started with our best doubles effort of ... BRYAN SHELTON We need to come back strong this weekend and reestablish ourselves. BRYAN SHELTON We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal ... BRYAN SHELTON We're excited about the opportunity that we have to play this weekend. It seems like we've been wait... BRYAN SHELTON The two trucks will eventually cover eight of 12 city garbage routes or 75 percent of the city. BILL SHELTON It is very time consuming and almost impossible to cut grass around signs placed on rights-of-way. W... BILL SHELTON This includes trees, light poles, buildings, or any other property belonging to the city. BILL SHELTON The shoreline is a tribal resource, a historic resource and an important part of tribal identity. BILL SHELTON It is going to be a very successful program, but we need to get the word out and it is going to take... BILL SHELTON The city really doesn't have the manpower to follow behind the candidates and supporters, who may in... BILL SHELTON It's one of those things that has to be done. We'd ask people to give themselves extra travel time i... BOBBY SHELTON We're on track to be done by the end of May, the early part of June. It all depends on the weather b... BOBBY SHELTON Initially, you don't need five lanes in each direction. BOBBY SHELTON I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around... BOBBY SHELTON That runs from medians to narrowing the street to roundabouts, those types of things. BOBBY SHELTON They can contact our traffic management division at 455-6100. We'd take their concerns and issues an... BOBBY SHELTON The last couple of accidents there (on Durango at Route 160), people ran stop signs. I find it hard ... BOBBY SHELTON With the accidents that have been happening on Blue Diamond, we've been talking with NDOT (Nevada De... BOBBY SHELTON That's one of the reasons we built that, to give people an alternative to the Strip. BOBBY SHELTON We give them time to leisurely leave the Strip. When the crowd starts dispersing, we'll start the cl... BOBBY SHELTON Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great th... HUGH SHELTON I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anym... LYNN SHELTON There is an extensive sterilization process, which uses FDA-reviewed methods that they have said rem... LINDA SHELTON I was about five years behind him in the Baltimore Orioles' organization, ... Everyone told Dalkowsk... RON SHELTON It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great... HUGH SHELTON I didn't think in my wildest dreams I'd be on any of these shows or be doing any of this like I am. ... CHRIS SHELTON It's a great way to learn and hone kayaking and watercraft skills, and it all takes place in a safe ... RICHARD SHELTON It's a great way to learn and hone kayaking and watercraft skills, and it all takes place in a safe ... RICHARD SHELTON He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh. RON SHELTON It's instant feedback. You can see things right away. CHRIS SHELTON I knew, going up there, that he'd have a lot of competition. But as far as doing what he's done, I t... BARRY SHELTON We knew coming over here it was going to be a tough ball game. Every time we play them, it's a heck ... BARRY SHELTON Over the last several years, it's been a huge game for both teams. BARRY SHELTON The key for McKinney is the mobility of our citizens. We're a big exporter of workers to areas south... BARRY SHELTON That's the way baseball is. Sometimes you get matched up against some team's number one, and sometim... BARRY SHELTON I'm proud of the way we swung the bats. Their pitchers struggled throwing strikes tonight.
I don'... BARRY SHELTON The idea is to have land uses conducive to that transit stop. Once that station comes in, the surrou... BARRY SHELTON PAIGE SHELTON My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after tha... HUGH SHELTON I really used that season as a learning experience. I tried to stay as sharp as I could physically b... CHRIS SHELTON His headquarters is now rubble, HENRY SHELTON Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy. HUGH SHELTON I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of yo... HUGH SHELTON We know what their centers of gravity are. Some of those can be attacked by the other elements of ou... HUGH SHELTON My goal is never to go pole-to-pole. My goal is to stay in the middle of the field. CHRIS SHELTON Our concerns were really pushed aside. No one was really pleased with the outcome by the end of it. ERIC SHELTON I'm looking forward to the opportunity to be playing for Jim Leyland. Just his track record alone ma... CHRIS SHELTON Everything can be broken -- there's no such thing as perfect security. There's only degrees of insec... JIM SHELTON I don't think we should give them any special considerations for coming in here, I don't think it's ... WILLIAM SHELTON There was one student that brought in $100 from his piggy bank. DEBBIE SHELTON It feels unreal. You put me in with all these names, you put me with everybody else ? maybe when the... CHRIS SHELTON I'm proud of the way we swung the bats. Their pitchers struggled throwing strikes tonight. … I don... BARRY SHELTON He is a tough businessman. If he gets his sights on something, he goes and does it. CHARLIE SHELTON I don't drink Red Bull. I don't drink red pop. I do chew Big Red gum. I've tasted red pop and it was... CHRIS SHELTON The exact time and place and how that's going to take place will be handled diplomatically. HENRY SHELTON It's a matter now of the procedures that we have to go through to have the aircraft returned, HENRY SHELTON We continue to make considerable progress in our anti-terrorism and force protection program, ... Ou... HENRY SHELTON While we can never fully eliminate the possibility that terrorists will strike against us, we are do... HENRY SHELTON We, collectively, are robbing Peter to pay Paul, HENRY SHELTON it's no where near the answer. HENRY SHELTON Poverty is alive and well in Rhode Island, HENRY SHELTON We get these calls every day. The companies have become much more hard-hearted. HENRY SHELTON Some of our people have stepped forward and offered their second homes - cabins, cottages - in diffe... HENRY SHELTON I'm lucky if I get two in a year, let alone in back-to-back at bats. It's all kind of overwhelming. ... CHRIS SHELTON Pinot Noir is one of the most difficult [grape] varieties to produce, but when it is done well, it i... TOM SHELTON He's nasty. That's why the Yankees went and got him and that's why Chicago has him now. He's going t... CHRIS SHELTON We're currently working on Russell between Decatur and Rainbow. BOBBY SHELTON I think once you understand the length of the season and what happens, the biggest thing is you have... CHRIS SHELTON So, we hooked the trucks up and moved on out. Felt like the Beverly Hillbillies. RODNEY SHELTON We have never done this before. We were a little apprehensive. But we had a great student. MARY SHELTON I think that Amanda is a very brave, courageous, and strong individual. DEBBIE SHELTON Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not. HENRY SHELTON Our GM, Dave Dombrowski, called me and asked to report early and I was happy to do it. I'm really lo... CHRIS SHELTON Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must a... HUGH SHELTON That's why I was shaking my head as I walked away. CHRIS SHELTON I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the... HUGH SHELTON This is not something we're doing to make money off of any time soon. We're trying to do something f... CHARLIE SHELTON I think it's definitely paid off. We were meticulous in Spring Training to stay in our routines. Fro... DEREK SHELTON It took a three-hit game for people to notice that. DEREK SHELTON Hey, communications major, what are you trying to say? DEREK SHELTON It's nice down here. It's great to see different people and how excited they are about the season. DEREK SHELTON We wanted to move somewhere that sounded like it had a good music scene. We also kind of wanted to m... DEVIN SHELTON We should surpass 50,000 next week. Our intent wasn't to go out as a headliner right yet, but that i... DEVIN SHELTON It was somewhere in North Carolina, and the waitress there was the first one to tell us about what h... DEVIN SHELTON When we sent the note home to the parents we indicated that this was something that had affected our... DEBBIE SHELTON I was sent information in the mail regarding the fundraiser over the summer. DEBBIE SHELTON It's strange for me, power-wise. It's not something I'm accustomed to. I'm not going up trying to hi... CHRIS SHELTON I know who's got the cast of that and I'll pay for that. He was a great symbol of some great things ... CHUCK SHELTON About four or five years and 10 or 20 pounds ago I could probably show these young guys a thing or t... DAIMON SHELTON I'm definitely excited about it, ... It feels good to be rewarded for your hard work and recognized ... DAIMON SHELTON My role is to be primarily a lead blocker, and I take a lot of pride in what I do, ... I've been for... DAIMON SHELTON Our mentality on offense is we want to impose our will whoever we're facing. We were able to do that... DAIMON SHELTON He'll come back and get better, ... Being around him for so long and being the type of person he is,... DAIMON SHELTON Its intent is to buy us time without holding up development. JIM SHELTON China has to get that oil -- and if there is nowhere else to go it will go to Sudan, Zimbabwe, Angol... GARTH SHELTON I think if you're a rookie, chances are you will be asked to play special teams and I'm fine with th... ERIC SHELTON I anticipate this district tournament to be a very competitive tournament. If we are able to get pas... ERIC SHELTON We take a lot of pride in earning the number one seed. However, we also realize that means all the o... ERIC SHELTON It has a lot to do with the coaching that these girls are getting at the select level. The select pr... ERIC SHELTON These girls in middle school had a couple of opportunities to play against them as well. They had a ... ERIC SHELTON We're looking good, barring injuries, which can always creep up and knock any good player out, ERIC SHELTON Shelbyville is definitely beginning to prove themselves out of that district with two wins over Tull... ERIC SHELTON The quickness of the games and recognizing different fronts are the biggest differences between this... ERIC SHELTON I definitely felt like I had to get back out there. I had the one carry where I got hit in the knee,... ERIC SHELTON That is the first blocked punt I've ever had I mean ever. I just came through free between the gu... ERIC SHELTON It's a situation where we'll have to play very well just to stay in the game. There's a reason why U... JASON SHELTON Our guys just stepped up and hit some free throws at the end. We've been so close so many times, it ... JASON SHELTON That's a good question. I guess we'll figure that out if we can win one of these games. Our guys are... JASON SHELTON This past week was a really tough, as basketball practice goes from 4-6 p.m. then on to play practic... JASON SHELTON I'm getting used to the guys on the team, and it is just fun playing ball with them. JASON SHELTON The mining itself doesn't create that much dust. It's the trucks driving on dirt roads. JAMES SHELTON The rapid growth of Cedar Park, Leander and the Central Texas region provided an ideal opportunity f... JAMES SHELTON These things are not going to evolve overnight but ultimately, we could be reaching the point where ... JAMES SHELTON It all depends on what you want to do. Some people want to pay their bills online. Others feel they ... JAMES SHELTON It gets creative with all the customer wants. JAMES SHELTON
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