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That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.
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Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' i...
DASHANNE STOKES
I'm a lifetime resident of this area. I just knew it was badly needed.
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Hold that thought. This sounds like the kind of conversation I’ll need pants for.” It
SAM SYKES
Buy my book.
SAM SYKES
The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.
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It's a good opportunity for me and I'm excited about it. Those of us inside the ring knew that he wa...
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It was aggravating last year because I wanted to help more. But we knew a post game was needed this ...
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He always seemed to be an expert in anything and everything I needed to know. He was very knowledgea...
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DAVID HALBERSTAM
It was a nice win. We needed it. It's been a while. It's nice to be back home.
BARRY EMERSON
It's over, Sam. Finally."
"Yeah," he said. "I guess it is."
"Turn out the light, Sam."
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustai...
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Andrew Walter was a great mentor. He rubbed off really well on Sam. (Sam) comes in the huddle and he...
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He certainly was in discomfort and he ... was certainly in fear of choking. It all happened, gosh, i...
BOB BECCIA
I thought he showed he was ready. We were fortunate to have athletic safeties like Sam Brandon.
LENNY WALLS
Sam," she said.
"I'm trying!"
"Sam," she repeated.
"No," he spat, hearing her tone. "...
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There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, ...
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Jacques knew before the tour that he would be covering for all of the top six positions. I told him ...
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I knew I needed to lose some weight. When I was playing out there during the season and I was hurtin...
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It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.
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I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
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I WANTED PEOPLE to understand the Minutemen are not about violence. If you are really trying to find...
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We put a tie on Sam for the party. He took off that night. He came back three days later wearing a T...
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
WAYLON JENNINGS
It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph
would be beautiful. And he woul...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
He was a bear. It was like he needed that conflict in the morning.
CATHERINE KING
Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
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You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
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One's selection of solution on plaguing issues is likely to be best and correct when taken or done o...
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Yes, we are preparing ourselves to use and apply the wet technology at any point, when needed.
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When he was in a game, he put his mind, body and soul into trying to win it. He was animated, but th...
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This was important to him, and it tells the history of Colorado for him. He knew the history of his ...
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One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly wh...
BRIAN ANDREAS
It certainly lends credence to the truce that he was standing there.
CAPT. RICHARD CONKLIN

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I did not know there were people you could go to for help.
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Like it was, wow, this woman has spent the equivalent of my lifetime pursuing this one thing.
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We will select volunteers from those two branches,
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But generally this is the kind of name that, from experience, has one or very few founders.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doin...
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a...
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large g...
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Let...
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come b...
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It's fun coming back home. The crowds have so much love and support for me. They're really smart cro...
WANDA SYKES
Of course, my mother would love for me to work clean,
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Eighty percent of the ladies from our database have attended our tour socials and met with our Russi...
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Even though you feel different and look different when you're pregnant, you're essentially still the...
MELANIE SYKES
Even from its beginnings, this business was based on love. We help bridge cultural and language barr...
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I got the job by walking into the director's office, ... I saw this guy behind a desk and said, 'Whe...
WANDA SYKES
I'll never forget the first time my family came to see me do stand-up, ... It was an awful bombing. ...
WANDA SYKES
We have to get out there and touch the people and let them know that you are thinking about them and...
WANDA SYKES
There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing....
WANDA SYKES
Louis is so damn talented,
WANDA SYKES
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own com...
WANDA SYKES
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CHARLES SYKES
It pushed the sound up to the edge and caused a little bit of a strain. That was part of the (H-D-H)...
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep tal...
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All these old guys, they were exactly the same on stage as off, and they couldn't help being comedia...
ERIC SYKES
No, wait, here's a good bit.
ERIC SYKES
There's no family allowance on the first child, you know.
ERIC SYKES
It's a very sad day. I've always admired him. Everything he did had a very evocative ring, of someth...
ERIC SYKES
I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he&...
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Anastasia is a proud member of the American Society of Travel Agents and the Central and Eastern Eur...
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr...
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The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't beli...
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If I sing along a little fucking louder to a happy song I'll be alright.
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I'm glad there were no fatal technical flaws, and that they were able to find the money after all. B...
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It's really unfortunate at a time when we should come together, something as simple as this.
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It comes down to a point in time where you put aside your differences and thoughts and do what's rig...
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We played hard, but we didn't play smart.
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We don't have anything to do with it.
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Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
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My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM
You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM
Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?
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Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN
I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN
If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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SAM RAIMI
Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI
R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI
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SAM RAIMI
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SAM RAIMI
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SAM RAIMI
I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI
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SAM RAIMI
It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI
I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI
I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI
I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI
I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI
You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI
Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI
I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO
If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO
Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL
'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL
I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL
I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES
For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES
One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES
I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES
It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES
I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON
I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON
The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON
You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON
I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON
I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON
Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON
I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON
Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON
Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON