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I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.

What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.

Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit.

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind.

Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

People have all kinds of approaches when they come up to me. Some of them are so nervous: 'You know, Mr. Cosby, you are my biggest fan!' I am? Some of them even claim that I raised them.

First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

The other thing is, I know how competitively hungry they are. They're not here just to be here. They're here to compete hard, showcase their products and support their teams. And they're going to do it on the biggest stage.

The potential of the hybrid capital market is enormous. As issuers and investors become more comfortable with these securities, they could become one of the biggest corporate funding innovations since high yield bonds.

The post-Fed performance of the S&P 500 could prove to be the biggest surprise of 2006.

The perception of some of the elderly is that it's electronic, and (they) don't want to get near it, but quite frankly, it's easier to use than the paper ballots. My biggest concern is elderly people that are too fearful to even try.

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

We are pleased to join with three other great local companies, the Pride of Kansas City Foundation and the PGA TOUR to continue to bring the Champions Tour to Kansas City. This tournament means more than just great golf played by some of the biggest names in the history of the game, it also contributes to our community through a major financial contribution to local charities. Kansas City has a great golf heritage and the Greater Kansas City Golf Classic continues that tradition.

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

We are at risk of losing some manufacturing, but the biggest risk is we won't get any expansion of current manufacturing. You're not solving the problem. You're just moving the greenhouse gases to another location.

There are customers that will love it. My biggest concern is: Can we teach the average cook how to use it?

We struggled against Mart offensively. So the biggest thing we have to do if we want to get a win against Arp is that we have to regroup on offense. We have been up and down this year.

We stock what we know are our biggest sellers. Then we stock seasonal, and our prices are very reasonable.

We still see good demand for galvanized steel in Asia, particularly in China. China was the world's biggest exporter of zinc till recently. Now there are reports of scarce zinc concentrates.

We still play Dallas here, but the biggest thing we have to do is take it week to week and not get too far ahead of ourselves,

We're in the analog business, and analog is what's driving all the displays, and audio, and battery life in wireless. Wireless is clearly our biggest segment, and we plan on this market doing exactly what it's been doing for the last three and a half years.

We're in pretty intense discussions with the biggest cable companies, and making quite considerable progress. You can expect something fairly soon.

We're incredibly young, and it's a lesson that we have to learn, but at this point, we have to get ready for the next game. So, the biggest thing we have to sort out is learning to play ahead instead of behind. We're not there yet, but we are on our way.

We started four sophomores and a freshman. So that will definitely help us as far as having players back. We'll come back and hopefully we will have matured, because that was our biggest thing. There should be more parity next year, and that will have different teams in the mix.

We spent the last telecast looking back at the 36 years and saying our goodbyes. And this is the Super Bowl. It's the biggest event of the year; as John (Madden) was saying, we're going to crown a champion. All the focus and efforts will be focused on that.

When you subtract the million dollars Charlie Crist raised from the biggest casino owner on the East Coast, he doesn't even break a million. Republican voters won't remember how much Charlie Crist raised, but they won't forget who he raised it from.

Watching film, we just saw a kid that was extremely accurate. Probably the biggest thing was, we liked his feet and he had a live arm.

When we were big, we were big. But there wasn't anything else. Now there are a thousand other things for people to get into. And this is by far, by far, the biggest I can remember us being.

What we're seeing out of this area recruiting-wise are Division II kids, ... We don't have the biggest kids here.

What they're going to try to do is do what they did during the season, try to get more off open-floor, transition-type opportunities, and try to attack that way and not have to go against our half-court defense as much. That will probably be their biggest adjustment.

We were supposed to stay with our man, but luckily he (Howard) shot the ball after the shot clock. We'd rather be lucky than not, (but) that was a letdown. We made some mistakes down the stretch, but the biggest thing is we got a win.

We wrestled really well. Our kids never gave up. Wanting to be here is the biggest thing this time of year and our kids did a good job with that.

We would've liked to have wrestled a little better in some of those matches, but the biggest thing is getting the win and moving on. But we're going to need to get some bonus points along the way.

We would see 50 or more waves. It turned out that during one of these periods of recording, the biggest crest-peak wave that we measured was 91 feet.

We're going to have even more depth with who we add. The biggest key is going to be how we handle coming back next year. Are we as hungry after winning a national championship? What's our chemistry like?

Unless the winter gets a lot colder than what we've seen, it will likely be the biggest insect pest in 2006.

Unfortunately, I think we made the wrong choice on our race setup, and the Marlboro Team Penske car had a tremendous push in Turns 3 and 4. Those corners were my biggest problem. I could barely touch the throttle going through there. The team made front wing adjustments on both of our pits stops, but it didn't really help. All considering, I'm pretty happy with a fourth-place finish.

Usually I have a problem with my skis or with my mind. My biggest wish was to get the gold medal in the 10K classical. I got it. It's mine!

We're moving eight choppers over, ... One of the biggest concerns for the government of Pakistan is not enough airlift capacity to get in some of the rural areas where people are suffering.

We're more or less waiting and seeing, ... Pfizer's dividend is definitely safe. It's the biggest drug company with good cash flow. It could easily buy a biotech company and improve their (research and development) line that way. That's what you're going to see with large-cap companies. They're going to partner up with biotech companies or buy them outright as a way to improve their (product) pipelines.

With the injury he had, the biggest hurdle is everything. It's an injury to his core, which controls everything: getting out of bed, getting in and out of the car, getting up and down, hitting, fielding, throwing.

With no iPod Mini to dilute its impact, Apple's new Nano is poised to become the company's next best seller -- and rivals' biggest headache, ... Steve Jobs's Tiny but Sure Bet.

We face the biggest risk here of any circuit we race on. The danger isn't so much hitting the tyre barriers as hitting another car that has already spun. Visibility is already an issue and that adds to the risk. The spray does not clear. The trees hold the moisture. You cannot see a thing in the spray.

We're just a basketball team that doesn't have a lot of depth right now. That's our biggest challenge.

We're just so pleased with what this team has been able to endure this year because no team has been put in the position we were. I think we've made tremendous progress. The biggest thing when you're building a program is being competitive. We've done that.

We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a competition over who can build the biggest yacht, so to speak.

We're just not a very good basketball team right now. To me, we have a lot of glaring holes on both ends of the floor. The biggest thing is that we're so weak mentally.

We're just inconsistent-that's the biggest thing. Even though we've set goals, we've been inconsistent with them. We have to be more consistent with all these things to make some noise here at the end.

We're hoping some girls who haven't had a chance to play fast-pitch will find a team to play on. That's the biggest thing about this, especially for the 15 to 18-year-olds. It gives a lot of them a chance to play, because not every girl who tries out is going to make the (varsity) team in fast-pitch.

We're not asking anything that they haven't done before. Just to give us what should be a normal year. My biggest job is to get them back to what they do best.

We're being smarter with the football now. Our defense has played well all year, but the biggest difference is we're running the ball. That makes everything much easier.

To play on the second biggest day on the football calendar is enormous and, for our young guys, it will give them a taste of a finals-type atmosphere.

With the small schools, the biggest difficulty is, if you lose a kid you're usually losing two positions. You're constantly juggling.

With the money you save, you can buy the granite countertop in five years. Be a smart homeowner. It's the biggest investment you make in your life - why cut corners on it? We want to tell people to do things right. We don't want to tell them to do things OK.

We knew what our biggest weakness was. It was something we had talked about going back to last year. We had no argument with the skill of our defense. It certainly is one of the best in the league. But we were missing that size, grit and physical aspect.

We knew we were working with one of the biggest filmmakers of our time.

We knew we were going to be facing a tough team and we knew this was going to be our biggest match of the year. They came in and fought but came up a little short.

We know who their best player was, frustrated him, and played good overall defense. As you can see, we're not the biggest team in the world, so we have to rely on our quickness and defense.

We know we're in a battle right now. This is obviously a huge week. It's possible there could be a little more clarity by this time next week. This is the biggest week of our season right here.

We know we're going to get sleet and snow, but just how we're going to be impacted by the icing is our biggest concern.

We know we face the biggest basketball week of our lives. We're trying to get to New York City with the three games we have next week.

We know how popular it is in the States, and I think the bill looks very interesting. California is probably our biggest market in the States, so we're looking forward to that.

With this merger, AT&T is going to be the biggest phone company and the biggest wireless company. That means they're also going to be the biggest competitor to the cable companies.

Would I ever see again? That was one of my biggest concerns,

Worldwide, the two most expensive sights are the green sight or the blue sight; blue meaning sea, water or ocean and green meaning parks, mountains or golf courses, ... And that's the biggest difference. We have strategically placed the homes onto the premises to maximize the view.

Words don't describe how that feels. That's probably the biggest win we've had since I've been here. We should have beat them the first time, but this time was redemption and it feels really good.

We're starting to see some evidence of slowdown in the U.S., which is going to be a risk for us. The biggest concern is the oil price and foreign investors who have been buying Japan may be reluctant to buy from here.

We're running out of opportunities to give games away. The biggest thing is we need to get on a little roll here.

We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.

We have to have a good game plan this week, go in and know our assignments. That's the biggest thing to getting off to a good start because if everyone knows what they are doing nobody has to anticipate what the Browns are doing.

We have to get rid of mental mistakes. We've had four touchdowns called back by penalties and that can't happen. The biggest thing is we need to get into some kind of regular routine. The way things have been going has been anything but routine.

We have no reason whatsoever to take Cleveland State lightly. They've lost a lot of tough games this year, and this will probably be the biggest game of the year for them.