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I give a lot of credit to our players. This is the closest group of players I have ever been with.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I feel like with Suite Chic, I was able to show a lot of different things, and also that I got the closest to the kind of thing I want to be doing.

Fremont County and Hot Springs County are the ones that are closest right now to their goals,

I don't think anybody, even Diana's closest friends ... would regard what happened ... after the crash as anything other than a hysterical reaction. It was way, way over the top.

I don't think you have to be a brain surgeon to know you want to play your games where you practice. We're really not going to play a home game anywhere but this would be the closest thing.

I expect the closest she got was something like Venice.

For what he does for that team, I don't see another one out there that's better. He's the closest thing I've seen to Barry Sanders. He's just that good. He does everything. We've got to always be aware of where he's at - at all times. You've got to concentrate on stopping the run first and go from there.

For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling softly about the shoulders as we focus on the task at hand whether it be to listen or to leave or to learn.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

He's had a really good week of practice, and I'm really encouraged at where he's at right now. He's not full speed yet, but he's really close, and it's the closest I've ever seen him.

He is badly beaten up. It took 24 hours for his brain to recuperate and for his thought processes to announce it was the closest to death he knew of.

Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.

We're in the middle of our migration season now where birds are flying. Are they going to bring it back to the Midwest on their flight patterns, we don't know. They're monitoring the birds closely--Alaska is the primary spot where they're watching the birds because it's the closest point where we would see contact.

He's 19 points ahead of the next closest guy on our team. He's able to create things from nothing on offense.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

He was basically the closest we came to Ralph Gleason,

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Keith is just flat-out outstanding. He is a tremendous administrator and will bring passion, great organizational skills and a strong work ethic to that role. He is one of my closest friends. This is a grand slam for the University of Central Florida.

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

I suspect this is the closest we're ever going to get to looking at the face of Shakespeare.

I think it is an act of medical malpractice to do human reproductive cloning when animal data shows how risky it is -- how high the frequency is of miscarriage, birth defects and even life problems with other species. We've been unsuccessful at doing this in our closest animal relatives.

I think the closest we've ever been to El Paso is Austin.

I think the closest real world equivalent to this is the market for action figures, ... I've never heard of a digital actor being sold, though.

I think the closest game we've had all season was in the regional final to Libertyville at seven points.

I think this certainly is one of the biggest stories of our age. If the guy closest to the President has potentially committed a felony ... The President said, 'If anyone is involved in this in my administration, they're going to get fired.' ... If Karl Rove were out of business, that's a f-ing big story.

I think that was a significant step because the old turf was hard and it was being used against us in recruiting. Coaches from other schools were saying, 'You don't want to go there and play on that surface because it's dangerous and you might get hurt.' Well, that issue has been eliminated. This stuff is the closest thing to grass.

I think that we should obviously have good relations whenever possible with our closest ally and our biggest customer. I would hope to talk to the president very closely to start us on that track. But that's not going to take us off fighting on specific Canadian interests.

I think the recruiting process, with all the Internet interviews and people checking up to see what things are said about them on the Internet, I think it's distracted young people a little bit. I'm not sure it's what they should be keeping their closest eye on, but I understand when someone's talking and you're one of the subjects, you're a little bit interested.

Jeff really dominated the whole day. His closest match was against Sorenson ---- it was probably the toughest match he's had in a month.

Over the last several months, we have been through some very difficult and tumultuous times. Many of these events have been very disruptive and harmful to my personal well being, my family and many of my closest friends. This is a burden I will no longer carry.

Right now, our POS/AIDC VARs are the closest to adoption. We're telling them to come on in, the water's fine. There's no doubt RFID is going to happen, and our VAR community is standing right in the middle of this opportunity.

Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way.

State and local regulators are the officials with the closest contact with the regulated community, ... Given their close intimate knowledge of the business they regulate, they are in a much better position than Congress to judge whether a particular small business is deserving of leniency for a first-time violation.

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

Nathan is probably the closest friend I have in the music world. He's the most supportive and caring musician I've met.

My personal time is the same as my road time and my studio time. Personal time is working and touring. All my closest friends and family are already in the bands that I'm around, anyway.

My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose and it's straight after that. Then, I like to use the matte brown shades from Maybelline The Nudes Palette to shadow my eyes, but without it looking like I'm wearing much.

I was the one who interceded in helping move the bodies. I had to locate the closest relative and get permission to move them to another cemetery.

I was the one who interceded in helping move the bodies, ... I had to locate the closest relative and get permission to move them to another cemetery.

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I think he's the closest we've had to a national figure.

The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.

That was the closest meet I've ever seen. I don't have words to describe it.

That was probably the closest thing to a playoff game all year.

That was probably the closest I have ever been to him. It was nice. He looks a lot bigger on TV.

That's what everybody wanted to know, and Gene couldn't tell us that. The closest he got to telling us was that we'll know our schedule by January.

My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

My brother's always been a fighter, all his life. He was the closest thing I had to a father. It's hard to look at my idol lying there helplessly, and I cannot do anything but pray for him.

Whichever candidate is closest to my vision, I agree with ... I've got to hear them express themselves.

We're closest to the ground. We're the people who actually have hands-on experience with Ford workers.

We have a lot of lower income people in the city and unfortunately those are the people who are closest to the edge.

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

We need his offense. For us, he's the closest thing to that third scorer we need. He's the quickest guy we have.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our communities and feel it's time to implement a new system that allows patients to receive treatment at the closest hospital.

Unfortunately, the national conference only takes the top two teams and no one placed in the top five. Our closest winner was Dominique Rivers who finished 20th in Fundamental Word Processing.

Well, look around and find the closest trash can and throw it in there and start over.

We don't have guys on this team that are like that, that are going to call guys out. We love each other. These are the closest friends I have.

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

We planned to test the idea that magma chambers should be closest to the Earth's surface in crust formed at the fastest spreading rate.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

We still have a long way to go. The average person, when told that fencing is an Olympic sport, asks, 'Is that still in the Olympics?' It's been in every Olympics there has ever been in the modern age. There's fencing in every summer Olympics and it never gets televised. There's no fencer who is a household name. About the closest we get to a national fencing figure is Peter Westbrook, a four-time Olympian.

Those are big shoes to follow and I try not to label myself with anyone else's name. But I guess he's the closest one I compare to. I'm really comfortable catching the ball and being more of a receiver. That's something I've been working on too.

We are light years ahead of the closest university to us. If every university did what we did, the environment would be a much better place.

Trade frictions arise even among the closest of partners. In a mature international relationship, those frictions are dealt with on their own terms while the broader relationship continues to flourish.

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited, ... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

We landed on ice. It was closest thing to feeling like you were on another planet.

We really didn't know how it would turn out. We knew Middletown was our closest rival. We got a point here, a point there. We got a little bit at a time.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

Why are we abandoning the region closest to the sea? I question the wisdom of doing that.

To me, the rebounding record is more important, because it stood for 21 years, and because the old record was so far beyond the next closest (total). Rebounding is a combination of will, desire, effort and hard work.

Trying to document that was a circus. I talked to former superintendents, teachers and students. I made a lot of calls. I have several theories in the book, and maybe one of them is true. The closest bell was the most difficult to document.

To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean.

There are seven teams in the tournament that could win it. It's the closest I've seen since I've been in the conference.

The parish president made the decision that he wouldn't risk the lives of the pump station operators, and we evacuated those people to the shelter closest to us, ... You want to know who's responsible for the flooding? Katrina's responsible.

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds

Todd is one of the closest friends I have on the team, and I feel bad for him for all the work he's put in this offseason. But injuries take place in this game, and the team has to get in there. Somebody has to step up and make plays.

We all take pride in what they've been able to do; we feel like we were part of it. I still consider them my closest friends. They're the guys you talk to on Christmas Day. It's the closest staff I've been a part of in 22 years of coaching.

The reason his name is popping up is he's probably the closest thing out there to John Roberts. And he's got even more of a full record that people on both sides of the aisle can evaluate.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

This was the closest tennis match I have been involved in in six years. A couple points here and there, and it could have gone the other way.

This was the closest site to Beersheba, so we drove down one day with our three children,

This was the closest near miss to an event since Three Mile Island. It was also a prolonged period of bad behavior. The company's fine is entirely appropriate.

Through the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we need to ensure we are educating a future generation to achieve a workforce for the 21st century. I believe the best education solutions come from those closest to the students: state and local entities.

Though not linked by DNA, we shared our clan and he was my closest kinsman. He was my king.

You had some of the closest people to Janet Reno in good faith negotiating to try to avert this. And I believe that to send, you know, armed agents with gun point and with a mask on the holiest of weekends is simply something we expect in Castro's Cuba, and not here,

We might not be the most talented team, but I think we're definitely one of the closest teams and definitely one of the most competitive teams ever.

We should have been in Boise. I don't feel guilty, but probably the next closest thing to it.