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I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

But we cannot do anything until the City Council votes for the tax, ... By law, we cannot collect any signatures until that is done, and then we have 60 days.

Basically, it's a local drive to collect and distribute items to benefit the brave men and women serving in the United States military and defending our freedom and liberty abroad, ... These items will provide a little extra comfort for them and, more important, remind our troops that they are not forgotten by their friends and supporters back home.

I have been in the venom business 28 years and all the venom I collect is used in research. Venom is used in important medications.

I have a writing chamber stuffed with things children send me and lots of dragons because I collect them, and I look out into the woods from there.

If a fine is levied and the appeal process is run, (MSHA) ought to collect it. You ought to comply with the law, period.

If a county can institute an impact fee, it ought to be able to decide how to collect it.

I don't want to approve something, collect the money and not have the (general fund) money to match it.

I eat all year 'round. Bill collectors collect bills all year 'round.

He looked like an NHL goalie. He felt very comfortable. Right now his confidence should be at the top. He's a good worker and a good kid and he's paid his dues in the organization, so the time has come for him to collect the reward.

What makes them think he's going to collect it unless they do something?

The purpose of engaging strategic investors in the shareholding reform is not to collect funds to raise the capital adequacy ratio of the state-owned commercial banks, but to learn from the expertise of our foreign counterparts in service, management and internal control to improve the competitiveness of China's banking sector.

The purpose is to collect more detailed information. We should have such information in the interests of Russian security.

We train people to collect donations, keep track of other volunteers and be runners at the chapter.

What you don't see, for instance, is the data we collect from surveys -- who smokes, and what their attitudes are.

What you are seeing is a move by TSA to collect it.

Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.

There are no pet stores that sell 9-foot sharks. You've got to get them some other way. We're going to try and collect as many animals as we can.

We looked at companies that got the most A's and the most F's. What we do is we collect on an A to F scale and so we averaged those reports together and a company's rating is an average of those reports.

He didn't want to collect objects that had an association with death.

He challenged all of the clubs in our district to see who could collect the most amount of canned goods for the Haitian Health Foundation.

I think it's admirable what he did, because there have been some guys in recent history that have gotten their contract and gotten hurt and went home, never to be seen again. Knowing Troy, he was going to have to (try) because he was professional in every aspect of the game, so you didn't expect him to just not show up and collect his checks. He was going to try and pitch because he's a competitor first and foremost.

I think the point of it is it brings an outside person into the picture who doesn't know either party to collect facts and make a recommendation. It provides a basis for renewed negotiation, I would say.

I think you just need to go away and collect yourselves before you talk too much about the past and too much of the future.

I think the core trumps the energy prices. We know about energy prices and it's an accident about when they collect price data during the month.

I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that's it. I'm not very glued to material stuff.

I was a farmer during the Depression and didn't have many toys-and I missed that. We decided to collect toys because it's a lot larger hobby and the items hold their value so much better than other things.

I think today was probably a fair result. We cannot do anything about Chelsea, all we can do is concentrate on our own results. We have to collect as many points as we can and try to stay as close as possible.

I will never understand and never agree that five private law firms should collect more than $3.3 billion for working less than two years on a case that was settled before it went to trial. The fee seems totally out of proportion for the work performed.

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.

I saw a need for students to get back to a normal life as possible. I thought, you know, I could get out there and collect them, help them get back on their feet.

I remember what it was like when abortion was illegal, ... When I was a college student, I watched the passing of the plate to collect money so young women could go to Tijuana for an abortion. I knew a woman who ended her life because she was pregnant.

PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things ? as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops ? don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

Our people don't usually need to come in the home so there's usually not a need for us to be doing that. We don't collect money in the field so if anybody approaches the house or approaches you with those kind of stories be sure to be a little skeptical.

Our goal is to collect as many donated books as possible for a designated delivery before Christmas. Our goal is 20,000 books, from picture books to adult relaxation.

Our game wardens do collect information on hunting accidents as a matter of routine procedures. There typically is no formal investigation, if it's just a straightforward accident.

Our nation needs the right tools to mitigate risk, and this means prudent investment in security systems, ... I have several ships that are old enough to collect Social Security.

Our members save and collect items all year for this yard sale. Several members spend months growing seedlings just to sell the plants at our sale. We also accept donations from the community to sell at the Yard Sale.

Our members are successful people who like toys. They collect toys -- flash cars, boats. We have got members here who are also members of six or seven other golf clubs.

Steel makers have attractive dividend yields and investors have to own the stock by the end of March in order to be able to collect the dividend.

My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.

Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela.

Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services

I was here last year, and I saw it then. It's a lot of young prospects, and we're so accessible. If you collect autographs, it's the best scenario because there are no crowds and it's quiet.

I think people are hoping that Case is not going to collect on that second note.

It doesn't mean that they can't get the judgment against you, but as a practical matter, the creditor is not going to be able to collect on it.

It deals only with international calls. It is generally for far shorter periods of time. And it is not designed to collect reams of intelligence, but to detect and warn and prevent about attacks.

I think the strength of our league and some of our non-conference games have prepared us for this opportunity. Obviously, we'll try to do some homework here and collect some information on our opponent Friday and try to prepare ourselves.

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

We need national guidelines for using information that we collect and accessing databases. The people who work day in and day out need to know what they are allowed to do, not just what they are not allowed to do.

We have people calling wanting to know what to collect to send down there to the hurricane area in New Orleans.

We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.

We were able to collect the fees necessary to cover the facility and other operational costs through revenue generated through ticket sales.

We believe that the wholesale power market is broken. Out- of-state generators are charging us outrageous prices. We don't make a profit on the power we buy from out-of-state generators. We are basically paying out 15, 18, 40 cents a kilowatt hour and we're only allowed to collect about a nickel from our customers.

We do not collect a dime from the retailer. We don't collect any money, when the user buys these books.

We're also pleased that the governor vetoed two other pro-homosexual bills. One of them effectively would have silenced pro-family candidates on issues of sexual morality, and the other would have hampered efforts to collect petition signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage on the ballot.

We find about one bone a year, ... This means that at the current rate it will take over 200 years to collect a complete dinosaur.

We have some overhead, but most of the money we collect goes to the charity.

We do surveillance in much the same way here in Stoddard County, ... Any number of agencies call us and we collect data on those reports and turn them into the state.

We've known for some time we can't collect until then. We're a little surprised they're just finding this out.

We know that you've got to collect points, ... Kurt (Busch) last year was very consistent and collected the most points. That's everyone's baseline. You go into the final 10, if somebody is on a tear and wins a bunch, everybody is going to have to adjust their game. But going into any series, you want to cover your bases and be solid. . . We'll go to Loudon and get our feet wet. We can spend our first two or three races just feeling things out to see where we need to be.

We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards.

Unless you've got a heavy-duty blower, the easiest way to collect leaves is to rake them onto a big plastic tarp. Then you can drag them wherever they need to go.

We are now going to businesses to collect the funds to secure some space on the billboard. We need to get about 30 businesses signed on.

The problem is, cities have not been able to find ways to collect from tax-exempt organizations. The bigger problem is that nonprofits are the fastest growing sector in the U.S. economy.

We are deeply saddened by what has happened in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. We sincerely hope that the funds we collect will do a little bit to aid the many victims of Katrina.

When we're playing well, there are very few teams that are as good as us. When things don't go well for us, that's when we have to look in the mirror as a group and figure out how to collect ourselves and continue on a path that's the best way for winning. We've got some soul searching to do.

We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to a comet that formed at the edge of the solar system, far from the sun under very cold conditions. We're confident that it was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.

The question is if we do collect a lot of genetic material from people ... are you going to see those people then injured when their health provider or employer uses that information to take away opportunities. At the moment, in the United States particularly, those protections are not in place at a federal level.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it --three minutes; to collect the data in it --all my life.

We didn't steal the secret that told us what the plot was, we didn't recruit the right people or technically collect the data, notwithstanding enormous effort to do so,

The conventional wisdom in that industry is that kids would rather play video games than collect baseball cards.

We used to be able to collect and show proof of payment to ABC on overdue accounts. Now if a subscriber is one day late with a payment over 90 days, the computer system automatically eliminates the address from the paid circulation averages.

We understand the serious nature of the charges and certainly don't condone in any way the type of conduct which has been alleged. However, we will not make a comment about this specific matter until we collect more information.

We've been doing mapping with sophisticated vehicles for a number of years ? we have vehicles with high-resolution digital cameras on board, and we drive roadways and collect imagery.

We collect things not just for their monetary value, but also because they tell the story of who we are,

We collect the seed from them, and germinate the seeds.

We collect them partly out of mischief, ... but also to encourage churches to stop making an ass of themselves.

We will continue to publicize law drafts to collect suggestions and hold more public hearings on bills which the public care about or dispute about the most.

When a customer, client or patient fails to pay or falls behind on payments, the ability to collect your money decreases dramatically as time passes. Successful debt collections begin as early as possible. It is a good idea to have a collection agency lined up and ready to go, particularly if you can predict there will be a need in the weeks and months ahead.

There has not been a meteor storm since the onset of the space age. All the data we collect will be used to protect satellites.

We?re not a banking institution, yet a large portion of our time is taken up by trying to collect money.

We did not play very well tonight. We were a little tentative and Quinnipiac played with a lot of tempo and a lot of pace. We didn't really carry play tonight. A lot is gauged by how well we collect passes, and we didn't seem to collect pucks tonight.

With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

The program is designed to collect and process green waste only, but your reader is correct that paper is compost-able as well.

We have to collect ourselves and regain our shooting touch.

We have to collect more information and let a little more time pass.

We have several attorneys who do nothing but collect the information on the auction sites 24 hours a day.

We've got to collect wins. They have a great cushion over there and we don't.

When we unwrap presents, I tend to sit there with a bin liner trying to collect up the wrapping paper and thinking about which pieces I can reuse and which I will recycle.

We will collect windfall-profit taxes in some monopolized sectors within two years.

The government is unable to collect taxes and control the borrowing requirement and is making only limited progress in the rest of the economy and on privatization to generate revenue.

The government is trying to collect overdue taxes from oil companies to recover some lost taxes. And there is still some confusion about the government being in crisis.

We need to get more shots on net. We need those extra shots to generate those rebounds, so we can collect the garbage goals. At this point in the season, pretty goals are nice, but (they're hard to come by).

While the system runs a short-term surplus today, we collect more in Social Security taxes than we pay out today in Social Security benefits.

You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.

You can't collect money from someone who doesn't have any, ... If they're operating on a shoestring budget and you have a $4,000 judgment, how are you going to get that?

We all tend to collect these things because it's a little bit of a nuisance to dispose of them.

We're supposed to collect enough revenue to deliver water to our customers and make sure we have a safe and reliable water system.

We will be able to see how the restoration is actually progressing, and if we collect enough data then this could serve as a model for restoration projects worldwide.