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I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

If they hang all the 16 of our colleagues, we do not mind because we know they would be martyrs and will go straight to heaven.

If they straight up asked Congress to amend the law, it would fail.

If they say they've been with someone abroad and describe some gruesome symptoms, they'll get seen straight away.

I don't know exactly what our offense is going to look like, ... It should be very similar to what we did at Florida. We hope to be a balanced team with the run and the pass. We hope to be able to run the ball straight at teams, and if not, try to throw it over their heads.

I don't know about companies; I'm sure big companies like that can be complicated. But I would find it difficult to believe that he's a chameleon who changes when it comes to business. I know he's a straight guy.

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

I didn't notice a difference in our recruiting and scheduling until we did it, like, three straight times. Then finally I saw us breaking into some areas where we had never been before.

I didn't make this record to set the record straight or anything. I just wanted to put something out there, and I'm glad I have. I'd be having much more fun with all this if I was in the least bit vain or desperate for attention, but I'm not, so, you know ..

I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

I don't feel very glowing, especially after wearing makeup - and not necessarily my choice of makeup - for 12 hours straight on a movie set. When I'm playing a character, her look is sometimes different from my own.

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.

I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the grass at home. There's more in life than golf. I enjoy the game but I don't know if I could do it every day. If I go practice, I practice for an hour. The guys out here practice for six hours. I couldn't do that. I've never had the length, I'm not that strong of a guy. I hit it 250, 260, I hit it very straight and I'm not a bad putter. You have to do this all the time to get the nerves. I don't know if I have the nerves for the next three days.

I do not see any dark clouds on the horizon for Microsoft. I think it's straight shooting, straight up.

I'd be a fool to say 'No, we weren't happy' to beat somebody we've lost to seven straight times since I've been here.

I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.

I can feel the emotions start to build, ... I've had conversations with my first recruit at Northeastern, with eight kids from my Dedham High School team that won 21 straight games, a lot of phone calls from my former players ... it's an exciting time for me.

I came to New York, straight out of college, wanting one thing in life: to work on Jim Henson's film The Dark Crystal.

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

I believe that the fact that I became the lightning rod for criticism for the organization, with me being out of the picture so to speak, makes things easier in that respect, ... But I look at the last three years. The last time this franchise had 86 or more-wins three straight years was '78, '79 and '80. We didn't get to the postseason, but I'm walking away with pride in the effort I put into this job.

Cathay Pacific was repeatedly singled out for the high quality and consistency of its front-line staff, in both the airport environment and onboard flights, ... Cathay certainly seems to have achieved its motto of 'service straight from the heart' and wowed passengers accordingly.

Cecil you know, started off the first of the year a little rough but he came straight from basketball and he did the same thing last year. Kind of started out shaky but he ended up being one of our best pitchers if not the best.

But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.

Based on that letter, he doesn't understand what is going on. That's not rational conduct. Let's have a hearing to see whether Lionel can think straight or not.

Chris O'Dowd is a very special talent. He's one of those very, very rare actors who can be the clown, or he can be the straight man playing off the clown, in a scene.

I looked Terry straight in the eye and he finally confessed,

I lost it on the air that day, ... The Buffs all took a knee and pointed straight up.

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

I have always felt that my career was not going to be a straight shot up, but more of a kind of rolling wave, so that I could raise my children. So I got pregnant when I was the head of production at a studio, and I became chairperson at a bigger studio when I was pregnant with my second daughter. You just do it!

I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I find it hard to take straight fantasy, as I don't believe in magic or the occult, and hard SF leaves me cold because I don't like reading pages and pages of science or scientific extrapolation at the expense of characters and emotion.

I feel one of the factors in my victory, by a rather decisive margin, was the fact that I ran a positive campaign. I had to respond a couple of times and set the record straight about what my record is,

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

If I was guaranteed a spot on the team, it would be different. But as it is I'd have to play three months straight in Europe to maybe get a captain's pick.

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

Free throws are key. I think they (Wildcats) ran out eight straight points because they hit free throws and we didn't.

For some strange reason we got on together. Maybe it was because I liked talking about football all the time. We'd sit down on the settee, have a cup of tea and chat about the game. He seemed to enjoy my company and vice-versa. You know, I've met football legends and legends of the entertainment business and they've sometimes been quite disappointing in terms of personality. But Big Jock walked in the room and you knew straight away you were in the presence of somebody special.

From 3 a.m. Monday till 10 a.m. Tuesday, I just worked straight through and built 93 frames. I am constantly working, putting in 12- and 16-hour days every day.

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.

For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?

I don't think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn't been some of the flow of work hasn't been more challenging. Leadership challenges can rub emotions raw and strain relationships.

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.

If a train could bring the goods straight to the port, the long, tiring, terrible unloading and loading would stop,

If a car came up behind us and nudged us forward then we would have gone straight into the path of the oncoming lorry. We would both be dead.

I don't think it's make or break, but we want to play well. If it's four straight or two straight, you want to protect your home court. Stanford and us are the only teams to be undefeated at home, and we want to keep it that way. The schedule turns in our favor. It doesn't matter if it's at home in the middle of the season or late, you want to win at home.

I don't think one game would make that much difference. We've had points in eight straight games. We've been on a tear, and I'm not going to change anything.

For two straight weeks, all we talked about was how good the Packers' offense was, how tough their defense was, how outstanding their coaching was. Every clich in the book, we used. Every time I uttered another compliment about the Packers to the press, I wanted to puke.

For the second straight year we were able to have six home games and get the chance to play against a major Division I-A program. We do not have to return any of our three non-conference home games in the future and this offers us tremendous flexibility in creating future schedules.

For the second straight week, jobless claims have substantially undershot the consensus, ... Analysts apparently do not want to accept that the flow of extra job losses caused by the events of Sept. 11 is slowing sharply, but that is exactly what the data indicate.

For the very first time, the Fab Five rush in to help straight guys with the most important decision and event of their lives - marriage. Tying the knot has never been this much fun!

For Mr. Potter to still claim ? with a straight face ? that as the license holder he still did nothing wrong is laughable, ... He put someone in charge he could not trust and gee, it was not his fault. That's bull.

Go around the middleman; get your music straight to the people, ... You've got the Web now. Do it. Don't even hesitate. Because people want to hear real music, and there's a lot of talented kids out there, millions of them as far as I'm concerned, and they really have something to say. And they just needed their medium, and now they have it. That's what I tell them. Go to the Web ... but do it.

If it was a basketball team and Wali was the starting four, and we told the other guy he was going to go in at the seven-minute mark and he suddenly hit four straight three-pointers and kept hitting them all year long, you'd have to be fairly foolish to say we're going to the way things were, ... That's the only situation that occurred there.

If it stays soft, somebody could go low. If you drive the ball straight enough, you can shoot some low numbers. Whether you can do four of them or not, we'll see. I know that sounds very obvious, but there are chances out there.

I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

I get that luxury. I'll try to play her straight up and make her take difficult shots. Obviously they are very athletic and quick. They have the total all-around package. We're going to have to have each other's backs on defense.

If the amount of capital flows into U.S. securities misses the market forecast for the second straight month, that could lead to further declines in the dollar given the current (market) conditions.

If it's a straight increase without other hooks in there, it's a great thing.

If it's (adopted) straight across the board, it would be significant.

He was completely straight while we were doing the movie, ... And I guess at the culmination of the film, things turned bad for him.

He travelled well into the straight but he didn't pick up - maybe he had a harder race than we thought last time.

I always say that Ian Moser came off the mat after he won his third straight state title the same way he came off after winning the first match of his career. There was no fist pumping or raising his index finger to let everybody know he was No. 1. He was all business.

I always thought this kind of award meant that it was over. I'm here, I think, under false pretences. I think I have to become straight with you. Ten years ago, 11 years ago I had a heart transplant, a total heart transplant.

He was virtually unstoppable in those two games for us. Both teams had a difficult time finding the right combination to stop him. He is so fast and strong that he just outruns defenders down the filed. He is extremely aggressive and is good at scooping up loose balls and going straight to the net.

He won four straight matches to take third.

He was throwing lazy jabs at me with his chin up. I stepped in with my jab and fired a right hook, then a straight left and it landed on the button.

He was the type of guy you could not hit with a bullet. Nobody could shoot straight at him...I believe there's more to it than we can explain.

He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.

He's coming straight from China, which has a very different lifestyle and culture, and we just need to wait and see how he settles.

He's come downstairs and I pivoted a little bit too much and he came around the back and he smashed me that hard on the spine that I have broken two vertebrae and I just felt my whole bottom go completely numb straight away.

He has a great mix of pitches. He has an excellent breaking ball, a great slider, and probably his best pitch is the straight change off the fast ball.

He had a wonderful sense of comedy, great timing, and he had sweet personality on the screen. I loved working with him. I was proud to be his straight man.

He had that (machine gun) straight up in the air. All of the ammunition was gone, but he was shouting at the top of his voice.

He has been a constant during our string of 13 straight division titles, both with his pitching and his leadership.

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

He helped so much with the young guys. He was just easy to talk to and would give you a straight answer and follow up on everything you would ever ask of him. It was a great situation with him here.

He is important to us. He is good in the air, he is a good finisher and can shoot with both feet. He also has the mentality to go straight into a game like Saturday's if necessary.

He is not a track guy. He is not a straight line guy. He has some wiggle to him. He isn't a track guy were you say just go deep. He can run reverses, make guys miss, accelerate and change direction.

He has so much going for him. Not just on the mat. I've tried to tell him that athletics is something you do for enjoyment but straight 'A's are money in the bank. He thought he could do better but how can you be mad at him. He tried his best and I'm proud of him.

He has really thrived down here but the straight doesn't always suit speed horses like him.

He has to be a good teacher. He has to work well with everyone in the organization. And he has to be a straight shooter with his players and, as hard as it is, with the media.

He had a few. When I talk about walking the straight and narrow, he kind of strayed here and there.

He doesn't run on Saturday. He might run in the AON Chase or he might go straight for the Gold Cup, I don't know yet.

He got into a nice rhythm, and when we came into the straight he galloped on strongly. This is only the beginning for this horse.

He got an automatic rifle and pointed it straight at him, and he chastised him about how the British treated people. I thought John was going to die.

He got a little emotional over at Holy Cross when he talked to the players and had to say goodbye there. He composed himself, looked the players straight in the eye and he said, 'I'm sorry that you had to see my emotional side, but that's the way I am and I expect the same out of you. I want you to play with emotion and passion.' And I think the message was very well received.

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

He looked straight ahead, refused to answer any questions or have any communication with the doctor.

He made runners, he made them when they bumped him, he made them inside. He rebounded the ball. He did a fairly good job of defending. We (isolated) him about 10 straight times, and about nine of them, we got something good; either he scored or got somebody else something.

He'll tackle the issues straight on, here's how I think how we got here, and here's you have to do. It'll be a real challenge to the politicians.

He came in to clean things up and we have found him to be a pretty straight shooter.

Today Katie went out there and didn't have her best stuff but was still able to get the job done, our defense stepped it up for the second straight game and Katie got out of tight situations.

There is a great hunger within the program for earning respect from the campus and community and conference. When you look at any team, any program, the difference between good and great is usually between the ears. We need confidence. But you also have to prepare for the success you're going to have. You have to act like a winner. You have to walk like a winner. You have to dress like a winner. You have to carry yourself like a winner. I'm a pretty straight shooter. You don't have to wonder what my thought process is.

There is no bounce even though the market has been down four straight days. Buying on the dip has fallen from fashion.

We're pretty bullish on the sector. I mean, what's happened at a macro level is that consumers have said that straight traditional HMO products are not their products of choice. They really want a product that gives them more options in terms of doctors and places to go for their health care. The traditional HMOs then have to evolve. This leads to some rising costs; in turn, the companies raise premiums to keep up with that. Most of the companies have made this transition and are experiencing extremely strong earnings this year.

We took a bet of $2500 on him straight away. By the time the count is held, West and Cousins may be very close together.

We're playing very hard on defense. That's been our strength all year and we don't press. We play a straight half-court defense.