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What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense. Napoleon Bonaparte
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We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough. Brad McClellan
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We're flush with revenue and there's no economic crisis. I can't imagine their excuse for not fully funding these programs this year.
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We're not a great free-throw shooting team. But there was no excuse today.
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We want the program to get better and better and better. We don't want to have any excuses anymore as to why Council Rock isn't what it used to be.
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Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance. Charlie Munger
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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. Charles Schumer
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Make choices-not excuses. Charles J. Givens
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The perfect guest again. I wondered why they're going to pick us to retire Al MacInnis' jersey. There's no excuse for not having everybody ready to play and we end up being the perfect guest for what ends up being a crucial game for us. Craig MacTavish
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When we get the main part of Fantasy Island under control, then we can turn our direction to do something that would accommodate the novice rider. But right now, nothing's settled.
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What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.
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Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. China Mieville
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The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
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I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
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One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
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The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.
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In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet. Cher
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When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football.
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When we were asked to go down there and help, the city only had four hours to make a decision, ... They said at the time that they couldn't send the men or the truck because of budget constraints and I respect that decision. Tom Jordan
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When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout. Justina Machado
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When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone. Steve-O
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When I was a kid, Henryetta was 'town' to me. I helped build the Indian Nation Turnpike and spent many hours laboring in this area. I think Henryetta is a great place to be and I plan to stay here until I retire.
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Tom: Well done Bridge, 4 hours of careful cooking and a feast of blue soup, omelette and marmalade.
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We're going to open the gates three hours early to allow more time for tailgating and such. I think it will be a fun experience for everyone going to the game.
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When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win. Kenny Troutt
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I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day. Katie Lowes
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When we got into overtime, I said we're in pretty good shape right now. We had new life and we needed an adrenaline shot and we got it, that was great, new life, and it's only 48 hours removed from (the Washington game). Jim Calhoun
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My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. Chris Colfer
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We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people. Niger Innis
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And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. Connie Willis
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The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. Claire Forlani
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The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. Ashleigh Brilliant
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Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
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This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? Alan Moore
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Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
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I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real. Alexandra Robbins
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Tom's history with Paramount has made for one of Hollywood's most successful relationships; the opportunity to continue our collaboration with him on 'Mission: Impossible 3' is everything anyone in show business could hope for. Brad Grey
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What he has to do is keep his job until a year before plan confirmation, and it'll be almost impossible for him to fail at that.
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Unfortunately, it will be impossible to complete the cash tender offer by the 28th. IBP continues to work with the SEC to resolve their accounting issues. After that work is complete, we will determine what effect these matters will have on our deal.
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We reinvented ourselves back in 1994, when we got money for a new herbarium that was open to the public. Most herbariums are impossible to get into. We have access for gardeners and everyone else. Other ones, you need credentials.
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...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region. Alan Ball
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It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.
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God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
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We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.
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We're meeting with each other, trying to coordinate the managers, we have several as you know, and each has an assigned task, and we're busily preparing our remarks and trying to time them and make sure they are coherent and comprehensive, ... So, just the usual preparation for a trial. Henry Hyde
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We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.
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We remain determined to become a high-performance competitor for the long term -- and over the past several quarters we have made steady progress toward that goal. Fred Hassan
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We resolved several big issues involving the company that many people thought would have been the end of the company.
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We're going to try it. So far it's gone well, but we should know (if he will survive) in several weeks.
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We're going to stick a tree trunk in the ground, with about 6 feet sticking out. The Gatlin gun operator will spray across it several times and try to cut it in half.
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We're going to ship them to a Nazarene church in Mobile, Alabama. There are several evacuees heading to Mobile, and we're providing some support when they get there.
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We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.
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When we were sitting on the bench, we were just so excited. We started talking about which one of these is more special. Obviously this one right now is special, but it just feels so good to have two.
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When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.' Jimmy Kimmel
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When it came time to make the decision of who would be sitting right next to me, it was obvious, ... This is going to be a three-year commitment and I will talk one-on-one with every player before any invitations are extended. Jerry Colangelo
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We're sitting up here as national champions, but I don't necessarily believe we're the best team. In a one-shot deal like this, I've been on both sides. I've been heartbroken, and now we're national champions. Billy Donovan
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We're sitting there on go, ready to respond if we have to.
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We're sitting there in the middle of the game and all of a sudden a rat walked into our dugout. It must have been about six or seven inches long. It took a while for someone from the grounds crew to come get it, put it in a box and take it away. Mike Hargrove
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We're sitting pretty good. This is as healthy as we've been. Bruce Bochy
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We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.
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We're sitting on the bench and we're screaming and screaming to be patient and we make one pass and we fire one up ? gosh, we had a four-point lead.
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When we were thinking this through, the emphasis was on what solutions we could enable that would allow us to provide our customers with greater convenience and greater comfort when they?re shopping our stores. We spent a lot of time working with the various businesses before we even touched the technology because I felt it was important not to get confused by any preconceived limitations of what technology can do.
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When we were in Waveland, we were thinking about how we could help folks. We wanted it to be more than that we went to Waveland for two weeks to help. We wanted to say that people outside of Mississippi care about them and believe as they do that they will rebuild.
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When we were first together, he said, Nobody's ever called me Darling. I said, I can't believe that - I could just cry thinking about it. Annette O'Toole
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When we went to interview her, she almost canceled. But she had been with her daughter that morning and was thinking if, God forbid, something happened to her daughter that someone would come forward and do the right thing.
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When I was on that floor and couldn't see anything, that was one of the first things I was thinking about, I'd probably be blind. I thought I was. I couldn't see anything. Everything was burning. Pretty much, my life just flashed in front of me. Allan Ray
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When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function. Phil Klay
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We respect the advantage it will be for them. We're not going in thinking it's just another game at a neutral site. We know we're up against it here. And we have a respect for the challenge. But we understand it can be done. We've done it.
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Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! Henry Hazlitt
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I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. Frida Lyngstad