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agendas aim
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. Benazir Bhutto
agendas records
It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me. Alanis Morissette
agenda battle constant deal events implement life minister prime pursue trying
When you're a president, or prime minister of Canada.... your life is a constant battle between trying to pursue the agenda you (promised) to implement and trying to deal with all the incoming fire, the events of the day that you can't control, Bill Clinton
agenda dealing issue item table top understanding
We're going back to the table with the understanding that the top agenda item that we're going to be dealing with is going to be the whole issue of contracting out. Tim Laatsch
agenda control corporate grip increase maintain mistake quo sacramento special status
Make no mistake the status quo in Sacramento is corporate control and the governor's agenda is not only to maintain corporate control but increase the grip of corporate special interests. Sarah Leonard
agenda appears aspect assumption based dubious excess income looking seems source virtually
Lenders now feel the agenda has changed, with inquiries looking at virtually every source of income. Some aspect of these inquiries appears to be based upon an assumption of excess profitability. This seems dubious when you look at the numbers. Richard Thompson
agenda assigned committee current discussed energy environment examine group heard issues last law pollution prevention relating report resources security situation standing state top water
Last year, the NPC Standing Committee set the issues relating to resources and environment on top agenda on its supervision work. The legislature assigned a group to examine the law enforcement on water pollution prevention and control, and heard and discussed the report on current energy security situation made by the State Council. Wu Bangguo
agenda concerned line operators pockets seriously true
Many of these operators will say they're just concerned about the seriously or terminally ill, but their true agenda is to line their pockets with drug money. Gordon Taylor
agenda argue case fellow package party
We are going to make our case to our fellow MPs, argue on the agenda that I have set out before and see how many of them think that is a package they would like to put to the party and the country. Ken Clarke
almost certainly definitely
That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong. Kevin Keegan
almost beginning energy good historians looking nobody people plenty reason
The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers. Kevin Brownlow
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I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken. Keith Emerson
almost cultures longest time watch
If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel. John Cena
almost behaves course man obama sane saying time
I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time. John Cleese
almost definition gentleman pain
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain O. Henry
almost forms great music takes trip various
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement. John Green
almost closet college coming far russian seems understand
I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents. Jason Ritter
almost classic drive piece stream swim trying whenever
Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path. Joel Edgerton
billion billions million people
The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit. John P. Kotter
billions except familiar happening
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people. Seth Shostak
billion dorm earned given kick room slightly standard
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars. Dustin Moskovitz
billions inside joined minute particles womb
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy. Rex Stout
billion dollars existence generating roe vast wake
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. Robert Casey
billions capital dollars former investors mitt pension private trust
Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets. Ronald Kessler
billion roughly took
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. Manmohan Singh
billion chance happening life lucky
Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did. Frank Ostini
billions books books-and-reading cooked direct dollars employees enron executives investors lay lost millions thousands top victimized
Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars. William Lerach
budget budgets katrina problem serious
We had a very serious budget problem before Katrina hit. Jim Horney
budget collapse crying defense fell gulf increase public spending sustained war
When the Gulf War happened, spending fell immediately thereafter. You had collapse of communism, and the need for budget cuts, ... Now the budget is heavily in surplus, and the public is crying out for protection. I think you'll have sustained increase in defense spending. Joseph Nadol
budget improve necessity needed official
We needed an official study. It is a necessity to budget to improve the alleys. Suzanne Kuehn
budgets confident rate works
We're confident we can get a rate that works in the 2006 budget, Tom Leighton
budget compromise extreme looks might point sure willing
At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view. Kurt Schrader
budgeting million period possible push
We're not budgeting for it to do that. We think that it is possible that into our coffers you could probably push 8 or 10 million (euros) EBITDA ...but I think it's probably not the right thing to do in this period of consolidation. Peter Lynch
budgets clear decisions faces helps kids leaves less time today visible walked
Making decisions all the time leaves less time to reflect. At the time I'm knee-deep in budgets, so today I just walked . . . through classrooms. I see the faces of the kids to clear my head. It helps them to be visible to me. Greg Robinson
budget capital deficits direct goods hands help higher increase interest lower national saving spending surest technology
Lower budget deficits are the surest and most direct way to increase national saving. Higher national saving would help to lower real interest rates, spurring spending on capital goods so as to put cutting-edge technology in the hands of more American workers, Alan Greenspan
budgets decrease mean
This will mean a significant decrease of monies in the budget. Charles Leonard
bulk hang hats reality
The reality is the bulk of this construction is going to be occurring in mid-2007 and beyond, ... At the end of the day, this isn't something (investors) should hang their hats on. Don Roberts
bulk decided helped involved mom sure
She and her mom were so involved with kids, she decided the bulk of it would go to the children's hospital. She wanted to make sure it helped children. Gerald Batto
bulk lots product sell three
may sell product from the three bulk lots that we just released. Julie Zawisza
bulk hard judge
We started getting the bulk of it after dark, so it is hard to judge (the damage). Allen Smith
bulk conscious directing maybe odd taken
I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.' Kenneth Branagh
bulk clients coming corporate data earnings economic markets move prefer rally remain suspicious
Now the bulk of the first-quarter corporate earnings are out of the way, the markets will move on the back of the economic data coming out, so we could be set for a choppy weak. Our clients are still suspicious of the rally in equities and prefer to remain short. Jim Morrison
bulk business compensate given issue legal remains supply weakness
Bulk annuities did compensate this quarter, but this weakness remains an issue given that annuities supply 50% of Legal & General's new business profits. Bruno Paulson
bulk education funding general needs ontario provincial
If Ontario needs a first-rate post-secondary education system, then in our view, the bulk of the funding for that should come from general revenues of the provincial government. Michael Doucet
bulk business certain compliance obvious opportunity options outsource processes smaller
One of the more obvious options for smaller firms is the opportunity to outsource certain business processes so that in a sense you off-load a bulk of the compliance work. Michael McCabe
bush governor recount tuesday vote won
We had a vote on Tuesday that showed Governor Bush won Florida, ... We had a recount that showed Governor Bush has won Florida. S. Hughes
bush officials repeatedly senior stated
when the most senior officials in the Bush administration had already forcefully and repeatedly stated their conclusions publicly. Jay Rockefeller
bush couple forecast months moving past percent seem showing towards vote
We're showing Bush with 53.7 percent of the vote but over the past couple of months our forecast has come down. We seem to be moving towards a tighter election. Robert Dye
bush excited folks governor hard honored president worked
We're excited and honored that the same folks who worked hard to re-elect President Bush are doing the same to re-elect Governor Perry. Luis Saenz
bush fit leaves miracle natural rabbi shaking terms whose
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena. Richard P. Feynman
bush george history presidents safe seen sweep
In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11. Ronald Kessler
bush ending expect implement occupation president state
We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967. Mahmoud Abbas
bush dalai lama wants
Let's find out more about what Bush wants to do with Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and the missile-defense system, Jiang Zemin
bush class draft face fair front george head
Let's face it. You got to the head of the FCC, you got to the front of the class the way George W. Bush got out of the draft -- and it's completely fair for me to question, Howard Stern
certain continue level
We accomplished what we set out to do. We had to continue a certain level of play from (Saturday) night, and for the most part we did. Mike Sirant
certain depended information
We always depended on her for information about people, certain organizations and their achievements. Ron Agor
certain uncertain translations
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.) Blaise Pascal
certain learned lots olympics stick stories
You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference. Kerri Strug
certain felt floor randy shoot spots tagged
Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable. Kevin Love
certain defined gracious humble obviously team
When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way. Kevin Love
certainly
I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic! Katie McGrath
certainly dutch-athlete italians
Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them. Johan Cruyff
certain responsibility stories taking
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. Jason Ritter
deficit difficult further light lowering near pay
Lowering the deficit further in the near term, however, will be difficult in light of the need to pay for post-hurricane reconstruction and relief, Alan Greenspan
deficits far limit
There is a limit to how long and how far deficits can be sustained, Alan Greenspan
deficit fire quite remains threat
We have a significant deficit in rainfall, The fire threat remains quite high. Tony Cristaldi
deficit severe space
UH-Downtown has a very severe space deficit at this time. David Bradley
deficit
Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem. Kent Conrad
deficit economic energy gasoline goes growth hard medium national regional retail short wherever
With the year-on-year deficit in gasoline and with economic growth it is hard to be bearish about energy in the short or medium term. The manufacturing and retail numbers, the regional and national numbers, wherever you look they are positive. The same goes for overseas. Jason Schenker
deficit disturbing hope linked moral roots seen ultimate
But its ultimate roots can be seen as moral and spiritual; they are linked to a disturbing deficit of faith, hope and, indeed, love. Benedict XVI
deficit leave money spends takes
Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction. Joe Barton
deficit democrats four gathering issue national security seen six
I don't think you would have seen a gathering like this six years ago, before 9/11, or even two or four years ago. This is a 35-year deficit Democrats have had on national security where it's been an issue to be survived, not highlighted. Matt Bennett
doubling stock
More than doubling the stock buyback will be encouraging to investors, Richard Greenfield
doubling great guard hard straight tried using
She's such a great scorer. We tried using a box-and-one or doubling her on the wing. I don't think you can guard her straight up. She has so many moves, she's really hard to guard. Muffet McGraw
doubling potential project thanks
Now, thanks to Utah, we have 22 moose. With this project we have the potential of doubling that number. Randy Hampton
doubling hand shot tried work
We tried doubling him but it didn't work. Sometimes he just made a shot with a kid's hand in his face. That was big for them. Paul Colton
doubling everybody overall people rather sure talking troop trying
I don't think people are talking about doubling or tripling the overall troop contingent, but rather trying to make sure that everybody is doing what they can. James Rubin
doubling history likely lose message money record time
The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all. Kurt Eichenwald
doubling needs problem states traffic united
I think it's a problem that needs to be addressed now because we're going to be doubling traffic in the United States in the future. Jim Hall
doubling presence
Just his presence out there (helped)...they weren't doubling me. Vince Carter
doubling health keeps number obese past persons problem profound seen virtually
The problem keeps getting worse, ... We've seen virtually a doubling in the number of obese persons over the past two decades, and this has profound health implications. Tommy Thompson
factors looking lots
We're looking at it and there are lots of factors you have to consider. Ceeon Quiett
factors good
There are a lot of good factors out there. Anthony Chan
factors
There are a lot of factors when it's been raining. You have to be a little cautious. Travis Buck
factors
There are a lot of factors to that. John Tait
factors
There are a lot of factors that already established suppliers would have to take into consideration. Kimberly Johnson
factors game knows motivating talent
One of our motivating factors is that talent knows no location. All you have to do is play the game and execute. John Lawrence
factors folks largest system town
One of the big factors was one of the largest conventions in town is not in town. Those folks used the system heavily. Ingrid Reisman
factors negatively past sales year
Many of the factors that have negatively impacted sales over the past year are lessening. Eric Wold
factors likely outright per prevent remain several spending unit
Several factors should prevent an outright decline, as spending per unit will likely remain strong. John Casesa
katrina second sending stuff supporting
We're sending stuff to Katrina through America's Second Harvest. We're supporting the network. Ron Hays
katrina learn wish
Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this. Leigh Crawford
katrina label nobody willing window
There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it. Maya MacGuineas
katrina prior run scenarios taken type
Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously. I. Stone
katrina second
We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita, Jack Reed
katrina needed
If it needed emphasis, underline and exclamation point, Katrina did that, Gerald Grinstein
katrina people wake
Katrina should be enough to wake people up. Mary Fetchet
katrina produced seen storm worst
Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country, John Metz
katrina knocked
Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster. Kim Stewart
occurs
The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns. Tom Rath
occur
Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression. James E. Faust
occurred truth
But the real truth is that it never occurred to me, Maggie Gallagher
occur quite
I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had. Michelle Paver
occur workers
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first. Wojciech Jaruzelski
occurred serious
Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now. Patrick Michaels
occur sites sure
We need to make sure that this doesn't occur at other sites around the state. Sandy Howard
occurred past
Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread, Jennifer Robinson
occurred time
Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about. Julia Glass
office people public-office
I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office. Antonio Villaraigosa
office wish prison
I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison. Al Franken
office church certain
The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen. Charles Babbage
officer resources shift time
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer. Lawrence Eagleburger
officer
I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. Katia Winter
office adequate three
Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. Jan Egeland
office drink desks
I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater. Jamie Zawinski
office brain sticks
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain. Alan Furst
office challenges looks
Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time. Ricky Gervais
rita
We're getting a little more Rita than we wanted to get, E. O. Wilson
rita women
I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. Jennifer Lopez
rita survey
Rita was better than expected, but no survey has been made on the platforms, Claude Mandil
rita storm taken
Rita is a storm to be taken seriously, Carlos Alvarez
sees
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. Jack Nance
sees
I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American. Genesis Rodriguez
sees support thinks
With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact. Dan Hopkins
sees top
(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20. Greg Rusedski
sees
We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed. Jeff Gundy
sees
Well, I think everyone kind of sees us as the sheriff, you know. Bob Harris
sees
When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing. Anthony Hemingway
sees
Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing. Richard Engel
sees tourist travel-and-tourism traveler
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
spending federal-spending
Federal spending is atrocious. Jason Chaffetz
spending combination increase
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination. Bobby Scott
spending-time spending feels
Spending time outdoors makes you feel great. Elizabeth Hurley
spending
I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign. Craig Benson
spending surprise weeks
If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me. Jack Morgan
spending
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. William J. H. Boetcker
spending
I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars. Leon Wieseltier
spending
know that there has to be a spending limit. Arnold Schwarzenegger
spending enjoy ifs
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Alan Watts
worse
I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there. Chuck Hill
worse
If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner. Sean McCarthy
worse
I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match. Andy Roddick
worse
Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it. Quentin Richardson
worse
He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday. Dusty Baker
worse
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital. Gerhard Richter
worse
It could be a whole lot worse then where we are. Derrick Brooks
worse
I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable. Richard Madden
worse
That was even worse than being in the right bunker. Craig Barlow