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Steve Nash When I was in my last year in high school, I decided I wanted to try to make it in the NBA. So I went to college and figured out I could do it. Once I figured out I could play in the NBA, I also figured I could be an All-Star. I knew I could do it.
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Mike Pelfrey When I was in high school, I was projected as one of the top picks, and I had no intention of going to school. But, I had a bad senior year and I fell. Looking back, if I had gone (pro) out of high school, I would not have made it. I wasn't mature enough. ... Going to college was the best thing I ever did.
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John Bacon When it comes down to it the city made the law and they need look at it how it's affecting college students in a negative, they're being put out on the street.
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Kurt Andersen When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.
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Larry Brown When I was a college coach, my dream was to play against Coach Smith in the finals of the NCAA. I always felt it would be a win-win, and I could probably say the same thing for (playing against) Pop.
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Bruce Clark We're starting all over again in the place where I was most happiest, up here in State College.
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Ed Goren When we began to consider the type of play-by-play announcer that we wanted to lead our BCS coverage, we knew we needed someone that would look at this as something more than a job, and for that, we didn't have to look very far. Thom's passion and enthusiasm for college football, combined with his big-game voice, made him the perfect choice. I am positive that college football fans from coast-to-coast will enjoy listening to him next January.
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Pat Battle When we began our analysis of the videogame landscape, it became apparent that EA SPORTS was best positioned from a marketing and development perspective to maximize the sales opportunities for college football.
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Tim Curley We are pleased with the consistently high level of academic achievement by our student-athletes. Penn State strongly encourages and endorses Academic Progress Reporting and other forms of protecting the interest of the student-athlete earning a meaningful education. We recognize that currently some institutions are slightly penalized for reporting at a higher standard, but we will not compromise that standard.
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Donna Orender We strive to do all that we can to help emphasize the importance of sports and athletics for women and young people. National Girls and Women in Sports Day recognizes female athletes that came before us, and encourages future generations of girls to make physical fitness a regular part of their lives.
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Leslie Morgan Steiner Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.
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Madeline Albright Words here are no substitute for action in the region, ... encourages extremism and diverts attention from the task at hand.
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Karen Hughes I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Debbie Miller We developed a solution that extends the identity, security and manageability of the corporate desk phone to the wireless phone. It allows enterprises to be more responsive to their customers, encourages collaboration and increases sales opportunities by providing a mobile user with many essential PBX functions as if the user was at their desk.
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Jayanti Owens Through its two-fold focus, the conference first encourages participants to critically reflect on theoretical ideas about institutionalized discrimination in higher education is and how it is perpetuated today. The conference then seeks to provide tools to help students enact policies and programs and found student organizations that combat systems of inequality in higher education.
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Vicente Fox If we haven't reached a complete resolution up until now, that only encourages us to continue struggling, trying to convince people of the benefits of a migration deal, which is greatly in the interests of the United States and Mexico.
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Stephanie Allmen The plan doesn't prevent or deter negotiations between potential suitors and the board, rather it encourages those that are willing to negotiate with the board in good faith.
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Howard Schnellenberger We've always had little receivers, but a big fast guy is always better than a little fast guy.
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Pat Ambrose When we were patient on offense and got a good shot, we did well. When we played too fast and didn't get a good shot, we let Zion back into the game. Benny did a real nice job for us. He wanted to win.
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Roger Hansen When I was over there, I was quite surprised with how fast they adjusted because of their flexibility and their feet. I never saw a kid in pro ball with bad feet or bad hands. If you've got that, you can adjust from there.
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Rhea Perlman When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.
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John Jones You don't like to do that, because you like to set your finals on the basis of qualifying so your eight fastest kids will be running head-to-head (instead of strictly against the clock), but coaches understand that some things just have to be done.
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Ned Yost Tomo was very crisp today. He was sharp, he was throwing his fastball as hard as he has all year.
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Dave Minton We're meeting an important need by offering our high-end, comprehensive real estate services to clients north of the river, which is the fastest growing area in Southwest Florida. This convenient location will benefit home buyers, sellers, commercial clients, builders and developers.
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Mark Hiemenz We're making teams play fast. Faster than they're capable of and today we capitalized on it.
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Bob Black We're going to take this one year at a time. Our kids have a lot of confidence that they can swim fast when they have to.
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Kris Janowski We've always said that fear is the main problem. And that needs to be allayed.
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Sean Cotter We've always felt Heidi was a real good hitter, and she's definitely a feared hitter in the conference, but it just seemed like she just wasn't able to put it together for long stretches. And this year she's just been in a really good place, I think, both physically and mentally.
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John Stossel When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.
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Jack Purtell We respect everyone and fear no one. We like to keep that kind of attitude.
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Mario Little We respected him, but we (weren't) in fear of him.
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Cody Acree We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to give those that were most fearful about the outlook for chip stocks less reason to be concerned.
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Katie Featherston I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
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Kathryn Joosten Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
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Kenneth Fisher Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.
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Paul Allen We've basically sold our position in USAI. We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.
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Paul Allen We've basically sold our position in USAI, ... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.
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Katie Montgomery We've barely had enough to go five-on-five, but we're ready to be aggressive and do whatever it takes to win. We've beaten tough teams this season. We know how to double-team and help each other out. We just have to be focused and work hard.
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Francis Wacziarg We've always tried to focus on productions that bind two cultures.
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Bob Davis We've always had a focus as a company on bottom line and fiscal responsibility, ... And I think especially now in the days of Internet consolidation and I think more of a discriminating investor, it pays off very well for us.
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Chris Duhon When we were up 2-0, we were pretty excited. We thought we just had to win two games. Those two games never came. You kind of lose focus when you're up 2-0.
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Ron Kuhl When we were preparing for this we focused on what we wanted to do. We wanted to get better at what we do. I'm disappointed, this is still a one-point night, but we'll play again and see each other again in the playoffs.
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R. Ingram When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to prove it. We've come a long way and it's great to be back to .500 and to know we'll get a home game in the tournament.
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Andy Reid You don't let it be a distraction. That is not what you do. There are going to be things that happen and you don't focus on those things. You focus on getting the football team ready to play and you handle the other things up front the way we do it.
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Steve Tobin unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.
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Jeff Kinney We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.
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Bob Carter We started out to be the best. We never imagined we would be the biggest. Lexus is about providing our customers the best possible experience. One that we know will keep getting better and better.
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Christopher McQuarrie When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
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Jane Goodall I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.
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Gabriela Sabatini When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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Kris Carr I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?
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Jim McCann Yes, I really did imagine this. What I imagined 30 years ago - we're not there yet.
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Lamar Butler We knew we were playing a tournament team. Coach was saying, 'That's a Sweet 16 team you just beat.' He kept saying that. I never imagined we would see them in the NCAA tournament, and we would be in the same bracket.
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Philippe Petit When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.
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Mike Rumph When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.
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Andrea Navedo When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.
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Megalyn Echikunwoke You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.
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Sean Hill We're starting to be within striking distance, we're starting to knock on the door. Guys are learning the way we have to play. They're learning it's not anything special. It's just hard work and playing our system well.
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Tony Mento We're so young, so we're learning as we go. We have so much talent here, but we have two transfers (Tucker and Foster) and some kids without much experience. Perth Amboy bothered us with some pressure in the fourth quarter, which I expected, but we were able to regain our composure.
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Don Norton We're so young, and we were playing a very good team. They are always good, and they are always well prepared and well coached. It was a learning experience for us, but I know we'll get better.
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Kenny Keyes When we got the lead, we stayed aggressive, then started turning the ball over. Lovelace did well getting us back in the game but still is learning he can't do it all by himself.
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Rod Wright We're going to talk shutout this week. We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.
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Rod Wright We're going to talk shutout this week, ... We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.
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Z. Sheppard When we came out at halftime, that's all we were thinking about shutting these guys out. It was like we were seven points down, that's the mentality we tried to take into the second half.
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Cory Stillman When we come to the rink we're having fun, but we also expect to win, ... That's a great mentality to have.
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Brian Graden When we first uncovered the creative genius of the underground skateboard mentality of 'Jackass,' we knew it would resonate with our young adult audience,
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Steven Rodriguez We bring a hotel mentality to renting condos.
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Dale Jr Working with Tony Jr.'s going to be a lot of run. We've already tested with each other, and we've got a good mentality ... This is a new start. We've always been close, but the working relationship is definitely improved.
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Drew Brees with the mentality of going out and scoring 40 points.
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Ned Lathrop We're finding roadblocks because they have a cookie-cutter mentality to producing buildings. How successful we'll be (in convincing them) is still up in the air, and we can't force them to do this, but we hope to convince them through the power of persuasion.
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Tom Ryan We've battled and we've competed. It's just a question of playing seven solid innings. I still think we're pretty solid all the way around.
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Ken Warwick We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.
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Will Holman We've asked management that question (when a new contract would be imposed) and they haven't given us an answer. It could be immediately or they could use it for additional leverage at the bargaining table.
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Michael Owen When it came down to Real Madrid or Newcastle there was no question in my mind. I want to play football. I love the Premiership - I've missed it while I've been away.
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Michael Owen When it came down to Real Madrid or Newcastle there was no question in my mind, ... I want to play football. I love the Premiership - I've missed it while I've been away.
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Scott Handy We're more balanced than a Microsoft solution provider, who pretty much promotes Windows as the answer no matter what the question is.
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Charles Thomson We remain of the view that the PO inquiry is policyholders' best hope for government compensation, and whatever the outcome, the inquiry should bring independence and some finality to the question of regulatory maladministration.
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Alfonso Scanio We respect and defend the right of the Church to address questions of values, but it is very serious to receive only one of the candidates for prime minister just ahead of the ballot.
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Jim Hopson We're sorry to see it go. It took 30 years to put that name back on a Pontiac car. GTO did what it needed to do: Give us a credible performance vehicle to attract people into showrooms. Even those who quibbled about the styling never questioned the car's performance.
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Theresa Adams When we were letting the starters sit on the bench, to see what was going on on the floor ... that's just how the other part of the team feels when they're on the bench, wanting to get in. And after they saw all of that, they came alive to realize that they (would) rather be on the floor than on the bench.
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Kevin Marino We remain hopeful that when the attorney general's office has completed its review of the charges against him, it will elect to dismiss this case rather than seek an indictment.
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Sheriff Norman We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.
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Mark Foley We're going to spend the next 30 days at least focused on relief restoration rather than business as usual.
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Kathleen Quinlan My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.
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Tom Woodruff What we're looking for is not money, but rather their expertise. Their advice, their input into assisting teachers in the classroom to make their instruction more relevant for the students.
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Roger Oberg When we'd have arguments over who has the best basic process for development, nobody wins. Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.
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Dave Peterson When we have had a chance to get outside we do it. We are starting to get a few breaks. It hasn't set us back, but it's harder on the legs. We'd rather be outside.
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Matt Harpring We were supposed to stay with our man, but luckily he (Howard) shot the ball after the shot clock. We'd rather be lucky than not, (but) that was a letdown. We made some mistakes down the stretch, but the biggest thing is we got a win.
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Alan Bersin What this budget does is express (Schwarzenegger's) best judgment of how all the competing needs of California can be met and in this case provide a very large increase in education funding. What he also understands is that his process requires a long and detail discussion with the Legislature, which he is eager to engage.
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Jennifer Pizer What makes it discriminatory is that it requires women to present themselves in a particularly feminine way.
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John Feehery We're going to make sure that we do this in a reasonable, rational and responsible way, and that requires us to go through the ... Judiciary Committee.
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Lindsey Buckingham Working with the band, you're in a room with three other people and you're more verbal. It requires the other side of the brain.
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Al Zollar With the integration of voice, video and data traffic networks are no longer just pipelines of data. The greater reliance on networks requires a much more real-time approach to network management.
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Salam Fayyad We want the new cabinet to succeed. But this requires an understanding on many issues, especially the nature of the Palestinian political system and the role of the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO.
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Oliver Friedrichs The potential for graphical image-based exploits is especially concerning as it affects multiple applications and requires no user interaction.
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Dave McKay We usually watch the traffic as it grows on the roadway. When you are tripping 14,000 cars a day you are probably at a level of service that requires a larger road.
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Franco Frattini We are going to send the message to the Moroccans that Europe stands ready to commit itself very quickly on the ground as well, but Europe also requires a strong and clear commitment on the part of Morocco,
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Randy Honebrink We've always tried to reduce the number of people getting bit by sharks through education and awareness. We try to get our safety tips out through our Web site and in publications.
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Lisa Balabanow When we feed them, someone writes in a log what they eat so we'll know if they're not eating well and can tell our vet. People go into the shark tank once a week to clean it. They don't bother you. They pretty much go to the other side of the tank.
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Alan Clark There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
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Alan Alda I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Cher Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.
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Charles Saatchi There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
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Kurt Vonnegut The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!
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Mark Cuban The reason I do Shark Tank isn't to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.
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John Grant The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.
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Charlie Munger There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.
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Cat Deeley I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.
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Apolo Ohno I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.
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Mark Spitz He gave me an opportunity to swim against the best swimmer of his day in the lane next to me, ... Don Schollander. He said, 'Keep up with him,' which I did. Then he taught me how to beat him, which I did. He was a great teacher. He knew what he was doing, and he instilled a tremendous amount of confidence in those around him.
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Jeremy Landa He's a special swimmer and will be successful at the college level because of his work ethic and determination to succeed.
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Jeff Guinn Matt is a winner, a vocal leader and a great leader by example. He also typifies what Union's student-athletes are all about. He is a Union Scholar, a captain and starter for our team, and also a standout swimmer for Coach Scott Felix.
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Brian Wilson It becomes a bit of a chess match, because I have to put my A swimmer hopefully in a spot where she will swim better than their A swimmer.
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Brooke Burns Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.
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Dave Flaskas Libby is the hottest swimmer in the world right now and is on the way to becoming a superstar, if she is not already there.
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Erin Delaney We've basically been playing a similar offense, we run the same offense. The purpose of the junior varsity is to work together. It's not about wins, it's about getting better.
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Katie Montgomery We've barely had enough to go five-on-five, but we're ready to be aggressive and do whatever it takes to win. We've beaten tough teams this season. We know how to double-team and help each other out. We just have to be focused and work hard.
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William Daley We've asked the lawyers to work overnight to draft some documents, and we'll be back in the morning.
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David Snowden We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.
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David Mandelbrot We've always worked directly with the owners of content to make that content available. In our experience, that has not slowed us down too much, and it has helped us to build strong relationships that have helped us in other parts of our business.
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Anthony Dragona We've always worked cooperatively with the department, and we're only asking for cost of living increases.
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Frank Williams We've always had the vision for developing Cross Bayou. It's a beautiful vision, but it's just a vision. It's going to take a whole lot of money, a whole lot of planning and a whole lot of work to get there.
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Juli Inkster We've always got a good field here, and the course and the facilities are great. We've all enjoyed the experience here. I think it's great that they're trying to work it out to stay.
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Aleksey Igudesman We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.