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While for many years after the death of the Commodore the Vanderbilt family remained in direct financial and operating control of the New York Central... yet the brains and resources of the Vanderbilt's were not alone responsible for the brilliant career of the system down to recent times.

To be able to be a student here is obviously a privilege, but especially during the flagship, it's an honor to be here with so many brilliant minds.

The phone call inspired them to give a brilliant performance at the Battle of the Bands. It was just overwhelming.

We've got to get him some help. He's a little kid in a man's body. He's a brilliant young man who'll graduate in three years, but he's still just 19 years old and he's lost his father ...

While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.

But much of it is merited. He had a vastly open mind, extremely catholic tastes and he was a brilliant synthesizer of styles.

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

We've been brilliant and inconsistent, all within the same season.

With his passing ... the Supreme Court loses one of the most prolific scholars and brilliant minds ever to sit on the federal bench,

You have a brilliant mind, and like many brilliant people you don't necessarily think the rules apply,

What they didn't realize is that the combination of a warm heart and a brilliant mind has made this man a winner.

We just talked to Thomas, he said he had fully recovered and would play at the weekend with his Saracens club. Thomas made a brilliant comeback in November. He can play at fly-half, centre or full-back - for the time being we think of him as a full-back.

Very key to a good episode is to have something not work, and have our brilliant science team somehow fix it magically in the fifth act.

To me, it is just freedom for my race and just overall cultural freedom for everyone and liberty. Martin Luther King Jr. was just a brilliant man in my eyes. If he was here, I would want to thank him for everything he did for us.

Braddock's road, this brilliant thrust into the wilderness, became the road for people moving into the frontier.

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

Bobby has made brilliant progress in the past 12 months and I'm very pleased with his contribution this season.

Bill was a great friend, a brilliant performer and an exceptional man. I say this with great admiration and love that Bill becomes one of the people that I give the cloak of immortality. Time never stops for the great ones.

Aside from being this franchise's all-time best player on the ice, Ron has been an example of class and dedication throughout his brilliant career to his teammates and in the communities where he has played.

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

As I have often said publicly, the shuttle is the most amazing machine humans have ever built, and it has been the recipient of the most brilliant engineering that America can provide. The station is a more difficult engineering project, by far, than was Apollo,

Anne, our commander in chief, ... has it blocked out in three three-year segments, almost like 'Star Wars.' In a very brilliant way, Anne is telling the entire saga of 'CSI: Miami' backwards.

Drexler has done a brilliant job there, and very quickly. Too bad Tommy didn't get Mickey Drexler.

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

Eric Stein was brilliant this whole week and kept us in these games. I am sure he will just get better and better.

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I spoke to Freddie about it, and he agreed immediately to put his name on it. He thought it was a brilliant idea, and he will play a part in being the young sportsperson's mentor.

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

Is Hillary Clinton as brilliant a politician as she's cracked up to be? Here's a bit of evidence for the negative: 'Clinton Says Lawyers Must Make Their Voices Heard in Washington' reads the headline of an Associated Press dispatch about a speech New York's junior senator gave at the American Bar Association convention in Chicago. Lawyers need to speak up more: Now there's a message sure to strike a chord with the public.

I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way,' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

The school kitchens in Amherst County are doing a brilliant job.

I've seen first-hand the brilliant things the Make-A-Wish Foundation does so to be involved with them for this ride is quite special for me.

It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's this Argentinian actor who's one of my favorite actors in the whole wide world. His name is Ricardo Darin, and he's a brilliant actor. He does a lot of Argentinian films, and I know he does a lot of European films, as a Spanish actor.

It was an easy transition for me. Much of the park's entertainment is theatrical, which is my training, plus I used to go to theme parks a lot in the US when I was growing up. This is also a chance to work with brilliant people and create new material.

It was almost brilliant that he waited until they flipped the ball back,

It was almost brilliant he waited 'til he flipped the ball back.

It was a brilliant night, there was a really good vibe.

The three hires were brilliant hires from everyone else's view. The sheer arrogance and recklessness of this has divided the union in a way that might be irreparable.

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

I usually pick them the first week in September, when they're a brilliant orange.

Rooney and Beckham and the others are brilliant players, but we are playing against the entire team.

Ronald Moore was presented with the challenge of reinventing a beloved story, which is a challenge often presented to producers of games. His example of creating one of the most brilliant and successful science fiction masterpieces in recent Hollywood history is a perfect inspirational case study to capture the imaginations of the game creation leaders who attend GDC.

Putting Katie in the box was really upsetting and difficult to film, but she was brilliant when we shot those scenes,

Reaction to the tour so far has been brilliant and we're looking forward to putting a great show together for the fans and getting back out on the road to play the new materiel live.

Offensively, I thought we had one of our better games. Scoring four goals against Padua is impressive. ... We were brilliant offensively, but I thought our play in the defensive zone was sub-par for our standards.

The move has been brilliant for me and given my career a lift. I'm really pleased with the move and the partnership with Andy is going well. Long may that continue.

After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.

Some people think they've got to have a brilliant business idea, but they don't. There are new tax preparers and dry cleaners going into business all the time,

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

Deco was brilliant against Mallorca. He played like he did last season. He made some great challenges, worked really hard and made some very intelligent passes.

Dear Vitali, I watched your brilliant bout with interest and expectation,

CNN Productions has done a brilliant job in unveiling many long-standing mysteries surrounding Jesus.

Despite the fact that he certainly would not have had to make a career in teaching given his extraordinary success ... he spent 15 years as a professor at the University of Houston. That kind of spoke to his interest in bringing along young talent. Not only is he a brilliant playwright, but he's also genuinely interested in young writers.

Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

Any of the remaining three could win and it will be very interesting to see who the cash comes in for during the week. Personally my money would be on the brilliant Bonnie.

And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.

an exceptional judge, brilliant legal mind, and a man of outstanding character who understands his profound duty to follow the law.

As bright and brilliant and as good a lawyer as Judge Roberts was, I asked him - he'd never taken a deposition, he'd never picked a jury, never tried a case, ... He never tried a case. She has. We need people like that who have real-life experiences.

As a manager you're always disappointed to see good players leave but Jon is going to a good club and it really is a brilliant move for him.

The Bush administration did a brilliant job, which has continued until today, not in getting us into the war and handling it correctly, but they did a brilliant job of intimidating us into somehow thinking that if we didn't vote for this, we weren't supporting the troops and we were soft on terror,

August gave a little talk before the show about how he dropped out of school, regretted it and spent hours in the library educating himself, ... He talked about developing your intellect, being open to the world and life through books. It was one of the most brilliant speeches I've ever heard on that subject, and it really moved those kids.

At his time at Llanelli, Phil was a brilliant captain and just an immensely likeable guy. Since he's left Stradey, he's done particularly well, including winning the trophy last year.

That was a brilliant shot. He pulled up and blasted it. I want more of that from our guys. We've got to test the keeper from outside.

That showed me how much any performer should be putting into it. That was really amazing. Angry, rich New York kids with bad drug habits make for brilliant music.

You should put your utmost efforts . I know that, you are the benefactor of brilliant scholars, who are endowed with virtuous qualities.

This is a story about friendship, about this amazing relationship between two guys who were so brilliant together but couldn't be together because of their incompatibility as people,

This is the first award we've ever won so it will probably be the most memorable one. I can't believe that you guys chose us over other brilliant producers.

The Vagina Monologues is beautifully written and I'm delighted to be following in the footsteps of magnificent actresses like Annie Potts, Gina Gershon, Audra McDonald and Claire Danes. In addition, working for the brilliant director Joe Mantello is an opportunity not to be missed.

The way the young Sri Lankan carried his innings was absolutely brilliant and I think he snatched the match from us. But we can take the lesson from him about how to carry an innings as long as possible after getting settled in the middle.

This is a brilliant strategic move by Quantum and great news for customers. The combined company will have an enormous set of offerings, the scale, footprint and financial foundation to really have an impact in the data protection market. This acquisition propels Quantum into a clear top three position among the largest data protection suppliers, and makes them big enough to control their own fate. I love this deal.

This is a big, audacious plan put together by obviously brilliant people. But you missed the boat. We don't need a rail system. We need housing.

This guy is a brilliant baseball mind. And as you get to know him, you're going to see why I made the decision.

This guy has become famous for being really, really brilliant and really, really smart about something, but most people have no idea what it is he does.

a man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.

They are brilliant -- including our first-ever MENSA member -- hungry and more international than ever.

There is now clear evidence that the CTF is acting as a catalyst for many parents to think about long-term savings for their children, which is brilliant news for future generations.

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

There's a real fine line here between looking brilliant and looking like an idiot.

As productive and brilliant as he was, he was also self-destructive, ... He said God gave him MS to slow him down. This disease saved his life.

About 100 years ago, UPS itself began as an 'out-of-the-box' business and in the first year of the contest, we found hundreds of brilliant businesses that were taking off just like UPS did. We work with small businesses every day to help them face the challenges of today's global economy and this contest is a way to recognize innovation.

It's even more realistic that she's co-running things with Commander Adama - Thank God it's the brilliant Eddie Olmos playing him! I mean, he has the power on this ship.

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

It's a simple and brilliant idea. As I know only too well, the hospital does vital work and we all feel that the staff should have the best buildings and facilities money can buy.

It was classic Cameron: brilliant style, not much substance.

It was really weird but also so much fun. I had such a brilliant time on the set.

It's a brilliant rhythm section. The vibe is there and it's really well rehearsed.

It's a brilliant idea. With a few exceptions, most kids (in high school) don't have direction in life and haven't developed a passion yet, except for video games and computers. Fire training is so hands-on and so physical that, for a lot of kids, it's an eye- opener. If they can start developing a passion at 14, 15 or 16 and if it's done right, you can really cause a lifelong love of the fire service.

It's a brilliant day for the environment. It's a huge leap to have achieved a result on this very complex international negotiation.

(It's about) human beings, our decision-making process and how emotions affect them. We have some brilliant kids here.

It's about how to make the best meat loaf or fried chicken or macaroni and cheese. It's about brilliant simple cooking, really.

It's a real shame because Ticha was probably playing the best basketball of her career, the best that I've ever seen, for sure, ... She was even brilliant in our scrimmage (Tuesday). It was right at the end of practice, and Ticha was just running up the court. She stepped on someone's foot and turned her ankle. I should have ended practice one play sooner.

It's a great tour, and it's great to see so many old friends and make new ones. The players have been brilliant over here. And I know how hard many of the players on this tour have worked, so it's a great opportunity for me to come over here.

For a very long time, I didn't see an Arsenal team like that. We were brilliant defensively, but more importantly we were not scared to play.

It's like 'Big' in many ways, but it makes me nervous to say that because Tom Hanks was so brilliant and it's such an incredible, beautiful movie that to compare myself to him is nerve-racking, ... Alias.

It's more of a managerial position and Peters has produced brilliant results.

It may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant

It's hard to say whether he's making brilliant choices because it's hard to go wrong in Internet stocks, ... It's hard to say whether he's a good stock picker or just lucky.

It's been a brilliant season. Two of the squad members are also representing Yorkshire at basketball and we wish them well too.