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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.

Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years.

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

The perception is that somehow they're paper tigers, and they aren't. Everybody needs to hope the higher seeds hold on and win their tournaments. If Gonzaga had gotten beat the other night, that would have taken up one of the other spots.

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

We appreciate all the help we have gotten so far. Without the support of the community, we wouldn't have the school. We want to thank everyone in advance for everything done.

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

We've also gotten on the field early. Usually we're stuck in a parking lot.

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

We've accepted the fact that the earnings growth for the quarter is around 20, 21 percent year-over-year for the S&P. But there's been this behind the scenes look or under the surface look at revenue. And we haven't got the best of forecasts for the second half of the year in many companies going forward. And if you don't have that pristine look -- where you come in this earnings season totally clean -- you've gotten battered. And I can't even name more than a handful of stocks that have come through.

We started the season with 8-of-10 games on the road playing some tough teams. Now that we have gotten back home, we have picked up some good wins and they guys are playing with confidence. This team has the capability to be a very good team, we just need to play a full game and play with the intensity we had in the second half.

We believe that these results shine a clear spotlight on the high costs Americans are paying for their continued inactivity. I don't believe that people in general have gotten lazier -- it's more that they are working too hard or are at their desks working on computers with fewer opportunities for exercise. The situation is out of balance.

There are customers reaching out to us, to pilot our product, and to get comfortable with our product; I would classify it as contingency planning. The ones that we've gotten the most inbound questions from are financial services and government.

West Nile has gotten a lot of attention lately because it's a new disease to America, ... It appeared around 1998 and has rapidly spread throughout the lower 48 states.

We still struggle with it. I still feel like I'm new (at asthma management), ... You never know what's around the corner. I still haven't gotten the hang of it.

We're in for a grind, since they've beat us they've really gotten on a roll here. I don't know if we gave them confidence or whatever. We know what we're up against. Hard work is their team identity.

We're in a culture where women really aren't equal. How many CEOs are women? Over the years we have seen the ability of women to get higher in the pecking order, but we've gotten complacent. Women make 73 percent of what men make.

We started in January 1999 to prepare for the season. We're taking the experience we gained from last year with the knowledge we've gotten from this year's gift-giving holidays and have used it to increase and enhance the capacity of the overall site.

We spot serve and she is one of our top servers. She has been on varsity for three years now and has gotten better each season. She is also one of our top defensive players.

Where is FEMA -- national -- and where is the state of Texas? We keep being told the help is coming, and so far we haven't gotten the help,

When you've been knocked down quite a few times in your quest for success and you've still gotten up and kept pursuing it, I think you have a certain humility about you.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

Until the last out was made, I was confident we were going to win and so were the kids. I didn't see one kid drop their chin during the game. These kids just kept coming. If this thing had gone 10 or 11 innings, we'd have gotten them.

We don't have anybody that can guard a person like that in there. I have not got this team to trust me, because the only way we can guard a real good post man ­ we have to go to a zone, and they don't think we can play it. Consequently, we've never gotten very good at it.

Yeah, it has gotten a little old, but, hey, we've brought it on ourselves, and we have to deal with it. Bush is very, very talented. If we have an opportunity to get him and he ends up coming here, of course, we'd welcome him with open arms.

Yeah, it did. I thought it was going to hit the fence, so I was going so fast. Then I saw it went over and I was like, 'All right, all right.' The wind may have gotten it a bit, but I'll take it.

Watch the governor of Massachusetts, very attractive, ... He's getting very high marks for governing and he's an overnight top-tier candidate in the neighboring state of New Hampshire. Romney is someone to watch, he's gotten way out on the gay marriage issue -- being against it --which helps him with social conservatives, which is the base of the Republican Party.

We've been able to control the tempo. We've done well on the defensive boards and our defense has been solid. We're a balanced scoring team with consistent offensive output and we haven't gotten rattled or lost our composure or patience even when we're down.

We've approached the other trusts and have gotten a verbal commitment, but they would like to be able to be the monies that put us over the top in the project. This has a great chance of being a reality and we really need $10 and $25 donations from people in the community.

We've always gotten off to good starts. We've always beaten the teams that we were supposed to beat. Now, we need to get that big-time victory. That's what we're still waiting for.

We're so careful in our risk assessments that we may have a better chance of keeping our players on the field. And risk-assessment tools have absolutely gotten better.

We're getting there. We've had some tough games, we've gotten frustrated at times, but we still think our best play is ahead of us.

We're going to get serious. We've been playing around with this for too long, ... It's gotten totally out of hand.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

When we do these individual drives at churches, sometimes we've gotten 3,000 pounds of food.

We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up with new stuff. We've definitely learned how to do it better as we've gotten along. So basically, that's how it went. We just go in with ideas and try to figure out funny stuff while we're there.

What have gotten us here are our defense and our ability to hang in there rebounding the ball, despite our small lineup.

What has gotten old is one-and-done. (Winning is) the next step. That's what we talked about in that locker room in Arizona last year.

We found out we won't have Marianne and that her eye has gotten worse since she got here.

We got what we wanted. They missed both free throws and we had a chance to get the rebound. If we had gotten it and scored with 30-35 seconds left, it's a two-possession game.

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

We're going to have some college coaches coming out. Sylvia has gotten some offers.

Very few times do you get to get as many people quality at-bats in a game situation as we have gotten in the last two days. The negatives are you don't want your team to play a sloppy side of baseball and take things for granted, and we've done that as well.

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

With them closing the road like this, basically without giving anybody any notice, it's almost like they wanted to avoid pressure from the neighborhood public there. If they would have announced this a couple of months ago, people would have started complaining - and they might not have gotten their project done.

With my goal to make a family drama and also my artistic aspirations of doing things which are a bit edgy, I've gotten a really happy marriage in 'The Weather Man', ... Gore went outside the box and did something personal and artistic, but at the same time it hits all the right notes in terms of children that may be going through a divorce, or a husband and wife dealing with it in a way that's not Pollyanna or saccharine or B.S. I haven't made that many movies like it. I know I've never made a movie as individual as 'The Weather Man' in dealing with family issues.

We feel that we've got good stability and athleticism at the post now, and we've gotten bigger on our perimeter.

We feel that we're at the tip of the iceberg. We've gotten up to speed pretty quickly to let travelers tap into a rich source of information, but we're also very aware there a huge number of things that we haven't started thinking about that you can do with this technology.

We're just really close, ... Ever since freshman year, we've gotten closer and closer, especially through the battle back and forth. We motivate each other on the sidelines. Everything's good when we're working together.

We're getting more frequent and better feedback than we have ever gotten before in any previous release of Windows, and it is making the product much better.

We're getting a little better as far as not coughing the puck up as much. When we do, that's when we tend to give up more shots. That's something that has gotten better generally as the season has gone on.

We're fortunate that we've been able to build a fan base brick by brick. We never got the gold or platinum record. But through touring and just putting out music our fan base has gotten stronger and stronger to where it's sustaining (itself) without that big pop hit.

We're not as crisp in areas that we need to be in. One thing is pitching. We have a couple of things where pitchers have gotten into their starts and they've been a little bit erratic and getting into deep counts. That is where it starts, with pitching.

We're a young team and we've played a very tough schedule. I think they've gotten a little down and maybe lost some focus along the way. But I thought we came out in the second half and played with more intensity and focus.

With the new scheduling ... Tampa Bay is a big winner, absolutely. Was there a happy medium? Yes and no. We would have gotten a fall date (had there not been a move to the spring). There would have been PGA Tour golf here. But not at the level it's going to be now.

We knew we would get our exercise in this game. Phoenix consistently pushes it and we just got outran. We could have won this game if we could have gotten down to eight or nine in the fourth, but they did a great job with (using) the three as a dagger.

We know we can (win), ... although they (US) will make an effort to beat us and show us how they have gotten better. If that is the case, they will need to demonstrate that on the field.

We know how to get into the Chase. It's a whole different deal after you've gotten in to win the championship in the last 10 races than it is in the first 26. We've got some work to do, and we realize that.

Wake really speaks for himself. What a great job he did today. In the first inning, it could have gotten away from him. It could have gotten away from him a couple of times during the game, and he really bowed his neck and made good pitches.

Wakefield was probably as good as I've seen him. His ball was moving all over the place. We could have been out there for another three hours and I don't think we'd have gotten any more hits off him.

With this release we've gotten back to the fundamentals.

Word's gotten around, and we've gotten really good support from other denominations.

We're running out of time. I'm at my bottom line. I have nowhere else to go. I've said for years that the only thing that would prevent us from getting a deal was if one side gets greedy. Well, they've gotten greedy.

We're right where we want to be. It would have been nice to score some goals (at home), but it was the first time a lot of us had gotten together in a long time. We're going to have to win on other fields at some point (in this tournament) -- we might as well start in the first round.

We've got most of our stuff in now. We've had a little more time to jell. We'll script our first 20 plays. Of course, you have to get a feel for the game, which is why we've rarely gotten through our 20 plays without making changes.

We've got more major championship winners here. Definitely, the field has gotten stronger,

We've got five seniors who are doing a great job of leading this team, five guys who won't accept anything but the best. There's been a positive, contagious atmosphere, and we've gotten in some good training with good intensity through some brutal heat.

We've got everything stabilized. I think we've gotten just about all of the evacuees that we expected to get over the next couple of days. Right now, we're focusing on making things as comfortable as possible for these folks and providing essential services.

We've got everything stabilized, ... I think we've gotten just about all of the evacuees that we expected to get over the next couple of days. Right now, we're focusing on making things as comfortable as possible for these folks and providing essential services.

We've got a lot of young guys that have gotten on the job training.

We've tried to shave maybe 10 or 15 seconds off each shot, and we're pretty close, ... It's gotten to the point where I'm not in violation when I'm hitting shots like I probably would have been a few months ago.

We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.

We have not arrived at an agreement yet today but we are working on it. The strike deadline tonight is still meaningful, but we have not gotten down enough into the face-to-face negotiations.

We have no indication that business connections have gotten worse between German enterprises and their partners in the Middle East.

We have never gotten past this round in the playoffs, so the girls are taking this game very seriously. The girls want to get a win, and they will do whatever it takes to get it done.

We have needed big goals in our last couple of games, and he has gotten them for us. He plays with a lot of energy. He is a feisty type of guy. You need all kinds of players to be successful as a team. He is part of a good mix.

Whenever we go in there and are playing Ravens-style defense, then teams are in trouble. We really haven't gotten into that because the quarterbacks have been able to get the ball out. It takes away our aggressiveness.

When he first hit it, I thought it was probably gone. It had just gotten cold. Maybe earlier when it was warm it would have gone out.

We were at such a fever pitch over getting to setting the referendum date and amount ... that I think having gotten to that point everybody heaved a sigh of relief and the air went out of the tires.

We were definitely looking for the (first) win. Hopefully we thought we would have gotten it, but it was just unfortunate. We made a blatant mistake from that ball (free kick) and they converted. But overall I'm pretty satisfied with what has happened.

We were in every game, except for Grand Rapids, and I really think we played well enough that we should have gotten a lot more points. We need to be better finishing the game. It's disappointing that we keep letting points slip by us.

We are not a pressing team, we stay back and play basketball. Presses are so easy to break and that press is what ended up helping us. We must have gotten 15 to 20 points from that press.

We'd gotten the momentum back, but the thing is, in order to be even with them, we had to do some extraordinary things. How many of those do you have in you in a particular game?

We'd gotten away from making so many errors. We were just flat coming out. We had been playing decent and today was just a bad day.

We'd gotten a little oversold in the last few days and so we're coming back a little now, with people making some cautious bets on a few individual issues.

What we're finding is that teenagers really like the music. We've gotten good feedback from kids in Woodland, too. Everybody likes it. I think it's because we play the best songs from each decade, with an occasional new hit tossed in. Good music is timeless.

What we really need to do is get in tune with our inner selves. We've gotten way out of whack with our hunger cues. Is it hunger, is it thirst, am I eating because I'm upset or depressed, am I eating because it's there?

There is a sense that things have gotten too vulgar, and designers will do their part and pull back.