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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and the confident approach to individualistic style that people strive to explore throughout this amazing city.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

We've always been huge fans of Maria and believe she has the skills, attitude and style that fits 'Access Hollywood' perfectly. She's current, a unique talent, someone that cuts through, and definitely stands out in a crowd. We could not be more pleased with Maria joining the most credible entertainment news magazine in the world.

We've already mailed them out. Today being a holiday, they will probably get them on (today). They came out really nice. They are orange, the same style as in the movie 'Glory Road.' No one had the trim that they used, so we had to contact the company that made the uniforms for the movie and get it from them.

We're in a very different era now. The style then was right for then, and a new style is needed for now.

We started going to the bucket and Banks got hot. We pushed the ball up court and attacked. Martin's 3 was big at the half. They run a style that we like, and our experience was a factor in making that work for us.

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

We're not going to put asterisks on any of our records. There have been so many rule changes, and so many changes in the style of play, and so many other things to consider over the years that we're not going to go there.

We're not going to pass the ball around five times before we shoot. We're a fast-breaking team, and we've got to play our style of game.

There is no more perfect choice to host this year's Emmy show than Ellen. She brings her own distinct style and talent to everything she does.

When we were coming into the (scouting) combine, they asked who was the best back you played against, and I said (Williams) the whole time. He's going to be great. You look at him, and you might not think he's all that strong. But he's a power runner. It's the style he plays.

We grew up playing the same kind of style of hockey, so it helps. We worked pretty hard tonight, and it seemed like the chemistry was there.

We felt like we had to bring in a scorer, and we really needed somebody who could play both with their back to the basket on the block and could also face at 15 feet and in that could score for us. Latoya is going to give us a very versatile style of scoring.

We bring a unique fusion of medspa and business development expertise to market for our clients, ... In close conjunction with the client, the character, style and ambiance of each medspa are in perfect alignment with the elements of its unique community and target market. Passion for an early success manifests itself in the way we usher the client through the construction phase making sure that the architect, contractor and client work together cohesively.

We're going to have to play a team defense against them. It can't just be two guys back there. It's going to have to be five guys working together. That's our style anyway, and when we've had that this year we've been successful.

With their style of play a big lead can be gone pretty quick, and to be honest I think we were running out of gas towards the end. Fortunately, we had enough to finish things off.

We fall into that habit sometimes of taking the shot after one pass. We have so many good 3-pointer shooters sometimes they think they have to take the shot right away. We like to play an up-tempo style and sometimes that?s going to happen. You have to take the bad with the good.

We're fairly talented and hopefully the second half of the season will be the best basketball we play. The girls are really getting my style of basketball. Our kids are playing really well ? I'm seeing some good signs.

We're just not about that style. We're not trying to be like those bands. We have our own agenda.

We're getting better. One thing I like is that in every game we're not having the same top two scorers, and that's been a big thing for our confidence. I think they're starting to understand the intensity and style of defense we want to play.

We're balanced and deep. We don't have great size, but I think we will be all right on the boards if we really hustle and work on position. We're going to change our style somewhat, but we will still be a running team. We'll look to create opportunities and run when we can, but our season will depend on how well we can defend. If we can do that, our offense will be more effective.

Throughout her four-year college career, Kim has had a great shooting percentage from the floor and the line. We think she can learn our defensive style and be an excellent team player.

With the new 2007 Quest, we're staying ahead of the segment, while becoming more accessible to a wider audience. It's a synergy of style and flexibility that is unmatched by any other minivan on the market.

We knew, with our style of play, we had to make free throws. We worked hard on it in practice and just carried it over into the games.

We knew they would want to punch us right away. We knew if we would play our style of game, we would be OK.

We know we're capable of beating them. It's a matter of us playing our style of basketball. And they're kind of similar. They focus on the defensive end and share the ball a lot. It's up to us to enforce our will on them, instead of them doing it to us.

We know Gary will go to the boards and will press. We've got to turn it into our style of game and get out and run.

We know each other very much, and his style is not secret to me, which is another reason I beat him,

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.

What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!

Style is about confidence. That's the real beauty.

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.

Personal style is accepting who you are.

I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, “Well this is the style…

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

It is difficult to read the reviews when you start because you see something in your collection and the press sees something else. That is when you have to be very strong about your own style. They can say whatever they want, but I do what I do because I love it.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

With this car, its going to be the first time we have all three levels - exterior style, interior style and driving dynamics.

We're seeing a real resurgence in the use of wallpaper. For a while it was so out of style that many smaller manufacturers went out of business. The paint and faux finishes just dominated home design; that is no longer the case.

We're looking for a tenant for an urban style deli or sandwich shop that can cater to the business crowd downtown and we want to use the upstairs as an art gallery.

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

I need to shop because generally, I really do style myself. It's easier to wear clothes that are true to who you are. But if it's a headache, I'll ask for help.

I totally have this thing for Harry Styles from One Direction. But, like, I could totally date the rest of the band as one. I mean, if I could date all of them at one time, thatd be, like, ideal. They seem pretty close, but who knows? Maybe not that close.

Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.

I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

Whenever there is a rivalry, people play above their potential. It's more important to them. Expect a fast pace and more aggressive style in this game.

We were amazed when we opened the store to find how many people liked that style ... and there was no place to buy it. It seems everyone who comes in either has a log home, wants a log home or knew someone with a log home.

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

We were totally playing their style most of the game. Then their player got hurt and we started playing our style which is 1-2 touch pass. We didn't wake up but once we did, we created chances.

Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

I think we all have our own different styles. [James] LeBron likes to be comfortable - he's going to be more comfortable over everything else. Dwyane [Wade Jr.] likes really stylish stuff. If you bring something questionable he'll try it.

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

...Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off ...

As you get older , you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Style for me is a casual way of putting something on. It's not thought out but needs to suit your way of life. Now I like wearing the same sweater over and over again, then taking it off when it's smelly.

I'm not Deion Sanders. We're different people with different styles. People see similarities between me and him; that's fine. It's an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with him. But that's as far as I go with it.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.