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He said he was tired, and that was disappointing from a young lad. He should be raring to go, but I suppose it's a very long trip back.

There is ample evidence that selection has been a major driving point in our evolution during the last 10,000 years, and there is no reason to suppose that it has stopped.

We maybe could have got a goal, but I suppose with 10 men and the other team entrenched in their own half still with one up front they went for the point and got it.

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.

It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

It is not a very idealistic remedy. I suppose it might be an open door for fraud.

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.

Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

Last week the Commission said it was premature for Microsoft to allege they are riding roughshod over our rights of defense. Today we are less than a week away from the deadline for filing our response and have been denied access to the complete file, so I suppose it is now official and they are indeed riding roughshod over our defense rights.

I suppose I've got some game left. I've seen some great things happen. I've had a lot of fun this week. I'm just going to see where it takes me.

I suppose I've been through times where I thought it was never going to happen, but you try and keep those thoughts at the back of your mind.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

I suppose it's OK that this show teaches people there was once a popular singer named Barry Manilow. They could do a lot more with it.

I suppose it's nice to show I'm not on the scrap heap just yet. I've said it all along I know I haven't played my last Test match.

I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

I suppose it's exciting, but it's not a showdown or anything like that. To us, it's just a football game against a good team.

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

I suppose it's because beer is connected to football broadcasts and the rest of it. Beer . . . accompanies male activities.

I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.

I suppose it might feel different if she had real power. And yet she does have the power. It's all there in the constitution.

I suppose it is the lot of soldiers and Marines to be objectified according to the politics of the day and the mood of the American people about their war.

I suppose it is only fitting that the record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season ends with a record-breaking storm.

I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money.

I suppose it got more of an edgy feel, a little bit more guitar-orientated and also an Irish sound, which is in 'Forgiven, Not Forgotten,'

I suppose it does release the shackles. I think there might be one or two happier batters out there when I tell them the news.

I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity

I suppose I sort of like effects that have some organic elements rather than ones that are entirely generated by a computer. Just because, no matter how complex the algorithm is, it's still an algorithm.

I suppose I should have my say about the terrorist attacks. I don't suppose it'll be a popular view, but they need to be put into some sort of perspective. They were horrible tragedy, but also what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II - and Germany did the same thing to England. But most Americans don't think about that. They think everything starts and finishes with America. It is the first time this has ever happened to America, so you would expect them to overreact a bit.

I suppose I should have my say about the terrorist attacks (9/11). I don't suppose it'll be a popular point of view, but they need to be put into some sort of perspective. They were a horrible tragedy, but also what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during WW2 - and Germany did the same thing to England. But most Americans don't think about that. They think everything starts and finishes with America.

I suppose I'm worried that someday there will be some exciting experiments to do, and there won't be anyone around who knows what experiments are.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them,

I suppose I'm happy when I know I've given a horse a good ride, no matter where it is. I like playing golf in the summer; I'm happy when I hit a good shot, and I enjoy watching Arsenal playing beautiful football, but overall I can't believe you can be happy when you're not winning. I honestly can't accept that.

I suppose I'm going on stage and making jokes about the fact that the audience are expecting the show to be about something and that they might learn something.

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

I suppose I'm a decent driver, ... I used to drive fast when I was a kid. We always used to race each other down the streets, but you get a bit more sensible now as you get a bit older.

I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

I suppose if it's one (injury) that is going to make him miss some time, yeah, I mean he's done a few of those, so that is something we have got to address, for sure.

I suppose if I chose to sit down and dwell on it, I'd be paralyzed, ... But at the end of the day, you have block as much of the noise out as possible and try to deliver a quality production. My responsibility is primarily to the actors.

I suppose if all of the stars, moons and planets align it could be possible, but what are the chances of that? There's reason to be hopeful, but I would caution everyone from getting their hopes set too high.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

I suppose I could get disenchanted with Brian with poor results. In this game, people have to stand on their record. He knows that. That's the way it is in baseball. But I expect Brian always to do well. He's smart, he's creative, he works hard and he's got a good team of people around him.

I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration for others, and peace of mind. Instead, I'm a fury of annoyance.

I suppose I appreciated Augusta more than anyone,

I suppose I am in control of all-ages music.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

I suppose I agree that we have had an influence on modern popular music.

I suppose he has the chance to kind of shove it down our throats and prove us wrong to drop him,

I suppose from my point of view, (they are) two people that were thrown in together in a friendship in spite of themselves, in one sense flip sides of the same coin, ... Their weaknesses are sort of complemented by the strengths of the other one, and vice versa. They don't accept this, they don't recognize it, but it's just the subtext of their relationship itself.

I suppose Church's course had six or eight people in it, but I can't remember the name of even another one of them now. None of them went into logic.

I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

I suppose because an actor's always scared to death that he's not going to do the part well that I didn't think of anything else.

I suppose anyone that comes up against George is in for a tough day at the office.

I suppose also I came to classicism through reading philosophy, but I suppose the interest was already in me or I wouldn't have read philosophy.

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

I suppose 99 point something percent will have been scrapped. One or two will have been kept deliberately for reference purposes - the best way to keep one's successor from making mistakes to keep one or two in the archive. Whether one or two get out into the public realm, I don't know.

Robert shot for the back post like he's suppose to and he got a nice one past their keeper. It was a big goal.

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Really? I suppose reading the confidential psychiatric file of his ex-girlfriend.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.

Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.

I was thinking about leading when we were in the middle of the fairway, ... It was quite a dramatic finish, bizarre really. I suppose he finished with two pars.

I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.

I suppose retailers could use the airline model and try to pass along costs to consumers. The difference here is that people have plenty of other places to go shopping where they can save money.

I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, 'I love my husband, I love my wife,' but I believe they really mean they're in love with their husband or wife, which is quite different from loving your dog. I loved her, I thought she was charming. I respected her intellect She could get a rock to follow her down the road. She was captivating. But there was a terrifying side to her that you would never want to rouse. Hopefully, it could be dampened and eased as she had a better life for the first time in her life.

I suppose people wouldn't think I played the keyboard, but I enjoy exploring the keyboard. I mean I only play by ear like I do guitar.

I suppose people could hide all sorts of equipment in all sorts of clothing,

I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ceremony as wanting to support the office and the institution in the face of some controversy that's been around Madame Jean, and a desire to be visible in support of her,

I suppose one can try to search for logic and a rational behind why people choose to buy certain products over others. If people are buying more products that support Bush, it may either suggest more confidence in the incumbent over Kerry. On the other hand, if products supporting the opponent are selling better, it could be a sign of waning confidence in the incumbent.

I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.

I suppose I was strange. People used to laugh and shout olŽ! Now I am nothing unusual, like someone walking a dog.

I suppose I was always a bit of a ham anyway.

I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

I suppose you could say he succeeded where Johnny Murtagh and Jamie Spencer failed,

I suppose you can try to punt the ball out of bounds, but that's risky business, too. It's going to take a real team effort to try and contain (Ginn). We're really going to have to be exacting with what we do.

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

I suppose when I was here 20 years ago, I don't remember much discussion about anything other than winning the Big Ten and winning the Rose Bowl.

I suppose we'll have to change the water or Gatorade we're having for pregame.

I suppose we'll be looking at inflation now. This data suggests we're getting a little creep in inflation, but not enough to shake the Fed's thinking at all.

I suppose we just buzz off each other. We're like two bumblebees, man.

I suppose we could bring him back and let him pitch in Boston (next week) but he only threw 32 pitches the other day (against Triple-A Syracuse) and I don't think he'll throw a whole lot more (Thursday). I like keeping him on track to pitch on the 16th (at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago) without messing it up.

I suppose we could analyze the game. But more than likely we'll interview the 'Desperate Housewives' cast during the first half, then stage a round of 'Dancing With The Stars' in the north end zone during second-half timeouts.

I suppose we all have experiences with problems with our family, ... I think every boy has an issue with their dad, and lots of dads have issues with their sons.

I suppose watching her going about her life is the greatest lesson I could learn,

I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense; you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.

I suppose they're like the I.R.S. You move once and they never send you your refund check.

I suppose they're like the I.R.S., ... You move once and they never send you your refund check.

I suppose they reckoned eleven from the same team would have been too much.

I suppose they had a general store and a post office there, ... since we have a letter addressed to Ham, North Carolina.

I suppose they give it to those who they consider to have made an outstanding contribution to the development of music.

I suppose they are a different kind of player. I'm not quite sure what to expect in terms of shouldering up to Brendan on the weekend, so it'll be nice.