… the looks on the kids' faces when they played on monkey bars for the first time, or of the village elder as he tried the swing n he had a smile that will linger with me forever. It was a small thing … for the people who had never had one, it meant something. |
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'Star Search' was an old-fashioned 'Ted Mack Amateur Hour' kind of a talent show. This is three dramas in one: the drama of the judges, the drama of the old becoming a rock star [and] grabbing the brass ring, the drama of the whole vote in, and all the rest of it. |
"We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a...bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!" -Dave Matthews (7/29 Soliders Field) |
(Carter) missed a bunch of shots he makes every day. The guy takes a hell of a fall and he keeps on attacking the rim. If we would have won maybe that would have been a story line, that the guy gets up from hurting (himself) where he could hardly sleep last night. |
(General Manager) Kenny Holland made it very clear to me that we're a four-line hockey club. That's how they won all their Cups in the past, and that's how we're gonna do it. Our fourth line can really skate, can really check and they can match up against anybody. |
(In Legion), we had coaches, but they weren't coaches, ... They just filled the lineup card out and hit us ground balls. We never got any coaching like we give our kids. (In softball), I learned a lot about the defensive side and dealing with the men and the boys. |
(The) biggest thing is hydrating and making sure you get enough fluid in your body. But we'll stick to our normal schedule a lot like New England did last week. And we'll go out there late on Saturday and play on Sunday. I don't think it'll have much of an effect. |
(They're) a team that honestly I've got a great amount of respect for, as much as anybody we've played, because of what they've gone through, and they continue to play extremely hard. We knew tonight was going to be a battle. Every game in this league is a battle. |
[Against the Sooners, though, TCU held Oklahoma to 225 total yards and Heisman Trophy runner-up Adrian Peterson to 63 yards on 22 carries.] We're going to try to prove this was not a fluke, ... Probably in their case, they are going to try to prove it was a fluke. |
[Air travel has opened the world to the masses in a way hardly imagined only decades ago.] In addition to Americans traveling a lot more, we also see the world getting a lot smaller, ... International tourism is growing at an even faster rate than domestic travel. |
[Amid huge expectations, Crosby has delivered on his promise. He leads the Penguins and all NHL rookies with 19 points.] Each night I'm focusing myself to play at this level, ... For me it's a matter of making sure that I push myself to raise my game to play here. |
[And in the next issue of Ozone magazine, the rapper David Banner expanded the indictment of Bush to include a disregard not just for blacks, but for the poor as well.] I'm glad Kanye said what he said on NBC, ... The president never gave a damn about black folks. |
[Another 400 Marines will return to Britain from the training exercises,] but will be held at a high readiness, ... This arrangement will permit us to rotate companies aboard ship and so guarantee the whole Commando remains fresh and fully prepared for operations. |
[At the same time, the bill for Katrina is expected to grow by billions in coming weeks, according to several Capitol Hill sources.] There is sticker shock, ... It comes after Iraq. We have a time of war, rising deficits, Medicare and Social Security [shortfalls]. |