'How can you see something that isn't there?' yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. 'Sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are,' he said. 'For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can just as easily see it with your eyes closed.' |
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(Assistant coach Johnny Kidd) put the keys to the game on the board before the game, which is important. But I said, 'You've got to remember, 90 percent of your brain has got to be filled with heart and desire.' You've got to respect the basketball and do the technical things, but you've got to play with a lot of heart. |
(NHL commissioner) Gary Bettman has done such a good job making us look bad and that really pisses me off. Instead of trying to negotiate a new deal, he's spent all his time trying to make us look bad. He knows where we stand. He doesn't want to negotiate. We want to negotiate. We made an offer and nothing has happened. |
(The restitution payments) can't undo the suffering that the victims went through, and unfortunately it also comes too late for many, ... Germany learned many things about itself and its past during the negotiation process, and openly discussed what had been suppressed all too willingly and successfully for a long time. |
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[As he and his father played a game of one-on-one later that day, Sam spoke up. He felt sad, but also glad that Harrison wasn't suffering anymore.] He had such a great life, too, Dad, ... What was he going to do next? What could a person like George Harrison do next? ... I mean, he'd already done everything in his life. |
[Crook is something of a celebrity. Salon clients ask him about what he's been doing on stage.] But it's not such a good idea to talk about playing Ralph, ... I was telling a woman about 'frozen,' and when I started to describe Ralph to her, she began to well up. It's better, in this case, to keep the details to myself. |
[During the 2004 season,] he seemed to be trying to show everybody what he could do, probably throwing every pitch as hard as he could. Now he's learned that there's nothing wrong with 93, 94 on the corner, either. I think he's thinking more like a pitcher instead of just trying to throw the ball by every single hitter. |
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[Gay happens to be as amiable as he is athletic, which is a blessing and a curse.] Rudy has a smile for everybody, ... My wife calls him a 'sweet kid,' which probably does describe him, but it doesn't help me. I want him to be a really nice person -- but we've just got to get him to be a little bit nastier on the court. |
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[It is a phenomenon that frightens the native people that live around the Arctic. Many fear their children will never know the polar bear.] The ice is moving further and further north, ... In the Bering Sea the ice leaves earlier and earlier. On the north slope, the ice is retreating as far as 300 or 400 miles offshore. |
[Just in case it all didn't work out, he took a course in nutrition and physical education, and planned to become an instructor. But he couldn't afford to paint.] I did sketches with pencils because they didn't cost much, ... I didn't have the money to buy paint. Materials aren't cheap, and I was on extremely low money. |
[Ms. Bushnell, whose work has always been informed by the goings-on in her personal life, said that in recent years she and her friends were having conversations about more than men, Manolos and martinis.] When we get together we're not really talking about sex and relationships, ... We're talking about work and career. |