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"I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over."
"I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable."
"Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built."
"As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run."
"I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day sitting in class and it just came to me how the neck worked. I was enlightened to the scales, and the runs. I just saw it and thought; now I understand it!"
"Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you."
"When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse."
"Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick"
"The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff."
"When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility."
"It just never comes across as a quality you want in a president that you`re sitting in a room. It`s almost as if they woke up and realized, You know, we`re running against a former secretary of state. Our guy used to do the Miss Universe pageant around the world. Maybe we should try to heavy this up."
"I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)"
"These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide."
"Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things."
"Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life."
""Technology" is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia Curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well that include coding, which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum."
"Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business."
"Do not run away, it is cowardice."
"God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed."
"Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom."
