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(The tournament) was one of my more favorite stops and I know a lot of players love playing in the desert and it's good to see it's staying in the desert. Obviously playing the event for 14 or 15 years, I love the two weeks I would spend there. I have a home close to there and I can have a presence at the event now that I'm a very small piece to a big puzzle. |
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A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films. Or, if you start out as a comedian, it's easy for you to be approached about nothing but comedies, and comedies with all black casts. |
Aaron Akers is playing unbelievable. He's taken over 20 charges this season, which is a school record. He gives me everything he has. He never gets tired. He goes the same way in practice. Other coaches have commented to me to about how hard he goes. I wish I had him around for another four years. Unfortunately, this will be the only year I have to coach him. |
All of us at NHT are very excited about our new partners, ... The combined influences of dramatic market change and the increasing pallet of new technologies to improve audio products make it necessary for companies like ours to evolve beyond passive loudspeaker design. With the substantial resources Vinci brings to NHT, we are in a great position for growth. |
All of us have been together like four years. We've been through thick and thin together. We've played a lot of big games in a lot of big places. We've got seven seniors and this possibly could be our last game on the biggest stage in college basketball. We're going to go out and we're going to play as hard as possible. I really do believe we can get it done. |
Amazon wants to protect themselves from later [customer] lawsuits that claim, 'We weren't told,' ... They also want to leave the door open if they need to sell off a division or claim bankruptcy. They know that their consumer database is one of their most valuable assets, so they want to give themselves max flexibility--which means less privacy for customers. |
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing. |
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. |
And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. |
Any closer, if you pitch long enough, you're going to face some failure. He was able to bounce back from it as good as anybody. I hope the same is true for myself. I feel it will be. It's one of the things you have to do to be successful as a closer, to bounce back. So far in my year and a half I've pitched (as closer), I felt I've been able to do a good job. |
Arnold is not moving substantively very far at all, but he is dramatically changing his emphasis. Almost every policy proposal that's come out of the Governor's Office over the last week or two is not significantly different from things he's talked about in the past. But he's making a much greater effort to emphasize a more moderate and conciliatory approach. |
As a way to build relationships, trust and credibility with customers, if you talk about problems and how to solve them as opposed to products and what they can do, people are a lot more attentive to that. The best thing you can hope to aspire to in test and measurement when you are in the trenches enabling other people to succeed, is to be a trusted advisor. |
As far as the standings go, this game didn't mean much. But it meant a lot to us, just to prove to ourselves and to everyone else that we could beat them. They beat us this year, last year and ended our season in the playoffs last year. So we were starting to wonder when we were going to catch a break against those guys. That's why this game is so big for us. |