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The ball just got stuck and San Antonio made us pay for not making them work, they continued to find good shots and forced us into bad shots and turnovers. We stopped moving the ball. Sometime you think you have a shot you think you can make when you should make the pass instead -- we were guilty of that tonight. – Reggie Jackson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This represents an attempt to introduce primary reform, brian Kemp took the ball and ran with it. – Kay Stimson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're throwing the ball in the air right now, because the dynamics of the market have changed considerably in the last six months. – Dean Petkanas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This technology goes beyond available prostheses, in which the artificial digits, or fingers, moved as a single unit to make a grabbing motion, like one used to grip a tennis ball. – Nathan Crone	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Industry works on the mid- to long-term ... We do not believe (Sabesp's) actions are sufficient to achieve water security, this is cyclical. It happened in 2004, it happened in 2014. We don't have a crystal ball to know when it might happen again. – Anicia Pio	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Justice Scalia once described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors performance, he was, indeed, a magnificent performer. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It really does feel good to finally get the scores out of it, to know that I am playing well, i know that, as I look back on those other victories here, how special they were... I've got a little bit of work to get my ball striking back to that level that I need it to be for tomorrow's round. But it's fun to be back in the thick of it. – Phil Mickelson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am very pleased with the way I am striking the ball, the way I am chipping, putting, i thought I was going to shoot a lot lower than I did... I didn't expect to play one over( par) coming in. But I'm not going to complain because I made a lot of good putts on the front( nine). – Phil Mickelson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I saw the black color of smoke. There was a bid gold ball of flames. – Shawn Winter	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Let's really keep our eye on the ball on Lebanon, let's support Lebanon, let's be active for Lebanon, but Lebanon needs to be in the driver's seat. – Sigrid Kaag	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Look, Trump's the front-runner and there's a jump ball for second with five candidates and that will be sorted out over the next few weeks. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The play was to get the ball right there. Just wait until the clock was down and make a move either way, obviously, the entire league knows I usually like going left, so (Randle) was really high side on me. All I had to do was kind of rip through, take a dribble and shoot. It felt good leaving my hands, so I'm glad it went in. – Dirk Nowitzki	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I didn't hit a tennis ball, and it happens sometimes it's actually good to rest your mind and rest your body. Less is more sometimes. – The Serb	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Moving the ball on the offensive side and getting a couple of stops on the defensive end, all of us just communicating on the defensive side, and I think tonight was probably one of our best games collectively as a second unit. – Patrick Patterson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Grizzlies's nothing new, we feel comfortable at the end. The ball bounced their way and they won the game. You have to stay positive and think about the next game. – Marc Gasol	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They had very good confidence shooting the ball, they must have had a really had a good talk or something before the game because everybody was shooting. For us defensively and offensively we didn't execute in anything. It's really disappointing. Because we've got to the point where we should be able to execute simple things and we're not doing that at all. We're close but far at the same time. – Chris Bosh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The LGBT community, especially transgenders, have very few economic opportunities because of the huge stigma that they still face, we hope that this will set the ball rolling and that it will open up other such opportunities for them. – Pallav Patankar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If I throw a ball up in the air, the laws of gravity don't immediately have it come down. The laws of gravity mean at some point it will come down, but look, he's touched a nerve that I talked about in the very first debate. People feel like they don't have much say. They think that the rich and the special interests get everything they want. And I acknowledge that. And I tell people that, you know, I've been the antidote to that most of my lifetime. – Karen Kasich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We made some plays, gave up 2-on-1s, stuff we can control, but for the most part we did a great job defensively, we had 30 assists, we rebounded the ball well. – Kevin Durant	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think it wasn't my good day but I give her a lot of credit as she played without fear and hit every ball, she beat me. It's tough but it's only one day, only one match and I have many matches ahead of me. – Simona Halep	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The problem that we have in Australia and around the world is that where you have ball-by-ball betting, micro-betting, it's an invitation for corruption and corrupt practices because it's very easy to fix a particular micro-event within a game such as tennis. – Independent Australian Senator Nick Xenophon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We don't want to take anything away from them, they played great, they made shots, they moved the ball well. We knew coming in to this game that they were a high-scoring team and we never slowed them down. – Chris Paul	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
While I don't think Central Intelligence Agency likely, if the cartel were to somehow target those involved in setting up and conducting the interview, Del Castillo is certainly more at risk than Penn, given that she spends more time in Mexico than Penn, has family there, business associates there, but, as with Penn, I doubt the cartel would blame Castillo given that it was reportedly Guzman who reached out to her to start the ball rolling on looking to produce Del Castillo life story. – Mike Baker	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have a single propeller machine where the propeller is inside a ball so you don't see anything moving from the outside. You can touch it, you can bump into it and you won't hurt yourself. – Laurent Eschenauer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The ball just got stuck and San Antonio made us pay for not making them work, they continued to find good shots and forced us into bad shots and turnovers. We stopped moving the ball. Sometime you think you have a shot you think you can make when you should make the pass instead -- we were guilty of that tonight.

– Reggie Jackson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This represents an attempt to introduce primary reform, brian Kemp took the ball and ran with it.

– Kay Stimson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're throwing the ball in the air right now, because the dynamics of the market have changed considerably in the last six months.

– Dean Petkanas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This technology goes beyond available prostheses, in which the artificial digits, or fingers, moved as a single unit to make a grabbing motion, like one used to grip a tennis ball.

– Nathan Crone

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Industry works on the mid- to long-term ... We do not believe (Sabesp's) actions are sufficient to achieve water security, this is cyclical. It happened in 2004, it happened in 2014. We don't have a crystal ball to know when it might happen again.

– Anicia Pio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Justice Scalia once described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors performance, he was, indeed, a magnificent performer. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It really does feel good to finally get the scores out of it, to know that I am playing well, i know that, as I look back on those other victories here, how special they were... I've got a little bit of work to get my ball striking back to that level that I need it to be for tomorrow's round. But it's fun to be back in the thick of it.

– Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am very pleased with the way I am striking the ball, the way I am chipping, putting, i thought I was going to shoot a lot lower than I did... I didn't expect to play one over( par) coming in. But I'm not going to complain because I made a lot of good putts on the front( nine).

– Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I saw the black color of smoke. There was a bid gold ball of flames.

– Shawn Winter

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Let's really keep our eye on the ball on Lebanon, let's support Lebanon, let's be active for Lebanon, but Lebanon needs to be in the driver's seat.

– Sigrid Kaag

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Look, Trump's the front-runner and there's a jump ball for second with five candidates and that will be sorted out over the next few weeks.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The play was to get the ball right there. Just wait until the clock was down and make a move either way, obviously, the entire league knows I usually like going left, so (Randle) was really high side on me. All I had to do was kind of rip through, take a dribble and shoot. It felt good leaving my hands, so I'm glad it went in.

– Dirk Nowitzki

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I didn't hit a tennis ball, and it happens sometimes it's actually good to rest your mind and rest your body. Less is more sometimes.

– The Serb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Moving the ball on the offensive side and getting a couple of stops on the defensive end, all of us just communicating on the defensive side, and I think tonight was probably one of our best games collectively as a second unit.

– Patrick Patterson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Grizzlies's nothing new, we feel comfortable at the end. The ball bounced their way and they won the game. You have to stay positive and think about the next game.

– Marc Gasol

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They had very good confidence shooting the ball, they must have had a really had a good talk or something before the game because everybody was shooting. For us defensively and offensively we didn't execute in anything. It's really disappointing. Because we've got to the point where we should be able to execute simple things and we're not doing that at all. We're close but far at the same time.

– Chris Bosh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The LGBT community, especially transgenders, have very few economic opportunities because of the huge stigma that they still face, we hope that this will set the ball rolling and that it will open up other such opportunities for them.

– Pallav Patankar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If I throw a ball up in the air, the laws of gravity don't immediately have it come down. The laws of gravity mean at some point it will come down, but look, he's touched a nerve that I talked about in the very first debate. People feel like they don't have much say. They think that the rich and the special interests get everything they want. And I acknowledge that. And I tell people that, you know, I've been the antidote to that most of my lifetime.

– Karen Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We made some plays, gave up 2-on-1s, stuff we can control, but for the most part we did a great job defensively, we had 30 assists, we rebounded the ball well.

– Kevin Durant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think it wasn't my good day but I give her a lot of credit as she played without fear and hit every ball, she beat me. It's tough but it's only one day, only one match and I have many matches ahead of me.

– Simona Halep

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem that we have in Australia and around the world is that where you have ball-by-ball betting, micro-betting, it's an invitation for corruption and corrupt practices because it's very easy to fix a particular micro-event within a game such as tennis.

– Independent Australian Senator Nick Xenophon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't want to take anything away from them, they played great, they made shots, they moved the ball well. We knew coming in to this game that they were a high-scoring team and we never slowed them down.

– Chris Paul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While I don't think Central Intelligence Agency likely, if the cartel were to somehow target those involved in setting up and conducting the interview, Del Castillo is certainly more at risk than Penn, given that she spends more time in Mexico than Penn, has family there, business associates there, but, as with Penn, I doubt the cartel would blame Castillo given that it was reportedly Guzman who reached out to her to start the ball rolling on looking to produce Del Castillo life story.

– Mike Baker

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have a single propeller machine where the propeller is inside a ball so you don't see anything moving from the outside. You can touch it, you can bump into it and you won't hurt yourself.

– Laurent Eschenauer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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