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When an adult commits to being a high school coach, it’s not just about coaching the game. They take on a lot of responsibility, adults who fail to live up to those expectations – I’ll just put it bluntly – they fail students. We failed kids because we’ve got a group of young ladies who will now not be able to finish their season because of the behavior of some adults. – Billy Haun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My doctor put it very bluntly, if you want to go out in a blaze of glory and maybe blow yourself out, by all means go pitch in the World Series. But if you want to pitch a few more years like you’ve told me you want to, then you’d be an idiot to do that. – Houston Astros	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Every family member has a different perspective on who was favored and why. As adults, I see this as a great opportunity for people just to bluntly talk about what they remember from that time and what they felt. – Laurie Kramer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When a virus is swilling around the population, it can mutate, every time it replicates( infects) there is the possibility of a mutation. While most of those are neutral or even damage the virus, every so often a mutation gives the virus a' fitness advantage,' which makes it more transmissible. Bluntly, the more people with a second dose, the less this thing can mutate in dangerous ways. – Simon Clarke	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Any demand that we should run an amnesty at this stage, that we will not follow up on investigations and prosecutions of offenders is not acceptable, because that bluntly goes against the rule of law in Hong Kong, ...My sincere plea is: Please give us an opportunity, the time, the room, to take Hong Kong out of the current impasse and try to improve the current situation. – Hong Kong	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Now, I know Im not supposed to say it that bluntly, but theyre the facts, theyre the facts. And so everything else we do is in between here. Everything else we do is at the margins. And the reason why I add that parenthetically, why I believe the fence is needed does not have anything to do with immigration as much as drugs. – Vice President Biden	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It looked like if I were to take the kitchen scissors and just pull it out and bluntly over and over cut, because you know it was just very choppy like Jim Carrey on Dumb and Dumber but rounder and a little bit shorter. Thats exactly what it looked like. – Amy Martin	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It won’t work, to put it bluntly, at best, it would be a neutral effect, but it could make things worse. – Craig Bryan	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Put bluntly, they experience a sense of hopelessness and complete vulnerability, and a lack of sensory stimulation from the outside world, any confinement needs to be for as limited a period of time as possible, allowing the young person to reintegrate into their surroundings. – Ian Lambie	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He’s got an uphill climb to be competitive in this race, just to put it bluntly, he’s an unknown running as a Republican in that district. – Jim Small	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
To put it bluntly, the last century of fire policies have left our forests explosive. – Michael Medler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Bluntly, China's county-level towns are built like European ones, but its villages are like African ones. – Jin Jianhang	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi	added by anonymous 14 years ago

When an adult commits to being a high school coach, it’s not just about coaching the game. They take on a lot of responsibility, adults who fail to live up to those expectations – I’ll just put it bluntly – they fail students. We failed kids because we’ve got a group of young ladies who will now not be able to finish their season because of the behavior of some adults.

– Billy Haun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My doctor put it very bluntly, if you want to go out in a blaze of glory and maybe blow yourself out, by all means go pitch in the World Series. But if you want to pitch a few more years like you’ve told me you want to, then you’d be an idiot to do that.

– Houston Astros

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every family member has a different perspective on who was favored and why. As adults, I see this as a great opportunity for people just to bluntly talk about what they remember from that time and what they felt.

– Laurie Kramer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When a virus is swilling around the population, it can mutate, every time it replicates( infects) there is the possibility of a mutation. While most of those are neutral or even damage the virus, every so often a mutation gives the virus a' fitness advantage,' which makes it more transmissible. Bluntly, the more people with a second dose, the less this thing can mutate in dangerous ways.

– Simon Clarke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Any demand that we should run an amnesty at this stage, that we will not follow up on investigations and prosecutions of offenders is not acceptable, because that bluntly goes against the rule of law in Hong Kong, ...My sincere plea is: Please give us an opportunity, the time, the room, to take Hong Kong out of the current impasse and try to improve the current situation.

– Hong Kong

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Now, I know Im not supposed to say it that bluntly, but theyre the facts, theyre the facts. And so everything else we do is in between here. Everything else we do is at the margins. And the reason why I add that parenthetically, why I believe the fence is needed does not have anything to do with immigration as much as drugs.

– Vice President Biden

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It looked like if I were to take the kitchen scissors and just pull it out and bluntly over and over cut, because you know it was just very choppy like Jim Carrey on Dumb and Dumber but rounder and a little bit shorter. Thats exactly what it looked like.

– Amy Martin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It won’t work, to put it bluntly, at best, it would be a neutral effect, but it could make things worse.

– Craig Bryan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Put bluntly, they experience a sense of hopelessness and complete vulnerability, and a lack of sensory stimulation from the outside world, any confinement needs to be for as limited a period of time as possible, allowing the young person to reintegrate into their surroundings.

– Ian Lambie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He’s got an uphill climb to be competitive in this race, just to put it bluntly, he’s an unknown running as a Republican in that district.

– Jim Small

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

To put it bluntly, the last century of fire policies have left our forests explosive.

– Michael Medler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Bluntly, China's county-level towns are built like European ones, but its villages are like African ones.

– Jin Jianhang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

– Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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