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It’s sort of bitter rivals on the field, but you know, even bigger allies off, so we’re with them 100 percent, there’s just some things that are so much bigger than what is happening on the field and this is one of them. This is about just basic human rights and respect and getting what they deserve. I mean, we’re talking about the Olympic champions here, so that was so well-deserved and such a huge step forward for them. – Megan Rapinoe	Found on CNN 1 month ago
Whether inspecting our food, conducting medical research or caring for our veterans, federal workers play an important role in our everyday lives and deserve pay which reflects that, after years of pay freezes, our bill gives these dedicated public servants a much-deserved raise. – Brian Schatz	Found on FOX News 1 month ago
This week we have good news from Kharkiv region, probably, you all have already seen reports about the activity of Ukrainian defenders. And, I think, every citizen feels proud of our soldiers. It is a well-deserved pride. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 6 months ago
I think of the hard work that I did to buy Ana Duran something that I deserved, and now other obstacles came, and I have other priorities. – Ana Duran	Found on CNN 7 months ago
I don't think she always got the respect that she deserved, in part, because she was a powerful woman, and also because she was a Latina and she was really groundbreaking and nobody wanted to acknowledge that. They just wanted to kind of hate, so it's nice to see her having that success. – Ben Affleck	Found on CNN 8 months ago
She was an amazing woman, she inspired so many people and was a beautiful soul, she was the last person I know that deserved this. She would have given anyone the shirt off her back. And I’m sure she would have given the horrible person that shot her anything she had. Because her heart was pure gold! She was the most incredible person I knew. – Cortney Eckhoff	Found on FOX News 8 months ago
I obviously was a little disappointed in myself for taking the penalty. ... It’s easy to say now, but, for some reason, I wasn’t as rattled as I usually am in those situations, i was just confident in our group that we would find a way, whether it was in regulation or was in overtime. We deserved to win the game. That was the feeling we had from puck drop. – Steven Stamkos	Found on FOX News 9 months ago
It’s a good way for him to kind of say bye to the fans, i don’t think he really had that moment. He deserved to be honored for all that he did for this team and the city. – Brad Marchand	Found on FOX News 11 months ago
To be honest, I don’t think we deserved to win really tonight, i thought our first (period) was OK, was pretty even. But the second, they had a long push, obviously scored those three goals, and then we had a push toward the end. But our third period just wasn’t good enough. – Roman Josi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
George Gascon is either lying or poorly managing George Gascon office, either way, Los Angeles’s a very bad look for someone who is facing a recall. And Los Angeles’s even worse for the victim of sexual assault. Who did n’t receive the criminal justice she deserved because of Gascon’s blanket policies. – Neama Rahmani	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s still an Olympic gold medal, we won. Obviously, NHL players aren’t here, but we still deserved the gold medal. – Ville Pokka	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I thought it was very cute. I was struck by how much effort went into it, i definitely thought we should do something special with it and not just hand it back to him. It was very well done and deserved some recognition. – Paige Beach	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They fought back and in the end we were not able to fight back again, and so they deserved to win. – Martin Rios	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We showed up here and there was no official forfeit. I prefer a deserved loss to a forfeit win, to be honest, they are nice guys and I hope they’re well and can enjoy the rest of this. They’re good curlers. Of course, they were 0-7, but we knew they would give us a hard time on the ice. – Martin Rios	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He just wanted to spread love and laughter and he did it so amazingly and I'm just so proud of him because he truly brought people together and he was just so wonderful, i was just so honored to be his wife and to be able to be a part of it and to bring him any kind of happiness I could because he deserved it so much. – Tribeca Festival -RRB- Rizzo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
}'A disgrace': See how some Australians are reacting to Djokovic visa row 01:42 However you might feel about the polarizing Djokovic, there's not a scenario where he ever deserved this. It's unlikely the world's No. 1 tennis player would have got on the long commercial flight to Melbourne had he not been given a green light from tournament officials. But somewhere along the way, the information pipeline involving Australian Open officials, the Victorian state government and federal authorities has become a game of broken telephone. Prime Minister Morrison insisted the buck stopped with authorities at the border, not tennis organizers. – Tennis Australia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s one of those games that they deserved to win, for us, a bounce here and a couple of goals, it’s not like it’s a panic. It’s a good team over there. You play teams like that, you come back the next time you play them, do your homework, and be sharper. – Braden Holtby	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They deserved to be No. 1., they can hurt in so many ways. They have depth, experience and size. The Boilermakers’s going to be a hard team to beat. – Patrick McCaffery	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I hope they didn’t have the camera on me because my eyes were a little watery, it showed what a fan favorite he was. He deserved it. – Jon Cooper	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Through treatment and reflection, I’ve come to feel deep shame and regret for my actions none of you deserved to be in this situation, i hope each of you could close that wound I gashed. I know though, that a scar will remain that will serve as a reminder of the evil of that. – Matthew Murphy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome. – Bill Maher	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This points to the truth that law enforcement over history has often failed to live up to its responsibilities, these men did not get the justice that they deserved. – Cyrus Vance	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They literally said they deserved more money and NICER hotels than those of the crew because they were BETTER than the rest of the crew, these guys are not heroes. They only cared out themselves. – Terese Davis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Everybody in that courtroom is going to be thinking he deserved what he got because he put himself in a hostile situation. … ‘What are you doing down there with a gun?’. – Paul Bucher	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

It’s sort of bitter rivals on the field, but you know, even bigger allies off, so we’re with them 100 percent, there’s just some things that are so much bigger than what is happening on the field and this is one of them. This is about just basic human rights and respect and getting what they deserve. I mean, we’re talking about the Olympic champions here, so that was so well-deserved and such a huge step forward for them.

– Megan Rapinoe

Found on CNN
1 month ago

Whether inspecting our food, conducting medical research or caring for our veterans, federal workers play an important role in our everyday lives and deserve pay which reflects that, after years of pay freezes, our bill gives these dedicated public servants a much-deserved raise.

– Brian Schatz

Found on FOX News
1 month ago

This week we have good news from Kharkiv region, probably, you all have already seen reports about the activity of Ukrainian defenders. And, I think, every citizen feels proud of our soldiers. It is a well-deserved pride.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
6 months ago

I think of the hard work that I did to buy Ana Duran something that I deserved, and now other obstacles came, and I have other priorities.

– Ana Duran

Found on CNN
7 months ago

I don't think she always got the respect that she deserved, in part, because she was a powerful woman, and also because she was a Latina and she was really groundbreaking and nobody wanted to acknowledge that. They just wanted to kind of hate, so it's nice to see her having that success.

– Ben Affleck

Found on CNN
8 months ago

She was an amazing woman, she inspired so many people and was a beautiful soul, she was the last person I know that deserved this. She would have given anyone the shirt off her back. And I’m sure she would have given the horrible person that shot her anything she had. Because her heart was pure gold! She was the most incredible person I knew.

– Cortney Eckhoff

Found on FOX News
8 months ago

I obviously was a little disappointed in myself for taking the penalty. ... It’s easy to say now, but, for some reason, I wasn’t as rattled as I usually am in those situations, i was just confident in our group that we would find a way, whether it was in regulation or was in overtime. We deserved to win the game. That was the feeling we had from puck drop.

– Steven Stamkos

Found on FOX News
9 months ago

It’s a good way for him to kind of say bye to the fans, i don’t think he really had that moment. He deserved to be honored for all that he did for this team and the city.

– Brad Marchand

Found on FOX News
11 months ago

To be honest, I don’t think we deserved to win really tonight, i thought our first (period) was OK, was pretty even. But the second, they had a long push, obviously scored those three goals, and then we had a push toward the end. But our third period just wasn’t good enough.

– Roman Josi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

George Gascon is either lying or poorly managing George Gascon office, either way, Los Angeles’s a very bad look for someone who is facing a recall. And Los Angeles’s even worse for the victim of sexual assault. Who did n’t receive the criminal justice she deserved because of Gascon’s blanket policies.

– Neama Rahmani

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s still an Olympic gold medal, we won. Obviously, NHL players aren’t here, but we still deserved the gold medal.

– Ville Pokka

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I thought it was very cute. I was struck by how much effort went into it, i definitely thought we should do something special with it and not just hand it back to him. It was very well done and deserved some recognition.

– Paige Beach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They fought back and in the end we were not able to fight back again, and so they deserved to win.

– Martin Rios

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We showed up here and there was no official forfeit. I prefer a deserved loss to a forfeit win, to be honest, they are nice guys and I hope they’re well and can enjoy the rest of this. They’re good curlers. Of course, they were 0-7, but we knew they would give us a hard time on the ice.

– Martin Rios

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He just wanted to spread love and laughter and he did it so amazingly and I'm just so proud of him because he truly brought people together and he was just so wonderful, i was just so honored to be his wife and to be able to be a part of it and to bring him any kind of happiness I could because he deserved it so much.

– Tribeca Festival -RRB- Rizzo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

}'A disgrace': See how some Australians are reacting to Djokovic visa row 01:42 However you might feel about the polarizing Djokovic, there's not a scenario where he ever deserved this. It's unlikely the world's No. 1 tennis player would have got on the long commercial flight to Melbourne had he not been given a green light from tournament officials. But somewhere along the way, the information pipeline involving Australian Open officials, the Victorian state government and federal authorities has become a game of broken telephone. Prime Minister Morrison insisted the buck stopped with authorities at the border, not tennis organizers.

– Tennis Australia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s one of those games that they deserved to win, for us, a bounce here and a couple of goals, it’s not like it’s a panic. It’s a good team over there. You play teams like that, you come back the next time you play them, do your homework, and be sharper.

– Braden Holtby

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They deserved to be No. 1., they can hurt in so many ways. They have depth, experience and size. The Boilermakers’s going to be a hard team to beat.

– Patrick McCaffery

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I hope they didn’t have the camera on me because my eyes were a little watery, it showed what a fan favorite he was. He deserved it.

– Jon Cooper

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Through treatment and reflection, I’ve come to feel deep shame and regret for my actions none of you deserved to be in this situation, i hope each of you could close that wound I gashed. I know though, that a scar will remain that will serve as a reminder of the evil of that.

– Matthew Murphy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome.

– Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This points to the truth that law enforcement over history has often failed to live up to its responsibilities, these men did not get the justice that they deserved.

– Cyrus Vance

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They literally said they deserved more money and NICER hotels than those of the crew because they were BETTER than the rest of the crew, these guys are not heroes. They only cared out themselves.

– Terese Davis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Everybody in that courtroom is going to be thinking he deserved what he got because he put himself in a hostile situation. … ‘What are you doing down there with a gun?’.

– Paul Bucher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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