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I wasn’t able to make shots, they were calling some flops and that definitely allowed it to get into my head for a few moments. It was frustrating. It was tough. It was definitely tough. – Shakira Austin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is yet another blow to people whose lives are already beyond unbearable. People can see their own breath when lying on their thin mattresses ; you will see children walk around in flip-flops and ripped shirts. Families are afraid that they will freeze to death. – Jolien Veldwijk	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I knew after a couple of flops that I had been marginalized in the studio system ; and I wasn't going to get invited by them, i always knew that it would take a young filmmaker who would come back or remember some movies I had made and know that I might be right for his script and rediscover me. And that's why Archangel Michael's not just Archangel Michael, Archangel Michael's Archangel Michael. – Nicolas Cage	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm going to wring his neck, what he was doing up there with only flip-flops, I have no idea. – Linda Matheny	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We've experienced many flip-flops ... and I don't entirely believe him. – Yet Wang	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our founder Julie Church back in the 90s discovered an entire beach... was just covered in flip flops, what she saw were not just dead fish that had been trying to eat in their natural habitat, but turtles unable to come up on to land and actually hatch. – Erin Smith	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality. – Paul Dergarabedian of comScore	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Flip-flops on any trail is not good. – John Kelly	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We feel the momentum. And we'll see what happens. And we'll live with the results. But there will be no regrets in the Kasich campaign for all the work we've put in, the positivity of all of it. we're going to be changing some snowshoes for some flip-flops and we're going to go from fried clams to jambalaya. – John Kasich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're going to be changing some snowshoes for some flip-flops and we're going to go from fried clams to jambalaya. – John Kasich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
What was a lock (for Oscar success) before, feels less so now, if there is a relentless flop conversation about the movie in coming weeks, it will hurt more and more in terms of awards season because people don't really give awards to flops. – David Poland	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As a potential shutdown creeps closer, we will see if Sen. Toomey sticks with his votes to defund Planned Parenthood or if he is so scared about his re-election that he flip-flops in a panic, these ads will highlight that Sen. Toomey and extremists in Congress are playing a dangerous game, and Pennsylvania families deserve better. – Sadie Weiner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it. – Emily Benavides	Found on CNN 8 years ago
After voting for the poison pill amendment that stopped immigration reform in its tracks as a senator, and saying she believed the unaccompanied minors 'should be sent back' to their home countries last year, she is now running further to the left on immigration policy than even President Obama's White House believes is legally feasible, hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it. – Emily Benavides	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it, as he outlined in his book on this issue, Gov. Bush believes in a conservative legislative solution to fix our broken immigration system that includes earned legal status for those currently in the country after they pay fines and taxes, learn English and commit no substantial crimes while securing our border. – Emily Benavides	Found on CNN 8 years ago
But the ultimate solution would really be home Wi-Fi, where you can connect while sitting around shirtless in your flip-flops. – Fidel Croswell	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Flip-flops may be better than going barefoot. – Corinne Kauderer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This is what happens when you try to run up steps in the dark, with your arms full, wearing flip-flops, turns out if you then try to stop your forward momentum with your face, the result is a road rash. – Brad Pitt	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
These were very, very circular, which is strange, they usually look like cow flops. – Colin Devey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

I wasn’t able to make shots, they were calling some flops and that definitely allowed it to get into my head for a few moments. It was frustrating. It was tough. It was definitely tough.

– Shakira Austin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is yet another blow to people whose lives are already beyond unbearable. People can see their own breath when lying on their thin mattresses ; you will see children walk around in flip-flops and ripped shirts. Families are afraid that they will freeze to death.

– Jolien Veldwijk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I knew after a couple of flops that I had been marginalized in the studio system ; and I wasn't going to get invited by them, i always knew that it would take a young filmmaker who would come back or remember some movies I had made and know that I might be right for his script and rediscover me. And that's why Archangel Michael's not just Archangel Michael, Archangel Michael's Archangel Michael.

– Nicolas Cage

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm going to wring his neck, what he was doing up there with only flip-flops, I have no idea.

– Linda Matheny

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We've experienced many flip-flops ... and I don't entirely believe him.

– Yet Wang

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Our founder Julie Church back in the 90s discovered an entire beach... was just covered in flip flops, what she saw were not just dead fish that had been trying to eat in their natural habitat, but turtles unable to come up on to land and actually hatch.

– Erin Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality.

– Paul Dergarabedian of comScore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Flip-flops on any trail is not good.

– John Kelly

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We feel the momentum. And we'll see what happens. And we'll live with the results. But there will be no regrets in the Kasich campaign for all the work we've put in, the positivity of all of it. we're going to be changing some snowshoes for some flip-flops and we're going to go from fried clams to jambalaya.

– John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're going to be changing some snowshoes for some flip-flops and we're going to go from fried clams to jambalaya.

– John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What was a lock (for Oscar success) before, feels less so now, if there is a relentless flop conversation about the movie in coming weeks, it will hurt more and more in terms of awards season because people don't really give awards to flops.

– David Poland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As a potential shutdown creeps closer, we will see if Sen. Toomey sticks with his votes to defund Planned Parenthood or if he is so scared about his re-election that he flip-flops in a panic, these ads will highlight that Sen. Toomey and extremists in Congress are playing a dangerous game, and Pennsylvania families deserve better.

– Sadie Weiner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it.

– Emily Benavides

Found on CNN
8 years ago

After voting for the poison pill amendment that stopped immigration reform in its tracks as a senator, and saying she believed the unaccompanied minors 'should be sent back' to their home countries last year, she is now running further to the left on immigration policy than even President Obama's White House believes is legally feasible, hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it.

– Emily Benavides

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it, as he outlined in his book on this issue, Gov. Bush believes in a conservative legislative solution to fix our broken immigration system that includes earned legal status for those currently in the country after they pay fines and taxes, learn English and commit no substantial crimes while securing our border.

– Emily Benavides

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But the ultimate solution would really be home Wi-Fi, where you can connect while sitting around shirtless in your flip-flops.

– Fidel Croswell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Flip-flops may be better than going barefoot.

– Corinne Kauderer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is what happens when you try to run up steps in the dark, with your arms full, wearing flip-flops, turns out if you then try to stop your forward momentum with your face, the result is a road rash.

– Brad Pitt

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

These were very, very circular, which is strange, they usually look like cow flops.

– Colin Devey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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