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Last game he was living in the paint, had a lot of floaters (and) those are pretty much layups for him, we didn’t really want that to get him started early. And I don’t think he went to the free throw line much tonight, which is also pretty big for us.

Jrue Holiday

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What this is really about is trying to paint the United States military, and in United States Navy, the United States Navy, as weak, as woke, we are not weak.

Michael Gilday

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As long as we sit together and paint, life in the camp feels really good, i don’t really have anything else to look forward to. This gives my mind peace.

Louise Donovan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

They play physical, so we definitely have to be more physical next game, get to our spots, get to the basket, keep attacking the paint, they’re making us work.

Luke Kennard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We attacked the rim. We shared the ball, and we played defense. When we move the ball, we get in the paint and we move the ball like we did, I don’t think there is a one defensive scheme that can really stop us. We’ve seen them all.

Rudy Gobert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Actions have consequences and this is part of us working to hold these individuals accountable and not let them get away with it as time passes and they try to move past it and paint it under a different light.

Olivia Troye

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I personally am not a fan of self pity, but it's hard being gay in West Texas sometimes and I never want to go back to where I was not even two years ago, so what I paint my nails sometimes ? I look and feel good while doing it.

Trevor Wilkinson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No, you can't paint me out as angry — I would say I was in a position where I had to be controlled, donald Williams is not Donald Williams just because he spoke up.

Donald Williams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Iwill not let someone like a Tlaib or aMaxine Waters paint our profession with a broad brush. Are you aware of what the other U.S.rep said asrecent as yesterday? You know what she said in response to Brooklyn Center? ... Get more confrontational, iwas the first chief in the nation thatcame out and denounced the murderous cop who killed George Floyd.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our team is really good at getting to the paint and finishing.

Brandon Clarke

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They did pretty much what we did to them in the first game, attack the paint, we never established we could keep this team in front of us.

Nate McMillan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I'm not going to say we gave one away, we didn’t deserve to win, we weren't protecting the paint or rotating or running them off the line to make them miss. They were just comfortable the whole game.

Jimmy Butler

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We put a lot of time and effort into our speedway program. It’s a show car. It’s the pinnacle of the hotrods that we bring out of our race shop, there’s a lot of pride in every piece, every car, just from the paint job all the way down to the last nut and bolt.

Greg Ives

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I thought we attacked really well, we hit the paint, we spread it around, we obviously made shots, but the point total was not sustainable.

Mark Daigneault

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't appreciate how the mayor called them terrorists, i don't think calling housing activists or people that spray paint your house [terrorists] is really appropriate.

Nolan Hibbard-Pelly

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As far as what we've seen, these vaccines are really game changing at preventing disease and even severity of disease, but focusing on the efficacy number doesn't paint the whole picture, because you could still end up with Covid, but by all indications that appears that those cases are still really less severe than unvaccinated people and that's really important.

Namandje Bumpus

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I didn’t do what I was supposed to do, they had 80 points in the paint tonight and that is on me. I have to be more of an anchor be more of a presence down low just to shut it down early.

Deandre Ayton

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There is public outcry, it's unfortunate. These are kids. And I know that they're going to try to paint a picture of a bad past but these kids are( teenagers). What kind of past can they really have ?

Alex Goins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I just asked him if next summer, which I probably won't be here for, if he can paint it for my wife.

Tim Gjoraas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's 150 or more Chinese diplomats here — Chinese state media folks who work for the ministry of propaganda here in the The United States operating without restriction, and there's only a handful of American journalists left in China right now, let's paint that picture so everybody understands what we're talking about.

The United

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We would not want to paint a target on our back by getting more involved in retail politics, i think [ Falwell ] caused Liberty to fly too close to the sun.

Hunter Baker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Rep. Pressleys attempt to paint a truly life-saving amendment, one designed specifically to protect black, brown, and underprivileged people from being coerced by the state into choosing abortion, is severely problematic, the Hyde amendment has saved more than 2 million lives that are disproportionately black and brown. Suggesting that these people are better off dead is itself an expression of the white supremacist ideals that gave birth to the abortion industry in the first place! The American people deserve better than state sanctioned violence against their own offspring and the majority of Democrats agree. Taking a position against Hyde is a losing one.

Terrisa Bukovinac

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Its really unfortunate that people are trying to paint all of these different narratives, that is another person that imposed their beliefs, probably to try to challenge The Cleveland Police Department.

John Kuntz/Cleveland

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

A ship is always very referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder.

Chester A. Nimitz

added by Normando
3 years ago

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