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I have had this job for years. The people who come in my aisle are like family — I have been around for the births, graduations and weddings in their lives, my colleagues are like family, too. Look, I just plain love what I do. – Sherry Johnson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This is premeditated religious discrimination, plain and simple, we hope that this serves as a reminder to universities everywhere that they cannot discriminate against student groups just because they don’t like their beliefs. – Eric Baxter	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Although you come up here and you say that there are hundreds of citizens and residents of College Park that are for this charter, I can tell you that there are thousands against it, voting is a right of the citizens. It's plain and clear. It's constitutional. It's also written at the state level and it also belongs at the local level. – Beth Debrovsky	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Voting is a right of the citizens. It's plain and clear. It's constitutional. It's also written at the state level and it also belongs at the local level. the reality is allowing all people to vote in municipal elections is going to make College Park more inclusive, and that has been the history of voting rights expansion in the United States and what has happened in our neighbors in Maryland who have expanded voting rights to non-U.S. citizens. – Todd Larson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too. – James Stewart	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
I have a message to all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple: Go home, you are not wanted in this great Commonwealth. ... You pretend that you are patriots, but you are anything but a patriot. – Terry McAuliffe	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Whatever has to be done has to be done, plain and simple. My niece is a little child, she doesn't know better. My sister, she definitely should know better. – Law Oats	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I wanna find some peace, 'cause people usually find that peace in a horrible time, why does that have to be? Maybe I can find God without being in shambles. Maybe I can reach a higher plain spiritually without being in a near-death experience. – Chris Rock	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We have watched the coffee category expand and adapt as Millennials converted to coffee drinkers, attracted by the smoother flavor and artisanal characteristics and third - and fourth-wave coffee, we knew our culinary team could deliver that same premium, hand-crafted sensory experience with the bellowed category hero of espresso in our best-in-class, fresh-baked bagel. The caffeine in the bagel is sourced from both espresso and coffee-cherry flour. Einstein’s exact recipe is proprietary but in addition to packing a caffeinated punch, the new bagel also has 13 grams of protein, derived from cocoa. We ’d all love a little extra energy in the morning, but do the enhancned bagels actually taste any good ? The product left tasters divided in a pretty even split. The product itself resembles a dark brown pumpernickel bagel and, upon the first few nibbles, tastes like a chewy plain bagel with a slightly sweet taste. After a few more bites, however, the bitterness from the espresso really kicks in. – Kerry Coyne	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It could be they thought one guy was carrying out the attack and it turned out to be another, it could just be they were plain wrong. – Charlie Winter	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's plain and simple: Gorsuch has not earned the votes in the Senate to join the Supreme Court, republicans can't fix Gorsuch by changing the rules. They need to change the nominee. – Tom Perez	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The state's bureaucratic sleight of hand is fooling no one. This is an attempt to ban abortion in Kentucky, plain and simple. We are fighting to keep this from happening. – Brigitte Amiri	Found on CNN 7 years ago
You're acting as though there's something nefarious about doing what he was actually tasked to do, based on the media frenzy that existed around this, he ... said 'hey, we've made some contact, I'd be glad to explain (it), let me know if you'd like to talk.' Plain and simple. – One Trump official	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Today in modern pop culture, you know they call Ted Cruz the Joe McCarthy -- if you want to think of who devils are it's Ronald Reagan and those who name-names at the House Un-American Activities, the Hollywood Ten are heroes right? alger Hiss is a hero, right? Richard Nixon's a villain? Joe McCarthy is a villain. Your book makes very plain that these guys were right. The place was infested with either traitors that were on the direct payroll of Soviet military intelligence or fellow-travelers who were kind of compliant in helping these guys get along. I mean, there's absolutely no question of it. How has pop culture so changed it that white is black and black is white? – Steve Bannon	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Yes, we kill bugs and remove animals from people’s homes, but more importantly, we do what we do because we love helping others, plain and simple, we believe that our business is successful and in the good place that we are in only because of Love God. We give Love God all the glory. – Caleb Fabry	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The biggest problem right now is the status of the Nineveh Plain as a disputed territory between the Iraqi Central Government and the regional government of Kurdistan. – Robert Nicholson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We've been very concerned about the situation in Aleppo and we have made those concerns plain to Russian officials. – The State Department Kirby	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
While some civilians were killed in crossfire between the fighting forces, others were reportedly summarily executed by Government (SPLA) soldiers, who appear to have specifically targeted people of Nuer origin, the fighting also resulted in widespread sexual violence, including rape and gang rape by soldiers in uniform and men in plain clothes. – Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Governor McAuliffe’s executive order defies the plain text of the Constitution, flouts the separation of powers, and has no precedent in the annals of Virginia history. – House Speaker William Howell	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Such a barbaric act is not only un-Islamic but also inhuman, it is not honor killing, its just plain murder. – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s just plain water in a tower that has [the word] Baptist on the side of it. – Pastor Garland	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Stylistically, you want to pick up on colors and textures that tie the two spaces together, make it more than just a couple of chairs and a dining table. A plain dining table with wooden chairs won’t entice you to use it very much, but really comfortable lounge seating will. – Amber Freda	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I went into my closet and picked out a plain, off-the-rack, boring, dark blue suit, i ’d wear that suit to every Council meeting until someone noticed, until someone commented on it. I told nobody. – Richard Stewart	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He’s a lying guy. A really lying guy. Some people misrepresent. This guy is just a plain-out liar. In fact, I felt better because Marco Rubio called him a liar the other night on stage, i felt so much better. I said, ‘Good, a politician called a politician. Now I can call him a liar.’. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

I have had this job for years. The people who come in my aisle are like family — I have been around for the births, graduations and weddings in their lives, my colleagues are like family, too. Look, I just plain love what I do.

– Sherry Johnson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is premeditated religious discrimination, plain and simple, we hope that this serves as a reminder to universities everywhere that they cannot discriminate against student groups just because they don’t like their beliefs.

– Eric Baxter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Although you come up here and you say that there are hundreds of citizens and residents of College Park that are for this charter, I can tell you that there are thousands against it, voting is a right of the citizens. It's plain and clear. It's constitutional. It's also written at the state level and it also belongs at the local level.

– Beth Debrovsky

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Voting is a right of the citizens. It's plain and clear. It's constitutional. It's also written at the state level and it also belongs at the local level. the reality is allowing all people to vote in municipal elections is going to make College Park more inclusive, and that has been the history of voting rights expansion in the United States and what has happened in our neighbors in Maryland who have expanded voting rights to non-U.S. citizens.

– Todd Larson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too.

– James Stewart

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

I have a message to all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple: Go home, you are not wanted in this great Commonwealth. ... You pretend that you are patriots, but you are anything but a patriot.

– Terry McAuliffe

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Whatever has to be done has to be done, plain and simple. My niece is a little child, she doesn't know better. My sister, she definitely should know better.

– Law Oats

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I wanna find some peace, 'cause people usually find that peace in a horrible time, why does that have to be? Maybe I can find God without being in shambles. Maybe I can reach a higher plain spiritually without being in a near-death experience.

– Chris Rock

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We have watched the coffee category expand and adapt as Millennials converted to coffee drinkers, attracted by the smoother flavor and artisanal characteristics and third - and fourth-wave coffee, we knew our culinary team could deliver that same premium, hand-crafted sensory experience with the bellowed category hero of espresso in our best-in-class, fresh-baked bagel. The caffeine in the bagel is sourced from both espresso and coffee-cherry flour. Einstein’s exact recipe is proprietary but in addition to packing a caffeinated punch, the new bagel also has 13 grams of protein, derived from cocoa. We ’d all love a little extra energy in the morning, but do the enhancned bagels actually taste any good ? The product left tasters divided in a pretty even split. The product itself resembles a dark brown pumpernickel bagel and, upon the first few nibbles, tastes like a chewy plain bagel with a slightly sweet taste. After a few more bites, however, the bitterness from the espresso really kicks in.

– Kerry Coyne

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It could be they thought one guy was carrying out the attack and it turned out to be another, it could just be they were plain wrong.

– Charlie Winter

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's plain and simple: Gorsuch has not earned the votes in the Senate to join the Supreme Court, republicans can't fix Gorsuch by changing the rules. They need to change the nominee.

– Tom Perez

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The state's bureaucratic sleight of hand is fooling no one. This is an attempt to ban abortion in Kentucky, plain and simple. We are fighting to keep this from happening.

– Brigitte Amiri

Found on CNN
7 years ago

You're acting as though there's something nefarious about doing what he was actually tasked to do, based on the media frenzy that existed around this, he ... said 'hey, we've made some contact, I'd be glad to explain (it), let me know if you'd like to talk.' Plain and simple.

– One Trump official

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Today in modern pop culture, you know they call Ted Cruz the Joe McCarthy -- if you want to think of who devils are it's Ronald Reagan and those who name-names at the House Un-American Activities, the Hollywood Ten are heroes right? alger Hiss is a hero, right? Richard Nixon's a villain? Joe McCarthy is a villain. Your book makes very plain that these guys were right. The place was infested with either traitors that were on the direct payroll of Soviet military intelligence or fellow-travelers who were kind of compliant in helping these guys get along. I mean, there's absolutely no question of it. How has pop culture so changed it that white is black and black is white?

– Steve Bannon

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Yes, we kill bugs and remove animals from people’s homes, but more importantly, we do what we do because we love helping others, plain and simple, we believe that our business is successful and in the good place that we are in only because of Love God. We give Love God all the glory.

– Caleb Fabry

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The biggest problem right now is the status of the Nineveh Plain as a disputed territory between the Iraqi Central Government and the regional government of Kurdistan.

– Robert Nicholson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We've been very concerned about the situation in Aleppo and we have made those concerns plain to Russian officials.

– The State Department Kirby

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

While some civilians were killed in crossfire between the fighting forces, others were reportedly summarily executed by Government (SPLA) soldiers, who appear to have specifically targeted people of Nuer origin, the fighting also resulted in widespread sexual violence, including rape and gang rape by soldiers in uniform and men in plain clothes.

– Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Governor McAuliffe’s executive order defies the plain text of the Constitution, flouts the separation of powers, and has no precedent in the annals of Virginia history.

– House Speaker William Howell

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Such a barbaric act is not only un-Islamic but also inhuman, it is not honor killing, its just plain murder.

– Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s just plain water in a tower that has [the word] Baptist on the side of it.

– Pastor Garland

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Stylistically, you want to pick up on colors and textures that tie the two spaces together, make it more than just a couple of chairs and a dining table. A plain dining table with wooden chairs won’t entice you to use it very much, but really comfortable lounge seating will.

– Amber Freda

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I went into my closet and picked out a plain, off-the-rack, boring, dark blue suit, i ’d wear that suit to every Council meeting until someone noticed, until someone commented on it. I told nobody.

– Richard Stewart

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He’s a lying guy. A really lying guy. Some people misrepresent. This guy is just a plain-out liar. In fact, I felt better because Marco Rubio called him a liar the other night on stage, i felt so much better. I said, ‘Good, a politician called a politician. Now I can call him a liar.’.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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