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Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head. – Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A lot of awkward things happen in the night when people are sleep deprived, drink caffeine too late, drink alcohol too late, worked too late or slept four hours last night because they stayed up too late, the fundamental core and foundation of healthy dream life starts with healthy sleep. – Nirit Soffer-Dudek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Haven’t slept in so long my memory foam is starting to forget. – The Blonde Jon	added by TheBlondeJon 1 year ago
White fans would fill the ballparks to see the Black stars, but later, the Black players could not go out into the neighborhoods those White fans came from and eat in a restaurant or find a hotel that would let them stay the night. They ate peanut butter and crackers on the bus and slept on the bus. – Bob Kendrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we tried our hardest to make sure we were sleeping. We definitely have not slept or ate since the transplant, just anticipating that something bad is going to happen or has happened. – Baelyn Schwab	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I remember flashes of scenes, later they told me about how they gave me a couple of sleeping pills so I wouldn’t make any noise. I was so knocked out that I slept with my eyes open. My parents were afraid I was dead. – Ivan Reitman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’ve witnessed the desecration of cherished monuments, like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Terry Fox Statue, displays of hate symbols, like the Confederate flag and the swastika, and all types of bad behavior that have taken away the freedom of our residents to live without fear, many residents have not slept for days due to the noise and disruptions. Many have been shut in by the crowds – a lockdown imposed by the protest itself. – Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To me, I see it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. How many people can actually say that they stepped on I-95, or they slept on I-95? it’s hopefully a story that I can tell my grandkids one day. – Marvin Romero	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For about three weeks, we slept in a car with Baxter because I had no idea there was a place, and I was doing some calls and they said you can go to Noah’s, and we’ve been here ever since. – Ashley Soriano	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What was going on was the typical chaos of a bureaucracy under the strain of immense crisis, people at checkpoints hadn't slept well in days, couldn't read the names properly or read the first name as the last name. – John Sifton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If there's no justice here, there will be no justice for anybody, because it can happen to anyone, it just takes our breath away. The family has not grieved the way they should be grieving. We have not slept the way we should be sleeping. – Richard Cartier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would say we probably have, at any given point, 20 to 25 people, the majority volunteering aside from their day job. They've been working around the clock and they haven't slept for hours, getting these charter flights and just connecting all the dots. So it's an impressive operation given that this is kind of uncharted territory for all of us. – Lexie Rock	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I didn't even know what to do with Michele Neff Hernandez '', every single thing about my life changed, from where I slept, to where I ate... to who was I going to check in with if I had a flat tire. – Michele Neff Hernandez ''	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was warned on Monday that there might be risks associated with the next few days, and as a consequence of those warnings, I did not go to my condo. Instead, I slept on the floor of my office. And when I gave my speech at the Ellipse, I was wearing body armor. – Mo Brooks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People with diabetes who slept badly were 12 % more likely to die over a nine-year followup period than people with diabetes who slept without frequent sleep disturbances. – Kristen Knutson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
( Former Mayor Rudy) Giuliani's office asked me if I would come over and just walk around and shake the hands and tell them that we're supporting all these guys, i went over there three or four days afterward and it was unbelievable. You're standing there and this space is just wide open. I asked them,' What am I going to do ?' They said,' You can cheer them up. People recognize you, you can just support them.' So I did. And it did work. That's how I first got involved with some firemen. Even the ones from out-of-state, mainly some from California recognized me, and I stopped and talked to them. Those guys looked like they hadn't slept in days, they were dirty. I was just saying,' Thanks guys for what you're doing here.' You try to do a little something for them. – Jim Fassel	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are very worried about UNRWA schools-turned-shelters becoming super spreaders, given the overcrowding. In 2014, UNRWA schools did serve as shelters to Palestine refugees in Gaza City who were running for their lives, and who slept for days or weeks in UNRWA schools because they expected the schools to be safer than their homes, this time around the situation is made much more complex by Covid-19 -- the high( infection) rates in Gaza City and the low rates of vaccination. – Tamara Alrifai	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We haven’t slept all night because of the explosions, and now I am out in the street with my wife and children, who are weeping and trembling. – Akram Farouq	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
It's been sleepless nights for the last seven days... I've hardly slept for two hours, i think the global community needs to step forward from now on. It's the lack of oxygen that's going to bring about a huge catastrophe here. – Saugat Poudyal	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In the 1906 California earthquake, some people living 100 miles away slept through The Haiti quake, whereas the New Madrid earthquakes( which happened in 1811 and 1812 in present-day Missouri), it actually rang church bells in Charleston, South Carolina. That has to do with how the waves travel through the crust. There's a difference. – Susan Hough	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I slept on a $5,000 recliner over there. ... It reclined to a bed. – Yvonne Woolard	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's the biggest relief I finally slept through the night, and it's kind of hard to fall asleep when someone you love so much you know that they're not sleeping, and that they're uncomfortable and I know she's a tough girl but she had to be scared. – Jeanne Mack	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I knew when I embarked on this path that there could be blowback, i'm speculating, but if in fact this demotion is the result of blowback, I'm completely at peace with it. I did the right thing. I'm proud of it. I slept great last night. – Neil Chatterjee	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I slept with a gun loaded under my pillow last night, im afraid of him, too. – Jose Lira	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head.

– Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of awkward things happen in the night when people are sleep deprived, drink caffeine too late, drink alcohol too late, worked too late or slept four hours last night because they stayed up too late, the fundamental core and foundation of healthy dream life starts with healthy sleep.

– Nirit Soffer-Dudek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Haven’t slept in so long my memory foam is starting to forget.

– The Blonde Jon

added by TheBlondeJon
1 year ago

White fans would fill the ballparks to see the Black stars, but later, the Black players could not go out into the neighborhoods those White fans came from and eat in a restaurant or find a hotel that would let them stay the night. They ate peanut butter and crackers on the bus and slept on the bus.

– Bob Kendrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we tried our hardest to make sure we were sleeping. We definitely have not slept or ate since the transplant, just anticipating that something bad is going to happen or has happened.

– Baelyn Schwab

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I remember flashes of scenes, later they told me about how they gave me a couple of sleeping pills so I wouldn’t make any noise. I was so knocked out that I slept with my eyes open. My parents were afraid I was dead.

– Ivan Reitman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’ve witnessed the desecration of cherished monuments, like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Terry Fox Statue, displays of hate symbols, like the Confederate flag and the swastika, and all types of bad behavior that have taken away the freedom of our residents to live without fear, many residents have not slept for days due to the noise and disruptions. Many have been shut in by the crowds – a lockdown imposed by the protest itself.

– Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To me, I see it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. How many people can actually say that they stepped on I-95, or they slept on I-95? it’s hopefully a story that I can tell my grandkids one day.

– Marvin Romero

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For about three weeks, we slept in a car with Baxter because I had no idea there was a place, and I was doing some calls and they said you can go to Noah’s, and we’ve been here ever since.

– Ashley Soriano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What was going on was the typical chaos of a bureaucracy under the strain of immense crisis, people at checkpoints hadn't slept well in days, couldn't read the names properly or read the first name as the last name.

– John Sifton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If there's no justice here, there will be no justice for anybody, because it can happen to anyone, it just takes our breath away. The family has not grieved the way they should be grieving. We have not slept the way we should be sleeping.

– Richard Cartier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would say we probably have, at any given point, 20 to 25 people, the majority volunteering aside from their day job. They've been working around the clock and they haven't slept for hours, getting these charter flights and just connecting all the dots. So it's an impressive operation given that this is kind of uncharted territory for all of us.

– Lexie Rock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I didn't even know what to do with Michele Neff Hernandez '', every single thing about my life changed, from where I slept, to where I ate... to who was I going to check in with if I had a flat tire.

– Michele Neff Hernandez ''

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was warned on Monday that there might be risks associated with the next few days, and as a consequence of those warnings, I did not go to my condo. Instead, I slept on the floor of my office. And when I gave my speech at the Ellipse, I was wearing body armor.

– Mo Brooks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People with diabetes who slept badly were 12 % more likely to die over a nine-year followup period than people with diabetes who slept without frequent sleep disturbances.

– Kristen Knutson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

( Former Mayor Rudy) Giuliani's office asked me if I would come over and just walk around and shake the hands and tell them that we're supporting all these guys, i went over there three or four days afterward and it was unbelievable. You're standing there and this space is just wide open. I asked them,' What am I going to do ?' They said,' You can cheer them up. People recognize you, you can just support them.' So I did. And it did work. That's how I first got involved with some firemen. Even the ones from out-of-state, mainly some from California recognized me, and I stopped and talked to them. Those guys looked like they hadn't slept in days, they were dirty. I was just saying,' Thanks guys for what you're doing here.' You try to do a little something for them.

– Jim Fassel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are very worried about UNRWA schools-turned-shelters becoming super spreaders, given the overcrowding. In 2014, UNRWA schools did serve as shelters to Palestine refugees in Gaza City who were running for their lives, and who slept for days or weeks in UNRWA schools because they expected the schools to be safer than their homes, this time around the situation is made much more complex by Covid-19 -- the high( infection) rates in Gaza City and the low rates of vaccination.

– Tamara Alrifai

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We haven’t slept all night because of the explosions, and now I am out in the street with my wife and children, who are weeping and trembling.

– Akram Farouq

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It's been sleepless nights for the last seven days... I've hardly slept for two hours, i think the global community needs to step forward from now on. It's the lack of oxygen that's going to bring about a huge catastrophe here.

– Saugat Poudyal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the 1906 California earthquake, some people living 100 miles away slept through The Haiti quake, whereas the New Madrid earthquakes( which happened in 1811 and 1812 in present-day Missouri), it actually rang church bells in Charleston, South Carolina. That has to do with how the waves travel through the crust. There's a difference.

– Susan Hough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I slept on a $5,000 recliner over there. ... It reclined to a bed.

– Yvonne Woolard

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's the biggest relief I finally slept through the night, and it's kind of hard to fall asleep when someone you love so much you know that they're not sleeping, and that they're uncomfortable and I know she's a tough girl but she had to be scared.

– Jeanne Mack

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I knew when I embarked on this path that there could be blowback, i'm speculating, but if in fact this demotion is the result of blowback, I'm completely at peace with it. I did the right thing. I'm proud of it. I slept great last night.

– Neil Chatterjee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I slept with a gun loaded under my pillow last night, im afraid of him, too.

– Jose Lira

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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