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No, I have no regrets, i’ve learned through life that regrets only hold you back and basically make you live in the past. And I don’t want to do that. I also don’t want to live too much in the future. I want to be as much as in the present moment, but of course think about future, create a better future. Novak Djokovic has spent more weeks at No. 1 than any other player. Carl Recine/Reuters. – Novak Djokovic	Found on CNN 1 day ago
He asked me to do his eulogy – excuse me, I shouldn’t say that, i spent time with Jimmy Carter, and it’s finally caught up with him. But they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated, because they found a breakthrough. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 9 days ago
The biggest risk is unpredictable side effects, but that’s why so much time and money is being spent on pre-clinical drug development to test for all potential toxicities until we can be as sure as possible that it is safe for Henry. – Christelle Achkar	Found on CNN 10 days ago
It’s just hard for me to tell any member of Congress or the American people that the best use of that dollar spent right now is on F-16s. – Colin Kahl	Found on CNN 18 days ago
How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there. – John Sopko	Found on CNN 23 days ago
I want to be working, i don’t want to be on disability, but I spent $17,000 on medical expenses last year trying to get better. If I didn’t have support and savings, I’d be on the streets. – Sarah Steinberg	Found on CNN 26 days ago
Whatever energy resources are obtained, they’ll be spent on military needs. – Gulnaz Sharafutdinova	Found on CNN 29 days ago
I knew I wanted to find a way to serve, and that led to my first summer internship at EPA. I spent nearly ten years at EPA under presidents of both parties. – Michael Regan	Found on CNN 1 month ago
The best day of our whole trip was in Desenzano, we hired a speedboat and spent a few hours zooming up and down the lake – it was awesome. We were going round Garda Island, that huge palace [ the neo-gothic Villa Borghese, a Venetian-style mansion on Garda’s largest island ]. You could go wherever you wanted. – Rick Turner	Found on CNN 1 month ago
That would tell us that this cross section of citizens, having spent nine months working hard at this, has concluded that at least some of what was done on behalf of the former president to overturn the election results was a crime, i think that’s terrifically significant. – Clark Cunningham	Found on CNN 1 month ago
I don’t think I’ve ever felt as sad or as angry about the lost decades that we spent bickering and arguing about whether climate change was real or not, it is clearly here now, and if we do not act it will get worse. – James Shaw	Found on CNN 1 month ago
We have no way out. We have to stand firm. We need armored vehicles, we need tanks, we need fighter jets, and obviously, we spent a lot of time talking about this together. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 month ago
This is like solving a very large crossword puzzle, most of the effort was spent on transcribing the ciphered letters (150,000 symbols in total), and interpreting them — 50,000 words, enough to fill a book. – George Lasry	Found on CNN 1 month ago
I saved up some money, bought a one-way ticket to New Orleans, and I spent about six weeks driving around the States until my money ran out. – The Kidner Family Graham	Found on CNN 1 month ago
I’ve spent time in Iowa and New Hampshire. This is not random, we’re just trying to figure our way through this. It is an unbelievably momentous decision to say you believe you should be the leader of the United States of America. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 1 month ago
There’s, that’s, you know, a little over $3,000 spent. – George Santos	Found on CNN 1 month ago
We owe it to the American people to provide answers about how their money, whether spent under the Trump administration or Biden administration, was squandered. an abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 month ago
The market for green hydrogen exports has sort of deflated quite dramatically when people realize there’ll be a decade or two before you can actually ship green hydrogen anywhere overseas, people have spent a lot of time including myself looking at green ammonia exports, but again, that’s problematic. It’s far more commercially viable than green hydrogen, but then there’s efficiency loss. – Tim Buckley	Found on CNN 2 months ago
Congress has shelled out more than $100 billion in support to Ukraine since last February, yet we have zero insight into exactly what this money is being spent on, the American people deserve to know exactly where their money is going. – Dan Bishop	Found on FOX News 2 months ago
While most social media apps tend to be addictive, none is more so than Avid TikTok, every day, users spend an average of an hour and a half on TikTok, which is nearly double the average time spent on Facebook or Instagram. – Saif Shahin	Found on CNN 2 months ago
I went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there. – Bam Margera	Found on CNN 2 months ago
I did not know that I had gnarly Covid and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia, as well. i went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there. – Bam Margera	Found on CNN 2 months ago
I’ve spent my career advocating for health equity and environmental justice, because no one should be sickened by the environment in which they live, harmful carbon pollution and smog have a lasting and devastating impact on public health, and strengthening air quality standards means healthier, more sustainable communities. – Doris Browne	Found on CNN 2 months ago
I am the daughter of a woman who at 61 has given so much to this country and is a minimum-wage worker that can’t afford health care, so she’s on Medicaid, and diabetic, i am the daughter of a man who spent 30 years working in an industrial bakery, a union busting company, and the day he retired, he got a frozen pie. He didn’t get a retirement pension and he struggled with Medicare supplemental, covering the cost. – Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez	Found on CNN 2 months ago

No, I have no regrets, i’ve learned through life that regrets only hold you back and basically make you live in the past. And I don’t want to do that. I also don’t want to live too much in the future. I want to be as much as in the present moment, but of course think about future, create a better future. Novak Djokovic has spent more weeks at No. 1 than any other player. Carl Recine/Reuters.

– Novak Djokovic

Found on CNN
1 day ago

He asked me to do his eulogy – excuse me, I shouldn’t say that, i spent time with Jimmy Carter, and it’s finally caught up with him. But they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated, because they found a breakthrough.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
9 days ago

The biggest risk is unpredictable side effects, but that’s why so much time and money is being spent on pre-clinical drug development to test for all potential toxicities until we can be as sure as possible that it is safe for Henry.

– Christelle Achkar

Found on CNN
10 days ago

It’s just hard for me to tell any member of Congress or the American people that the best use of that dollar spent right now is on F-16s.

– Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
18 days ago

How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there.

– John Sopko

Found on CNN
23 days ago

I want to be working, i don’t want to be on disability, but I spent $17,000 on medical expenses last year trying to get better. If I didn’t have support and savings, I’d be on the streets.

– Sarah Steinberg

Found on CNN
26 days ago

Whatever energy resources are obtained, they’ll be spent on military needs.

– Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Found on CNN
29 days ago

I knew I wanted to find a way to serve, and that led to my first summer internship at EPA. I spent nearly ten years at EPA under presidents of both parties.

– Michael Regan

Found on CNN
1 month ago

The best day of our whole trip was in Desenzano, we hired a speedboat and spent a few hours zooming up and down the lake – it was awesome. We were going round Garda Island, that huge palace [ the neo-gothic Villa Borghese, a Venetian-style mansion on Garda’s largest island ]. You could go wherever you wanted.

– Rick Turner

Found on CNN
1 month ago

That would tell us that this cross section of citizens, having spent nine months working hard at this, has concluded that at least some of what was done on behalf of the former president to overturn the election results was a crime, i think that’s terrifically significant.

– Clark Cunningham

Found on CNN
1 month ago

I don’t think I’ve ever felt as sad or as angry about the lost decades that we spent bickering and arguing about whether climate change was real or not, it is clearly here now, and if we do not act it will get worse.

– James Shaw

Found on CNN
1 month ago

We have no way out. We have to stand firm. We need armored vehicles, we need tanks, we need fighter jets, and obviously, we spent a lot of time talking about this together.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 month ago

This is like solving a very large crossword puzzle, most of the effort was spent on transcribing the ciphered letters (150,000 symbols in total), and interpreting them — 50,000 words, enough to fill a book.

– George Lasry

Found on CNN
1 month ago

I saved up some money, bought a one-way ticket to New Orleans, and I spent about six weeks driving around the States until my money ran out.

– The Kidner Family Graham

Found on CNN
1 month ago

I’ve spent time in Iowa and New Hampshire. This is not random, we’re just trying to figure our way through this. It is an unbelievably momentous decision to say you believe you should be the leader of the United States of America.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
1 month ago

There’s, that’s, you know, a little over $3,000 spent.

– George Santos

Found on CNN
1 month ago

We owe it to the American people to provide answers about how their money, whether spent under the Trump administration or Biden administration, was squandered. an abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 month ago

The market for green hydrogen exports has sort of deflated quite dramatically when people realize there’ll be a decade or two before you can actually ship green hydrogen anywhere overseas, people have spent a lot of time including myself looking at green ammonia exports, but again, that’s problematic. It’s far more commercially viable than green hydrogen, but then there’s efficiency loss.

– Tim Buckley

Found on CNN
2 months ago

Congress has shelled out more than $100 billion in support to Ukraine since last February, yet we have zero insight into exactly what this money is being spent on, the American people deserve to know exactly where their money is going.

– Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
2 months ago

While most social media apps tend to be addictive, none is more so than Avid TikTok, every day, users spend an average of an hour and a half on TikTok, which is nearly double the average time spent on Facebook or Instagram.

– Saif Shahin

Found on CNN
2 months ago

I went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there.

– Bam Margera

Found on CNN
2 months ago

I did not know that I had gnarly Covid and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia, as well. i went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there.

– Bam Margera

Found on CNN
2 months ago

I’ve spent my career advocating for health equity and environmental justice, because no one should be sickened by the environment in which they live, harmful carbon pollution and smog have a lasting and devastating impact on public health, and strengthening air quality standards means healthier, more sustainable communities.

– Doris Browne

Found on CNN
2 months ago

I am the daughter of a woman who at 61 has given so much to this country and is a minimum-wage worker that can’t afford health care, so she’s on Medicaid, and diabetic, i am the daughter of a man who spent 30 years working in an industrial bakery, a union busting company, and the day he retired, he got a frozen pie. He didn’t get a retirement pension and he struggled with Medicare supplemental, covering the cost.

– Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez

Found on CNN
2 months ago

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