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Never split yourself for someone else, people change. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 11 months ago
It would not be in your interest to split the bank. – Mark Tucker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Officers are always faced on a day-to-day basis with dangerous situations like that and at times where they have to make split-second decisions where they’re in a potential life-threatening situation. – Dhu Thompson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Though I did not witness the transformation, I was enchanted by these beautiful mammals in a different way, after seeing how botos would sometimes bring their beaks above water, I wanted a split shot at sunset. Though the water was so dark that I was shooting blind, this dolphin gave me a perfect pose and smile. – Kat Zhou	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Here there’s also a split, much more, or as serious as Brazil – Democrats and Republicans are very split up. Love it or leave it, that’s more or less what’s going on. – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda. – Horace Cooper	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Here's the problem for her, and this is the problem for Democrats across the board : Suburban-based unaffiliated voters are split between the economy and between the social issues around abortion, the voters Democrats have a turnout problem with are minorities and young people, who are most affected by inflation. – Paul Shumaker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You had nine people running, eight of which were African American, and one was Shri Thanedar, who was a man of color but Indian descent. The eight African American candidates split the vote among the Black community. – Mario Morrow	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm sure if the court reverses the lower court decisions, there will be a dissent arguing that they should have upheld the decisions. So, it could be a fragmented court, but the majority might be split between people who say diversity is not compelling and people who say, ‘Wait, we still want to recognize that it’s compelling, but we don't believe Harvard or North Carolina offered sufficient evidence that the programs were necessary,'. – Rachel Moran	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There's so much weaselly language about how officers should you know, consider the totality of the circumstances or consider alternatives to chasing people, but there aren't enough black and white rules that officers must follow, and so you get officers in the split-second decision-making circumstances where if they haven't been trained on either yes chase somebody, or don't chase somebody under a circumstance, they are likely to make a wrong decision. – Alexandra Block	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I played a long time ago, and I played for a long time. So things have changed a lot when I first got into the league, my rookie year, a Hall of Fame player on the team, he’s in the Hall of Fame now, invited me over to his house and he gave me the speech about how to take care of yourself in the NFL. And he pulled out some cannabis, crushed it up, split a blunt, opened it up, put the cannabis in there, took a Vicodin, crushed it up, sprinkled the Vico in there, rolled up the blunt and passed it to me. That was a vet, teaching me as a rookie, how to take care of Ricky Williams in the NFL. – Ricky Williams	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If you had asked me( could Kathy Barnette win) two weeks ago, absolutely not, no chance. Today, there is a chance now, absolutely, all I see on television all the time is McCormick and Oz, McCormick and Oz. ... There is the opportunity for the two big money boys to split down the middle and it allows someone to sneak up. – David DeLeon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Given how well the stock has done since the last split, this wasn't a surprise. – Dan Ives	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out. – Dolly Parton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He hoped to dominate Ukraine without a fight – he failed, he hoped to fracture European resolve – he failed. He hoped to weaken the transatlantic alliance – he failed. He hoped to split apart American democracies in terms of our positions – he failed. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It wasn't a split-second use of force like a gunshot. – Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s not a split on the right. It shows you the new right, or the new Republican Party, versus the neocons that are still there, we don’t have any interest — no one in the Trump movement has any interest at all in the Russian-speaking provinces of eastern Ukraine. Zero. – Steve Bannon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The hostage played a sort of hero's role by, in that split second that he had, forcing a breakthrough in this situation, otherwise it could have been a very long and unpleasant night and maybe longer. – Chief Frank Paauw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At the end of the day, he was somewhat handcuffed by the court's orders, he followed the court's order, but I think there was a better way to draw that map to create congressional districts that were more representative of the community, provided for more opportunity for choice… and they just played around the edges and only played in the five towns that were currently split. They just re-split those towns. – Connecticut GOP chairman Ben Proto	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The still shot shows the image of the firearm in the subject’s hands, at the best possible moment when the lighting was fully on him. That’s the moment when the officer had to make a split-second decision to assess the circumstances and to determine whether he felt like there was an articulable threat, that the threat was of imminent harm, great bodily harm or death, and that he needed to take action right then to protect himself and his partners. – Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These days have been quite difficult, very hard because of the absence of my sister. The more days pass, the more the absence is felt. The pain is greater, my heart was split in two and part of it was taken from me. – Maria Camila Montoya	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The most important thing to do : Big nations ca n’t bluff, number one, and number two, the idea that we would do anything to split NATO, which would be a — have a profound impact on one of — I think prominent impact — on one of Putin’s objectives is to weaken NATO — would be a big mistake. – The Ukrainian president	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Split ticket voters have largely disappeared, voters are voting for party, which means lesser known challengers are getting a boost and upsets to even well-funded, relatively popular incumbent party Members of Congress are possible. – Bill McInturff	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is a bit of a split personality in how people react, ron DeSantis will probably go running mask-less into ICU wards without fear. But people in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, California and Pacific Northwest are going to display more caution. – Andy Slavitt	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Never split yourself for someone else, people change.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
11 months ago

It would not be in your interest to split the bank.

– Mark Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Officers are always faced on a day-to-day basis with dangerous situations like that and at times where they have to make split-second decisions where they’re in a potential life-threatening situation.

– Dhu Thompson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Though I did not witness the transformation, I was enchanted by these beautiful mammals in a different way, after seeing how botos would sometimes bring their beaks above water, I wanted a split shot at sunset. Though the water was so dark that I was shooting blind, this dolphin gave me a perfect pose and smile.

– Kat Zhou

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here there’s also a split, much more, or as serious as Brazil – Democrats and Republicans are very split up. Love it or leave it, that’s more or less what’s going on.

– Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda.

– Horace Cooper

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Here's the problem for her, and this is the problem for Democrats across the board : Suburban-based unaffiliated voters are split between the economy and between the social issues around abortion, the voters Democrats have a turnout problem with are minorities and young people, who are most affected by inflation.

– Paul Shumaker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You had nine people running, eight of which were African American, and one was Shri Thanedar, who was a man of color but Indian descent. The eight African American candidates split the vote among the Black community.

– Mario Morrow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm sure if the court reverses the lower court decisions, there will be a dissent arguing that they should have upheld the decisions. So, it could be a fragmented court, but the majority might be split between people who say diversity is not compelling and people who say, ‘Wait, we still want to recognize that it’s compelling, but we don't believe Harvard or North Carolina offered sufficient evidence that the programs were necessary,'.

– Rachel Moran

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's so much weaselly language about how officers should you know, consider the totality of the circumstances or consider alternatives to chasing people, but there aren't enough black and white rules that officers must follow, and so you get officers in the split-second decision-making circumstances where if they haven't been trained on either yes chase somebody, or don't chase somebody under a circumstance, they are likely to make a wrong decision.

– Alexandra Block

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I played a long time ago, and I played for a long time. So things have changed a lot when I first got into the league, my rookie year, a Hall of Fame player on the team, he’s in the Hall of Fame now, invited me over to his house and he gave me the speech about how to take care of yourself in the NFL. And he pulled out some cannabis, crushed it up, split a blunt, opened it up, put the cannabis in there, took a Vicodin, crushed it up, sprinkled the Vico in there, rolled up the blunt and passed it to me. That was a vet, teaching me as a rookie, how to take care of Ricky Williams in the NFL.

– Ricky Williams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you had asked me( could Kathy Barnette win) two weeks ago, absolutely not, no chance. Today, there is a chance now, absolutely, all I see on television all the time is McCormick and Oz, McCormick and Oz. ... There is the opportunity for the two big money boys to split down the middle and it allows someone to sneak up.

– David DeLeon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Given how well the stock has done since the last split, this wasn't a surprise.

– Dan Ives

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.

– Dolly Parton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He hoped to dominate Ukraine without a fight – he failed, he hoped to fracture European resolve – he failed. He hoped to weaken the transatlantic alliance – he failed. He hoped to split apart American democracies in terms of our positions – he failed.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It wasn't a split-second use of force like a gunshot.

– Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s not a split on the right. It shows you the new right, or the new Republican Party, versus the neocons that are still there, we don’t have any interest — no one in the Trump movement has any interest at all in the Russian-speaking provinces of eastern Ukraine. Zero.

– Steve Bannon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The hostage played a sort of hero's role by, in that split second that he had, forcing a breakthrough in this situation, otherwise it could have been a very long and unpleasant night and maybe longer.

– Chief Frank Paauw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the end of the day, he was somewhat handcuffed by the court's orders, he followed the court's order, but I think there was a better way to draw that map to create congressional districts that were more representative of the community, provided for more opportunity for choice… and they just played around the edges and only played in the five towns that were currently split. They just re-split those towns.

– Connecticut GOP chairman Ben Proto

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The still shot shows the image of the firearm in the subject’s hands, at the best possible moment when the lighting was fully on him. That’s the moment when the officer had to make a split-second decision to assess the circumstances and to determine whether he felt like there was an articulable threat, that the threat was of imminent harm, great bodily harm or death, and that he needed to take action right then to protect himself and his partners.

– Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These days have been quite difficult, very hard because of the absence of my sister. The more days pass, the more the absence is felt. The pain is greater, my heart was split in two and part of it was taken from me.

– Maria Camila Montoya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The most important thing to do : Big nations ca n’t bluff, number one, and number two, the idea that we would do anything to split NATO, which would be a — have a profound impact on one of — I think prominent impact — on one of Putin’s objectives is to weaken NATO — would be a big mistake.

– The Ukrainian president

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Split ticket voters have largely disappeared, voters are voting for party, which means lesser known challengers are getting a boost and upsets to even well-funded, relatively popular incumbent party Members of Congress are possible.

– Bill McInturff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is a bit of a split personality in how people react, ron DeSantis will probably go running mask-less into ICU wards without fear. But people in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, California and Pacific Northwest are going to display more caution.

– Andy Slavitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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