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I tend to really like dramatic jewelry like earrings that graze my shoulders and big cocktail rings, i typically have a stack of bracelets on each wrist that mean something special to me. I never take off my Cartier Juste Un Clou which is engraved with my son's initials and was a gift from my husband when he was born.

Rachel Zoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I tend to really like dramatic jewelry like earrings that graze my shoulders and big cocktail rings, i typically have a stack of bracelets on each wrist that mean something special to me. I never take off my Cartier Juste Un Clou which is engraved with my son's initials and was a gift from my husband when Un Clou was born.

Rachel Zoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not meant to be a medication to take off your last five or 10 pounds to get ready for an event or something like that. It’s not for use of three or four weeks, when we think about weight management, we’re thinking about the next 25 years of someone’s life.

Disha Narang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I look at that enthusiasm for [another season], which is not at all in existence or moving towards existence as of now, to be flattering, we all do. But I also am like still, you know, eyes deep in season three. We’re still worried about this and going episode to episode. I didn’t know we were gonna get to do three seasons. None of us knew that this thing was going to take off the way it did, and people were going to respond to it the way they did.

Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It doesn’t appear to be causing any more severe illness, and so I think that it’s a very different situation circulating today than had it been a year ago, there’s so much more immunity in the population that I don’t think that it’s going to take off.

Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I work for a Class 1 railroad that implemented one of the most egregious attendance policies (Hi-Viz) that requires us to be available to work 92% of the time per month, if we take off one day for a sickness, we are required to [work] 14 days straight to gain points back. That is why we are fighting tooth and nail for sick days.

Adam McKellips

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we take off one day for a sickness, we are required to [work] 14 days straight to gain points back. That is why we are fighting tooth and nail for sick days.

Adam McKellips

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The remarks of the relevant Liu Pengyu congressmen are full of Cold War zero-sum thinking and ideological prejudice, the cooperation between China and the US in economic, financial and other fields is open and aboveboard. The US should take off The US colored glasses and stop disrupting local and non-governmental exchanges between the two countries.

Liu Pengyu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Perhaps you can do a date night trade where you find another family with children, and you can switch off one day each week ; you can have consistent time together, or plan something for when the children are going to bed or a date day or few hours and take off a day at work or leave a few hours early if that's possible.

Rachel Needle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes two of our pilots fight against 10 planes, they take off with a one-way ticket, they understand that perhaps they are going to die.

Yuriy Ignat

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People can still spread the virus to someone like me, who’s immune suppressed. They don’t realize they can, when they take off their masks that puts me in a predicament where I have to be more extra careful now in public.

Mike Olsen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it needs to be said because people have been lied to for two years, they talk about, ‘Oh, by letting someone have a choice to take off their mask and welcoming that choice’ — that that's somehow bullying. Bullying is locking kids out of school, which they did. Bullying is forcing kids to wear masks for eight hours a day, which they did for two years, and are only stopping now because the politics changed.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're able to meet them as they come in, shaken usually, especially the last day and a half, i mean, if we take off now, who's going to serve them? Right?

Benjamin Morrison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was literally mind-blown that Tennessee Titans took me to jail, tennessee Titans were like, ‘ I ’m sorry, Mr. Peterson, but because she had a scratch on her finger,( in) the state of California, we have to take you in. ’ I sit there and watch the plane pull back and take off and I ’m just like, ‘ Wow ! I can not believe this is happening right now. I ’m going to jail, and I literally did n’t do anything. ’ Adrian Peterson in December 2015. ( Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) RAMS' ODELL BECKHAM SUFFERED TORN ACL DURING SUPER BOWL : REPORT.

Adrian Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We thought last year with everyone at home, it would be something fun to do, to have a naming contest, and oh my goodness did it take off.

Anne Meyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But he (the manager) didn't want to move, because I guess instinctually you realize they're probably just going to take off.

Lisa Hodges

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The story of Naaman reminds us that Christmas is the time when each of us needs to find the courage to take off our armor, discard the trappings of our roles, our social recognition and the glitter of this world and adopt the humility of Naaman.

Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Fuel moisture is very low, which means those fuels are ready. If there's any kind of spark, or something to start a fire, those fuels are primed and ready to just take off.

Carol Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If they provided false information to law enforcement that let Brian laundry take off and get a week head start, or if the parents sent law enforcement on a wild goose chase, searching the preserve when he wasn't there, there's certainly a basis to charge them.

Neama Rahmani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was definitely different. I've never been on an airfield where I didn’t really have permission to take off.

Kirby Wedan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They were fleeing the country with their families and were pushing us to take off as soon as possible.

Uzair Khan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our beards bowed down when we got in their presence because they had been running that look way longer than we had, that's for sure, when I was with them a couple of years ago, they were heading off to Europe to play for like two months or something, it was crazy. And I was thinking at the time, not a lot of people have their 70th birthday and then take off to Europe to keep working and keep doing what they love to do.

Willie Robertson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They find these dudes cruising around Winter Garden in my whip, they start the chase, dudes take off in my whip, take off in my whip. Smash it. Lose control of it and crash it into the side of a building.

Terrence Ross

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of us know intuitively that masks in restaurants are fairly comical and mostly theater, because as soon as you sit down at the table, you have to take off your mask to eat and drink.

Mark Alston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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