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We often bonded over stories and laughs about our mutual challenges raising families with three strong-willed daughters, up until the very end, Don was a fighter. Even though he battled cancer and faced other trials in recent years, he never lost his focus on social and environmental justice. Tonight, Virginia has lost a great leader and I have lost a great friend. – Mark Warner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Incredible. Put us on his back, willed us to a win, a much-needed win. A game we had to have. Came out and showed why he’s one of the best players to ever play this game and why this organization has been able to ride him to so much success. Just absolutely incredible. – Draymond Green	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I’m happy that the people did do that because it fueled an already highly competitive, strong-willed, Maestro of a point guard and basketball player, never want to count out a guy like Chris. – Monty Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think because of the way that my personality is—I’m a very strong-willed person, and I think at the time I was very alpha—I’m coming to realize that I may have felt a feeling of superiority, the World's a Little Blurry. – Billie Eilish	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They're very similar and very strong willed, their goal was the same goal and that was to win championships. – Kobe Bryant	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Change is the end result of an efortful journey. To dawn it, it must be proposed to, agreed, and willed by oneself. – Brian Deschanel	added by Londoner0870 5 years ago
They were both pretty strong-willed and accustomed to having their own way, so there were bound to be collisions. – Anne Glenconner	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
She is so strong-willed. It's just amazing how strong she really is. – Julie Northcott	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are all hoping that our players will be fully in the game, will give themselves entirely, and most importantly, that they play the strong-willed, uncompromising soccer that the fans value and love. – Thursday Putin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
All the planning she did, every bit of it. She pretty much willed the knife in my hand to commit the deed herself. She is the mastermind behind the entire thing. – Nicholas Paul Godejohn	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She is strong minded and strong willed, but with men that is often seen as a virtue. – Business Minister Shriti Vadera	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
She's still strong-willed, she has her allies, and it would be great if she had more that fought like her. – Nathan Ballentine	Found on CNN 8 years ago
He's a strong-willed guy, he'd give you the shirt off his back. He was so excited to become a father. – Katie Griffin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've always been quite strong-willed and bull-headed about the way I wanted to be as an artist, taking songs was never an option for me because as a performer I want to translate the message and emotion that comes from that song, so if I haven't written it how am I supposed to understand it? – Ella Eyre	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Mr. Scaasi was a character. He was a wonderful man and designer -- certain days I wanted to strangle him, he was temperamental, strong willed and always had to get the last say. And he was a wonderful boss. – Glendina West	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is an honor to be part of this historic event, i dedicate this fight to all the fans who willed this fight to happen and, as always, to bring glory to the Philippines and my fellow Filipinos around the world. – Manny Pacquiao on May 2	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. – Thomas Troward	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time. – Colette	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly. – Claude M. Bristol	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We often bonded over stories and laughs about our mutual challenges raising families with three strong-willed daughters, up until the very end, Don was a fighter. Even though he battled cancer and faced other trials in recent years, he never lost his focus on social and environmental justice. Tonight, Virginia has lost a great leader and I have lost a great friend.

– Mark Warner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Incredible. Put us on his back, willed us to a win, a much-needed win. A game we had to have. Came out and showed why he’s one of the best players to ever play this game and why this organization has been able to ride him to so much success. Just absolutely incredible.

– Draymond Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m happy that the people did do that because it fueled an already highly competitive, strong-willed, Maestro of a point guard and basketball player, never want to count out a guy like Chris.

– Monty Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think because of the way that my personality is—I’m a very strong-willed person, and I think at the time I was very alpha—I’m coming to realize that I may have felt a feeling of superiority, the World's a Little Blurry.

– Billie Eilish

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

– Kobe Bryant

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Change is the end result of an efortful journey. To dawn it, it must be proposed to, agreed, and willed by oneself.

– Brian Deschanel

added by Londoner0870
5 years ago

They were both pretty strong-willed and accustomed to having their own way, so there were bound to be collisions.

– Anne Glenconner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

She is so strong-willed. It's just amazing how strong she really is.

– Julie Northcott

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are all hoping that our players will be fully in the game, will give themselves entirely, and most importantly, that they play the strong-willed, uncompromising soccer that the fans value and love.

– Thursday Putin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

All the planning she did, every bit of it. She pretty much willed the knife in my hand to commit the deed herself. She is the mastermind behind the entire thing.

– Nicholas Paul Godejohn

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She is strong minded and strong willed, but with men that is often seen as a virtue.

– Business Minister Shriti Vadera

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

She's still strong-willed, she has her allies, and it would be great if she had more that fought like her.

– Nathan Ballentine

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He's a strong-willed guy, he'd give you the shirt off his back. He was so excited to become a father.

– Katie Griffin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I've always been quite strong-willed and bull-headed about the way I wanted to be as an artist, taking songs was never an option for me because as a performer I want to translate the message and emotion that comes from that song, so if I haven't written it how am I supposed to understand it?

– Ella Eyre

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mr. Scaasi was a character. He was a wonderful man and designer -- certain days I wanted to strangle him, he was temperamental, strong willed and always had to get the last say. And he was a wonderful boss.

– Glendina West

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is an honor to be part of this historic event, i dedicate this fight to all the fans who willed this fight to happen and, as always, to bring glory to the Philippines and my fellow Filipinos around the world.

– Manny Pacquiao on May 2

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

– Georges Bataille

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

– Thomas Troward

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

– Colette

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.

– Claude M. Bristol

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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