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This is a big deal for the insurance companies, and they’ve woken up recently to this, the estimates of risk they use to price properties and premiums are 50 years out of date, and the climate has changed enough to make their data useless. – Kerry Emanuel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I remember being woken up on a Saturday morning to go move someone's couch, we would support her but we were very disgruntled about it. – Meymuna Hussein-Cattan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've been trying to bump him up to six, but it hasn't worked so far, he's woken up pretty miserable the next day. – Kim Ford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They said that we were banning the word, that we were banning people, all things that aren’t true, i think that’s backfiring because the American people have woken up over the past five or six years and realized not to believe what you’re hearing. Do your own research. – Joe Harding	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So I think people certainly have woken up to that, larry Elder . '' certainly makes the contrast with this campaign, this candidacy, much easier to express. – Gavin Newsom	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've never woken up having panic attacks before this year, all of this is because we can't control and run our business. – Matthew Haines	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think both Minister Boris Johnson and... Priti Patel and some other government MPs did misjudge the situation right from the start, but certainly, in as much as The Government's woken a few people up who perhaps didn't realize that Priti Patel has said this, that does make things a little bit more awkward for The Government than perhaps they were before. – Tim Bale	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My 15-year-old daughter was woken up by the sound of stones being thrown at her bedroom window, I was then woken up by her terrified screams, there was nothing we could do but protect and defend ourselves with any tools we have, it's either we defend ourselves or we get killed. – Khaled Zabarqah	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't think the global leadership has woken up to the scenario of how bad this delay can be for the world. – Shruti Rajagopalan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it will be a turning point in the long run. I think in the short-term there were a number of people who have kind of woken up to it, but there's a number who haven't. – Denver Riggleman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We told him that he is our hero, if it wasn't for him, we probably never would have woken up. – Angie Martinez	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Many hospitals in this country, as of last week, really had not woken up to what this was about to throw at them and had not begun putting measures in place to be ready for that. – Jeremy Konyndyk	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Its woken up gun owners across the state. – League President Philip Van Cleave	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Without the notification, I would have woken up the next morning, hopefully, and been in a really serious situation. – Marie Bourque	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
None of it really seems real right now. We were sitting here yesterday evening having drinks with my best friend's fiancé, i go home, go to bed, get woken up two hours later that he's deceased, and she held him till he took his last breath, and tried to bring him back and keep pressure on his gunshot wound. And it was just one fatal shot that took him from us. – Shay Celedon	Found on CNN 4 years ago
To go from what was a high school rugby paddock to the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs is indicative of the level of professionalism that's come to the game, (USA Rugby) is no longer a sleeping giant as everyone wants to call it, it's woken up and it's happening – I think it's just going through breakfast at the moment. – James Hilterbrand	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every law firm and lobbyist who does this stuff has woken up, nobody would wish what's happening to Greg Craig on anyone. I think Greg Craig will be Greg Craig regardless of the result. – Andrew Herman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Early Tuesday morning we were woken up by our four-year-old son who was crying so hard he could barely talk, as I was trying to understand what he was saying, my husband flew out of bed and down the stairs. It was then that the realization hit. He had said: Kloe. Inside. Washer. – Lindsey McIver	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
To be fair in the past, we’ve always said the United States were our sleeping giant. It actually woken up before the Olympics, but of course with Shuster and his team winning gold, I mean it’s now gone crazy. – Kate Caithness	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I was in bed sleeping, they woke me up, woken up to them busting in on my front door, and I went out in the hallway in the dark, and I met this one guy, and he went to grab me and that’s when I shot him. – Don Lutz	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I was in Germany recovering and had just woken up and I saw [U.S. Ambassador to the UN] Susan Rice mention it as the cause. Honestly, my first thoughts were that this was typical for this administration – spinning the truth. – State Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If there's any silver lining in Texas making such an egregiously unconstitutional law, it's that I think people have woken up and people are thinking you can't taking any rights for granted, you cannot sleep on your rights. – Dawn Porter	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
People have woken from a nightmare. – David Kelly	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Venezuela hasn't woken up yet, perhaps because of fear, the opposition needs to project itself more strongly, with a better message. – Frankys Henriquez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

This is a big deal for the insurance companies, and they’ve woken up recently to this, the estimates of risk they use to price properties and premiums are 50 years out of date, and the climate has changed enough to make their data useless.

– Kerry Emanuel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I remember being woken up on a Saturday morning to go move someone's couch, we would support her but we were very disgruntled about it.

– Meymuna Hussein-Cattan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've been trying to bump him up to six, but it hasn't worked so far, he's woken up pretty miserable the next day.

– Kim Ford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They said that we were banning the word, that we were banning people, all things that aren’t true, i think that’s backfiring because the American people have woken up over the past five or six years and realized not to believe what you’re hearing. Do your own research.

– Joe Harding

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So I think people certainly have woken up to that, larry Elder . '' certainly makes the contrast with this campaign, this candidacy, much easier to express.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've never woken up having panic attacks before this year, all of this is because we can't control and run our business.

– Matthew Haines

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think both Minister Boris Johnson and... Priti Patel and some other government MPs did misjudge the situation right from the start, but certainly, in as much as The Government's woken a few people up who perhaps didn't realize that Priti Patel has said this, that does make things a little bit more awkward for The Government than perhaps they were before.

– Tim Bale

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My 15-year-old daughter was woken up by the sound of stones being thrown at her bedroom window, I was then woken up by her terrified screams, there was nothing we could do but protect and defend ourselves with any tools we have, it's either we defend ourselves or we get killed.

– Khaled Zabarqah

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't think the global leadership has woken up to the scenario of how bad this delay can be for the world.

– Shruti Rajagopalan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it will be a turning point in the long run. I think in the short-term there were a number of people who have kind of woken up to it, but there's a number who haven't.

– Denver Riggleman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We told him that he is our hero, if it wasn't for him, we probably never would have woken up.

– Angie Martinez

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Many hospitals in this country, as of last week, really had not woken up to what this was about to throw at them and had not begun putting measures in place to be ready for that.

– Jeremy Konyndyk

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Its woken up gun owners across the state.

– League President Philip Van Cleave

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Without the notification, I would have woken up the next morning, hopefully, and been in a really serious situation.

– Marie Bourque

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

None of it really seems real right now. We were sitting here yesterday evening having drinks with my best friend's fiancé, i go home, go to bed, get woken up two hours later that he's deceased, and she held him till he took his last breath, and tried to bring him back and keep pressure on his gunshot wound. And it was just one fatal shot that took him from us.

– Shay Celedon

Found on CNN
4 years ago

To go from what was a high school rugby paddock to the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs is indicative of the level of professionalism that's come to the game, (USA Rugby) is no longer a sleeping giant as everyone wants to call it, it's woken up and it's happening – I think it's just going through breakfast at the moment.

– James Hilterbrand

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every law firm and lobbyist who does this stuff has woken up, nobody would wish what's happening to Greg Craig on anyone. I think Greg Craig will be Greg Craig regardless of the result.

– Andrew Herman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Early Tuesday morning we were woken up by our four-year-old son who was crying so hard he could barely talk, as I was trying to understand what he was saying, my husband flew out of bed and down the stairs. It was then that the realization hit. He had said: Kloe. Inside. Washer.

– Lindsey McIver

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

To be fair in the past, we’ve always said the United States were our sleeping giant. It actually woken up before the Olympics, but of course with Shuster and his team winning gold, I mean it’s now gone crazy.

– Kate Caithness

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was in bed sleeping, they woke me up, woken up to them busting in on my front door, and I went out in the hallway in the dark, and I met this one guy, and he went to grab me and that’s when I shot him.

– Don Lutz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was in Germany recovering and had just woken up and I saw [U.S. Ambassador to the UN] Susan Rice mention it as the cause. Honestly, my first thoughts were that this was typical for this administration – spinning the truth.

– State Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If there's any silver lining in Texas making such an egregiously unconstitutional law, it's that I think people have woken up and people are thinking you can't taking any rights for granted, you cannot sleep on your rights.

– Dawn Porter

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People have woken from a nightmare.

– David Kelly

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Venezuela hasn't woken up yet, perhaps because of fear, the opposition needs to project itself more strongly, with a better message.

– Frankys Henriquez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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