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A horse walks down the middle of the road. A human being, on the other hand, sticks to one extreme or the other. – Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk	added by davidb 1 year ago
I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments. – Andie MacDowell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
David Valadao has one vote in the distant past to point to and every other time David Valadao had a chance( to suspend the gas tax) David Valadao did not have the courage to do it on the floor in Sacramento, the reason voters have supported David( David Valadao) throughout the years -- and what they're looking for in a representative -- is somebody who's willing to stand up to their party and take the tough voters. Rudy Salas has no history of that. When tough votes come around, Rudy sticks Rudy Salas finger in the air and changes Rudy Salas vote in the dead of night. That's not leadership. – Robert Jones	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I came here after I finished with events at Damascus Gate, after the march passed through... There were clashes here, and I came to film the young Jews. After they saw that I was filming, they came and told me' don't film.' Then they attacked me. Someone came and sprayed me with pepper spray or tear gas, I don't know exactly, i fell onto the ground, I couldn't see anything. And, after I fell, they came with sticks, they hit me in the head, the back, the leg. They knocked me down, and continued to beat me once I was on the ground. I want to emphasize that Israeli Police, I yelled and screamed, and Israeli Police were on site and didn't do anything. Israeli Police didn't move a finger. – Iyad Harab	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He's attacking right now because he has a goal. And he's not going to let up on this goal. He's not [ at ] a point in time where he can show this kind of weakness, so he has to keep going, so, the question is does he feel confident enough -- despite his claims of everything being on track. Clearly, that's not the case -- does he feel comfortable enough that he is on the right track that he just sticks with that, or is he feeling more and more cornered ? – Beth Sanner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That one felt good. A team I used to play for, those ones always feel good, that one definitely sticks out there for this year. – Colin Blackwell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My grandma is 95. She experienced Stalin. She experienced Hitler. But she says she never ever experienced anything like this, ever. This is barbaric and brutal, she told my mom...' No, don't cry, we are not crying here. We are going to fight. But just give us some guns, so we don't just fight with sticks.'. – Victoria Spartz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Replacing a sugary snack with carrot sticks is likely to improve health -- and have a beneficial effect on CVD risk. That wouldn't be the case when replacing a whole-grain snack with carrots. – Gunter Kuhnle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For me, what I found is if you, you know, it's kind of like when you're going through hell, keep going. It's the only solution. When you get to the other side, you figure out, number one, that you're ten times stronger than you thought you were. And you don't forget that because you experience it. It's not intellectual. Secondly, you find out who your real friends and family are because, in tough times, no one else sticks around. There was grace in that because it made me so much stronger or made me care so much more. – Tony Robbins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a comfort in the familiar, once you got something like that that sticks, people are reluctant to change because of the brand association. – Rita McGrath	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s going to be important for us to have good sticks, stick on puck, win the battles when we have to, if we can continue to play with that kind of speed and aggressiveness, then teams have to chase us. You certainly don’t want to get in a battle with that U.S. team where you’re chasing them around the ice because they’re just too quick. – Craig Ramsay	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s been 20 years going out buying his jerseys, paying for tickets to go to Super Bowls, to games, when somebody is that ingrained in a fan base like Tom was – Tom’s the best to ever play, that’s never going to be debated. But how it ended here, and him sort of not wanting to come back here, it sticks in some fans’ hearts. – Scott Zolak	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
On the one hand we are encouraging, but also on the other hand we do have a set of sticks. – Ned Price	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Child pornography is so dangerous for a child’s mind, their frontal lobes aren’t developed yet, so what they see sticks in their minds. – Julie Perry	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Your whole nose is lined with mucous membranes ... and in the upper part of the nose, there's this very specialized mucous membrane, and that's where you sense smells. And this is really a unique kind of tissue in the body, first of all, it's the only place in the body where a neuron that's coming from the brain directly contacts the outside world … and the part that sticks out in the environment can is what actually can detect an [odor molecule]. … And then and then it sends a signal like straight to the brain. – Andrew Lane	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The road to get to this point, has never been just about my race, ethnicity, culture or any of the immutable or unchangeable demographics. The main ingredients are critically more powerful than that.I was born and raised on military bases across the US and even Stuttgart, Germany. I am the daughter of an amazing officer’s wife and kindergarten teacher and social worker whose family was a mix of Haitian and Native American. And I’m the daughter of a military combat pilot who came from the sticks of east Texas.My parents taught me that our skin color and hair texture will always identify us to people who choose only to see that. But, we must work hard to ensure our success reflects our individual gifts, diversity of thought and experience. – Harris Faulkner	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
People in this country have no appreciation of how fortunate we are and how easily we could return to some level of normalcy if everybody would just do their part, and I think it is unfortunately going to take sticks because we're all out of carrots. – Dimitri Christakis	Found on CNN 3 years ago
With the alarming rise of Delta Air Lines variant covid cases companies face the tough decision of providing a safe workplace by using carrots and sticks to get employees to vaccinate or impose a vaccine mandate at the risk of alienating and possibly losing some employees, it seems more likely that a big stick will motivate employees more than small carrots will. – Joe Holt	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I've known Tony for over 20 years. He comes from a great family. He's a wonderful person, obviously, he hadn't won in a while, but he never complained. He just sticks his head down, goes about his business. It was a really popular win in the locker room. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We need more money for lots of things. Sometimes our schools can't even afford to buy more glue sticks when they run out. Mental health facilities here always have long waiting lists, boris Johnson went to Eton. I don't think Boris Johnson's going to understand what it's like to live in Redruth. I don't think the G7 is going to mean much. – Martha Richards	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think one that sticks out to me, has to be the 3,000-hit game, just the way he got it ... it was just kind of a perfect storm for a great career milestone. – Cavan Biggio	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think this is a careful, thought-out plan. Now, there are questions that remain. I’m happy to let you know that the administration has agreed to a classified briefing for all senators which we’ll have shortly so questions can be answered, you want to make sure that this Sept. 11 date is ... a date that sticks and it’s not kicking the can down the road. – Chuck Schumer	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We did a good job bearing down and we didn’t give up on those plays off the post, our guys were still whacking the sticks around the net. But it can go either way. And that’s kind of what the hockey Gods wanted for us, I guess. – Scott Wedgewood	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The language change on the first day of this administration, with Kamala Harris the daughter of immigrants, to me it's not just symbolic... it's foundational, how we describe people really sticks. It affects how we treat them. – Jose Antonio Vargas	Found on CNN 3 years ago

A horse walks down the middle of the road. A human being, on the other hand, sticks to one extreme or the other.

– Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

added by davidb
1 year ago

I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments.

– Andie MacDowell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

David Valadao has one vote in the distant past to point to and every other time David Valadao had a chance( to suspend the gas tax) David Valadao did not have the courage to do it on the floor in Sacramento, the reason voters have supported David( David Valadao) throughout the years -- and what they're looking for in a representative -- is somebody who's willing to stand up to their party and take the tough voters. Rudy Salas has no history of that. When tough votes come around, Rudy sticks Rudy Salas finger in the air and changes Rudy Salas vote in the dead of night. That's not leadership.

– Robert Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I came here after I finished with events at Damascus Gate, after the march passed through... There were clashes here, and I came to film the young Jews. After they saw that I was filming, they came and told me' don't film.' Then they attacked me. Someone came and sprayed me with pepper spray or tear gas, I don't know exactly, i fell onto the ground, I couldn't see anything. And, after I fell, they came with sticks, they hit me in the head, the back, the leg. They knocked me down, and continued to beat me once I was on the ground. I want to emphasize that Israeli Police, I yelled and screamed, and Israeli Police were on site and didn't do anything. Israeli Police didn't move a finger.

– Iyad Harab

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He's attacking right now because he has a goal. And he's not going to let up on this goal. He's not [ at ] a point in time where he can show this kind of weakness, so he has to keep going, so, the question is does he feel confident enough -- despite his claims of everything being on track. Clearly, that's not the case -- does he feel comfortable enough that he is on the right track that he just sticks with that, or is he feeling more and more cornered ?

– Beth Sanner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That one felt good. A team I used to play for, those ones always feel good, that one definitely sticks out there for this year.

– Colin Blackwell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My grandma is 95. She experienced Stalin. She experienced Hitler. But she says she never ever experienced anything like this, ever. This is barbaric and brutal, she told my mom...' No, don't cry, we are not crying here. We are going to fight. But just give us some guns, so we don't just fight with sticks.'.

– Victoria Spartz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Replacing a sugary snack with carrot sticks is likely to improve health -- and have a beneficial effect on CVD risk. That wouldn't be the case when replacing a whole-grain snack with carrots.

– Gunter Kuhnle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For me, what I found is if you, you know, it's kind of like when you're going through hell, keep going. It's the only solution. When you get to the other side, you figure out, number one, that you're ten times stronger than you thought you were. And you don't forget that because you experience it. It's not intellectual. Secondly, you find out who your real friends and family are because, in tough times, no one else sticks around. There was grace in that because it made me so much stronger or made me care so much more.

– Tony Robbins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a comfort in the familiar, once you got something like that that sticks, people are reluctant to change because of the brand association.

– Rita McGrath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s going to be important for us to have good sticks, stick on puck, win the battles when we have to, if we can continue to play with that kind of speed and aggressiveness, then teams have to chase us. You certainly don’t want to get in a battle with that U.S. team where you’re chasing them around the ice because they’re just too quick.

– Craig Ramsay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s been 20 years going out buying his jerseys, paying for tickets to go to Super Bowls, to games, when somebody is that ingrained in a fan base like Tom was – Tom’s the best to ever play, that’s never going to be debated. But how it ended here, and him sort of not wanting to come back here, it sticks in some fans’ hearts.

– Scott Zolak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

On the one hand we are encouraging, but also on the other hand we do have a set of sticks.

– Ned Price

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Child pornography is so dangerous for a child’s mind, their frontal lobes aren’t developed yet, so what they see sticks in their minds.

– Julie Perry

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Your whole nose is lined with mucous membranes ... and in the upper part of the nose, there's this very specialized mucous membrane, and that's where you sense smells. And this is really a unique kind of tissue in the body, first of all, it's the only place in the body where a neuron that's coming from the brain directly contacts the outside world … and the part that sticks out in the environment can is what actually can detect an [odor molecule]. … And then and then it sends a signal like straight to the brain.

– Andrew Lane

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The road to get to this point, has never been just about my race, ethnicity, culture or any of the immutable or unchangeable demographics. The main ingredients are critically more powerful than that.I was born and raised on military bases across the US and even Stuttgart, Germany. I am the daughter of an amazing officer’s wife and kindergarten teacher and social worker whose family was a mix of Haitian and Native American. And I’m the daughter of a military combat pilot who came from the sticks of east Texas.My parents taught me that our skin color and hair texture will always identify us to people who choose only to see that. But, we must work hard to ensure our success reflects our individual gifts, diversity of thought and experience.

– Harris Faulkner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

People in this country have no appreciation of how fortunate we are and how easily we could return to some level of normalcy if everybody would just do their part, and I think it is unfortunately going to take sticks because we're all out of carrots.

– Dimitri Christakis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

With the alarming rise of Delta Air Lines variant covid cases companies face the tough decision of providing a safe workplace by using carrots and sticks to get employees to vaccinate or impose a vaccine mandate at the risk of alienating and possibly losing some employees, it seems more likely that a big stick will motivate employees more than small carrots will.

– Joe Holt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I've known Tony for over 20 years. He comes from a great family. He's a wonderful person, obviously, he hadn't won in a while, but he never complained. He just sticks his head down, goes about his business. It was a really popular win in the locker room.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We need more money for lots of things. Sometimes our schools can't even afford to buy more glue sticks when they run out. Mental health facilities here always have long waiting lists, boris Johnson went to Eton. I don't think Boris Johnson's going to understand what it's like to live in Redruth. I don't think the G7 is going to mean much.

– Martha Richards

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think one that sticks out to me, has to be the 3,000-hit game, just the way he got it ... it was just kind of a perfect storm for a great career milestone.

– Cavan Biggio

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think this is a careful, thought-out plan. Now, there are questions that remain. I’m happy to let you know that the administration has agreed to a classified briefing for all senators which we’ll have shortly so questions can be answered, you want to make sure that this Sept. 11 date is ... a date that sticks and it’s not kicking the can down the road.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We did a good job bearing down and we didn’t give up on those plays off the post, our guys were still whacking the sticks around the net. But it can go either way. And that’s kind of what the hockey Gods wanted for us, I guess.

– Scott Wedgewood

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The language change on the first day of this administration, with Kamala Harris the daughter of immigrants, to me it's not just symbolic... it's foundational, how we describe people really sticks. It affects how we treat them.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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