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They only do what Brussels tells them. – Dorota Marcinkiewicz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That tells us the field has really moved to [the newer reprogrammed] cells. – The Alzheimer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Will the Congress just sit there with their feet getting ever wetter? What's next, forebulge denial? the beauty of the science I work with is that it is all quantified work. It's data. You don't have to believe it or not. You can look it up and the data tells you the story. – Ben DeJong	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Owners do not want the experience at their theater to be a negative one, and going through a metal detector and having their bags checked would become a big inconvenience, my gut tells me that people would say 'Why am I coming here? It must be dangerous. I don't want to bring my children to this theater, so we'll go somewhere else,'. – Tom DeLuca	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My gut tells me that people would say 'Why am I coming here? It must be dangerous. I don't want to bring my children to this theater, so we'll go somewhere else,'. – Tom DeLuca	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That’s pretty astonishing, at least to an atmospheric scientist. That tells you something is happening. – Michael Summers	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Any level-headed person who gets pulled over does what a police officer tells you and there won't be any problems, whether the cop is wrong, you can hash it out in courts after it's over. – Harry Houck	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It doesn't tell you anything about the civilization, but it tells you a civilization is there. – Frank Drake	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part,” Nucatola tells actors posing as organ traffickers. “I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” – Deborah Nucatola	added by anonymous 9 years ago
When you can come up with an 'oh, wow' number, it freezes the other big donors and tells everyone that Bush is going to be in this thing the whole way. – Rich Galen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I hope he comes back, and I hope he tells us soon what his plan is, and if he doesn't, the show will continue regardless. – Al Jean	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There has been an extraordinary, epochal change in the last 25 years, when I was a child in the 1960s, we didn't see tattoos everywhere. But there has been an explosion in popularity, and this tells us a lot about who we are, both culturally and as individuals. – Nicholas Thomas	Found on CNN 9 years ago
His visit will also serve as a marker for how far the World Trade Center has come since Pope Benedict XVI visited the site seven years ago, when it was still an open hole in the ground and closed off to the public, now, it is a beautiful and inspiring place, a symbol of our rebirth and resilience that is full of life, and that honors the victims of the attacks and tells their stories to the world. – Chairman Michael Bloomberg	Found on CNN 9 years ago
What you see with Gov. Christie is what you get. He's a different sort of candidate that tells the truth and talks to voters like adults, he has a proven record of getting things done when the odds are not in his favor. – Samantha Smith	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I just feel good and when I walk the streets, everyone tells me, 'You have to fight Floyd again, you have to fight GGG. You can do it, you can do it', i just feel great physically. I've been taking care of myself. I've been doing the Bernard Hopkins lifestyle. You can turn the clock back to a certain time. – De La Hoya	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That’s kind of my barometer on how we’re doing as a brand, our existing franchisees—the ones who know the good, the bad and the ugly—the fact that they want more and more tells me we’re doing a good job. – Mike Rotondo	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Hopefully this is a wake-up call for people to recognize there's a problem, there is no justification for these outrageous rates but no one tells hospitals they can't charge them. – Gerard Anderson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There is no justification for these outrageous rates but no one tells hospitals they can't charge them, for the most part, there is no regulation of hospital rates and there are no market forces that force hospitals to lower their rates. They charge these prices simply because they can. – Gerard Anderson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Common sense tells us that lifting heavy loads, awkward posture, vigorous activity and slips/trips/falls could cause back pain, these scenarios are commonly encountered in everyday experience, making it easier to tie the two together as cause and effect. – Scott Forseen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is no need for the Fed to raise rates now. The economy simply is not strong enough and that's what today's data tells us. – Adam Sarhan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's just Greece, Greece and Greece, the lack of news in either direction tells you why traders are sitting on their hands. – David Madden	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If a school official tells students that their beliefs can not be expressed in class assignments, it teaches them that religion is bad. – Liberty Institute attorney Jeremy Dys	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This decision tells them that they are not going to be punished for challenging their conviction. – Matthew Segal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It tells me what is a very serious problem, it's not just about Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton. It is about a political system today that is dominated by big money. It's about the Koch brothers being prepared to spend $900 million dollars in the coming election. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 9 years ago

They only do what Brussels tells them.

– Dorota Marcinkiewicz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That tells us the field has really moved to [the newer reprogrammed] cells.

– The Alzheimer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Will the Congress just sit there with their feet getting ever wetter? What's next, forebulge denial? the beauty of the science I work with is that it is all quantified work. It's data. You don't have to believe it or not. You can look it up and the data tells you the story.

– Ben DeJong

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Owners do not want the experience at their theater to be a negative one, and going through a metal detector and having their bags checked would become a big inconvenience, my gut tells me that people would say 'Why am I coming here? It must be dangerous. I don't want to bring my children to this theater, so we'll go somewhere else,'.

– Tom DeLuca

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My gut tells me that people would say 'Why am I coming here? It must be dangerous. I don't want to bring my children to this theater, so we'll go somewhere else,'.

– Tom DeLuca

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That’s pretty astonishing, at least to an atmospheric scientist. That tells you something is happening.

– Michael Summers

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Any level-headed person who gets pulled over does what a police officer tells you and there won't be any problems, whether the cop is wrong, you can hash it out in courts after it's over.

– Harry Houck

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It doesn't tell you anything about the civilization, but it tells you a civilization is there.

– Frank Drake

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part,” Nucatola tells actors posing as organ traffickers. “I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

– Deborah Nucatola

added by anonymous
9 years ago

When you can come up with an 'oh, wow' number, it freezes the other big donors and tells everyone that Bush is going to be in this thing the whole way.

– Rich Galen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I hope he comes back, and I hope he tells us soon what his plan is, and if he doesn't, the show will continue regardless.

– Al Jean

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There has been an extraordinary, epochal change in the last 25 years, when I was a child in the 1960s, we didn't see tattoos everywhere. But there has been an explosion in popularity, and this tells us a lot about who we are, both culturally and as individuals.

– Nicholas Thomas

Found on CNN
9 years ago

His visit will also serve as a marker for how far the World Trade Center has come since Pope Benedict XVI visited the site seven years ago, when it was still an open hole in the ground and closed off to the public, now, it is a beautiful and inspiring place, a symbol of our rebirth and resilience that is full of life, and that honors the victims of the attacks and tells their stories to the world.

– Chairman Michael Bloomberg

Found on CNN
9 years ago

What you see with Gov. Christie is what you get. He's a different sort of candidate that tells the truth and talks to voters like adults, he has a proven record of getting things done when the odds are not in his favor.

– Samantha Smith

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I just feel good and when I walk the streets, everyone tells me, 'You have to fight Floyd again, you have to fight GGG. You can do it, you can do it', i just feel great physically. I've been taking care of myself. I've been doing the Bernard Hopkins lifestyle. You can turn the clock back to a certain time.

– De La Hoya

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That’s kind of my barometer on how we’re doing as a brand, our existing franchisees—the ones who know the good, the bad and the ugly—the fact that they want more and more tells me we’re doing a good job.

– Mike Rotondo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Hopefully this is a wake-up call for people to recognize there's a problem, there is no justification for these outrageous rates but no one tells hospitals they can't charge them.

– Gerard Anderson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There is no justification for these outrageous rates but no one tells hospitals they can't charge them, for the most part, there is no regulation of hospital rates and there are no market forces that force hospitals to lower their rates. They charge these prices simply because they can.

– Gerard Anderson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Common sense tells us that lifting heavy loads, awkward posture, vigorous activity and slips/trips/falls could cause back pain, these scenarios are commonly encountered in everyday experience, making it easier to tie the two together as cause and effect.

– Scott Forseen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is no need for the Fed to raise rates now. The economy simply is not strong enough and that's what today's data tells us.

– Adam Sarhan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's just Greece, Greece and Greece, the lack of news in either direction tells you why traders are sitting on their hands.

– David Madden

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If a school official tells students that their beliefs can not be expressed in class assignments, it teaches them that religion is bad.

– Liberty Institute attorney Jeremy Dys

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This decision tells them that they are not going to be punished for challenging their conviction.

– Matthew Segal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It tells me what is a very serious problem, it's not just about Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton. It is about a political system today that is dominated by big money. It's about the Koch brothers being prepared to spend $900 million dollars in the coming election.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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