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I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"

You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

We learned that we still have an awful lot of work ahead of us.

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

The real problem is that until we get through this earnings period, there's going to be an awful lot of skepticism out there about whether or not companies met their objective, and concern over the economy.

The reality of it is Mr. Blair has already decided to stand down himself - it is a question of timing. The sooner that happens now and we get stability in our party with a new leader who makes their own mark, on what their policies are, what their government is and what the future is, that will be an awful lot better for British work, and men and women, and the British working public.

We asked an awful lot of Jenny tonight. Without Hillary in there, she had to handle the ball most of the time, and she still felt pressure to score. I think after tonight, Jenny and everyone else appreciates all the things Hillary does for us when she's in there.

We concentrated an awful lot on our start tonight. We talked about what we wanted to do and still got off to a horrendous start. We're trying to make something happen and instead we gave a great chance right off the hop to one of the better shooters in the league.

We don't want to enter and not win. We don't want cities spending an awful lot of money and not have a full chance to be victorious.

We have been awful vocal against the referees this year and that might be coming back to bite us. I think we just have to shut our mouths and go out and play.

We have been able to watch a variety of terrain and undertake review of a whole variety of imagery and talk to an awful lot of people over time, ... Factually, those are the places right now we have been led to pay very close attention to.

We really didn't see their transition game other than the first part of the first period. Their forwards are so skilled that they can really turn something very average into something that's very lucrative in an awful hurry. We managed the puck pretty well tonight.

When my bed is empty,/ Makes me feel awful mean and blue./ My springs are getting rusty,/ Living single like I do.

There has been an awful lot of talk and an awful lot of speculation but this is the first time that one of the suitors has been prepared to put hard cash down and put its money where its mouth is. This could help bring this long-running saga to an end and it certainly puts the Nasdaq in pole position.

We just have an awful lot of projects that we are facing,

We just have a lack of focus sometimes. We don't even know which way to turn on a play sometimes. It's awful frustrating. I've never been 0-4 before. We're not this bad. We're better than what we're playing.

We kicked it around and didn't handle bunt defense really well. As a coach, that's a little frustrating to me because we spend an awful lot of time on it. It didn't look that way today.

We're not quite as busy as New York. We don't expect people to be working around the clock. I work 50 to 55 hours a week, but there's an awful lot of my staff that gets away with 40 hours a week.

To me that was the highlight of the day. Big Sky's an awful good team.

We didn't fight real hard for part of the second and things snowballed. They got some quick transition buckets, and we couldn't get shots to drop. Their size makes it awful tough to match up with them; we didn't have real good looks at the basket and we forced some shots.

This was an awful tragedy for the community, but more importantly for the victims and their families. Our goal has been to treat the families fairly and with compassion. This resolution allows the parties to continue to heal both emotionally and physically.

The players showed an awful lot of patience at the plate and we took advantage of the walks. That's good to see.

There are an awful lot of relationships in contemporary America that are unfamiliar to traditional American law. American law is either going to recognize and accommodate them, or to ... rearrange assets in what is basically a random fashion.

There are an awful lot of people that have put time into making this happen, people who aren't looking at the problem and complaining, but looking for a solution to the problem.

There are an awful lot of Floridians right now who are not engaged. But if we get a respite, that may change. We need a little time to catch our breath and start figuring out what tomorrow will bring.

There are an awful lot of floating voters who make up their minds three seconds after they enter the polling booths.

There are an awful lot of cost pressures in the system. While they may not be manifest in final goods prices just yet, the numbers tell you that, unless companies find new ways to cut their costs, profit margins are going to be squeezed.

There are an awful lot of analysts and think tanks out there telling everybody in the world the sky is falling, and they have been consistently wrong.

When you get beat like this it doesn't matter what's happened previously or what's going to happen afterward, ... You feel awful right now. Tomorrow you go in and see what you can correct. Then you move on and respond - hopefully like we did against Buffalo in the preseason.

There are 43 guys in the world that race these things every week. To be one of those 43 guys is awful special. Any time you can win at the highest level, that's all you can ask for as a driver. If he could win one of these this year or whenever, it would make his career for sure.

When you look at the number of yards per carry, when you face a (defensive coordinator) Joe Lee Dunn defense, it concerns me. I have had the opportunity to play (against) him (for) three years when he was at Mississippi State. He creates an awful lot of problems to you as an offense. You can't run a traditional offense against him.

When you do find love--real love, it's the most wonderful, awful feeling in the world. There's nothing like it. Love can make you feel invincible and vulnerable all at the same time. You're trusting someone with the most precious part of you...your heart

When you do back away and look at it, we are awful young. I guess there is a little element of surprise.

The players deserve an awful lot of credit for their approach. They work hard to pull each other through.

We were surprised at the announcement, because it requires a very complex business calculation. It has an awful lot of hurdles at the state level.

We've got three days to go and an awful lot of scenes that aren't filmed yet.

When the e-mail was down after that power outage, it was awful because I had three classes for which I had to do online assignments. I was literally sitting there for hours waiting, checking every 15 minutes to see if it was working.

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

We'd done an awful lot in a short space of time and it seemed easiest to cut the Gordian knot rather than try and untangle the big tangled ball of string.

The president is sleeping comfortably in Crawford, Texas, tonight, ... but there are an awful lot of Americans who are kind of sleepless these days -- they're sleepless about wondering where their job went. They're sleepless about wondering where their health insurance went or whether they are going to have health insurance. They are sleepless wondering whether their kid is going to be the next to die in Iraq.

Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.

Expectations for euro zone growth have been so depressed, it's not taking an awful lot to deliver an upside surprise. Markets have adapted to the very strong growth backdrop in the U.S.

We've been off the gold standard for an awful long time in this country. We want to see NAFTA respected,

We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

We're the largest home improvement company today, ... and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

The government pumped an awful lot of liquidity into an industry that was already suffering, ... We should have just taken the hit then and gotten it over with.

You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.

To see this happen this way, it's just been almost beyond the pale. I know he shoulders an awful lot of this burden. I've seen him do it and I just have an awful lot of respect for him.

We almost showed them too much respect. We were awful in the first, better in the second and did everything we could in the third to try and get ourselves a win.

We almost never have an opportunity to sell any lots - it's very rare. We've had an incredible demand. With a lot, you can build what you want - within limits of design, square footage and caps. That appeals to an awful lot of people because it's not 'as is,' it's as you want it to be.

The original power given to them was assuming that it would be used with discretion, ... Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.

There is so much animosity going on because of them wanting to sell Camp Flying Eagle. And them fighting against him is just a way to add fuel to the fire. For them to sit down there and basically take our father figure away is an awful thing to do. That's when people start going bananas.

We had a great racecar tonight. It was awful exciting to be that decent. To come from ninth and race the way we did, the racecar was just better, plain, flat and simple.

We have accomplished an awful lot, but we are getting to the dangerous part of the mission.

We had to build a new barn and new fencing and be ready to house and feed guests who eat an awful lot and are coming to stay.

We were thrilled to death to have an opportunity to get him back. So it worked out well. It's a plus-plus, and we're awful happy.

We knew coming in that they were a team that was similar to us. We have an awful lot of respect for Peabody, but I'm proud of how my guys gave everything they had out there.

We just kind of stumbled into it. We made a couple of things, and people liked them. And they're willing to pay an awful lot of money for some of the stuff, so we thinking maybe we can make more money at that!

We don't see a downside, however she performs. Missing the cut will not tarnish any of her achievements or lessen her ability. It takes an awful lot of guts for her to do this. People will admire her regardless of the outcome.

You hear an awful lot of talk recently about each party trying to play to its base. We're not just the strongest Democratic region in the state, we're arguably the strongest Democratic region in the nation.

You have two very powerful opposing forces in the market. You have the Fed being very aggressive, lowering interest rates and throwing liquidity back into the market. And you have underlying business trends throughout most of the economy that are awful in many industries and show no signs of improvement. You have to take a side.

You had an awful lot of snow out there. You had it early and you had it long. It's probably going to be difficult (to match) next year.

This year I realized I've got an awful lot on my plate. We are so busy that it's an awful lot to handle and to do a good job. The No. 1 reason I'm not coming back as a coach is because of the time I had to spend away from my wife.

What they did was they failed to produce information pertinent to the subject matter of the lawsuit, and they failed to do so repeatedly. It cost us a lot of time and an awful lot of money.

We spend more time opposing bad bills now than we did in the past. The Legislature is awful compared to what it used to be.

We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.

We just put an awful lot of taxes on a gallon of gas in New York.

What Texas A&M beating Texas really means to me is it just confirms what I said all along - this league is not down. There are some awful good teams in this league.

We lost an awful lot of talent. We knew there would be some uncertainty about us, but it's been a fantastic season. Over time, the players have fit comfortably in their roles. We're playing very well right now and with a lot of confidence.

We missed an awful lot of tackles last year and that's one thing that coach (Marvin) Burke and the defensive staff have spent a lot of time on, helping guys learn how to tackle. Last year, we had kids diving on the ground and trying to dive at people. You've got to play this game on your feet.

We have to draw some conclusions form this game and how to manage the puck. You can learn an awful lot by looking at a loss. This happens.

We understand that Butch Davis inherited an awful football team with virtually no talent. However, why do you keep defending the man (and his talent evaluation skills) when he clearly had awful drafts for the Browns?

We got some awful good looks. Shots that have been falling for us.

You get the impression traders are putting an awful lot of weight on the Fed Chairman stating there could be a pause but that this may not be the end of rate increases. We had conflicting economic data and that leaves traders with nowhere to go but the trend.

You get nervous, but you can't play scared. We've got to get better. That's how you get better. We were awful shaky in the beginning and guys started relaxing a little bit and got better. I was pleased with the way it worked out.

You get a little nervous. But you can't play scared, and we have to get better. We were awful shaky in the beginning, but guys relaxed and started getting better. I was pleased with the work done.

We think it was a wise investment. He's still got an awful lot to learn but he was a real handful for them.

We did an awful lot of homework. We actually started doing the homework going back to when the CBA was announced -- recognizing that depending on what Nik decided to do that we might not have him here.

We did a lot of good things tonight. We've improved an awful lot since the first game of the season. We've got a long way to go still, but we made strides tonight and we've made strides the last three or four weeks.

We had some awful good looks at the basket, but they just didn't go in. And, we didn't shoot free throws very well, either.

Boeing is going through a period of record growth in their commercial airline build rates and they have an awful lot on their plate. And so I think it's great that they've finally got around to making these decisions, getting past them and moving on.

Everything in our program starts in the weight room. If you don't lift weights, it's awful hard to get on the field on Friday night. Our kids turn out and they work pretty hard.

Even though it's improving, there's still an awful lot of people who dropped out of work force and are waiting to be pulled back in.

Everybody got an awful lot from that trip, and it was a wonderful trip,

As tragic as this is, I'm proud ... of my six guys that wrestled this weekend, because they were able to overcome this awful tragedy and wrestle the way I think Caleb would have wanted us to wrestle. To have the guts and the courage to move on is astounding.

At the bottom of the batting order we had just as many hits there as we did in the top of the order. So that's a delight to have that happen. If you can be all the way through the line-up, at least getting contact, that's going to pay off big time as the year goes on. Everyone is going to get more sure of themselves. If you get seven and nine hitting that makes it awful tough. We had some good pokes today.

At this point, any rally is a good rally. You need to see more strength in the Nasdaq to confirm that there really was a significant bottom, but there are an awful lot of stocks doing very well.

Cory Sullivan had quite a day for himself today. Not only did he do the big thing with the leadoff double offensively in the 10th inning, but he made two outstanding defensive plays in center field and covered an awful lot of ground.

Erik is an awful important part to our hockey team. He's going to remain an important part. He just won't be on the ice with us.

There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

There's not an awful lot I can do about it,