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John Roberts is no longer a blank slate, he has an extensive record and that record is far outside the mainstream.

We never intend to harm anybody or hurt anybody. But at the same time, we do not intend to allow people, or organized groups of lawyers, to use Merck as an open blank check.

When I sat in my office and looked at the line board, ... I kept seeing that gaping hole on the right. Modin, Richards and a blank space. There is not another player in our system, not another player who is out there as a free agent or you could trade for, who would fill that gaping hole. When I say Marty is the heart and soul of this team, that's not hyperbole or blowing smoke up his backside.

When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows.

We never intend to harm anybody or hurt anybody, ... But at the same time, we do not intend to allow people, or organized groups of lawyers, to use Merck as an open blank check.

You know it's kind of hard to say from my side looking in. I think that coach Miller is a blank coach. Whether his relationship with the Penn basketball program is secure or not kind of remains to be seen.

The president does not have a blank check that allows him to ignore basic constitutional rights of Americans.

We'll get there the day before and do some promotional work regarding our features. We'll get together and figure out how we're going to do the promotions. But everything is a blank canvas right now.

Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.

This name gives us a blank slate. It does connote geography but it's not being used. It gives us the opportunity to attract attention and define on our own terms just what the geography represents.

We actually see the fans in there now. We've seen it blank and it just looks great. It looks even better with the fans in there screaming.

We are living in this blank white, and for us it's definitely not paradise. If we, as a society, want to treasure freedom of speech, and the way we live, we have to be careful what we endorse.

We are living in this blank white, and for us it's definitely not paradise.

The question is whether or not you're going to put it into things to improve quality of care, or whether you're just going to get a blank check.

We didn't have a lead or early intelligence. The murder took place in the dark from point blank range. The murderer and whoever sent him, it became clear in retrospect, had no connection to the judge, who dealt with civil cases, and we had no idea of the motive.

Writing them a blank check and not being able to have oversight does not achieve that,

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

What I expect from Peerless is probably less than what he expects from himself,'' Falcons owner Arthur Blank said Saturday.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

When one has money like this, you want to invest it the best way possible, where you can maximize the gains from it, ... If you want to get money back to people, I think cutting taxes is a good idea, especially cutting taxes that are doing the most harm to the economy, rather than just giving a blank cheque to people.

We are starting with a blank piece of paper, as will be the Americans,

When I went to work I had nothing but my own Greek in my own hand before me to try to match with English in the blank lines underneath the Greek.

The president of the United States has the fundamental responsibility to protect the country. The president does not have a blank check.

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?

Both teams fought really hard in the second half. Quincy's just so comfortable with what they are doing on offense. We had a couple of 3-pointers and point blank shots that I would liked to have seen fall, but it didn't happen for us.

Tonight, obviously everybody is disappointed with the outcome. But you know what? Tomorrow is the beginning of what we've worked all year for, and that's the opportunity to play in the playoffs. Tomorrow it's a blank page. We can write whatever story we want to, and that's exciting.

Theoretically, our writers will come to us with nothing. And they will leave with the first draft of a novel, a portfolio of poems or even the first act of a play. The biggest monster of writing is the first blank 250 pages and the program is here to help confront those challenges.

We have a chance to do some things here that quite frankly don't exist anywhere else in baseball, ... Namely, the support of an owner that has the trust and confidence in us to say you guys tell me, you guys chart the course, you guys tell us where we need to go and how we need to get there. That's exciting. It's like having a blank canvas if you're an artist and letting your imagination run wild.

This was enormously challenging, because it involved filling 120 blank pages with an actual story and words people say.

What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.

What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

We talk to them about how well they've fared against the best teams in the league ... trying to create positive thoughts. Along with that, we did tell them point blank how important it is to get off to a good start. Obviously, we didn't do that." ()

Through the years, people said, 'You should write a book.' I was like., 'What about?' All of a sudden, I had something to write about. So you ask yourself, 'Who is this for? Is this a money-making venture?' You kind of have a blank slate in terms of all those thoughts. You realize you're not going to make a lot of money on it. You decide you're writing it for your own sense of satisfaction. I just wanted one published copy in my hands.

Vindication is the last thing I feel, ... The only thing I feel is satisfaction that I am no longer being met with blank stares.

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

Before, it was more of a blank stare. Now, he'll turn his eyes to you and look you in the eyes when you talk to him. You can look at his eyes and know if it's him.

Bill Richardson is something of a blank slate to New Hampshire Democrats at this point, even to the core of activists who are paying attention now.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

At some point we have to make some shots. Right now we are not making shots. We had point blank shots at the end to bring us within one. We couldn't bring the ball into the basket.

Consumers weren't adopting a technology that the government thought they should be adopting quickly, so government stepped in and said, you're going to adopt, and we're going to force you to adopt by basically making your television sets go blank if you don't either buy a digital TV or buy a converter box.

Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning.

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

I've been in this gym for five years, and I could not stand seeing that blank wall up there. Every summer we hold a camp, and I tell the fourth- through eighth-graders, 'Look at that wall, who's going to be the first ones to get their year up there?' Thank goodness we don't have to look at that wall anymore.

The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Our entry blank says 33, and if we get to that number and nobody gets bumped like last year, so be it,

Often a blank slate gets to the court and then leans to the left,

After a couple minutes of travel talk, they get that blank look.

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

They have always seemed like they were going to move me. To finally pull the trigger and it be a blank is, on one end, disappointing because I think I could help a team in the playoffs. I'm not getting any younger. It would have been nice to be in the playoffs, for sure. I've been in Edmonton before, so that would have been exciting.

They executed better today than we did. That's point blank what it comes down to. There's no excuse for us only scoring 14 points. I don't care who we're playing or where we're playing. Hey, we came down here to Jacksonville. I felt like we could have won. We should have won, but we didn't execute in the second half at all.

There was nothing going on in this place for it seemed like eternity. Everything just went blank in my mind.

They're asking for a $40 billion blank check. It is a huge amount of money that would be essentially front-ended as appropriations, and then driven independent of Washington oversight.

a thin record of work with constitutional cases. It's not a blank slate, but it's very, very thin.

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.

It's a costume that provides a natural look so we can spring from one character to the next. We don't use costumes or sets; it's just a blank canvas.

It's a blank slate. My only goal is to promote the game of golf so it should all fall into place.

I told people I had a tough time getting $1,000 from those corporate honchos for charity events. But when you start talking about the Olympics, you almost get a blank check.

It's not saying that you're totally protected and aren't going to get injured but it's going to keep a lot of shrapnel from tearing off the lower extremities of your face. We've shot this with a 12-gauge shot gun from point-blank range which is about a meter or three feet. It stopped that. We've shot it with a 44-magnum point-blank range. It stopped that. We shot it with a .357 at point blank range and it stopped all of it.

For a writer to sit before a blank page, as a painter before a white canvass or general before a bloodless field; before the first scribble of creation, is a moment like no other. The writer is consumed by the trice of bliss, jollity, determination, and sensitive to a true and deepest affection.

It's not dissimilar to The Weather Channel where when someone signs on, they don't want to see a blank screen. They want to see what the weather is for their local community.

It's like barrel racing, only you take two .45-caliber Colt revolvers, you shoot a course of fire with blank cartridges, which can break a balloon up to 15 feet.

Eighth-graders tend to be the first ones to show new trends. Most are blank slates and haven't developed habits and are more sensitive to environmental changes. As these eighth graders move up the age spectrum, the high school teenage smoking trends will follow.

Everybody's figuring how they're going to get on with their life. There's probably a shortage of 2,000 boards a week globally now. It'll be months before things are back up to speed where any Joe Blow can get a blank -- maybe even years.

I wanted to make sure that the people in the affected areas get every bit of assistance they absolutely need, ... Writing them a blank check and not being able to have oversight does not achieve that.

I try to keep myself as blank and as unprepared as possible until that moment, ... I have to get my head into his head because it's not strictly about my own tastes and instincts. It's a collaboration.

They are working with a blank map. The good news is they're making really good progress and working very well together. They've looked at a lot of different information and they really, I think, want to minimize the impact of these boundary changes as much as possible.

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

I'm not going to write any blank checks, but in a general concept, I support it, ... The big item is the land, and conceptually we have agreed to do that from the beginning.

I made the point that the president doesn't have a blank check. He didn't choose to engage me on that point.

I'm trying to kind of keep my mind a blank for a while, and just see what filters in, and be non-specific about what I listen to.

I have no emotion. It's a blank in my mind.

If you're doing budget planning in business, you budget for the downside risks, not for the most optimistic scenario. But the federal government doesn't have to worry too much -- it's the only business that has a blank check.

In the courtroom for the last six months, I didn't see much emotion at all. When I looked over there, it was a blank stare,

In some polling stations, blank ballots totaled a quarter of the votes, and in some others, one third of the votes.

In Washington, I'd say the words 'coon supper' and all I'd get is a bunch of blank stares. You have to be from Arkansas to really understand this.

In New York, we used to go outside film studios and get reels of blank film, and we used to draw on them, do flipper books, that sort of thing.

I think my poetry was very influenced-it seems almost dumb to say it-but it was very influenced by Shakespeare. Very early on I read his plays... and, I don't know, I started speaking in blank verse at a rather early age.

I just love making pictures, ... It's really kind of magical to have a blank page and have something form itself on the page under your direction. I think it's that process that's keeps it forever interesting.

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

How can we expect the nation to believe us that we need these projects to save the coastal wetlands that are vital to ourselves and to the nation, when we ask for a blank check and no oversight over $200 billion packed with projects that have nothing to do with either floor protection of the city of New Orleans or restoring the coast?

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

However, it wasn't burnt, neither sold as pulp paper. A few years later, its blank spots were re-used for other sketches.

Collectors just drop signed blank checks in front of the dolls. You're at these shows, and you're like a rock star. You have people come up with magazines and wanting your autograph.

If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.