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This wasn't the smartest thing for the guys to organize, but my client didn't do that. It was really blown out of proportion.

Whatever happens, happens. I'm open to anything. It's just too bad that things got blown out of proportion the way they did. It shows that we're not perfect as human beings. None of us are perfect.

We've gone from getting blown out to being competitive every game. We're not playing like a 5-13 team but like a 13-5 team, and that says something about the character of this team. Character will take you a long way.

Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't get much better than this!

Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in that way,

Huge. We're on a nine-game losing streak. We were playing on national TV. We didn't want to go out and embarrass ourselves getting blown out in the game.

He was absolutely blown away by winning. He was so shocked when I saw him afterward it just hadn't sunk in at all.

He wanted a minute to look at the injury and that kind of got blown out of proportion. That's why he was out. That's probably the biggest mystery to all of this.

Has the place blown up since he's been here?

I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.

Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country.

I think it has been blown out of proportion that the grass was meant to make them uncomfortable. It was all about our being comfortable. It's the surface Andy is most comfortable on and I think he's the second best grass court player in the world.

I think it emboldens us in one way, and that is if anybody thought that an editorial cartoon doesn't have an impact, I think that's pretty much blown out of the water no pun intended.

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

I think it's embarrassing, ... especially when you're an NFL football team full of professional athletes getting blown out -- which it was. I mean, let's call it what it was: a blowout.

I think it's been blown way out of proportion. (My name was brought into this) because they might have known I was friends with Jeremy, but I didn't give him tickets to the bowl game. They're placing the blame on me like I'm the one who's doing all this crazy stuff, but it didn't happen like that.

It comes down to those 25 points. That's what it comes down to. You can say, 'Well we had blown engines.' But everybody else had blown engines. Everybody had wrecks. That's part of racing. The 25 points was not part of racing. The 25 points was robbery.

I think the indictments put this on the national news. But in terms of what the effect is on the race, I think sometimes that gets blown out of proportion. Ethics was already a question in this race.

I think the Nasdaq is playing catch-up, because we have had a full blown correction in most of the major indexes, but the Nasdaq hung up there I think toward participating fully,

I think the guys are all learning their roles now. But we've still got a long ways to go. I expect Livingstone to come in and play hard. It's a division game they want to win, and it's not like they've been getting blown out a lot.

I think we're pretty resilient. And I think our kids are all fighters. We could have been down and out a number of times this year. But we have a lot of fight. Other than our game at Fresno State, we haven't been blown out all year. That's a tribute to the work and fight of this team. It's pretty good for a team that many thought wouldn't five games.

I think what has happened to him is out of line. They've blown this out of proportion big time. He didn't mean any harm. Anybody who knows him knows he's a sarcastic person. What he said was more of an analogy.

I think it was good for us mentally. We haven't blown a team out in a while, and I think it was good for our confidence.

I think it was good for us mentally. We haven't blown a team out in a while. ... Confidence is sometimes such a fleeting thing. Honestly, this game was probably better for us mentally than physically other than to get the rust off.

I think it was exactly what we needed. Hopefully, it translates (tonight). I don't know if payback is the right word, but it's nice when you get blown out like that to have a game right away against the same team.

It is not just economic spring returning to the German recovery, it looks like full blown summer has arrived for German business confidence.

I think some of this (criticism) is blown out of proportion. There's a lot they're very happy about as well.

Last year, in addition to the hurricane situation, we responded to 30 disasters here in Henderson County. The bulk of those were single-family fires. They were certainly full blown disasters to the victims and it's our chapter's responsibility to recruit, train and organize people to help them.

I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.

I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.

I was just totally blown away by the humor and grace, and ability... to bring her characters to life. The voice is so confiding and so honest.

I think the whole thing, unfortunately, has been blown out of proportion,

I think there are some bugs to be worked out. What occurred the other night, you would think that's a play that should have been reviewed and overturned and was probably a blown call.

Just getting back into the game and making it a game is all heart. It feels bad, though, because we don't give that effort in the beginning and then we start showing the heart when we're about to get blown out. You have to play like that in the beginning and get stronger as the game goes on.

I saw it in August of '77 when I was 11 years old, ... It was the perfect film for a young boy. Up until that point, science fiction/fantasy films were very hit and miss. I remember the buildup for Logan's Run and seeing the movie and being completely disappointed. But Star Wars delivered. I was completely blown away. I've seen every one since.

I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

People are going to be blown away when they get a PS3 and play it.

People are going to be blown away. They'll be taken back to old-world Tuscany.

People are drawing their own inferences and conclusions based on what they see on television. The reports of 85 people killed one day and 55 people killed the next day and mosques blown up, it's hard for people not to think that this does not represent instability and a lack of progress.

Our chimney was blown off and part of our roof was damaged, and we had some water damage. But there have been many more people shaken than we are, of course.

Our scoreboard is blown down, and our lights have to be checked out,

Our coach kept telling us to stick it out for 40 minutes. After getting blown out at Stanford, it took a lot for us to come back and regroup, but we did that.

Rob Thomas' Stripped performance is honest and pure, ... I was especially blown away by his interpretation of 'Borderline.'

Pipelines can be blown up, and they are fairly easy to blow up. The day they did it, it would get headlines in all the papers. The problem is you would have it fixed in a matter of days.

People who use it are just blown away. This is not something that just the lunatic fringe does.

Some of these pieces are huge. This is some of the biggest blown pieces that exist.

My parents leased the house, just like any normal family would. It's kind of funny how this whole story is getting blown out of proportion.

My phone certainly has blown up today. People want to know what's going on.

Marc and Robert are both very dear friends of mine, and when I was told that they would be designing a T-shirt in honor of me and donating the proceeds to a charity that was very dear to my heart, I was completely blown away by their generosity and thoughtfulness.

It feels great. We came out and played really hard. Before the game, people were saying we were going to get blown out.

It doesn't help (that) this idiot Jimmy Carter has just come out for this port deal. I mean . . . Jimmy Carter's just blown this deal sky-high by coming out and endorsing it.

I thought no matter who I ran against in that anchor that I couldn't be blown away. I felt I could run with all of them. But every single leg of this relay was awesome. We all depended on each other. It takes four to run a relay.

I thought he had blown the motor when I saw the smoke, ... He was turning it real hard.

I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away.

I thought it was fairly clean. I thought everybody respected the spirit of the rules. I think the whole bump-drafting thing has been blown out of proportion. It's what has made this sport fun.

Just because Marilyn Monroe might have blown her nose in a room doesn't make it historic,

I'm so self-absorbed. I do my job, I get my hair blown out, go back to the house, I'm done. I have no desire to be friends with celebs.

I'm shocked. I'm blown away. She was the lone freshman in the top 20 in the conference in many categories and it's hard to see why she wouldn't be freshman of the year.

That was a sign of a chink in our armor and nobody really realized it. We had a winning record at that point and we thought we didn't have a problem even though we got blown out. We really did, though.

That was the perfect situation -- a one-run game the first day back (after the blown save), so you have to be focused. That's the real test, you can see where you're really at.

I was pretty much blown away by the enthusiasm and the passion I saw coming from the administrators, the staff and the teachers.

I was really blown away how J.P. spoke about the things he had in mind for this team.

I was blown away when I learned Keith had an artistic talent.

I was blown away when Donald asked me to stay in the band. He said that both he and the band really liked my playing.

I was blown away to know it was something I could learn to do. I have cut hundreds and hundreds of stencils since then.

I was blown away. It was through the roof.

I was blown away. It's all about enticing people in.

I was blown away by the amount of destruction. And the slowness that is still going on in rebuilding it.

I was blown away by it. We only do human-related sites, but I've never seen anything this old.

I wasn't afraid of losing. I was afraid of getting blown out. We played a great basketball team.

Most of the games, we were in. There were a few we ended up getting blown out at the end. The kids never gave up all year. They worked hard. It was one of my favorite teams I've ever coached because they played so hard all the time. We were outmanned physically more times than we weren't.

Miguel said all he wanted was for the team to improve. He wants to win. He doesn't know how that got blown out of proportion, and he feels terrible the way it played out.

We just cracked. We had this game. We're not supposed to lose that one. I would rather get blown out.

We're always just trying to scrap back when we come here or we're getting blown out. Hopefully something new can happen on this last trip.

We really like the cast and were blown away by the consistency of the show in terms of comedy and Rob's ability to run it, ... We really believe in him and his compatriots.

We got everything we wanted. We got the people back. We got the alumni back. The setback was that we didn't perform. If we play well and get beat by 25, that's not a problem. But to play that poor and get blown out, that's no fun.

We've gotten better as the year has gone along. We've taken our lumps but the scores are a lot better than last year. We haven't been getting blown out; last year we were getting beat 10-0, 9-0 and this year it's 3-1 and 4-2.

We've got one more game left. We have to lick our wounds and hopefully end the season on a winning note. Hopefully the kids won't pack it in and I don't think they will. We have a ways to go to play in the same league as CBA and so does everybody else. They've blown everybody out this year. We just have to gather ourselves and see what happens next week.

We have to look at the positives. We are competing. We are not getting blown out. We now have to take that all-important step and learn how to win.

We have this one opportunity, and if we blow it, we have blown it for good. We've fought for 60 years to get this property, and now we are just going to privatize it and cut out the real potential it has for the public.

We were getting blown out and for him to do that ... it sends chills down my body every time I see it, because Don Beebe reflected the Buffalo Bills, the whole attitude of the team, in just one play.

We were standing inside the building and all the sudden it just turned brown and the wind was blowing. The doors all blew in and then dust and dirt and everything came flying in. I was like, 'what they heck happened? And we all went out, and about that time it had already gone through the dealership. I noticed all the windows were blown out and I looked over there. You could see the funnel coming out of the cloud. It never touched the ground.

Today's victory means that thousands of Americans will not have their lives cut short because of the pollution that would have blown through this huge loophole.

To lose by 12 on their court isn't that bad. We didn't get blown out and we weren't even supposed to be in the ballgame and we were.

When I first started seeing it come together, I was just blown away.

When I first moved to Houston, I had to spend some time figuring out what I wanted to do. The last year has been sort of dormant, but now things have just exploded. It's been kind of crazy how things have just blown up.

We've been getting blown out here all three years since I've been here, even in the win. This has been a tough place to play.

We didn't execute on offense, and we didn't execute on defense, and that's what happens. No matter who you play, if you're not doing it the right way, you're going to get blown out in your own building, no matter where you play. It was just one of those days. It's just disappointing.

We haven't gotten him in as much as I wanted him to, because we struggled so much offensively. We've been waiting for a game where we either blow somebody out or get blown out, but it hasn't come.

Those are two close losses to two very good football teams. If we were blown out, I'd be more concerned,

We were just blown out. They controlled the game from the start and all the way through.

We were just blown away when we found those two genes expressed in those cells,

We didn't blink in the first quarter, and we're down 5-0. It was never really a game; we were blown out from the start.

We did not want to get blown out against a team in the Eastern Conference.

We still haven't been blown out. We're right in the thick of things.

We beat them a night after (NCCS was) blown out by Mt. Pisgah (which plays Southland Academy in the other semifinal tonight at 7). But they're a very talented basketball team, and they'll be geared up.

The reaction to the book has been so overwhelming; it has totally blown me away. It's clear there's been a need out there.

You look at the papers every day and see people with their heads blown off, and they censor a video that actually had no blood or no guns in it.

We definitely have maintained some level of distance from what's happening. It doesn't really affect us emotionally, which is sort of odd. We never actually get that worked up about stuff. We definitely have fun doing it, but for some reason, everybody else seems way more excited and blown away by what we've done. We just find ourselves in a weird position. It all seems so odd and not really related to us at this point. Surreal.

We definitely had the attitude we could beat them; if we hadn't, we would have got blown out. A lot of our fans thought we could have beaten that team. One more rebound, and we would have.