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This feels like a blown opportunity. We should've won. ... You're not going to win when you handicap yourself.

This illustrates once again the kind of horrible world we live in -- a world in which people go to a hotel in order to spend a holiday with their children, with their families, and get blown up.

This has been blown up into a big story because it's the week of the draft. Reggie Bush didn't know anything about this. He never lived in the house.

This has all been blown out of proportion due to my public image. There is nothing to worry about. We've done nothing wrong.

They've blown the cachet they had years ago. It's over now, and it's hard to move a brand up once you've been down.

They're well-coached, and they don't make a lot of mistakes. You don't see a lot of blown blocks. You don't see them on the ground a lot. And that's the mark of a good offensive line. ... You're going to have to beat 'em with good, sound technique and brute force.

They still need to do more work on the boom box. That is where I wasn't blown away.

They see a mayor getting killed here, policeman being blown up at a graduation ceremony there. If we can get the security situation right, we will unlock that population to build a new Iraq.

A lot of power poles in the (trailer) park are down, a lot of the vans have been destroyed, blown away completely.

A lot of speculative excess is being blown out of this market here. It was long overdue, and finally a little more sanity is prevailing here right now.

A lot of people have already blown all their money.

They may have blown his doors off there.

They are ready to fight. There's not doubt about it. Because they really believe the company has blown a lot of opportunities to be competitive.

This party is old and uninviting, participants all in black and white, you enter in full blown Technicolor

There were golden eagles circling above us as we walked across the property. We were blown away.

(There were) a lot of shrapnel wounds, broken bones, face (and) skin blown away, leg wounds, shock.

There were a couple blown assignments, a couple missed tackles. They had a couple long runs. That led to their 16 points. Other than that, our defense played really well.

This is the right place and the right time to do this. I was blown away by the traction cycling has in California.

This is the ultimate test. This is the best team in the league by far. This team has not just blown us out, but blown out San Antonio twice, one of the better teams in the league. This isn't charity.

They're a transition team-they key their offense off their defense. That's an experienced team. We could've been blown out by 30.

They're just like us - get one more touchdown and you win all your games. ... It's not like either one of us has been blown out.

At least you know you're in the game. At least you know you're not getting blown out. That would be a different story if you were. We took some (games) from a lot of people last year, and it's just flip-flopped this year.

Ask an eight-year-old kid or see his face when he sees a car being blown up. They come to me, ask me what I am doing next. They loved 'Singham' because there were so many cars, and that's why there was no blood, because I knew they will come to watch my film.

It's just one of those days. The offense didn't produce today, but I've gone out there those days where I've had seven, eight runs to work with and blown that. It's definitely a team effort. We've got to pick ourselves up and come back to the park (today).

It's kind of depressing that we got blown out that bad, but 5-A had a lot of good wrestlers this year. It's bragging rights for the rest of the season.

It's just a matter of pride. Every guy in the locker room has 'pride' written across their chest. We know we're not going to get blown out and if you're not careful we're going to nip you. We're doing our best with what we've got.

It's just been blown apart. You've got buildings with all their windows blown out. You've got curtains blowing in the wind. You've got insulation from ceilings all over the streets.

It seems to me we have to give the same rights to those humans who want to travel without being blown up on an underground train,

It's a situation that normally healthy trees were blown down, leaving debris there rotting. Instead of the normal tree branches, we now have trees on the ground.

It was blown up like a balloon and twice the size,

It was so windy, street signs were being blown over and the driver had to pull off a couple of times.

It was really blown out of proportion. It was just something to show us how not retaliate if something like that ever happened on the field or at school. Our job would be to ignore it, to act like men, but to ignore it and get back to playing football. It was a lesson, an act. It was about tolerance.

It is unfortunate it has happened, it has probably again been blown out of all proportion and, thankfully, it passed off without incident,

It's a really high price and everyone's blown away.

It really got plastered...most of the roof got blown away the bottom half is totally flooded from what I hear,

It's akin to the Soviet Politburo erasing people from photographs. The only reason we know most of these things are happening is that civil servants have observed these violations of the law and have bravely blown the whistle and told the press.

It struck me so strongly that -- oh my God, he's been doing this for 35 years! I was just blown over by this girl's pain. I thought, boy, that's really close to being me, any day of the week. I could feel that sort of pain.

It's not like we're getting blown out by forty or anything like that. We're right there in the game. We've just got to get those guys on the ship and toughen those games out.

It is the way that it is supposed to be. Your top two hitters get on, and the 3-4-5 guys drive them in. We have lost some tough games, and we were pretty much blown out the last two days. It was good to see our guys come back and battle.

It's good that I ate some chocolate cake last night, ... I'm glad I put on a few pounds. Otherwise, I might have blown away out there.

It's hard to say, ... Some of them are blown assignments. Mental mistakes. When that happens as a defense, we're all beaten. Not just that one person. We have to start running our defensive game plan to perfection. Right now, we're not doing that.

It should have really taken less than the threat of being blown up to make me jump on a bike, but I'm now recommending it to everyone I see, much to their annoyance.

That kind of got blown out of proportion how that went down. There's no hard feelings about that deal at all, but I think in a way it might have helped us.

It's nice coaching against my friend, ... but it's really bad when you get blown out.

It's so windy today I'm really glad I had a piece of chocolate cake last night or else I would have been blown away out here.

It's such a playoff failure for our whole team. This was, really, I felt, a very, very strong team and a very strong potential playoff team that we had built. What a blown opportunity this was by our team.

Everyone I know who has gone through the circuit has been humbled by it, it is an awesome experience, ... As much as he has done in his career, he will be awed by it. It was an unbelievable moment for me. I had the honor of having Wellington Mara (New York Giants owner) as my presenter. I was really blown away by it. It was very humbling.

The baby boomers have profoundly blown it. We were a generation of spenders. Over the last six years, more people have declared bankruptcy in the U.S. than have graduated from college. If we don't teach kids to save, we are doing them a great disservice.

that had its steeple taken off and blown across the highway.

It's incredible. I was totally blown away when I was told it was $15,000 at the end of the night (of the event). Then hearing that it's more, I can never express my gratitude to the people.

It's hard, but it would be much harder if we were getting blown out by 20 points. Then we would be wondering if we are not good enough, or not doing this, or not doing that.

It's disappointing to get blown out. Mitre just pitched really well. Offensively, they just got a lot of hits. It was just one of those days where they were on and we were off.

It was amazing and I was blown away by the whole day.

It was my first visit, and I was just a little blown away by it all. I decided to take more time to make a decision.

It's wonderful that people who watch and follow the shows take time to come see us, and I really do appreciate it. I'm quite blown away.

It's very frustrating. You look at how our team's been playing and it comes down to turnovers and free throws. It's something we're concentrating on for our last two games and the conference tournament. We're close in every game so it's not like we're getting blown out. Our team is fighting hard.

It's time to get over it. I think it's being blown out of proportion by coaches. As coaches, we need to get on with it and get this thing over with. I'm not going to let it overshadow the kids' performance.

It used to be that teams didn't think they had to play hard to beat Renton. Now if you don't go with your 'A' game against Renton, you may get blown out of the gym.

It took down the stands, the control tower, all of our timing equipment, the public-address system. All that got blown away.

They couldn't run the football. Their only touchdown came on a blown coverage by the Carolina Panthers. Everybody questioned what would happen without Charlie Weis and if this is any indicator of it, it is going to be a tough season. Tom Brady at the Super Bowl was talking about it last year with us privately before the game and he was nervous about it. You could clearly tell that he was worried about going into this season without Charlie Weis.

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

The two teams combined, the record is blown away. To both do it in the same year is amazing. People talked about that after the split, that it would never get back to that way.

They were off-the-cuff remarks that have been blown out of all proportion. The crowd was on my back in that game and giving me stick. That was all. There's no need for England fans to take it the wrong way. They've been fantastic.

They just know how to win, it's obvious. It comes down to the fourth quarter a lot in this league, and they know how to win in the fourth quarter. It's a bad feeling to be so close. Because you'd rather get blown out then have a chance to win the game and not quite get there.

It was his first time out after having very little Spring Training. He didn't have a feel for the ball. It was very cold, very slippery day. It was something that got blown out of proportion. I know that he knows that he wasn't trying to intentionally hit anyone. You will see that his command will be better.

It was just a weird play where I had to step on him or I was going to fall down and not score. I apologized to him, and we both laughed about it. It wasn't something I did intentionally. It's a shame it's getting blown out of proportion.

It was kind of a blown weekend. We pulled a lot of people out of Connecticut.

They've played some great competition -- they haven't blown anybody out -- but they haven't been blown out by anybody, either. They kind of play to the level of their competition, and I feel like they'll come out and play really hard against us.

These people got their houses blown away, ... They want New York pizza. It's the least we could do.

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

Not only has Harold Pinter written some of the outstanding plays of his time, he has also blown fresh air into the musty attic of conventional English literature, by insisting that everything he does has a public and political dimension,

A CIA officer's name was blown and there was a leak and we needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it. Given national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.

It's real tough, losing a game that you controlled the majority of. But I always try to look at the positive. At least we're not getting blown out now. We're competing and putting ourselves in a chance to win games. We just have to take that all-important step and learn how to win those types of games.

Anytime you lose a game it's painful. But when you get blown out, when you get embarrassed, especially on (national) TV, it's terrible. You put a hat on and walk out of here because no one has a reason to walk out of here with their head up.

That's been the story of this young team this season. We have been in almost every game right up to the end. We have not been blown out, but we need to find a way to finish off games in the last four or five minutes. We need to start doing the little things that can us some games.

The ladies bathroom was blown up and the 12th green was damaged by a second explosion, ... This is a strange case.

Their complex is absolutely state of the art. You're not going to have anybody come to that complex and not be blown away by the quality of it. On the soccer fields, you can play any match in the world there. The quality of the fields are immaculate.

I'm not going to let the city get by with anything. They have blown a lot of smoke in the last few years, saying we need to do something for the youth of the area. They will probably laugh at me and tell me to go home.

I'm proud of the way he's kept his spirits up and continued to work hard. In college, what he did goes on all the time and it never gets blown out of proportion.

I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory.

I'm looking forward to seeing him back over fences and he's in good form. He ran well over hurdles last week and that would have blown away a few cobwebs and he's been down to the sea this week as he normally does.

I'm just blown away by what people told me.

I'm so proud of those girls. They played hard the whole game. When we went to Prairie Grove, we got blown out in the first quarter.

If Kenny doesn't knock down the shots when he does, we could have been blown out of the building.

I never heard (Rich) go off on a musician unless there was a reason, ... However, (Rich) never knew when to lighten up. He'd state his case and then continue until he had blown his stack.

I never once had a conversation with the A.D. at Missouri. But it gets reported that way and it just gets blown up and goes from there. There was no contact on my part with Indiana. Obviously that's my alma mater, and if they wanted to talk I would have at least listened out of my respect for my alma mater.

I'm very proud of my team. We've obviously been struggling in the Big 12. There were a couple of different spots tonight when they could've blown us out of this building and I thought the team responded every timeout we took. They just hung in there and fought as hard as they could.

I'm too old to start over. But in 10 years, if we don't sell, this place either will be blown away or too run-down to recognize.

I'm not worried about it at all. A lot of times it gets blown out of proportion.

I'm obviously very proud of our guys and their fight. The guys hung in there. There were a couple of times in the first half and the second when we could have been blown out of here.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

I'm blown away. You're talking about two of the nicest, sweetest people anyone could know.

I'm blown away. . . . I wasn't expecting anything like this.

I'm blown away by the turnout. We wondered, since it's so cold, if it was going to affect anything.

I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented individuals.

I'm blown away by 19 assists on 20 baskets. That's basketball the way it was meant to be played.

In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing interest in faces because new ones come along every single second. I'm one at the moment. Tomorrow I won't be. That's cool. I'm not saying that when it does end, I'll be like, 'Yay! It's ending.' But I'll move on and do something else because that's what has to be done. It's about survival. If you're sad about it, then you're in the wrong job.

In the first 11 months (of Bush), they had blown it all.

I just think (this) has been blown out of proportion.

I'll take the blame for that. Our defense just wasn't ready. There was a lot of confusion in the secondary and a lot of blown assignments.