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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.

I dont know where I come from but Im here now so deal with it.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it's fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it's fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.

'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?

In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.

Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given.

'Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with.

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.

Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.

The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they're in the kitchen cooking. So it's understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections.

When people meet me, they're often surprised - I talk a great deal.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

We've actually been at the low-end of the Street range for the fourth quarter ... (and) felt that we had to go even lower, so we did -- a nine percent across-the-board trimming here for the fourth quarter, ... The backlogs are still very significant, but the current environment is just not allowing deals to get done.

We are a government that does not deal with niceties of language and packaging, it deals with action, ... I have no doubt that ... we will continue on this path and, in the end, the feeling will change as well.

There are currently no negotiations, no agreements and no deals between us, We talk with everybody, including the New York Stock Exchange, all the time about possible arrangements.

There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.

We're in a good situation. We just try to keep everybody healthy as much as we possibly can. Because everybody deals with that.

Until there is reform, we're going to continually have questions about these deals moving forward.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

What this does is serve our national interest from the standpoint of increased security. It deals with our economic needs in terms of the work, but it also, I think, helps to address some of the root causes of illegal immigration by encouraging people to return with the savings and skills they've acquired in the United States.

We can do better than a mayor who cuts sweetheart deals with developers at a time of a crisis in affordable housing. . .better than a mayor who let 100,000 New Yorkers slip into poverty.

We find deals for the people who need it the most: the college students. We might find deals on videos, music or other products a college student might need.

We're getting many large enterprise deals that extend beyond a single campus.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

We're seeing consolidation today. As long as there aren't any new M&A deals announced, people are locking in profits.

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

What the show deals with is how difficult it can be. It involves people from every walk of life and they all take an enormous risk.

When firms are going through distractions, those who aren't so distracted may have an advantage in the two or three deals that make a difference in the standings.

When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 markets, they can formalize deals that have been discussed, ... Even with these gains, there's still some room for these stocks to run. For a number of months, investors weren't sure if regulators were going to come to a decision in June.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.