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People are extremely excited about the lineup. In the first place, people are thrilled that the festival is even happening, but beyond that collective sign of relief ... folks are incredibly excited about the number of jazz legends and artists we're presenting in 2005.

Penn State is a quality institution with a quality football program. And he's playing for one of the legends of the game. That's kind of exciting. I think Pat seems less excited than I am.

Over the last few years, we've worked to identify the character and spirit of our brand, and we believe The Legends Tour represents a true reflection of our tour and its players. We're the pioneers of women's golf, and this is our tour.

Lollapalooza is a place where young upstarts become legends, and legends return to claim their fame.

I thought it sounded great, but at the same time I said, 'I think I am going to puke,' because you can't mess it up. Either you go out and you nail it or you quit the business, pack up and move to some strange country where no one knows who you are. It was really that much pressure, but what was really interesting was that once I met Sir Paul McCartney, all of that went away and ... he brought everything down to a level that made it more real rather than surreal. And that was very helpful because in my mind he is one of the greatest legends of rock and roll.

We're all really excited for and proud of Benny, ... Benny is one of the true legends of the sport and when he went to the booth, his personality changed the way NASCAR is broadcast on television forever.

We came up with the idea of doing legends and bringing back some old country singers.

Those guys are legends in South African sport and it is fantastic for me to have done something that they have done.

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

This isn’t really death,’ Tyler says. ‘We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.’ I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero

All legends have a base in fact.

I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

When legends retire someone comes in and takes their spot, don't they?

Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.

You are our great sporting heroes, you're legends of sport in our time, we owe you an incredible debt of gratitude for what you've achieved.

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

There could even be a swap, with Hillcrest throwing in the land (on Highway 84) to purchase the property at Legends Crossing, though I don't know if the Legends Crossing people are motivated to do that deal,

We had a great showing with the Legends last season. They're a great class to work with and they always put on a great show for the fans.

We've got all these living legends in the bass world and we're all going to play as well at the end of the night, ... We just wanted to bring a really unique event to the Myrtle Beach area. This would be an instantly sold-out show in Los Angeles or New York or any major city, and I think it's cool that the people at CCU had the vision to bring this here.

Within his stories there are textual references to blind storytellers, remember Homer (the Homers) may not have existed at all. If this was one man, the fact that he could remember such complex stories and legends and tell them with a single, embedded story line is remarkable. That indicates to some that he may have been blind. When one is blind, the other senses are heightened. That is some of the rationale behind the statement that Homer may have been blind.

This new clubhouse will be the centerpiece of the Legends at Forest Lakes and will become a major meeting, banquet and dining facility.

We like to have a mix of the legends and the younger acts.

As theater legends go, they don't get any bigger than Chita,

At one point, they wanted me at the end wounded, and in a wheelchair and crutch like Anthony Hopkins in Legends of the Fall. I said I'm not doing that movie.

Ed had a lot of love and appreciation for Oregon State, and he was very much interested in our basketball program. He'd come to practice a couple of times a year, and I'd see him at Beaver Huddles in Salem. It was an honor to get to know Ed. He's one of the first true legends in Oregon State basketball and he'll be forever remembered.

They are all ultimately promoting the sport, each with a distinct style. These guys are creating the legends and myths that will drive our sport for the next decades. People will look back at these movies and chart the evolution of our sport.

I used to feel so proud to be there with what I thought at the time were where the legends and heroes has stood and had sung. And I've been in the business so long, I've almost become one of them. So it's like I'm standing in my own footsteps.

Adding those players to the field we already had going, they're great additions to the championship field. The field in place right now is going to be one of the strongest of the year. We're really excited about the legends of the game coming to Oak Tree.

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

So, the world happens twice -- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

As we got to know John and June, what we needed them to understand was that the people they were now was not the people they were then, ... And there was the challenge of combining the grand wisdom and spirituality of these elder legends backwards into the young people they were, as they were learning those lessons. To tell how they got to be here, we had to go to those darker places, and not temper it.

It's a great list - they're legends of the game,

It's a phenomenal piece of work by the cops, ... It's something that legends of crime busters are made of. It just really is.

Dale's interviews will be a welcome addition to the library archive because every interview is unique, and his contact with numerous legends produced engaging and diverse interviews with a number of baseball's greatest players.

The urban legends and the irrational behavior has begun.

They brought their old legends here, and they continued to build on them,

On a random winter day, I got a call from one of the legends in coaching. I was very flattered.

That's a road you have to follow if you want to be considered among the great ones. The campaign last year about the Finals was 'where legends are born,' and I think you could have said that for the playoffs. ... Clearly in order to write yourself large in NBA history, you've got to be in the playoffs.

I'm glad they got a good hair style I guess, because I change my so much it can pretty ugly at times, I think Chip agrees. It's great to have your face on the trophy you look at the people that are on there you are with some great names that have been great legends in the sport itself.

I'm disappointed but privileged to have had the opportunity to work with one of the true legends of the British game.

In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.

In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World

You're a legend in your own mind.

I didn't think there was enough, by any means. And it was my feeling: 'How dare you come to Detroit, a city of legends -- musical legends plural -- and not ask one or two of them to participate.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

He's Lou Rawls, one of the legends in the business.

Become a legend? But I am already.

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

He's one of the first true legends in Oregon State basketball, and he'll be forever remembered.

A legend - now I am like a unicorn.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer.

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

Britney Spears is a legend

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

You know the legend. Stab them in the heart and they’ll die. (Ravyn) Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset. (Susan)

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

I, personally, liked the legend.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

The increasing popularity of team events, coupled with some of the most recognizable names in women's golf, promises to make this a world-class event. And what better forum to hold an event like this? The World Golf Village is home to the World Golf Hall of Fame, where nine members of The Legends Tour have been enshrined.