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'Lip Lock' is a play on words. It sounds flirty and fun. Also, my lips are one of my favorite features. Also, it's like, literally locking the game down with my words because I'm a lyricist.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

literally thousands of people have told me over the years that they met their wife or husband playing Pong.

Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.

Literally the most trivial thing gets charged to the taxpayer, (and) things that the average person would never think of trying to buy, like a $70 steak,

literally ruined my night. It hurt my feelings.

literally launching their company and introducing them to the nation with a Super Bowl ad.

Literally hundreds of millions of experiments, many inconceivable in 1975, have been carried out in the last 30 years without incident.

Literally he is one of the pioneers. It's a passing of a generation ... He was a powerful visionary and a determined business person, but the long-term story is Sun is going to fade.

Literally from the first minute, they went down, ... They wanted to make a big drama out of the game.

Literally anywhere from 75,000 to 90,000 of our people could be sent home on emergency leave without pay,

Literally and figuratively, I think we've weathered the storm, as the release of strategic reserves has calmed the market.

Literally 40 minutes ago, we received an official answer from the Ukrainian side. The answer said: 'We cannot sign it' and that is all.

I will tell you I think that the intelligence community -- I'm not going to speak for them -- I think they were surprised, ... I think some of them are kicking themselves that after looking at the preparations for this test for literally weeks, that we were not in a position to be able to ... predict what kind of test this was.

I wish I could sugarcoat it, but the back was hurting a lot. I?m a pretty humble person, but I?m proud of myself that I could stay out there. To be completely honest, I was probably 70 to 75 percent tonight. It was hurting literally the entire time.

I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving. I literally couldn't put it down. There is something intoxicating about Marie's belief, not just in herself, but in the children at the school and in humanity - we need that!

I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

I think people will be surprised. We're going to use just the first 23 rows and curtain off the rest of the arena, so we can literally say there will not be a bad seat in the house.

I think, clearly, there is something in the zeitgeist, ... but for us, it was based on producing the best pilot scripts that we had. . . . We don't literally go out to the community and say, 'Because that particular show is successful on another network, please bring us that.' We encourage writers. We encourage producers. We encourage directors. . . . They don't necessarily look to develop only based on what's successful at other networks. They sort of listen to their own inner voice.

I think John's place in Syracuse basketball history is underappreciated, ... We were facing some tough times and he easily could have turned his back on us and committed someplace else, but he stuck with us. During that 1996 tournament, he literally carried us on his shoulders to the title game.

I think I was getting too old for them, ... The new girl is 21 so, yeah, that must be it. They quite literally traded me in for a younger model - slightly less bags and slightly less cellulite.

I thought I'd heard most things that people want to bet on after 30 years in the business. But one asking literally to place a dead cert was unique. I'm glad Arthur has lost.

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

'Jurassic' is a legacy and a classic. Steven Spielberg created something pretty spectacular. It's actually really interesting, when I look at it, I ask, 'How has my life changed since being Lex?' And I can literally walk into just about any city in the world and people will know who I am.

It is crucial that the victims of Katrina get safe housing...and that's why www.hurricanehousing.org is available...to help those in need. As a band, we felt that promoting the service is essential - literally a matter of life and death,

It is extremely brazen and it's a top-down fraud, ... It involved literally erasing expenses from the general ledger.

We now know a great deal about adolescent sleep. Biological clocks shift by two hours after puberty. There are literally not enough hours in the night for them to get enough sleep.

We never thought that he literally had God speaking to him.

The ABS avalanche backpack is a lifesaver, literally a lifesaver, ... In 43 deployments, there's only been one fatality.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

The Action Plan provides a blue print for getting proven cessation treatment to literally every smoker in America who wants to quit. This can have enormous benefit for everyone-adding years of life for former smokers and reducing healthcare costs for all Americans. Making the tobacco companies pay for this is only proper.

The A&M experience was just so sweet. It was literally an American fable - two guys getting together and creating something that just worked. We were in business together for 28 years without any investment from anybody else. We had our own shop.

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

The amount of work we did ... there were so many 24-hour days. (The program) evolved and came together so quickly ... literally from a Friday to a Monday. Just getting (the car) ready was a feat.

That was not for his protection, but for the fire officials' protection because his skin literally had serious contaminants on it.

I was really devastated. I had planned on going to the hospital that day to visit my daughter, and we literally had no money. To think that I couldn't visit my daughter that day just devastated me.

I would literally give up my right arm to talk to Felipe Alou.

Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problem arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.

When that money came in, that was the end of it. She was literally put into a cell and she wasn't treated.

We just went cold in the second half. And the rebounding was really huge. It was literally one and done for us.

We invented a golf cart that puts less pressure on the ground than a human being walking. We found a way to equally distribute the weight, between 5 and 6 pounds per square inch, so the cart can go literally anywhere on the greens.

We just dealt with a rescue who literally held an animal for eight weeks and allegedly forced a payment to get that animal back.

You know, I literally lost all control of my bowels up there. I couldn't think. I was swimming in my head. So I was lucky to get out what I got out.

We'll be watching as the storm approaches. If we see a service area is about to be hit by high winds, we will literally have crews loaded and sitting in trucks, ready to go.

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

We have to think about the people first. Then we can think about the business. We're dealing with a scale of disaster we've never seen before (in the casino industry). We're literally at square one right now.

We do know it did increase mileage a little bit. It does clean the engines out. Initially we had to once, maybe twice, change the fuel filters depending on the age of the bus because it literally cleans the systems out.

Those guys made him comfortable. We were able to work out a deal quickly, literally within 24 hours, which is unique.

Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

We're definitely seeing species going extinct because of climate change. We're going to lose the penguins. We're going to lose the polar bears, no question. . . . I'm seeing high mountain butterflies literally being pushed off the mountains. This is happening. It is not theory. It is not people saying, 'Oh, we think it might happen.' It is happening, and it is incredibly depressing.

When you're dealing with someone like Shirley, it's a little insulting to ask her to come in for a meeting. But I wanted to meet her first and talk to her about the character, because there was a very big 'if' on it for me. Shirley is such a powerful presence, personality and talent, and she has used that power effectively over a long and rich career. But I wanted to know she would be able to put a damper on all of that and go to a very quiet place to play this character who is literally hiding from life, who has put a lid on everything because of her guilt, her fear and her unresolved issues. If Shirley could go to that kind of a place, and then blossom as her character's life broadens, I thought it would be very exciting.

We believe there are literally billions of dollars available in the private market to greatly enhance our infrastructure, particularly in roads, that can be brought to bear.

We had all the funds and everything agreed, and then someone came in and bought it for $12 million and literally did it overnight.

We had to. We had no place else to go. You kind of practiced on spots you literally walked around and found a place that didn't have a ditch in it.

We've had literally less than a handful of people express some concern about going.

We've had instances of extremely bad (body) odor that would literally clear out a whole area of a room. If you are going to wear the same clothes over and over make sure you wash them.

We've literally struggled throwing strikes. It's throwing strikes one night and errors another night. If we can get those two area straightened out, we'll be all right because we hit the ball very well.

We've literally become a part of the staffs. For example, George Quarles, Maryville High's football coach, literally treats me as much a part of his staff as anyone else.

We have communities where the entire community is under water, literally to the eaves of buildings.

We have but the one drug section for the province of Manitoba, and there literally could be a grow op every five miles.

We have to literally fight for our lives over here.

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

With the subsurface of Mars, we've literally just scratched the surface and we're trying to probe, now, more than a couple of feet into it.

We were slammed when we went to do pick-ups. It took two days (as opposed to one in previous years), and people have been dropping off books ever since. The hallways of our offices are literally choked with (boxes of ) books.

Today, the hopes and dreams of millions of Iraqis are closer to becoming an everyday reality -- a free, democratic government is literally at hand,

You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you.

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

We've been fighting for the right thing, which is to give her a chance, ... She's never had a chance, and that's the most despicable part of this. She was literally shelved. She has not been out of this room over here in the hospice for three years.

We have not played against him a lot. But I have tremendous respect for the guy. He's one of those guys who can literally will a team to victory.

We anticipate a few more, ... as those that may have resources here, in terms of family, make their way out. We have tried to provide them comfort and reassurance. They have literally been involved with a nightmare. We want to do all we can to help.

We know less about the structure of our own galaxy than we do about many nearby galaxies like Andromeda. We literally can't see the forest for the trees because we are embedded inside our own galaxy, and interstellar dust blocks our view.

Those groups have done a lot of good work, but there is room for a group like ours to step in and literally walk people through what's available to them, and make sure they are treated fairly.

We'll literally have the world's best athletes here in Osaka. This will be a good opportunity for young Japanese athletes to see what the world is like.

We are putting the information customers need literally into their hands,

The pillars broke off and ripped through the side of the boat, and literally began tearing out the entire side of the boat where people were standing, waiting to get off, ... We all jumped from our seats and began running for our lives in the middle of all this debris, and people screaming and falling over each other.

When ABC called me, I was literally shocked,

We discovered a new species literally every day we were there.

We had an opportunity to sign Guerrero in January '04. I called him and literally in a minute I had a response from him. So it wasn't one of those things where you say, 'Hey, we're going to commit 70 million bucks here; let's go think about this.'

When you're racing, you hang on for dear life. Everything is shaking, and on the turns your head is literally hanging outside of the car.

We have looked at literally hundreds of investing styles and systems over the years. The Stock Picker RT has consistently picked winners since the initial launch and continues to be one of the most recommended programs that we offer.

We have literally waited decades -- and I mean decades -- to have a hotel in St. Paul. It is a dream come true for Westin.

We have literally hundreds of personal memories from this place just from the people we have met. The most enjoyable part of it for me was seeing our guests enjoy our resort and being able to bring a little bit of happiness to their lives. It was really like a family reunion each summer.

We don't have a lot of room that we can stumble in. The good thing is that we do play each of those teams which makes those games literally crucial.

We didn't do 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters' at the first show. We had had so much on our plate to get ready that we didn't sit down and time it out. We learned the songs chronologically but we literally ran out of time.

We're literally in a meeting going over our plans, keeping track of things, when we got word on Tuesday that CNN was reporting they had been hit. At the time, we knew a high-profile target was reporting they had been hit and they didn't know what it was. Their computers were shutting down and restarting,

were literally falling apart because of drainage problems.

We are literally amazed at how smoothly the parade operated with such challenging conditions.

We are literally adding turn lanes in almost every direction.

We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally reaching for the stars.

There is literally nothing Mr. Carmines will not use - gallops, waltzes, polkas, circus blares and musical bumps and grinds - to get his work done.

There is literally a 75 page rule book that covers just 'basic' game play.

Tips from citizens are critical. The public is literally our eyes and ears in the field.

This spring home-buying season promises to be like no other before it, because it will be the first time consumers have these incredible tools literally at their fingertips to help them perform their research and ultimately find their next home.

You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

To beat Barbados in Barbados, to literally take the Cup off their shelf is an amazing feeling.

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. The principal and teachers literally went door to door inviting parents to participate. They found most parents had no idea the school was so dependent on them.

We'll see how it goes over the days ahead as that camp is fully exploited. It is literally huge,

We didn't sleep last week -- we literally didn't sleep -- because we've been so busy with the book.