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Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly

It goes so slowly with a head injury.

It had been the black sheep of the household products companies for several years now, ... But they've really worked hard to get their cost structure in shape and get inventory under control, and they'd be a great beneficiary of a weakening dollar, which is what we've slowly been seeing here.

It got to that point in the late 1970s, early 1980s the president at that point wanted to incorporate a top-notch basketball program. I think Rod Strickland got a few of his friends to come and we offered scholarships to them and slowly over the next 20 years we have developed the No. 1 basketball program in the country.

People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'.

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl."Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is --where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. --Sukker Uffro

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

I think qualifying was pretty good. We went out slightly earlier than some people and got a good time in, so I was quite pleased with that, and then slowly started to slip back down the order, which is kind of the normal situation as qualifying works out, everyone gets quicker towards the end. The race is a different thing. We've just got to be smart, make sure we have a good first lap, you know, see how the race pans out. It's going to be a very long, tough race. Anything can happen.

I think everybody's looking for gas to drop 20 cents a gallon. It's not going to do that. It's going to slowly go down as things get back to normal.

People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.