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It has to be gotten rid of or reduced to encourage business.

I ran up to her to see if everyone was okay. I looked in the car and said 'is there anyone in the car with you' and she said 'no.' I looked in the suspect's car and he jumped out and started running and the cops took off and started chasing after him.

Generally, we think voting is going to go along these lines - leagues in the North will vote no and those in the South yes.

If (FOMC officials) want to see whether the excessive growth is actually showing through to inflation pressure, the place to look is labor costs.

I do think it's inevitable that eventually the Fed is going to have to raise rates in order to slow this economy down a bit. There is a question on timing, and I think whether it's June 30 or not will depend on the numbers that we get between now and then.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

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When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming....All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

These are people who don't want to spend their weekends mowing their lawns. They want to have more free time.

This has certainly had a direct psychological impact on Hilton Head Middle School. If there's any positive, it's brought to light some shortcomings in communication.

All I knew is we had to get it (the shot) up. We couldn't stand to foul and I just had to put it in. I missed those free throws and I had to do something to make it up for the team. I'm glad it worked out that way.

The damaged blood vessel now needs to be given time to heal before Gareth can resume training and eventually playing. We are expecting him to make a full recovery and it is envisaged that he will be able to resume training after 10 to 12 weeks.

The market isn't so sure things are slowing down, which is why these reports will be important. I do think it's inevitable the Fed is eventually going to have to raise rates to slow things down a bit.