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The piano is for live entertainment on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons - the idea being to create a kind of cocktail culture.

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really enjoys the bitterness of failure.

The idea is to get citizens involved in our budget process, not just when budget time rolls around in the fall but to involve them in the process throughout the year.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

It was a trio - Eddie Rubin was playing drums, Joe Osborn on bass. And that's when we got approached on the idea of the Whisky A Go-Go.

There are a heck of a lot of other businesses still in the process of trying to reach conclusions on many of the same subjects that (Benson) has reached conclusions on, including availability of housing for employees and availability of services for their families, so I don't accept the idea it was very long. To me it was a tight timeline.

We tried to change the idea that this team was a loser. So many people had labeled them as losers, and said these players couldn't play for anybody else in the league. That the only reason they were even in the NFL was that they were playing for Cleveland, an expansion franchise. Obviously you try to build their self-esteem, their self-respect, and give them a reason to hope.

The actual fabric of space and time curving My God, what an idea It takes a certain type of person who will bang his head against the wall because you believe you'll find the solution.

The whole idea is to take a chance. I mean, what fun is life if you're not taking a chance. I've been taking chances for a long, long time. I took a lot of chances when I was in the CIA,

I have no idea. We just kept saying, 'Take it hard.' You know, the game ended up being played in a way that we couldn't get it changed, couldn't make the plays.

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

It's a disappointing result from the point of view of my initial idea. But at least the result will be the great green slugs will at last be gone.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

We like the idea that we're playing. We've got a lot of respect for Miami.

That challenges you, gives you an idea what your strengths and weaknesses are.

We can compete, but I have no idea. I guess we'll probably find out on Saturday against Greensburg Central Catholic.

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

That's the whole idea. They actively work alongside the entrepreneur, but typically as an involved board members.

My folks had an idea of what my value was. And they wanted to stick with it.

Nature is sending us messages. The idea of repeatedly throwing federal dollars at rebuilding the infrastructure in some of these places is crazy. There are certain areas where we simply should retreat.

They should test the sand, they should test the water continually just to have an idea of where it is in a comparative way to other tourist areas.

To give you an idea, it normally takes 5 acres to grow 50,000 plants, and you would use 40,000 gallons of water per day. We use 1,500 gallons per day.

Bill brings to the company the idea that conflict can be a good thing,

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

I thought it was a good idea, but I wasn't sure how it would be received. That's why it's only on one side of the helmet. Then we took it from there, and we had everybody asking questions and I said, 'Let's keep it that way. It's really a novelty.

Never before has anybody had a network of human intelligence on tap like this. The idea is to fix gaps where a program doesn't work well.

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

The idea is use it or lose it, work out your brain cells so they can stay active and healthy.

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will. . .

A lot of these people will have come from a background where they follow a particular ideology or particular leader, and I think that their foremost loyalty will have always been to their own particular group. It will be very difficult for all Iraqis to get the idea that this army is their army.

I wish we could claim we invented the races, but that would be a tall tale. We actually stole the idea from Greenville, Miss.

Honestly, we were lucky to tie because we came back each time. Now the kids are jelling. That's the idea. They're going into the playoffs with the attitude that they can play with the best.

Anybody can start a movie off where their family is killed, and then for the next two hours there is this gigantic blood lust that you're supposed to accept because anybody can tie into the idea of revenge,

Part of the reason I liked the idea of doing the film was that it was very wordy. I was getting good practice playing Brutus. So 'Inside Man' felt a bit like Shakespeare goes to the streets or something.

As a coach, you always like the idea of controlling your own destiny. That's been our motto all year, just to go out and win our games and not worry about what other teams are doing. If we continue to win the games that we play, only good things will happen for us in the long run.

I guess I can be moderately amusing at times, but the idea of standing up in front of 200 people with beers is just too frightening.

But certainly the idea of making records that had a mainstream appeal instrumentally was nothing that we invented.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

We're trying to start something that will be long term. The idea is that fans can come to one site for one day and see a bunch of good teams for 6.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

I think that's an excellent idea. They should do that whether they have their own building department or not.

He put to bed any idea that there are going to be divisions between Europe and the United States over security,

We have always supported the idea of parity management and we stick to it now. Moreover, we see the possibility of inviting a third, foreign partner into the consortium and of redistributing stakes in it accordingly, say, among Ukraine, Russia and Germany, because Germany was brain-father of this proposal.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

It's a beautiful thought (Mother's Day), but it's somebody with a hurting conscience that thought of the idea.

I liked the idea that this character is sort of like a fairy tale, a princess-y character, very one-sided, no emotional depth,