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    I wouldn't be afraid to take a couple of them. If we had some injuries and stuff, I wouldn't be opposed to taking some of them. I've said it all along and I meant it -- I don't care if they've played. That doesn't mean anything to me. They've got talent. It might take them awhile to catch up at that level, but I don't worry about that.

    Before you were trying to pull out every ounce of talent out of kids. And now you've got kids with natural-born abilities. Now all you have to do is get them to work hard and know the offense. Then let them do what they do best.

    He's been unbelievable in terms of his mission, his vision of getting better and learning this system. He's a guy who not only has talent, he has tremendous self-motivation and drive.

    I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

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    We are excited to have Dale as a partner and Georgia as a principal in our audit practice. They each bring a strong commitment to responsive client service and a depth of technical expertise.


    Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity easy vulnerability high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely) a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

    The safest course for all of us as public officials is simply to throw all the money in a sack. Or in the way of one servant in the Biblical parable of the talents, bury the money in the ground rather than accept any risk. The servant's business plan proved reliable but ineffective.



    There is a belief in each other right now, that if we go out there and work hard, we have a good opportunity every night. No matter what kind of talent you have on your team, you need that if you really want to do well and win hockey games. You need that feeling. We have to hold on to it now.

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    We have a number of guys on this team that have been cut by other teams that really we picked up off the street, guys that weren't given a chance in other organizations to play, for whatever reason. The powers that be decided they didn't have the talent to play at this level, and these guys have come in and been starters for us.


    Any time you get kids to work as hard as they are and showcase their talent, it's exciting. The kids from my team are an exceptional group.



    That was a steal. To get a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback, really a franchise quarterback, it can't get no better than that for a second-round pick, now. Come on. I was excited. Hopefully, his health will be fine and we've got a lot of talent around him.

    Ellin was looking for a rapper who had not yet made it, but had the talent to do so. As we were writing that script, we thought it was going to be a nightmare if we didn't find anyone, ... We loved his charisma and personality.

    I thought his form last season was fantastic and in the Tri-Series he was first class. He's a great addition to our club. Personality-wise, too, he fits in really well. The players are very impressed with the talents he's shown.

    According to some experts, the American Healthcare system is on the brink of failure. We certainly are in a health care crisis, ... If we had set out to design the worst system that we could imagine, we couldn't have imagined one as bad as we have.

    At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.


    I really believe that. The guys who aren't even playing have amazing talent. Joe Ford, (junior) Ben Pemberton, those guys can play ball, and all it takes is the adjustment to Division I basketball.

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    His ability to compete is his best talent, and his talents are good they're really good. He's just got a warrior mentality, and he does it every day. He's one of those really, really good players, and it doesn't matter to him whether it's practice or a game.


    We always have trouble finishing, and I think some of that is because ... when you get beyond seven- or eight- (deep) for us, our quality, talent ... drops off. You get tired.

    Joe has tremendous upside and provides our franchise with a player whose talents are worthy of All-Star consideration, ... He has the versatility to play several positions for Coach (Mike) Woodson. Not only is Joe extremely gifted on the offensive end, his size on defense will give us a tremendous advantage against most teams. When you team him up with a combination of Josh Childress, Josh Smith, Al Harrington, Marvin Williams, Salim Stoudamire and Zaza Pachulia, we feel we have one of the best up-and-coming rosters in the league.



    They were playing hard. They have some talent on that team. They haven't given up. They were very aggressive defensively. That got them back in the game. The good news is we found a way to win.


    As a driver, I get called overrated all the time. So it is just good to get out there, put on a good race, get a good finish, and have good runs to remind people that there is a little bit of talent there behind the name.



    It's a neat series and a pretty even playing field because the crews don't have a lot of time to reinvent the wheel. The cars are a little tail-happy and there are varying levels of (driver) talent, so it makes it exciting for the fans to watch.

    The most elementary of investigative efforts, such as obtaining telephone and credit card records, were met without support, search warrants denied. The significant opinions of national experts were casually dismissed or ignored by the district attorney's office, even the experienced FBI were waved aside.

    Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

    PG Exhibits has done amazing work for Gates Corporation. I know Rod personally and it's an honor to work with someone so talented. He's an expert at bringing vision and a company's brand to life.


    The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong that the bumblebee can fly that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.


    I think it speaks to the level of talent in the area. These kids have come through the club level and they're ready when they get to high school. This area is a hotbed of soccer right now.




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