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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
I make aesthetic movies which are grand and with some of the biggest stars. It's not fair to run them down. I don't make tacky films.
The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.
We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.
I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.
When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.
The lowest I've ever made - and this was on the prelims - was 35 grand on a fight. I've made upwards of 80 grand on a fight on sponsors.
The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman.
I'd like to see more of Colorado, Utah, and maybe go to Yellowstone. Oh, and I'd like to kayak down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon.
I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.
I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?
Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.
I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.
Modern, effective leadership means moving beyond the 'grand illusion' to engage the mass population and to align business with societal goals.
This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.
I love the look of delight on my guests' faces when I serve them a bowl of olive-oil aioli alongside roasted potatoes or a grand Nicoise salad.
It was unbelievable: competing in my home town at a grand prix I was watching when I was three years old. It was massive and a dream come true.
At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.
Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.
What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.
In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.
Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.
Being No. 1 is great, but it is even better to win a Grand Slam.
I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.
This is just a 'Boom!' of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.
The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.