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I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.