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Pretty Quotes


"The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous."


"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."


"I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude."


"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."


"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."


"My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick."


"I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great."


"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."


"As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place."



"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."


"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."



"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good."


"They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant."


"I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison."


"PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated."


"Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds."


"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."


"I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write."



"The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise."


"When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard."



"I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly."


"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."


"What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone."


"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."


"How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes."


"Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex."


"I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things."



"I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it."



"It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath."


"It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue."



"Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think."


"Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are."



"I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to."


"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
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