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


"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."


"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."


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


"Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive."


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


"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."


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


"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."


"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."


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


"In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through."


"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."


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


"It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place."


"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 was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."


"It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us."



"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."


"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."


"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."


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


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


"Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically."


"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 had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing."


"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."


"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."


"I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest."


"Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike."


"I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical."


"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."


"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."
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