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"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."

"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."

Oscar Robertson, American Athlete

14

"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."

"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."

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

14

"I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner."

"I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner."

Shannon Elizabeth, American Actress

14

"In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me."

"In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

14

"I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer."

"I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer."

Sara Gilbert, American Actress

Pretty, Projects, Trying, Want

14

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

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

Janet Jackson, American Musician

14

"I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh."

"I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh."

Cody Linley, American Actor

14

"I think we're all pretty odd."

"I think we're all pretty odd."

Michael Tippett, English Composer

14

"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."

"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."

Jello Biafra, American Musician

14

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

Hilary Rosen, American Businessman

14

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

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

Charlie Bell, Australian Businessman

14

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

14

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

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

Jeffery Deaver, American Writer

14

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

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

Jason Biggs, American Actor

13

"As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter."

"As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter."

Mary Lou Retton, American Athlete

13

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

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

Sterling Marlin, American Athlete

13

"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."

"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."

Timothy West, British Actor

Pretty, Writers

13

"I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research."

"I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research."

David McCullough, American Historian

Pretty, Research, Writing, Years

13

"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."

"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."

Eric Snow, American Athlete

13

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

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

Thomas Jane, American Actor

Pretty, Respect

13

"We had a pretty good lead, so why push it."

"We had a pretty good lead, so why push it."

David Wells, American Athlete

13

"Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued."

"Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued."

Eric Heiden, American Athlete

13

"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."

"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

Pretty, Reputation

13

"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."

"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."

Paul Ince, English Athlete

12

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

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

Mose Allison, American Musician

12

"I think I am pretty much melancholic."

"I think I am pretty much melancholic."

Juliette Binoche, French Actress

12

"It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils."

"It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils."

Meg White, American Musician

12

"With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well."

"With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well."

Dashiell Hammett, American Author

11

"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."

"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."

Trip Hawkins, American Businessman

11

"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."

"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."

Shirley Manson, Scottish Musician

Pretty, Sexuality

11

"I'm pretty outspoken."

"I'm pretty outspoken."

Miley Cyrus, American Musician

11

"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."

"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."

Lester Bangs, American Critic

Pretty, Reason, Rebellion

10

"We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic."

"We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic."

Jon Fishman, American Musician

10

"All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm."

"All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm."

Jermaine Dupri, American Musician

10

"Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks."

"Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks."

Jon Fishman, American Musician

9

"I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself."

"I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself."

Hank Williams, American Musician

9

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Pretty, Quotation, Wit

7

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

4

"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."

"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Pretty, Writers

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