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

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

Shannon Elizabeth, American Actress

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"I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough."

"I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough."

Don Henley, American Musician

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"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."

"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."

Bobby Thomson, American Athlete

Pretty, Rivalry

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

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

David Wells, American Athlete

24

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

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

Aisha Tyler, American Actress

24

"I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for."

"I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for."

Loretta Young, American Actress

Pretty, Struggle, Want

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"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

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"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

24

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

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

Shannon Miller, American Athlete

Pretty, Routine

24

"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it."

"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it."

Yogi Berra, American Athlete

24

"Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in."

"Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in."

Rob Glaser, American Businessman

23

"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."

"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."

Frederick Pollock, English Judge

23

"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

23

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

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

Pat Brown, American Entertainer

23

"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

23

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

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

Eric Heiden, American Athlete

23

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

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

Joseph Jackson, American Businessman

Pretty, Security

23

"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

22

"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

22

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

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

Martin Fry, British Musician

22

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

Hilary Rosen, American Businessman

22

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

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

22

"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."

"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."

Gabriel Byrne, Irish Actor

Pretty, Reality

21

"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

21

"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

21

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

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

George Murphy, American Dancer

21

"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

20

"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

20

"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

20

"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

19

"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

19

"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

18

"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

18

"I'm pretty outspoken."

"I'm pretty outspoken."

Miley Cyrus, American Musician

18

"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

17

"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

15

"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

11

"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

8

"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

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