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What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we're in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores and sue each other. It's not much of a basis for an economy.

It's a big wild card. The wise answer is that it will be some kind of a close decision that can break either way and will be pretty narrowly tailored to deal with the Texas episode. I think you flip a coin.

It was the back flip that was the difference. I'm sure Nate saw that every night. And we reminded him about it.

It's a different team in two ways. One, we don't have Carlos Beltran , Jeff Kent and Jeff Bagwell . On the flip side, we didn't have a healthy Andy Pettitte (last year). ... I'd like to assemble a team with last year's lineup and this year's pitching.

This team has been on a mission from the first game of the season. The scoring droughts that they may have had in past playoffs will not happen in Flip Saunders' offense, and I believe that they want to prove that they can win a title without Larry Brown. Also, the East is so weak that they should have an easy ride, at least to the conference finals.

It's an opportunity for us, as educators, to make the connections that the world's a bigger place than Olney, Illinois, and on the flip side, even though they are in Olney, Illinois, they can have an impact on other parts of the country or on other parts of the world,

It's a very difficult decision, not just for our hemisphere but for Asian cultures as well. There was a solid faction that didn't want the IOC appearing that they would flip on issues.

There were a couple of interviews done with companies that left, and they cited New Jersey's bureaucracy and, on the flip side, the hospitality shown to them by the state they moved into as one of the main reasons they left.

There's a lot of people accused of cheating who are not, and this kit can prove that. However, there's a flip side to that coin.

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

He's more relaxed when you don't have someone breathing down your neck when you go out there. That's been the difference with Chauncey this year. He's just been going out there and playing. Flip is giving him the freedom to go out there and do what he wants, and he's been doing it.

If I'm any good at Ole Miss, I might not be worth a flip at Michigan because I might not fit the environment.

I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress.

I can relate to him (Saunders), we have similar values, backgrounds, ... (Saunders) coming from Cleveland, being a Big Ten man -- I'm a University of Michigan man, he's University of Minnesota -- I just relate much, much differently to Flip than I do the other two coaches (Rick Carlisle and Brown). ... From the beginning, you can start with low maintenance, can start with not having an ego, or he's going to overwhelm everybody, Flip's going to work the way I'd work, as I see it.

I can remember stints in January where it would get into the high 30s or low 40s, but then the bottom would drop out. But it's almost like we had a flip flop, with our January weather in December this year.

If he makes the shot, we don't end up in the coin flip for Olajuwon. Because we had gotten Ralph the previous year, maybe a little bit of jealousy around the league led to a lot of the speculation about the fact that the Rockets were really doing bad.

I didn't really know X-Men at all before I started. So I'd heard of this comic but I didn't know it was as beloved or as iconic as I have now found out, but I just know fans are going to flip out at this.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

I've been a hunter pretty much all my life.

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working

[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.

I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow but at the same time, the hard part is having to wear every single hat. It's exhausting, but it's entirely worth it because on the flip side, the best part about being a touring musician is being a touring musician.

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

The market is responding very directly to interest rates as kind of a one-dimensional thing -- fearful of inflation and I think that either higher rates may catch this market in 1997, or the flip side, lower earnings.

The market never goes down three years in a row? You might as well get a lucky penny and flip it. The market can do anything it wants to.

Republicans can't run their normal playbook on me that they try to run on Democratic candidates. They can't say I flip-flop because I don't. They can't say I'm weak on defense because I'm not. They can't say I'm weak on values because I'm not. They can't say I'm a big taxer and a big spender.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

You flip through it and say, 'I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that. It is You placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy.

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

The days are gone when investors could easily flip stocks in the short term and make money.

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.

People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops and shorts and just kind of already have a buzz on.

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.

I am physically allergic to flip-flops

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

All through first and second and third hour, Eleanor rubbed her palm. Nothing happened. How could it be possible that there were that many never ending all in one place? And were they always there, or did they just flip on wherever they felt like it? Because, if they were always there, how did she manage to turn doorknobs without fainting? Maybe this was why so many people said it felt better to drive a stick shift.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

I take references from the past and flip them.

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

I like that you can easily flip the sheets over and have a different feel or vibe in your room. You don't have to go get a whole brand-new set of sheets.

Faith is the flip side of fear.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

You know, you're just not supposed to be hitting a flip wedge into that hole,

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.