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Now you can fool with the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act. It endangers the health and welfare of the entire population of this nation." ()

New homes sales sprang back to life like a zombie in a cheap horror flick. And like that zombie, housing really is dead. Don't let all that twitching fool you.

Newspapers and internet message boards are full of conspiracy theories as to how Slobodan Milosevic may have met his end, and this Trojan horse exploits interest in the breaking news story in an attempt to fool people into infection.

Right now, I don't want to mess with our chemistry. I'm not saying it's always going to be that way, but I don't think we need to fool with that.

I don't know him, but ... he'd definitely make our team a lot better. I'd be a fool not to say that. A guy like that would make everybody around him better.

I don't know why he ran from the car, I know we can all speculate . . . but he was a fool, he's quit the captaincy, he's paid a price . . . . He's a fool because it's not a good image for a captain of a football club. But he's been dealt with by the club under the code of conduct.

Learn what's important to your boss, understand what your company is looking for and help the fool meet those expectations.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!

Mountain Pointe always seems to come out and fool people. We make it a family and put it together.

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

I'd be a fool if I said I didn't look at the clock every couple of seconds.

I'd be a fool if I said I wasn't looking at the clock every couple of seconds. But we played really hard. I was just excited to be in this position. Obviously it hurts to lose, we're all sore losers. But they have five NBA players on their team, they were bigger than us at every spot.

I'd be a fool to say I wasn't looking at the clock every couple seconds.

I'd be a fool to say 'No, we weren't happy' to beat somebody we've lost to seven straight times since I've been here.

I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Friday night I'm going nowhere All the lights are changing green to red Turning over TV stations Situations running through my head Well looking back through time You know it's clear that I've been blind I've been a fool To ever open up my heart To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule Saturday I'm running wild And all the lights are changing red to green Moving through the crowd I'm pushing Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream Only wish that you were here You know I'm seeing it so clear I've been afraid To tell you how I really feel Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made

Gable, at a quarter of eight in the morning, is banging on the side of his dressing room. At one minute to nine, you'd better be ready, the king was ready to be directed. He didn't want to fool around. If he anybody came in late, he would really go crazy. He was there to work and that was it.

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

Fortune, when she caresses a man too much, makes him a fool

But a person's a fool if they think you can take a serious punt on when that exactly will happen.

We feel it's just part of our job. We're not going to fool ourselves into thinking we can get a kid a scholarship because we can't; a kid's athletic ability gets him a scholarship. What we can do is get his name out there and get him noticed.

Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's bold in character, especially with that rocker-red. Her bedroom eyes give us a come-hither kind of look. But ... she wants you to know just when you have her figured out, she's gonna fool you!

He was ahead of his time. Don't let those crayons fool you. He was ahead of his time and a total professional.

He cleared it up in the second day in the grand jury and he did not intend to deceive them on the first day. He corrected himself and he certainly didn't intend to fool them.

He who is born a fool is never cured

He who would make a fool of himself will find many to help him

I'm always going to be looking in a positive direction, ... If I look like a fool on national TV, so be it. I'm an emotional person, that's how I am.

I'm a success inasmuch that I enjoy my life, which is an enormous blessing and that doesn't depend on commercial success (though I wouldn't be such a fool as to deny that it helps).

His private affair is a private matter. Clearly he looks a fool but our job in opposition is to call him to account on his ministerial record.

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

He doesn't fool around out there, does he? He gets the ball and throws it. This guy learned how to put different pressure points on the ball to make the ball move. This guy is the best I've ever seen.

He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.

I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago.

Some people can have sensational moments at the convention, but don't fool yourself. It's all about John Kerry. They're selling something.

Playing well last week makes it a lot easier, building confidence and letting the team know that they can rely on me, ... I'm just trying to go about my day, not trying to get any special attention. Just try to stay to myself and do what they expect me to do. I mean, I'm just going to take advantage of the opportunity. I'd be a fool to blow it.

Our No. 1 priority was to keep our team intact, and we did that. I think the team feels it's good. It sees the talent level we have. You can't fool players. Players know players. I think our team feels we're going to be a good team.

People mostly see it as a sporting event. In a way, it doesn't matter if they've seen the movies. They watch it so they can win their office betting pools. They watch it to see stars make fool of themselves, or show their insecurities by gushing: 'You LIKE me!

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

Our guys had some quality at bats even though we struck out a lot early. We took some good things from those at bats and didn't get discouraged. We learned things each time. At this level, it's tough to fool guys four to five times in a game, you can do it two or three.

I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.

I'm not about to vote for something that is a sham. This bill backed off from any real enforcement at all. You don't have enforcement, you don't have a bill, and let's not fool the public.

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.

I think that it's something that's pretty obvious if you just look at history. They've gone into a lot of different series before. They don't go in to fool around; they go in to win. They're expected to spend whatever it takes to make it work, you know?

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire

Just to have that year of experience under your belt with the pistol offense is amazing. Now, we are at a point where we get to fool around with it a little bit more. We have a chance to get really comfortable in it. Last year, the coaches are telling you, 'Do this, do that.' They had to explain what they wanted with it. Now, everything is pretty much just expected out of you. We are just trying to get crisp with the offense.

I think underneath that black jumper, somewhere, there is a sense of conscience. It's his job. I mean, he does enjoy it. He would be a fool not to enjoy it. Nobody in their right mind is going to walk out on the most popular television show in the country for whatever reason, no matter how much money they've got. It's not just money. He loves it and he's good at it. What else is he gonna do? I can't see him selling records in a record shop.

I think to back away (from those goals) a day before would be fool hardy. You aren't going to achieve every one of your goals. (But) the goal we would like most to achieve takes place in April.

I thought the game was over. I'm a complete idiot. I was jumping up and down like a fool out there. I thought Gee's basket won the game for us.

True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool

The problem with high-profile trials is that you have jurors wanting to be on because it's their moment to interface with fame. They fool themselves into thinking they can be fair.

We were just a bunch of damn fool kids.

Thus far they've given me no great reason to worry as much as I do with other teams. Because they don't fool around in games.

The announcement of the municipal poll was a ploy to fool the international community, which is pressurizing the King to restore democracy.

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

The 3-pointer is normally not part of our game plan, but today it was. I don't like to do it, but I have to coach to our players' strengths. I'm a fool for not doing this sooner.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

You can have a team full of guys who play hard and hustle, ... But let's not fool ourselves. You need talent to win.

You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.

My best guess is the American market is going to fool all of us and is going to perform better than most of us expected,

Who is the Palestinian fool who will sit in negotiations and will have to pay so that we evacuate territory, when he knows if he simply waits, Israel will evacuate the territory?

We have a lot of talent for a nonscholarship team. People just don't understand. They're thinking, 'nonscholarship, I-AA, midmajor.' Don't let that fool you. This is a whole other level. It doesn't get better than this.

Well, as I characterize most of them, they're all gimmicks, gimmicks to fool the taxpaying public that they're going to get some kind of tax relief.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn't hurt me. As far as I'm concerned, me personally, it's like it never happened.

Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.