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I think we were a little too energetic the first half. We were coming down and just throwing up shots instead of getting into our offense, which is what we're best at. The second half we slowed things down and tried to find better shots.

I think we're planning on doing that in the future instead of school assembly, ... We don't lose academic time during the school day for an assembly, and this way it's a lot easier to get the parents and the community involved.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I think we were trying to spot pitches early in the count instead of trying to get ahead. But it's early. I was really happy with how the guys threw.

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

I thought our bullpen competed today. I like the way our bullpen came out today behind and instead of letting it compound, they stopped it. We brought guys in with runners in scoring position and they got us out of it and that's how we won the game." ()

I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone who knows what they're talking about to tell you if you're any good or not instead of just your mum saying that you like it when you sing.

I think you'll feel like you earned it more. Instead of two teams meeting one night for one game -- that part doesn't feel like much of a tournament. For the most part, it's a good move and it's one they needed to make.

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

I think you really have to evaluate and see how things are going and be honest. That goes back to having people around you that are not going to tell you what you want to hear. Instead they give you true advice.

I thought a big key for us was that even though we didn't play well, we kept grinding and playing hard. If we would have made our free throws and gotten some more of our shots, our lead would have been 20 points instead of eight.

It brought back some memories. Instead of thinking about scoring a goal, I was only worried about preventing them.

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

I think in the world of The Chase, Jack recognizes that you have to make changes earlier in the year than you would in years past. We are dealing with a 26-race regular season instead of 36 races. Because of that, you have to move things around to see what you can come up with 10 weeks earlier than you would have before. But I think anyone who has really watched our race teams closely this year knows that we have run better than the final numbers might look.

I think it is really important if you have any kind of vision for going to the championship game of the tournament because four days, four games is a very difficult task. It's been done, but at the same time, it's a lot easier if you have the chance to play three back-to-back games instead so I'm very proud of my team for finishing in the top four in the ACC.

I think it is very dangerous if the U.S. is supportive of the Israeli government and of the confrontation Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has tried to use in the latest weeks instead of supporting peace talks,

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

I thought we had a chance to put the game away in the second half. We played not to lose instead of playing to win.

It is simple. It works like a bank, except that instead of money you deposit works of art to secure your own future.

It is so easty to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes...It is so easy to exist instead of live.

I was a little bit more at ease talking to an individual instead of a company.

It appears someone else told their story instead of them telling it.

It appears that you (Bracken County) may be involved in the American Community Survey, which is part of the Census Bureau's effort to streamline and improve the census, and will replace the long form in 2010 and provide communities a vibrant, moving picture every year instead of once every 10 years. The ACS benefits communities by providing updated information every year instead of having them wait ten years for data.

It appears the White House has abandoned the idea of taxing broadcasters billions in 'analog TV spectrum fees' and instead has given its blessing to the budget reconciliation bill as the means by which to raise billions in revenue (go to the last paragraph in bold). You will recall that each White House budget submitted for the last 10 years or so has included spectrum tax provisions in the billions that would target TV broadcasters.

It can help protect the market in times of crisis. Instead of shutting down all trade, it helps you respond to the situation at hand.

I think it's a different mindset this year. You see how the guys are doing it and you see the possibilities. And you're playing more offensively, so I think the mindset is a lot different in the league right now, too. I think you're getting rewarded for going on the offense, instead of sitting back.

I think it's a great idea. While my wife's doing the grocery shopping instead of just wandering around the store, it would be a good chance to have my cholesterol checked again.

I think it's gone to us having some success and knowing we can get a lot of things done to everybody wanting to do it right away instead of just letting things go in the flow like it was when we were doing well. I think that's just the biggest thing right now ? we're so in a hurry to do things that it's not turning out well.

I think it's a perfect idea because one of the university's missions is similar to one of ours -- developing a quality workforce, ... Them reaching out to us instead of us reaching out to them is a novel approach, and a great one.

I think it's just neat for the kids, to finish that climb to the top. I'm really glad to be able to rest. It was our first time playing always as the favorite instead of moving up, trying to knock someone off. We really felt the pressure of teams coming after us. It was tough, to keep working hard and not get complacent.

I think it's just preparation. We work real hard in practice every day and like I said, it's team baseball. We just concentrate on the team instead of personal goals and that's definitely helped us.

It certainly sounds to me that they made a calculation to get Coleman's support. With Coleman, they no longer needed Smith. And if they no longer needed Smith, they could cut Medicaid recipients instead of the pharmaceutical companies and managed-care providers.

It changed my life. I've learned to relax and be more in control of my body, instead of having my body controlling me.

It could go to 300, it could go to 200, ... It really depends on the frenzy that it meets this morning. It certainly could be worth $100 or $200 a share very easily; it has established a real brand for itself; it has almost 70 percent of the marketplace, due to its excellent marketing, it has really out-paced Windows, and it hasn't made the mistake that Apple Computer made way back when: It has an open platform instead of a closed platform. Certainly with today's IPO market, they picked a very fortuitous time to go public. The average IPO this year is up 150 percent.

It could actually be good to take a loss in the round-robin instead of making one in the playoffs, because sooner or later you will lose.

I think it should have been bigger. It would fit more people in it, instead of one freshman class.

It is a bit distressing that instead of constructive solutions, there are those in the House who would continue to just say no and expect our transportation challenges to disappear.

It is absolutely outrageous that a woman who is running for public office is being judged by her appearance instead of where she stands on the issues.

I thought we were going to get an early start. Instead we sit there for hours doing nothing, and then we sit on the side of the road in New Orleans doing nothing. These people have no idea what they're doing and that includes FEMA and DHH.

I thought, you know, I have a shot at being happy here because this is such an exciting and lucky time for me. Instead of fighting demons, sometimes it's tempting to just say, well they don't exist. That's it. They're done. I'm defeating them by decree ... I can decide to be happy and be fine.

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

I think we'll do some of that. But back then there were only 30 teams instead of 32 and there was more available talent. It's not because we're not looking. It just has to make sense. We've seen some interesting prospects.

I think we're coming out and throwing the first punch instead of waiting back and seeing what our opponent is going to do. We've been coming out aggressive, very sure of ourselves, and we're just playing with a confidence and air about us right now that is just easy and contagious.

I think we really need to focus on the water and sewer bills, instead of trying to talk about everything at once.

I thought they were the more poised team down the stretch. I thought we maybe lined up too many threes down the stretch and tried to force the outcome instead of doing what we usually do.

I thought that the long summer holidays would have helped me but instead when I started to train I felt worse than before.

I thought their post players did a good job of being physical with Nemanja and making him catch the ball from 15 feet instead of eight feet and in, and that was big.

I thought the long summer holidays would have helped me but instead when I started to train I felt worse than before. My idea is to retire when I am at the top and not after spending a season on the bench.

I thought we had some good looks, but we kind of floated instead of taking it at someone to get to the free throw line. They are big, and they pounded the boards on us in the second half.

I thought we ought to follow the army around for a couple months instead of a week or two, and to do an hour and a half thing instead of a 45 second clip.

I thought we'd play our best game (Sunday) - instead we played our worst. (Afterward in the locker room), I just wrote the stats on the board and let them stare at them awhile.

I was not very happy to have to change insurance plans. Instead of scrapping it, which I considered, I went to this plan,

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Today's earnings reports obviously didn't sit well, and buyers reacted as if the light at the end of the tunnel is getting further away instead of closer.

Today's encounter was billed as spontaneous. Instead it appeared to follow a script.

Today's report simply reinforces the belief that it will be 25 points instead of 50 points.

Trap came out to talk to me twice and we were on the same page. I was just nibbling at the corners instead of going after guys. I got used to having men on base.

'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.

Travel spending could be flat this summer instead of seeing 8 percent increases like we've seen in the past.

Three entities would dominate three industries instead of one, ... The company seems to have developed that way over the years -- so someone must have seen this coming.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.

We were sloppy in the first half. We reached too much. We settled for jump shots instead of getting the ball inside.

We had one out and we ran ourselves out of the inning, and then we could have held them without a run in the fourth inning, but instead we make an error and it turns into a three-run inning.

We were happy with two straight wins and that was satisfying enough for us instead of trying to come in here and get one against a very good basketball team.

You know what, I blame George Bush. Instead of shoring up this country and making it really defensible, which is what his job is, he went out and started an illegal war in Iraq that is doing nothing but starting a civil war in that country. It's insane.

The only responsible action would be to stop treating animals as commodities to be bought, sold and traded, to cease building amusement attractions that exploit animals, but instead focus on protecting and promoting animals in the wild.

The problem is that those who are the worst off are the first to move. You would need the strong to go back first, but instead it is the women, children and disabled who are going back,

The problems were plain to see at the time of last year's pre-Budget report in December, but instead of addressing them then, the Treasury chose to dress up the UK finances for the election.

The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.

You'd like not to but it's just according to how much yardage you want to give up, ... When you start kicking away from somebody ... the yards instead of being a 40-yard end up a 26-yard punt (return). But we are prepared to do both.

You do learn from the things that you suffer. I made sure I took it all in. but instead of trying to hide that and put some fluffy fun record together, I went with how I felt,

We were joking that they had given up hitting for Lent, instead of pop and meat.

Unfortunately, school systems are more often concerned with how their retention numbers look instead of whether these children can read well enough to succeed. Consequently, schools have found loopholes in the law, and legislators need to plug those holes. Nothing does a child a greater disservice than promoting him when he is lacking the basic skills to succeed.

Those last four minutes we played not to lose instead of to win, that's something we can't do.

Those leaders who have stood strong to keep Arctic drilling out of the budget must continue to hold the line. It?s time for Congress to put this bad idea to rest once and for all and focus instead breaking our oil addiction with clean energy solutions.

Those of us who care about the last days of terminally ill people know that we have to focus instead on making advance directives more effective. We need to strengthen advance directive laws, to ensure that health care providers check to see if a patient has a directive before instituting medical interventions. If a patient has directed that no life-sustaining treatment be provided, this wish must be respected.

We know if we win out we would be in good shape. As long as we do our part, we could win the conference championship instead of finishing second.

We know that cash flow is a top concern for small businesses and that they look for practical tools to help keep money flowing smoothly. Whether small businesses simply need to update their PCs or plan to invest in their first server or a new custom business application, the fixed-rate loans from Microsoft Financing enable customers to shift their focus to acquiring what they need to move their business forward, instead of how they will pay for it.

We are disappointed the court did not rule on Wal-Mart's fraud claims against Mr. Coughlin but instead upheld the release agreements on a technicality. We will file an amended complaint with additional evidence of fraud and fraudulent inducement.

We are in or are entering TWO cycles instead of one broadband Internet and mobile.

Though technology has significantly advanced, the government is still using technology the same way it was doing in the past. If technology is used in the same way as before instead of being more efficient it becomes very risky.

I would love to see a clock that doesn't use hours and seconds but instead uses something that is closer to breath. A second is not even related to a heartbeat; it is something other than human.

I would advise an incoming gay professor to stay closeted depending on the department they work in, for some are more liberal and accepting than others. Prior to becoming tenured, they may be judged on their sexual preference instead of their expertise, intelligence and research.

I would meet with them regularly and ask what they'd like to see. Team leaders (in the prosecutors office), supervisors and I instead of being in offices looking out and reacting to crime, should go out and be proactive.

I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.

I would have you fasten instead of holding it, the rein that comes back to your hand to the pommel of the saddle, because it has the greater force.

The athletes can be under cover if they're not competing, instead of having to stand there and get soaked.

The Ancients had no religion, but instead had what could be described as a deeper knowledge of reality, a science and religion that were both integrally combined into a way of life.

The answers to those questions were a beginning instead of a payoff. And as a result of that, those answers are coming in the first three episodes of season two. Because they lay out the groundwork for what that entire season is about. Including the numbers.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

The American people want us to go to work. They want us to produce good policy, ... The ability for us to save Social Security and Medicare in the future, the ability to give American workers and working families more of their money so that they can keep it in their pocket instead of giving it to the tax collectors.

We have an eight-player rotation and those players are going to play. If I can keep their minutes in the 20s instead of the 30s, I'll do it.

We have a new policy. We're going to report a weekly number instead of a daily number. There are other tour events that don't report attendance figures, such as the Buick Open.

We have an immigration crisis in this country and the Senate needs to act, instead of listening to speeches from the President of Mexico.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

We have a long way to go before cyclists and motorists ride on each other's wheels, instead of walk in each other's shoes.

Voting should go quickly once people learn how to use the touch screen. It's better in a whole lot of ways than printed ballots. An election can be certified in two days. It should also minimize recounts. The old paper ballot machines would sometimes miscount the ballot and sometimes two ballots would go through instead of one. The touch screen will leave a paper audit trail and recover everything each voter does.

Usually the devil is in the details. With this report, the greatest fear is that details of true labor market conditions will be found over the next couple of months instead of in this report.