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I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.

No crossing of people would take place on Monday because we have not yet exchanged the lists of people wanting to cross.

My friend Josh Glenn compiles terrific lists of genre novels from the mid-20th century. His latest is a list of the ten best adventure novels of 1966. Josh also includes the cover art of early editions of the books, which are always much better than the art on newer editions. I want to read every book in this list!

I don't get worried about kids being two-star, three-star, five-star or eight-star. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I think our coaches do a good job of watching tapes of the kids and not watching the lists and what people have told them.

There are people wanting to do aid stations now that have been on waiting lists for six to seven years because people have stayed on. It's unusual that you get anyone less than 10 years.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

When I'm dating someone, I have a list called my 'Oh No Nos.' If a woman commits a Oh No No, it can end the relationship. Not loving '90s R&B music is #3 on the Oh No Nos list. Girl don't even know who Ginuwine is.

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.

I have a couple of lists that I can refer to throughout the day, but I don't have the official 'FAT' book yet. Yes, it really is called the FAT (Federal Acronym and Terms) book. And no, you can't speak a sentence around here without using an acronym,

From a list management standpoint, there aren't too many e-mail lists out there in the marketplace. A lot of list marketers would like to play a role in it, but the e-mail names to rent are pretty limited.

I am a huge fan of lists (I actually make lists of the lists that I need to make).

I don't think it's a journalist's job to issue shopping lists or policy descriptions. We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are the environment, your health, animal welfare the answers are going to be different for every person.

I expect that those Liberal Party traditions and the constitutions would remain in play as we discuss how the lists are going to be formed.

I felt extremely comfortable and at home on the set and actually I did homework about breaking down the scenes and often had shot lists in a rough way, but it was actually extremely spontaneous. Working with David Lynch-he is so spontaneous.

If someone is doing a great job, we want to know about them. Secondly, we want to know who is making these lists none of us can buy from; we want to know who to blame.

There are short lists of two- or three-letter words that most people don't use. People probably haven't seen a lot of words that are key.

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

It has really rocked us. People are staying in treatment slots longer, so I can't spin those beds to someone else. My waiting lists are mounting like crazy.

I think some of these vehicles will help the domestics for a few months. But I think they are going to continue to struggle. If you weren't on shoppers' lists to start with, I'm not sure that many of these vehicles will be strong enough to get them back on the list.

I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the list. It's absurd and completely unjustifiable. Their problem was they had to put an Australian on it. These lists are always so right-wing. It's like the Nobel prize, it is always 'people we can do business with'.

Our goal is to finish in the top three. We set that as a realistic goal. But what comes with being picked to finish third is that level of expectation. These lists provide teams in the league with an incentive to beat you.

I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.

Waiting lists are growing and we hope adding a new scanner will make a difference.

Which means that waiting lists will get longer in the public system, and this is not just hypothetical. The idea was tried by Margaret Thatcher in Britain back in the '80s and early '90s. It was a disaster.

I’m not going to kill you, Nora. I don’t kill people who are important to me. And you top the list.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

We have a number of traditional commercial lists for the rental market, but we also look at those names and the information associated with them as a tremendous database asset that's more synergistically tied to advertising. When this database enhances the leads we provide to advertisers, its value is much, much greater than it is as a revenue source for renting names.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.

We have lists of people ready to do lists of things,

We have lists that are having baby lists at this point; they're spawning faster than rabbits. If we have over 300,000 known terrorists who want to do this country harm, we've got a much bigger problem than deciding which names go on which list. But I highly doubt that is the case.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

Lists are a form of power.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.

Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush.

The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the same 14 songs night after night. Our set lists vary drastically, and we keep a log of every set we've played. We try to make every night a different experience.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.

Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.

Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.

This sale is consistently at the top of the lists of stakes winning percentage. And good horses will bring back repeat buyers.

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.

What these lists demonstrate is that we have been safely consuming foods containing biotech ingredients for nearly a decade now. This is what the food industry has been saying all along, that biotech ingredients are in more and more foods every day and that they are as safe and nutritious as non-biotech foods.

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

We're seeing strength in technology and current optimism is based upon inventories worked down -- even Motorola indicated they're making progress in that direction, ... Techs are doing well and people will be combing their lists of stocks to buy for the long-term, but it's going to be a highly selective process.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

I keep joking that I'm in Jason Reitman Film School, because I keep asking him questions every single day about directing and I have a list of things that he's told me to do and not do and I definitely couldn't learn from a better person.

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

Lists have always implied social order.

Work together to make lists of foods your kids like and you approve of, and fill their lunch boxes with them to create a lunch they will be happy with and not trade or throw away. For example, with Single Occasion products you can honor the individual sandwich preferences of everyone in the family, so everyone feels special and will enjoy their lunch more.

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.

We're putting together lists of names and are narrowing it down. It's important in our minds to do this quickly. But it's more important that we get the right guy.