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We never thought that he literally had God speaking to him.

We now know a great deal about adolescent sleep. Biological clocks shift by two hours after puberty. There are literally not enough hours in the night for them to get enough sleep.

Today, the hopes and dreams of millions of Iraqis are closer to becoming an everyday reality -- a free, democratic government is literally at hand,

We were slammed when we went to do pick-ups. It took two days (as opposed to one in previous years), and people have been dropping off books ever since. The hallways of our offices are literally choked with (boxes of ) books.

You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you.

We'll literally have the world's best athletes here in Osaka. This will be a good opportunity for young Japanese athletes to see what the world is like.

Those groups have done a lot of good work, but there is room for a group like ours to step in and literally walk people through what's available to them, and make sure they are treated fairly.

We anticipate a few more, ... as those that may have resources here, in terms of family, make their way out. We have tried to provide them comfort and reassurance. They have literally been involved with a nightmare. We want to do all we can to help.

We know less about the structure of our own galaxy than we do about many nearby galaxies like Andromeda. We literally can't see the forest for the trees because we are embedded inside our own galaxy, and interstellar dust blocks our view.

I would literally give up my right arm to talk to Felipe Alou.

The amount of work we did ... there were so many 24-hour days. (The program) evolved and came together so quickly ... literally from a Friday to a Monday. Just getting (the car) ready was a feat.

With the subsurface of Mars, we've literally just scratched the surface and we're trying to probe, now, more than a couple of feet into it.

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

We have to literally fight for our lives over here.

We have but the one drug section for the province of Manitoba, and there literally could be a grow op every five miles.

We have communities where the entire community is under water, literally to the eaves of buildings.

I was really devastated. I had planned on going to the hospital that day to visit my daughter, and we literally had no money. To think that I couldn't visit my daughter that day just devastated me.

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

The A&M experience was just so sweet. It was literally an American fable - two guys getting together and creating something that just worked. We were in business together for 28 years without any investment from anybody else. We had our own shop.

The Action Plan provides a blue print for getting proven cessation treatment to literally every smoker in America who wants to quit. This can have enormous benefit for everyone-adding years of life for former smokers and reducing healthcare costs for all Americans. Making the tobacco companies pay for this is only proper.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

The ABS avalanche backpack is a lifesaver, literally a lifesaver, ... In 43 deployments, there's only been one fatality.

You know, I literally lost all control of my bowels up there. I couldn't think. I was swimming in my head. So I was lucky to get out what I got out.

We just dealt with a rescue who literally held an animal for eight weeks and allegedly forced a payment to get that animal back.

We invented a golf cart that puts less pressure on the ground than a human being walking. We found a way to equally distribute the weight, between 5 and 6 pounds per square inch, so the cart can go literally anywhere on the greens.

We just went cold in the second half. And the rebounding was really huge. It was literally one and done for us.

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

We've been fighting for the right thing, which is to give her a chance, ... She's never had a chance, and that's the most despicable part of this. She was literally shelved. She has not been out of this room over here in the hospice for three years.

We have not played against him a lot. But I have tremendous respect for the guy. He's one of those guys who can literally will a team to victory.

Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problem arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

Those guys made him comfortable. We were able to work out a deal quickly, literally within 24 hours, which is unique.

We do know it did increase mileage a little bit. It does clean the engines out. Initially we had to once, maybe twice, change the fuel filters depending on the age of the bus because it literally cleans the systems out.

We're definitely seeing species going extinct because of climate change. We're going to lose the penguins. We're going to lose the polar bears, no question. . . . I'm seeing high mountain butterflies literally being pushed off the mountains. This is happening. It is not theory. It is not people saying, 'Oh, we think it might happen.' It is happening, and it is incredibly depressing.

We'll be watching as the storm approaches. If we see a service area is about to be hit by high winds, we will literally have crews loaded and sitting in trucks, ready to go.

We have to think about the people first. Then we can think about the business. We're dealing with a scale of disaster we've never seen before (in the casino industry). We're literally at square one right now.

When that money came in, that was the end of it. She was literally put into a cell and she wasn't treated.

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.

We believe there are literally billions of dollars available in the private market to greatly enhance our infrastructure, particularly in roads, that can be brought to bear.

When you're dealing with someone like Shirley, it's a little insulting to ask her to come in for a meeting. But I wanted to meet her first and talk to her about the character, because there was a very big 'if' on it for me. Shirley is such a powerful presence, personality and talent, and she has used that power effectively over a long and rich career. But I wanted to know she would be able to put a damper on all of that and go to a very quiet place to play this character who is literally hiding from life, who has put a lid on everything because of her guilt, her fear and her unresolved issues. If Shirley could go to that kind of a place, and then blossom as her character's life broadens, I thought it would be very exciting.

We had to. We had no place else to go. You kind of practiced on spots you literally walked around and found a place that didn't have a ditch in it.

We had all the funds and everything agreed, and then someone came in and bought it for $12 million and literally did it overnight.

We've literally become a part of the staffs. For example, George Quarles, Maryville High's football coach, literally treats me as much a part of his staff as anyone else.

We've literally struggled throwing strikes. It's throwing strikes one night and errors another night. If we can get those two area straightened out, we'll be all right because we hit the ball very well.

We've had instances of extremely bad (body) odor that would literally clear out a whole area of a room. If you are going to wear the same clothes over and over make sure you wash them.

We've had literally less than a handful of people express some concern about going.

That was not for his protection, but for the fire officials' protection because his skin literally had serious contaminants on it.

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

We have reaped the benefits from investment banking. We are particularly pleased with our M&A performance in a business where we were literally nobody four or five years ago.

We decided, OK, we're going to look at the scene every time before we shoot it, ... And Vince and I went, and we looked, and literally down to the body language of when he hands her the pen, how she ducks in from the rain, how she turns to walk out the door, whether she turns to the left or turns to the right. I wanted to hold my purse the same way, to show how specific you can get, and how different it will be, according to what the mind of a person is.

There are some people who get literally sick after 15 minutes.

We're announcing products that put us literally years ahead of our nearest competitors in terms of performance,

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

We did get an increase in our building aid picture but we in effect have planned some implementation of single point of entry that we were counting on that aid to actually reimburse an expenditure that we're having. So literally there is no increase in the state aid picture for the Rome City School District.

There are very simple ways to do this. You can literally use your hand and on a cold day, feel the cold air rushing in where you have gaps or leaks.

This promises to be a phenomenal year for the park and our Guests. We are literally pulling out all the stops to ensure that every visitor who walks through our gates has the best time imaginable. Every single day we will be focused on bringing our Guests a total entertainment package that they won't find anywhere else, and in addition to our amazing array of rides and attractions, we're making a big investment in -- and commitment to -- improving the Guest experience by providing a better park environment.

This proposal is going to create a national identification card for the first time. It literally sets up the backbone for a system to track all Americans throughout their lives -- their movements, where they're going to and where they're coming from,

To beat Barbados in Barbados, to literally take the Cup off their shelf is an amazing feeling.

You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

We have literally hundreds of personal memories from this place just from the people we have met. The most enjoyable part of it for me was seeing our guests enjoy our resort and being able to bring a little bit of happiness to their lives. It was really like a family reunion each summer.

We have literally waited decades -- and I mean decades -- to have a hotel in St. Paul. It is a dream come true for Westin.

We have looked at literally hundreds of investing styles and systems over the years. The Stock Picker RT has consistently picked winners since the initial launch and continues to be one of the most recommended programs that we offer.

There is literally a 75 page rule book that covers just 'basic' game play.

There is literally nothing Mr. Carmines will not use - gallops, waltzes, polkas, circus blares and musical bumps and grinds - to get his work done.

This spring home-buying season promises to be like no other before it, because it will be the first time consumers have these incredible tools literally at their fingertips to help them perform their research and ultimately find their next home.

Tips from citizens are critical. The public is literally our eyes and ears in the field.

When you're racing, you hang on for dear life. Everything is shaking, and on the turns your head is literally hanging outside of the car.

We don't have a lot of room that we can stumble in. The good thing is that we do play each of those teams which makes those games literally crucial.

We didn't do 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters' at the first show. We had had so much on our plate to get ready that we didn't sit down and time it out. We learned the songs chronologically but we literally ran out of time.

were literally falling apart because of drainage problems.

We're literally in a meeting going over our plans, keeping track of things, when we got word on Tuesday that CNN was reporting they had been hit. At the time, we knew a high-profile target was reporting they had been hit and they didn't know what it was. Their computers were shutting down and restarting,

We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally reaching for the stars.

We are literally adding turn lanes in almost every direction.

We are literally amazed at how smoothly the parade operated with such challenging conditions.

We had an opportunity to sign Guerrero in January '04. I called him and literally in a minute I had a response from him. So it wasn't one of those things where you say, 'Hey, we're going to commit 70 million bucks here; let's go think about this.'

The pillars broke off and ripped through the side of the boat, and literally began tearing out the entire side of the boat where people were standing, waiting to get off, ... We all jumped from our seats and began running for our lives in the middle of all this debris, and people screaming and falling over each other.

We discovered a new species literally every day we were there.

When ABC called me, I was literally shocked,

We are putting the information customers need literally into their hands,

We didn't sleep last week -- we literally didn't sleep -- because we've been so busy with the book.

We'll see how it goes over the days ahead as that camp is fully exploited. It is literally huge,

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. The principal and teachers literally went door to door inviting parents to participate. They found most parents had no idea the school was so dependent on them.

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

We've built a new car for this year's 24 Hour. We have literally the entire team we had here last year - the same people, the same car package, the same drivers - although we've added a fourth driver with Ryan.

We are monitoring the situation literally day by day, ... We will review the funding in the light of this work.

The cricket hasn't knocked horseracing off the top as leading sport in terms of total betting turnover, but on days when the cricket has been on everything else has taken a back seat. There's been an enormous amount of interest during any given Test. There's massive trading of positions all day. People have their computers on next to their televisions. They bet literally hundreds of times in the course of a match.

We're trying to pull aspen back literally from the brink of extinction.

We're trying to write the next album while we're on the road, kind of like Led Zeppelin did it in their early days. I know some of my favorite ideas come at like 8 in the morning, so I've just been an insomniac the last little while, like literally just up till 10 a.m. and I'll sleep for like three or four hours. And some of the best stuff comes out of that.

We passed town after town after town that looked like it had been literally flattened by an atomic bomb.

We place our principals in literally a no-win situation. The days preceding graduation my stomach was in a knot watching the weather reports.

Tyson didn't do much this summer, from what I've seen, compared to last summer when he was here almost 75 days. It's the old thing where your agent tells you don't do anything until you get a contract, and a lot of guys think that literally means don't do anything. It really means don't play basketball.

We've worked long and hard with House and Senate staff ... to try to get corrections to the legislation and we just have literally reached the end of that rope.

We do have content through Burger King that the customers are able to view if they want to. Burger King has been the first and only available literally almost for two weeks.

We really believe we can really make literally hundreds of millions of these machines around the world,

We really busted out in the first inning. Then we literally couldn't hold them.

When my husband became a professor at USF in 1966 I remember the campus in Tampa was literally a wasteland. When I go to that campus now and look at what's happening, I can't believe it.

When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years.

When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.

There came a moment after literally weeks of conversation, ... that both Myles and I began to see a framework... It brought us to a point where there was really a victory without defeat.