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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

Given that we import more than 50 percent of our oil consumption from abroad, it is clear that as these prices rise, we are essentially transferring net wealth from U.S. consumers to oil producers that are mostly located overseas.

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.

I can't shoot my age yet. I mostly shoot in the high 80s. I had a shot at it a couple of weeks ago at D.W. Field but ended up with a 92. I'll get there someday.

Friday and Saturday, we bring in bands that are well known around town. Mostly in the jazz genre.

From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

From what I saw, it was mostly their guys running their mouths, throwing the punches, ripping the helmets off, slamming them on the ground.

For me, the biggest thing was just getting all the wows out of the way, and that was mostly stuff like the new cities and stadiums and facing a certain great pitcher here or there, ... Better to do it now than next year. We want to be winning right off the bat.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

If we see a star at a large distance from the center of the galaxy, that star is going to be mostly moving either away from the center or back toward the center. Almost certainly, most of its motion is perpendicular to our line of sight.

I go all over the country, mostly by myself. I'm never alone, but I'm often lonely. When I came here Thursday, I didn't feel lonely anymore. I'm here with my family.

I experienced the effect firsthand on my return flight from London to Hong Kong last weekend. There were three passengers in my cabin -- a 10 percent occupancy rate at best. Hong Kong's restaurants are mostly empty. It is difficult to enjoy a meal with masked waiters tiptoeing around in silence. If you want to frighten people in Hong Kong, just sneeze.

GM is losing market share overall, but mostly because of its fleet sales. GM's sales to actual retail customers were up a bit in February, so its total market share is down, but in the units that really count, the results weren't that bad.

From there, we'll make attempts to contact the driver or owner of the vehicle. We can run the registration and find who the car is registered to. We're mostly giving warnings and giving them one chance and asking them to move it. Most people are very cooperative, and we usually have no trouble.

Globalization does have winners and losers, but mostly we're a winner. When farmers in Korea protest against globalization, or miners in Germany protest globalization, they're protesting against us.

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

But both of those benefits are going to disappear by December and then January and February are going to be very, very tough. I don't have an issue for Intel's third quarter, which is mostly over. My concerns are mostly focused on the first quarter of next year -- that's when things are going to start getting derailed.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

I felt good, though. I threw mostly fastballs. I didn't like getting hit around. Nobody likes that. But my arm felt fine.

But there is still some difference compared with the practice in the international market where fluctuation of trading currencies are mostly not bottomed or capped.

I have a feeling they are probably mostly ladies,

I have a little bit of optimism, mostly hope. I don't want to go backward, I know that.

Hayden had a great transition game. That was what we mostly talked about. We needed to use our feet more instead of going for the steal.

He relies mostly on his fastball and slider. He has a curve and a change-up, but doesn't get a chance to throw them because his role has been to come in and throw hard for one inning. Right now he's doing what he has to do (in Fresno) and he has a good chance to pitch with the Giants this season.

What I mostly hear from opponents of this is that they don't want to get out of their vehicle and walk a little bit. When did we get so lazy that we didn't want to walk a couple thousand feet?

What you hear about mostly is her experiences in San Francisco, ... But the letters definitely give you an idea about what her family is to her. It actually was a very loving family. Certainly not some broken home or abuse.

We talked as a team the other night, mostly about having to step up. What's done is done and we are going to have try harder to move past it and everyone on the team is going to have step up a notch and get things rolling in the SEC. Our goal is still to win the SEC and compete for a national championship if everyone steps up and stays positive.

I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

I acted when I was younger, mostly stage, but when I got to college I really wanted to expand my knowledge of filmmaking. I just loved movies.

Having access to an inland waterway is an important consideration, but perhaps even more critical is having multiple transportation options and channels. Companies limit themselves if they move product mostly by water, by truck, or through one port, especially in a commodity business.

We lost some players, mostly through injuries picked up last year.

We look for each player to play his assignment and make a play or two. We're going to practice everybody about the same amount - mostly the younger guys, the guys who haven't played much, which is about the whole team. We're going to try to improve, try to get better.

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

I am here mostly to listen and understand the perspective of all the parties involved,

I am going to mind the grosses, the opening box offices but why I am concerned with mostly is for the movie to be what I want it to be.

I always say the connection is in the blood and it is true, but I believe it is mostly in the Spirit and in the relationships we have.

He is a very good bowler, there is no doubt about that, but he is mostly dangerous only when the ball is new. He can get the new ball to swing around a lot, but once the ball gets older, he isn't so much of a threat.

He was asked on several occasions not to approach the children or Miss Anderson and despite these warnings, he continued to make contact. This was done mostly to protect the children and allow them to feel safe in their environment.

If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.

He has kept that mostly to himself. I know it has affected him. He's a very compassionate and genuine person and I can tell that it has affected him greatly.

He had a passion for sports, mostly basketball, but he was willing to coach anything and everything they asked him to. But more importantly, he had a passion for teaching and coaching kids.

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied. --Salder Bupp

Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not "personal magnetism" that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.

There aren't too many country clubs around here, but we did have a few girls play at the Drake camp. We're mostly in-season players. They're awesome girls; they're good students and they're coming around as tennis players.

He's doing well down there. He's playing third base today, but he's been playing mostly second base. One of his strengths is his versatility, but he's just not versatile. He's good defensively at a number of positions.

He's finishing around the basket a lot more. He relied mostly on his jump shot before, but now he's scoring more around the basket.

He saw a lot of the country, but mostly he saw a lot of Colorado. He saw and learned more about places in Colorado in his short lifetime than most people ever do.

He came in as a liberal Democrat and has governed as a moderate-to-liberal Democrat, and that's why liberal Democrats are mostly satisfied. That's what he is.

He is mostly the same old person, but he does have memory loss.

We've been very busy. They're (police officers) running around. We're very short-staffed with people tied up with mostly minor incidents.

The people we're looking for don't really frequent the bars of downtown now, ... We're marketing mostly for business professionals.

We took about 65 students and spent fall break down there. We mostly gutted homes that had been flooded by the tidal surge. It was putrid. The homes hadn't been touched since Katrina hit.

My phone has been ringing off the hook, family and friends, you get calls from scouts from teams you didn't even know were interested. It's been pretty busy, but I've been mostly just trying to relax. The past two weeks I've been traveling and meeting with teams. I'm just relaxing back here now.

My program is not critical. It's almost like a billboard for the author's book. I've never presented it as being anything other than that. We get a dialogue going and we get to the point where it is a conversation. Mostly you hear the author and not Jim Foster. That's my goal.

My whole family still lives there, ... I mean, where is Cleveland anymore? They're in Cleveland Heights, Burton, Willoughby, places like that. Mostly all over the eastern suburbs.

My son Alessandro was always so terrific with his sister, and the three of us-Alessandro, Allegra and myself-made the highs as high as we could, and mostly tried to laugh at the lows. I have written about some of the difficulties a learning disability can cause a family, but there is always an up side to everything.

I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a state title.

I was very young and very stupid. In the beginning it's mostly just the magic of the process. It's not easy. You don't learn overnight.

I went out to shoot with (my dad) and he let me know straight out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. It's mostly my fault for getting down on myself. My teammates have tried to pick me up the whole way.

Long-term economic growth is not sustainable if it's coming mostly from remittances. To maintain a strong living standard, the Philippines needs to encourage investment and that will build productive capacity and sustain consumption over the long-term.

I was an extra for The Village , so I've done this before. I'd like to be bumped up to a day-player part, but mostly I just do it because I enjoy it.

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.

Some of the glaciers are accelerating, and that has happened mostly in the last five, at most ten, years. There are significant changes going on.

Some of these kids are very skilled; we try to bring in all levels so that everybody can take a part. Everybody is happy to be there, but mostly the athletes. They look forward to the competition, putting on the uniform and being out there.

REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

Really, it's mostly confidence, ... He has a way of mixing fine tailoring with clothes that are relaxed, so he looks equally put-together and casual at the same time.

Really, it's mostly confidence. He has a way of mixing fine tailoring with clothes that are relaxed, so he looks equally put-together and casual at the same time.

Our own sense is that a lot of this (trend) is driven mostly by economics. In certain markets where affordable housing is scarce this is much more common.

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Parking passes should be designated for a certain area, in which a student is confined to an area on campus, mostly for convenience to their dorm.

People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

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 saw some of it, but I mostly spent some time with my family. It was the first time I've had to visit in two years.

People are contacting me and I'm just letting them know about the contacts, mostly through online Web sites,

Our goal was to mostly help local people, but we've been blessed. There haven't been a lot of local people.

My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

I'm still down with Jesus. I like to think of him mostly as a social revolutionary who mixed with bad crowds and hated the rich.

Just basically what he'd already said, that he didn't do anything, he blamed it mostly on Sarah (Kolb).

Most of the referrals we get are word of mouth. Mostly we try to promote good products and good service.

It could potentially make it difficult for a lot of different reasons. Mostly logistics and coordination and organization. But I think all the coaches here have been around and can handle their teams.

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

Josh is locating his curveball better now, whereas a year ago he mostly threw fastballs and change-ups. You'll probably see him throw his breaking pitch a little more now.

I think the gains (in New York) were mostly due to short-covering on battered issues.

Last year I mostly only pitched bullpens and batting practice. I went into the season without pitching in a big league game. But I was feeling great. So we're trying to keep the same routine here.

Last year I was hitting mostly soft singles, ... This year I've got my swing back, and I'm hitting with authority. I've always been able to put the ball in play, and I've never seen myself as a small guy (he's 5-10, 188 lbs).

I think there's going to be some substitution, but it's mostly going to be incremental growth. A lot of the dollars that are going to happen will not be a direct substitution. The area we'll see the greatest erosion is in the classifieds.

I think there's a negative psychology in technology, and we're not out of October yet. I think there are mostly continued concerns on technology in general, but particularly on spending on telecom. When you look at which parts of technology are the weakest today, you see networking first.

I think after the game it was mostly frustration - not playing as well as I'd like to, not executing like I know I can. You can see in practice, I've had a real good camp. Made a lot of strides, made a lot of plays. I feel like my knowledge of the offense has gotten better each day and I've gotten more and more comfortable. It's just a matter of transferring that into the game.

I think a reduction in 2005 was mostly because of the absence of supply of lots. Quite a few of my builder friends are out of land.