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When I first came to Cleveland, everyone said I would add shooting to the mix. I missed my first five shots (Thursday), so I had to get the crowd into it the best way I can. So I had to pull out my Harlem Globetrotters tricks and hopefully I can swing the fans back in my favor knowing that I can make shots.

The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about.

Well, what I would be looking for and what judges look for are aerial tricks off the water, ... They are judged on technique and variety. Basically, each trick they throw gets two points.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

When I was 16, I walked into a magic shop, the owner demonstrated some tricks and I was absolutely blown away. I had seen magic on TV but never live, and I couldn't figure it out. That started this thing, and that was 14 years ago.

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

We are able to turn them into cells that represent each of the so-called germinal layers of the embryo, ... And those reflect on the ability of us to potentially be able to turn them into every cell in the body -- once we learn the little tricks to get them to go down a particular pathway that will change them directly into a cell type.

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

All human existence is a trick of light.

Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.

There are no tricks to what we do, just good old-fashioned business principles.

There are no tricks with us. What you see is what you get.

When a young guy is good like that, you don't play tricks on him.

When I look at tricks, I look at Michael Vick.

I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

We were devastated when it happened, but as soon as we could we made a positive out of a negative. We had more time to work on more things and new tricks and regroup.

Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

Working with some of the best makeup artists has taught me a lot of amazing tricks to making me feel more confident, and I can't wait to share them with you guys.

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

There are some guys that come off bad, but sometimes those people need you to come off like that. Sometimes they force you to come off like that, because you may tell them four or five times to go on, and they'll come back with their cap turned backwards and try again. Those are all tricks of the trade.

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its darksleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place youwant to leave.

Vince brings out his bag of tricks all the time. It's like you're playing with him on 'PlayStation.' You never know what's going to happen.

When I was seven I started BMX racing. I could do tricks and when I was eight I was British champion - but the BMX trophy is the only thing I've ever won!

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Every single point will be (important), ... More than anything I'll just have to compete better. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now.

I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldnt it be easier just to be outdated?

You assemble a very large site, then you put all the box stores on the outside and in the middle you create this main street lifestyle village with parallel or diagonal parking. One of the tricks is to make it look like it was built over time so it's part of an organic market rather than just building it in one fell swoop with everything looking the same.

The story most people around the world have is that the Americans are up to their old tricks - committing atrocities and lying about it. And that's completely incorrect.

I've seen that before. A couple of years ago against Philadelphia he made that same move. He's got a couple of tricks in his bag and as long as he keeps bringing them out at the right time, we'll take them.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

You face them a lot, and you get to know the hitters a lot. Obviously, they get to see you, too. So, every once in while, you've got to pull a few tricks out of your sleeve and see what you can do.

You get a bunch of ideas. Like dropping it, putting in a sound system and performance parts. You even get to learn the tricks people have tried.

Women are like tricks by light of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.

Women are like tricks by light of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand.

British Airways was doing everything they could do to put Virgin Atlantic out of business -- what's become famous here as the dirty tricks campaign, ... We felt that we needed the financial muscle to combat them. And I still had a lot to prove at Virgin Atlantic whereas we proved that we could, you know, build and run a successful record company.

A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.

People come here with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and they wonder why those tricks are ineffective. They're assigning power to external things: the audience, their appearance. But true power comes from within. You need to live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.

Two hat tricks in one game at any level is a remarkable accomplishment. I don't remember any games when we've had two hat tricks.

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Actually, I started my ring career as a terrific hitter; then my hands cracked up and I had to resort to boxing and tricks to win.

Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.

A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he is disposed to make that use of her that nature designed her for

Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.

Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

Are you ready for the Williams sisters? ... We'll see you on Sunday. There's going to be a lot of hard hitting and a lot of hard serving. We'll both have some tricks up our sleeves.

First squad, they were the biggest bunch of pranksters, ... They were always playing crazy tricks on each other.

A fox will lose it's hair, but not it's tricks

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

I've got a few tricks up my sleeve. Hopefully, I'll be the crowd favorite since I might be the shortest one in it. I'm probably not ever going to get another opportunity like this, so I'm going to take advantage of it.

In general, black hats learn their tricks the same way that everybody else does: through a network of informational Web sites, magazines, conventions and advice from peers. There's even hacker radio.

If somebody tricks you into providing that information, then, of course, it defeats the whole purpose.

I'm pretty sure they're going to do everything they did in the regular season. It's not important. For sure, they're going to use all the tricks to stop me, and I have to use all my tricks to beat them. It's a chess game.

I'm from Las Vegas and all my tricks are magic.

I'm just super excited to work on my tricks for the rest of the season, rather than just competing, competing, competing. The Olympics were absolutely the highlight of my season, but I'm happy to slow down a bit.

Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.

I've learned all my hair and makeup tricks on the set, and I incorporate all kinds of things when I'm getting ready, and I'm big on blotting papers. I get a very shiny forehead, which I like to call my inner glow coming out.

I've learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.

I've had guys ask me if there's a special defense that you can play. Hell, no. There are no tricks or gimmicks. You've got to go out there and tackle, and it's very hard to do it for four quarters.

Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for the Democratic National Committee to put its dirty tricks attack squad to work against Mitt Romney, so we'll bill them for it.

The Australian flyer confirms our original suspicion that we are victims of an imported dirty tricks campaign.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Don't ask for monetary policy to perform tricks it cannot deliver,

I wanted to keep it authentic, ... I even went as far as copying the original drum parts. I felt that was an overlooked part of those recordings. Now when people play rockabilly they ignore the little fills and tricks they used.

They can build half pipes and jumps and they can practice their tricks sort of indefinitely. So it works very well for them.

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.

If you realize that it is quitepossible that you are whatyou say you are, you maywant to consider watchingyour thoughts.When you watch them,you are likely to findthat - just like littlechildren - they can, and do,play tricks on us.

Honestly, I just hope I know by game time. You know how Coach always has tricks up her sleeve.

Howard is going to be a great player in this league. Kevin already is a great player. Kevin knows all the tricks of the trade. Dwight will someday be there, but Kevin is still above him.

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

It was a great play by Matt Anderson knocking the puck down and finding Davis on a quick transition. I didn't expect to see that move from Chris to be honest with you. It was a nifty, backhand, five-hole dribble. I hope he's got a few more tricks up his sleeve.

The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down. And that, my friends, is one of the little tricks that keeps you poor and me rich.

Their kids are well disciplined in executing their assignments and they do a great job of playing within themselves. They play good, solid, aggressive defense and coach Jorgensen always has a few tricks up his sleeve on offense.