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  • Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
  • To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. -- Nas
  • Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan. -- Queen Latifah
  • Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met. -- Mandy Moore
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  • We will turn Knicks fans into Nets fans, -- Mikhail Prokhorov
  • It would be a blessing to play in Brooklyn Nets . -- Lance Stephenson
  • My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work. -- Nicki Minaj
  • The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks. -- Jay-Z
  • Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees. -- David "Doc" Searls
  • I don't think there is a person who loves the Nets as much as I do - from our fans, all the employees in the arenas, the front office personnel and the owners. I will always be loyal to our fans and the Nets. -- Jayson Williams
  • Sometimes, if I need assistance on the government level, I can appeal through official channels. For example, when I bought the New Jersey Nets, President Medvedev raised the issue with President Obama, who voiced support for the idea, which is always a nice thing to have going for us. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
  • If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. -- Douglas Horton
  • I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months. -- Alain Robert
  • To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more. -- Mark McKinnon
  • Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. -- William Shenstone
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  • I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. -- Thomas Friedman
  • The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. -- Tim McGraw
  • If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without safety nets or fiscal prudence, and we need both in a sustainable balance. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. -- Barbara Mikulski
  • It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! -- Derek Jacobi
  • The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. -- Bill Gates
  • Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead. -- Lee Trevino
  • Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. -- Ted Danson
  • When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities. -- Agnieszka Radwanska
  • At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together. -- Gary David Goldberg
  • The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets. -- Randy Pausch
  • Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people? -- Jacqueline Novogratz
  • I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV. -- Drew Curtis
  • ... nets, grids, and other types of calculus. -- Alan Watts
  • If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. -- Frank Herbert
  • The philosopher caught in the nets of language. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Words are nets through which all truth escapes. -- Paula Fox
  • Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch. -- Novalis
  • A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath -- Henry Kravis
  • Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results. -- David Jeremiah
  • And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. -- John Keats
  • Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets! -- Lloyd Alexander
  • Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. -- St. Jerome
  • So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. -- John Dryden
  • Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.... -- William Butler Yeats
  • Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling. -- Langston Hughes
  • The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold -- Louis MacNeice
  • And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year. -- Steve Irwin
  • Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. -- Anna Quindlen
  • Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. -- Fay Weldon
  • Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. -- Fay Weldon
  • Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin... -- Salman Rushdie
  • Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw. -- Francois Fenelon
  • We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor. -- Manmohan Singh
  • Sourav's greatest strength is his mind. He is hardworking - not only in the nets but also mentally. He bounces back. -- Sachin Tendulkar
  • If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids -- Jimmy Carr
  • I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up. -- Michael Skolnik
  • The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. -- Jonathan Swift
  • When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight. -- James Joyce
  • Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. -- John Paul II
  • Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. -- John Paul II
  • We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people? -- Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets. -- Gina Barreca
  • Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. -- Philip Sidney
  • words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. -- Jodi Picoult
  • Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. -- John Webster
  • No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs. -- Tony Kushner
  • If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets. -- Manmohan Singh
  • The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.. -- Elliot W. Eisner
  • I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets. -- Wayne Campbell
  • We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets. -- Alice Cary
  • Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. -- William Butler Yeats
  • This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. -- Corrine Brown
  • Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing. -- Virginia Woolf
  • When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. -- James Joyce
  • Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets. -- Brett Lee
  • The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach. -- Marcus Dunstan
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