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Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw. -- Tony Romo
It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox. -- Shawn Ashmore
Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job. -- Bryan Robson
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. -- Ray Davies
Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field. -- Ronaldinho
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. -- Henry Rollins
As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes. -- Stephen Rodrick
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct. -- Vinnie Jones
I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love. -- Ralph Bakshi
Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them. -- Bruce Johnston
I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far. -- Marta Kristen
A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way. -- Bryan Robson
And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture. -- Michael Schiavo
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. -- Brian Eno
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer. -- Michael Caine
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself. -- Armistead Maupin
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. -- Eric Idle
Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon. -- Andy Partridge
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John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve -- Ray Parlour
For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry, -- Rio Ferdinand
Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try! -- Piers Anthony
I love Terry O'Quinn. He's a wonderful guy, wonderful actor. -- Henry Ian Cusick
Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field -- Craig Bellamy
The only thing harder than Terry Funk's legs are his arteries. -- Jerry Lawler
That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal. -- Brian Marwood
That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs. -- Jimmy Hill
Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross. -- John Hodgman
Who? Who is that? (J.R.'s response when asked about opponent Jason Terry.) -- J. R. Smith
Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay. -- Kurt Vonnegut
About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu? -- James Nicoll
Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little. -- Paloma Faith
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Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child. -- Gwendoline Christie
I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it. -- Dan Fouts
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Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones. -- Maureen Corrigan
Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team? -- Ian St John
My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins. -- Scott Boras
I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney. -- Noel Gallagher
It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy. -- Ben Roethlisberger
(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know. -- John McGraw
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. -- John Updike
I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent. -- Tony Arata
You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts. -- Angie Sage
He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall. -- Dizzy Dean
I did a couple of sketch shows with Mike Palin and Terry Jones... and then I got hired by Granada to do a weekly topical show. -- Diana Quick
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on. -- Neil Gaiman
John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be inspired. -- Kasey Keller
In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw--Marblehead. -- Howie Long
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries. -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Terry Gross has never had me on her show and you know, it's her show; she sets the agenda and that's not Hodgman. But I'll still listen to it. -- John Hodgman
Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven. -- Obert Skye
Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs. -- Nick Harkaway
Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing. -- Charles Hazlewood
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Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart. -- Uma Krishnaswami
Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997. -- Aretha Franklin
Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it. -- Peter V. Brett
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears. -- Chris Hardwick
Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did.- Terry Winograd -- Steven Levy
But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth. -- Katie Couric
I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet. -- Ice Cube
I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value. -- Armistead Maupin
I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place. -- Barry McGuire
...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down. -- Dave Barry
I like to buy a new fragrance for each film. I'll go out in the city where I'm filming and snap it up. The one I have for 'Into the Woods' is Terry de Gunzburg Flagrant Delice, which I bought in London. -- Anna Kendrick
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated. -- Eric Clapton
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed. -- Ambrose Bierce
I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long. -- Ed Belfour
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement; -- Andy Serkis
As with Randall Terry and other anti-abortion leaders, women simply did not figure into [Roeder's] equations. If all the abortion providers were dead, the problem would be solved, and he'd never have to think about those who sought to end their pregnancies through illegal or dangerous means. -- Stephen Singular
My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years. -- Les Claypool
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Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets. -- Bruce Springsteen
[Terry] Tussey has been my favorite gunsmith, but I'm also using other people for other things and giving other people chances because there's only so much Terry can do. He knows me to be the best shooter and the most finicky, so I'm really a pain in his ass. -- Steven Seagal
Two days before I got the audition for 'Extras,' I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, 'No, wait and see what else comes in.' Lo and behold, along came 'Extras.' Now that was lucky! -- Ashley Jensen
I'm not Zappa, you know. I'm just Terry. -- Terry Bozzio
The spirit he has shown has been second to none. (on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge) -- Terry Venables
If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words. -- Terry Pratchett
I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn't have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry. -- Andy Cohen
The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan. -- Hulk Hogan
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those. -- Dree Hemingway
Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go 'Oh my God you're bigger than the hulk on TV' so they started calling me Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder. -- Hulk Hogan
The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do - I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them. -- Katherine Helmond
Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the director Terry Gilliam blamed me for absolutely everything. It was pretty appalling, and I had started to wonder if I'd ever get another job again when I was asked to audition for '300.' -- Lena Headey
I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus. -- Terry Wogan

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