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“Any grass-roots organization or group of individuals that come together often have an impact with local officials when they're reasonable. If someone's indignant, rude or loud, reasonable people get turned off. It's almost like they click a switch off in my brain when they get belligerent, and I almost don't hear some positives they may have.”
Bill Long
“It's meditative. It takes you back to the earth and back to the roots.”
David Green
“The banker was conceived to create an element of conflict. Someone the audience can root against.”
David Goldberg
“If properly structured, the panel's work will be complementary to our root-cause investigation as well as to the safety audits that BP itself is undertaking. However, the panel will function at arm's length from both BP and the CSB.”
Carolyn W. Merritt
“They're out there rooting for mussels and other shellfish -- they'll eat practically anything.”
Billy Higginbotham
“Little Rock is more like home to me than Augusta. This is where my roots are.”
Carl Jackson
“They did a great job of rooting for each other and cheering each other on. They were a lot more vocal than the other team.”
Dan Ross
“We didn't find anything that showed the specific root cause, we just need to keep looking.”
Bill Gerstenmaier
“We looked at the popularity of Roots in the last Olympics and thought this was something to get into.”
Carolyn Brookter
“The main focus for the earnings will be the capital spending plans, as it is at the root of whether these electronics makers can continue to reduce costs and come up with value-added products.”
Yuuki Sakurai
