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It`s a shame that we cannot tell the spectators our positions, but the one who was giving away their position would be at a disadvantage to the others who could skirt around any slow patches or push extra hard to keep up with the pace of the others.

- Brian Thompson

It`s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

- Alain Prost

My friends, all Hispanic girls, we went to school with the kids from North, Central and Alhambra, and we discovered we were not attuned to their level. `Are they smarter than us?` we asked, ... I learned later about the arts and grammar. I don`t want our kids to feel at a disadvantage when they reach high school.

- Patricia Lopez

We haven`t shown anything, ... We`ve been vanilla all preseason. I think that`s something Coach (Mike Tice) wanted us to do; just be vanilla. People know we`ve got a lot in store so to even tip them off or give them a chance to see what we are going to do is a disadvantage to us.

- Fred Smoot

Our biggest advantage this year is our youth. Our biggest disadvantage this year is our youth. They are a very willing group. We have a lot of great athletes, but a lot have never run cross country before.

- Kevin Quinn

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

- Roy Jenkins

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That`s the only disadvantage.

- Mordecai Richler

I don`t think it`s so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

- David Leslie

I must say also that it`s never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

- Akio Morita

The greatest disadvantage under which New South Wales labours, is the want of means for conveying inland produce to the market, or to the coast.

- Alan Grieve

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

- Alan Stark

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that`s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

- Albert Haldemann

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

- Alexander Rahr

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

- Alice Pritchard

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

- Alvin Kernan

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

- Andrew Fagan

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

- Andrew Karmen

She`s got to be a little nervous. The disadvantage she`ll have is that the other women have been playing on a regular basis and she hasn`t had a tournament in a while. She`s practiced a lot, but that`s never the same as a competitive tournament.

- Anthony Reinoso

We`ll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we`re hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we`re going to be short practice time. It might put us at a disadvantage.

- Atsuyuki Sassas

The benefit would be access to public capital markets so it can take on new products and markets. The disadvantage is an additional layer of responsibility and reporting.

- Baba Ramdev

Since Sirius has a slight disadvantage to XM in the OEM channel, retail channel must be the greater driver for share gains for Sirius,

- Barbara Anglin

But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we`re competing with'¦ at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We`re about even.

- Jon Stewart

It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she`s at a decided experience disadvantage.

- John Hancock (consultant)