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I hate lateness. I hate people who are late. There is no excuse for turning up late for anything. I`ve never been late for anything in my life. I was actually born a week premature, because I wanted to be early for my own birth. Being late is an insult to me.

- Ricky Gervais

Caring for two premature babies and paying insurance, along with carrying the rest of household expenses on one income, made paying our hospital bills a financial impossibility.

- Heather Brown

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

- Paul Reiser

(After decades of focusing on men`s health, many experts agree that this apparent backlash is premature.) We still haven`t done all the catch-up that we need to do, ... We don`t want women`s health to be a flash in the pan.

- Susan Wood

Today`s articles are premature and a bit risky. The stories have a destabilizing effect on the community we work in.

- Robert Dudley

It is good and reassuring that the system in Turkey is able to detect cases consistent with the disease, but it is premature to say these are human cases of avian flu.

- Mike Ryan

A special session may be premature, ... Do we have enough votes to do some of this? Is the governor willing to sign a sales tax abeyance into law?

- Bill Black

I was born nine months premature.

- Jay London

We`re doing twenty-five of these babies. We end up feeling a premature sense of accomplishment around this time, thinking we`re done for the year, but then we realize: oh, we still have to come up with ideas for three more episodes!

- Corey Miller

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

- Abdul Walid

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

- Alex Attwood

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

- Alexander Jablokov

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

- Alvin Wright

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

- Andrea Vinyard

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

- Andy Been

Unless the Supreme Court now reverses the extreme position that five justices took in 2000, partly born premature infants will continue to die by having their skulls punctured by seven-inch scissors.

- Antoinette Rose

President Bush has made some statements suggesting the US would accept whatever democratic outcome comes. Should the US be willing to do that, it suggests a major change in their position. But I think it is a little premature to assume that any real decision has been made. I think what they -- in the US administration -- are hoping for is a more gradual reform process in the Arab world, a more gradual expansion of political participation which Islamist groups do not use as an opportunity to come to power. So while I think there has been a shift in the US Middle East policy we will all have to wait to see how great that shift has been.

- Antowain Smith

It is premature, we don`t have enough information and . . . it may turn out to be unnecessary.

- Arron Oberholser

We all know what type of player he is and what he can mean to this ballclub. Hopefully, that`s a little premature and hopefully he will be able to play this season.

- Avraham Grant

We`re still working on those details. To put anything in there at this point and time would be premature.

- Barry Butlien