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I always talk about that big jump guys make between their first and second year, and Kenechi is right where he`s supposed to be. In the second year, you understand what you are. A lot of guys have to refine themselves from college. I say the same things, and they say, `Bake, why didn`t you tell me that last year?` Now, they have a revelation.

- Brian Baker

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

- Pete Townshend

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don`t quite know how to explain it but it`s there. These can`t be the only notes in the world, there`s got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

- Marvin Gaye

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

- Tony Snow

All of the material for The Fine Line was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We`d continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

- Douglas Wood

Clearly, we need to refine our oversight of repair stations -- specifically as they become more popular. The inspector general`s concern is perhaps maybe those actions aren`t as quick as they should be, but we are moving forward with due speed.

- Greg Martin

That would be a disaster because there would be no pressure on anyone to move forward. In the absence of broadly defined and accepted standards, we have to find a way to interconnect systems while at the same time continuing to refine and define standards.

- Randy Thomas

In the past, we used to just write parts and cram them all together and call it a song. With this album, we wanted to refine our craft. People want to scream sellout, but we feel that radio came to us, and that`s not a bad thing.

- Chad Gray

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

- Alf Ellerton

Our domestic demand for crude oil averages 21 million barrels a day. We refine only 17 million barrels a day. That means we import gasoline.

- Allan Cribbins

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

- Andrew Salner

My sense is that we probably will refine the criteria on which we base a 1,000-foot buffer, ... The one thing we`ve undertaken quickly is we have a map that would show what a 1,000-foot buffer looks like around our schools.

- Art Valdez

Our mix-and-match approach allows students to discover or refine areas of interest while learning in a stimulating and challenging environment.

- Barbara Levy