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I`d never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

- Andrew Shue

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women`s roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

- Maggie Gyllenhaal

I have no shortage of material or offers, it`s just a case of what you select to do. But I think it`s realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

- Sean Connery

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

- Jay Leno
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It`s not a shortage of money -- that`s just an excuse. It`s just a sloppy system.

- Carl Anderson

You`d rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

- Kenneth Lay

If the food deficit continues, it is going to change the configuration of the deep-sea communities of organisms. No organism can survive long periods of time without food. There`s going to have to be some adjustments. In the long term, either the animal will have to adapt to the shortage or a more opportunistic species will take over.

- Kenneth Smith

It`s gonna be like this for the next few years, I think, ... It`s gonna be good for drivers because there is a shortage of drivers.

- Greg Biffle

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

- Kelly Miller

There`s a freight shortage at the moment. They`re going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.

- Michael Davies

Even though we`re not going to be getting into a water shortage in the next year, we need to start planning. It`s taken other counties more than 10 years to put everything together and get everyone on board.

- Larry Thomas

One, the oil pipeline is restored. Two, consumers quit buying gas as if there`s a gas shortage,

- Paul Mason

I don`t think there`s a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I`ve got other stories to tell.

- Richard Russo

There`s a shortage of horse flesh. When we opened on Thursday we had a lot of races to fill. The change will help with races filling the following weekend.

- Rick Moore

Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan

- Chris Green

This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in a position to help satisfy that demand.

- David Alexander

The good news is this shortage is temporary,

- Nancy Fox

The labor supply was very tight last year. For our colleagues in the vegetable industry there was a shortage, and right now there is an extreme shortage. For our colleagues in raisins, there was a severe shortage. Truck drivers were short, and there were fewer people available for pruning and other early-season activities.

- Karen Ross

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

- Aaron Baker

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

- Alan Phillips

The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.

- Alan Rupe

You don`t want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren`t positive, you`re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you`ve got a shortage somewhere.

- Alan Sandals

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

- Alejandro Urrego

I think when there`s enough will and aggression, there`s no shortage of talent either.

- Allen Freeman

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

- Allyn Lord

I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.

- Andrew Kaplan

Right now the critical shortage areas, and last year, are in special education. That`s our biggest -- also math, science and English.

- Andy Xie
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The trucking industry continues to face a significant shortage of qualified drivers. If this population fails to grow, the freight transportation market faces a more uncertain future.

- Anne Lamott

With such a critical driver shortage facing the industry, now, more than ever, trucking is consistently looking toward recruiting and retaining a pool of experienced workers.

- Anne Lamott

(She tells USA TODAY that demand for some professions needed in rebuilding was already strained amid demand for new housing. A labor shortage could push up wages, she says.) We`re going to see a tremendous boom in construction, ... People want to come back home.

- Antonella Notari

There is probably, if anything, a shortage of availability of styles.

- Arthur Benson

There has been a lifeguard shortage for a while, so it`s good that young people are into it.

- Arthur Rubinstein

We want every student trained to a specific standard before he or she ever goes into a clinical area. We`re taking as much responsibility for stopping the nursing shortage as we can.

- Assembly Board

Many people are concerned about not only the shortage of people who can run for public office, but also the shortage of people to serve on nonprofit boards.

- Barbara Jackson

T here`s an acute shortage of pharmacists. Some people say as many as 12,000 open positions remain unfilled today. W henever there`s been a labor shortage in the history of this country, automation has stepped up to fill the gap.

- Barry Blauvelt