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I`ve finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

- Ben Affleck

(Better terms. Contracts with steep termination fees are another barrier to dumping a carrier. Carriers could initially roll out longer contracts with higher termination fees, but may compete over the long run by offering fewer binding contracts.) It`s going to be hard for carriers to stick with a system that punishes consumers, ... Consumers just won`t accept that.

- Adam Goldberg

(on how he stays in shape, interview in People.com, 10 March 2005) Mostly weight resistance training, almost an hour of cardio at least three times a week. I have a gym in my house in Los Angeles and a gym trailer that I can take on the road with me when I`m on location. At my house there`s a very long steep driveway. I do wind sprints that kick my 50-year-old ass. It`s part of my job. I have come to associate working out as work. Whenever I don`t have to do it for films, I kind of slack off.

- Bruce Willis

Television, although It`s in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don`t have voices.

- Christopher Eccleston

If we make it steep, it`ll get their attention and get their animals under control.

- Chris Carter

(November 2000): "I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep."

- Hrithik Roshan

Most of the inspectors, even though they have technical skills, are not experienced in conducting inspections, and they`ll be on a very steep learning curve.

- Jonathan Tucker

I saw it climbing up in the air. It was making a steep climb that you usually don`t see aircraft do like that. And just as I was wondering why was he making such a steep climb up then the plane sort of flattened out and took a nose dive straight down until it hit the ground.

- James King

For those who are counting, that`s a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It`s hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation`s roads aren`t four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

- Stephen Moore

The challenging part is that it had a metal roof. It was pretty steep, and it tends to get a little slippery.

- Dave Scott

Remember when life`s path is steep to keep your mind even.

- Abner Louima

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I`m at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

- Alexander Theroux

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame`s proud temple shines afar?

- Alfred Goldman

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

- Alfredo Rangel

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

- Alonzo Plough

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

- Andrea Foulkes

Avalanche danger is something to consider. That`s only an issue when there are steep slopes above you or when you`re in a chute.

- Anna Maria Friman

The mountain got too steep to climb.

- Assemblyman Guy Gregg

Besides anything else it is a very steep road and it`s no joke. It can only be a matter of time before someone goes over the edge of that drop.

- Barbara Keller