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(On being strapped in a straitjacket and thrown in a body drawer for The Jacket (2005)) "Those situations are very challenging, emotionally and psychologically, to find yourself in a confined space like that. I thought it would be interesting. It was very painful and I kind of encouraged that pain. I spent time in an isolation tank -- lots of time -- and I would let them leave me in the jacket and leave me in the drawer for a while."

- Adrien Brody

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It`s like people see Hackers (1995) and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I`d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

- Angelina Jolie

I love a conservative girl. Let me be honest. I love a great pair of jeans and I love turtlenecks... Most guys want to see a girl wearing nothing! Tank tops are cute, too. Then you show a little skin, but you`re still conservative.

- Chad Michael Murray

(on Robert Patrick`s casting as the T-1000 in `Terminator 2: Judgement Day`) "I wanted someone who was extremely fast and agile. If the T-800 is a human Panzer tank, then the T-1000 is a Porsche."

- James Cameron

I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It`s kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it`s really hard to get to sleep.

- Laura Prepon

Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000, George W. Bush, under the reasonable sounding `compassionate conservatism`, offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered. Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?.

- Sam Neill

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

- Stephan Jenkins

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don`t have any pets now.

- Tom Felton

I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don`t have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.

- Portia de Rossi

A lot of teams would`ve gone in the tank. We weren`t going to let one bad game ruin our season.

- Curtis Martin

She had plenty left in the tank.

- Jerry Bailey

Again, the only trends that interest the corporate boys and girls are demographic and businesslike. I doubt the think tank reports interest them much.

- Todd Gitlin

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

- Al Michaels

I thought every pitch I was going to come out of the game, ... I had another 7, 8 mph in the tank I couldn`t go to, and that was disappointing. Somehow I found a way to get through five innings.

- Jason Schmidt

It seems like now I just go to work to fill up my gas tank.

- Kimberly Johnson

Every time I get a little bit of money, it goes to my gas tank.

- Kimberly Johnson

There`s no way I would fill up our cars with gas once a week any more. We`re not using a full tank of gas even once a month.

- Steve Young

People are saying, `I could buy a bus pass for $77, and I`m paying that much in a week and a half just filling my tank to go to work.

- David Lee

I just didn`t have any gas left in the tank after a long season.

- Bobby Julich

I was going full gas in January and I just didn`t have any gas left in the tank after a long season, ... Right now, it kind of stings. I wanted to go out on a high note and I wouldn`t have even raced if I thought I was going to get 11th, but I have nothing to be ashamed of. It just proves I`m human and I do have limits.

- Bobby Julich

As far as the decision to retire, it was an easy one for me, ... It really was not my decision. I was not able to continue to play physically. That really takes all the guess work out of it for a player like myself, who still feels that he`s got enough left in his tank and enough left in his arm and his legs to continue to play.

- Rich Gannon

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

- Michael Burgess

It just shows what type of guy he is. He didn`t go into the tank. Every running back naturally wants to get the ball all the time. But those guys are real good about the way the carries are distributed. And I think they understand it`s team first.

- George Foster

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

- Michael Noonan

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

- Michael Noonan

What we`re trying to figure out is how Katrina has affected the shuttle program, ... If you talk to the folks at Michoud, they`re ready to get busy taking care of any tank damage that was done and they want to be back in production in a few weeks. ... Their morale and esprit de corps down there just has to be seen to believed.

- Mike Griffin

During the `Think Tank` we ask questions that rise from the course of the week. We talk about how Sam could be more diverse; we actually come up with different programs based on the different issues that student and faculty come up with during the think tank.

- Jennifer Roberts

He basically just said, `I need to stretch my legs out. I`ve been sleeping in that tank with my knees up to my chin and I just have to stretch out. My legs have been cramping up.` It seemed that innocuous, but he would die two days later. It was a warning bell that we did not know what to do with,

- David Bloom

Again, with two small children it`s incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you`re just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

- Jo Brand
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Our new owners, after losing $60 in one week, they didn`t want that anymore. It used to be people sneaking in and sneaking out with, like, $5 at a time. Now they`re filling the whole darn tank and driving off.

- Cindy Brown

We put the cats into a fish tank.

- Terri Johnson

No. No I felt terrible for our customers. I felt terrible for the problems that they had. I understand putting 50 dollars of gas in your tank is a real problem. There was no price gouging in Western New York.

- Michael Newman

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

- Brit Hume

Think Tank, noun: The shower.

- Alan McGlade

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They`re trying to level the playing field because they know they can`t beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

- Alan Merten

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

- Alexander McNabb

It was only after we got the first maneuver off that I began to enjoy the outside view. We actually could see the external tank out in front of us.

- Anatoly Lebedko

It`s 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it`s dark and we`re wearing sunglasses!....................HIT IT!!!

- Andrew Wittman

Armstrong is the strongest man on this Tour. I think he`s still got gas in his tank.

- Anggito Abimanyu

Sometimes that Think Tank will wake some of these kids up.

- Anne Tazewell

Right now at Golden Sun, we have the ability to store 10,000 gallons of fuel, ... We have been working with Golden Sun and they are going to install a second 10,000 gallon tank so that we have the capacity to store more fuel when the market is either in a position where we want to take advantage of the price or if supply lines start to become tight.

- Anthony Palumbo

Everyone is saying small business is the engine of the economy, but we`re not putting any gas in the tank.

- Antoine Henri Becquerel

I wish so much that I was in the finals again. Right now I`m still dealing with it. It was really tough to come back on the mat after that. But I couldn`t just go in the tank.

- Antonio Jimenez

Patrick got off to a rough start, but he hung in there. He`s a tough guy. That guy took a beating in there. He`s a rookie. He`s going to make some mistakes. But I mean, the guy could have gone into the tank after what, three interceptions in the first quarter? I thought he played pretty dang well considering everything he went through. He stayed in there, took some shots and tried to get the ball down the field. He impressed me a lot.

- Barbara Coe