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It's too cold outside for angels to flyy
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Ed Sheeran (Ed Sheeran: + (TAB))
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There is no morality to be found in evil.
But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality.
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Daniel Kemp (The Desolate Garden)
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This evening he’ll hold one of his last training sessions with the A-team, and when the season is over he’ll go home and—deep down—will wish what we all wish whenever we leave something: that it’s going to collapse. That nothing will work without us. That we’re indispensible.
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Fredrik Backman (Beartown (Beartown, #1))
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I love it when a plan comes together!
- Hannibal Smith, A-Team
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Stephen J. Cannell
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I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show.
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Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
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I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go home and live happily ever after while the bad guys were put in jail. Except of course, I was the bad guy.
Whatever.
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Shay Savage (Otherwise Occupied (Evan Arden, #2))
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If there isn't any space, there isn't any light. The world is unthinkable without light. [Heraclitus said it, Einstaid said it, the A-Team in Episode 237 said it, and many other besides.] And yet, inside everyone's bodies all is darkness, zones in the universe never touched by light - or, if touched by light, only because of illness or decomposition. It's unsettling to thnk you exist because this death exists inside you, this zone of endless night. It's unsettling to consider that the inside of a PC is more alive than you are, that in there everything's completely lit up.
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Agustín Fernández Mallo (Nocilla Dream)
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Eleven years have passed since Holger left here, and at every A-team game, even when the rink is sold out, there are always two empty seats in the stands.
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Fredrik Backman (Beartown (Beartown, #1))
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How easy do you think it'd be to get us out of here, Never?' she asked, and Never turned his head and grinned at her.
'Escape? Yeah. Right.' Then he saw the look in her eye. His grin dropped. 'You're serious.'
'You're the technical expert, right? You must have some idea how the security could work in a place like this. So give it some thought.'
'You're confusing me with the A-Team. But i'll try.
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Seth Patrick (Reviver (Reviver Trilogy, #1))
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He knows we're a team.'
'A team,' Hunt said slowly. As if, out of everything she'd laid out, that was what he chose to dwell on.
'You know what I mean,' Bryce said.
'I'm not sure I do.' Had his voice dropped lower?
'We're roomies,' she said, her own voice getting breathy.
'Roomies.'
'Occasional Beer Pong Champions?'
Hunt snatched the hat off her head and plunked it back on his own, backward as usual. 'Yes, the Autumn King truly fears our unholy beer pong alliance.
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Sarah J. Maas (House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2))
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Every battle has a decisive point (place, time, event, or decision on the battlefield that led to victory), but our decisive point wasn’t on the battlefield. We didn’t know it, but it was at that point in time, on that cold, rainy, November night, that the battle at Debecka was won.
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Frank Antenori (Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-team at War)
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No one really knows how old Sune is. He’s the sort of man who seems to have been seventy for at least twenty years, and not even he can remember exactly how many of those he’s been the A-team coach. Age has made him shorter, stress and diet have made him wider. Nowadays he has the proportions of a snowman.
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Fredrik Backman (Beartown (Beartown, #1))
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Taking a trip with the Air Force Special Operations Wing folks is not like a flight on a normal airliner. For one thing, passengers and crew are all armed to the teeth. The seating is awful, the noise is incredible, and there is no movie. Your stewardess is likely to be a guy wearing a shoulder holster, and he will not bring you a pillow.
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Frank Antenori (Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-team at War)
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Amat knows his options are limited, so his plan is simple: from here to the junior team, then the A-team, then professional. When his first wages reach his account he’ll grab that cleaning cart from his mother and never let her see it again. He’ll allow her aching fingers to rest and give her aching back a break. He doesn’t want possessions. He just wants to lie in bed one single night without having to count.
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Fredrik Backman (Beartown (Beartown, #1))
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Peter was the one who needed a paper bag to breathe into when one A-team player, sans front teeth, once told Kira gleefully at one of the few team dinners the wives were still invited to that he had “rubbed his knob on every fucking glass in here,” in the hope that the GM’s wife would be disgusted. She responded by explaining the female equivalent to him in great detail, until the toothless wonder didn’t dare look at her again for the rest of the evening.
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Fredrik Backman (Beartown (Beartown, #1))
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Great team players lack excessive ego or concerns about status. They are quick to point out the contributions of others and slow to seek attention for their own. They share credit, emphasize team over self, and define success collectively rather than individually. It is no great surprise, then, that humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player. Humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player.
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Patrick Lencioni (The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues (J-B Lencioni Series))
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Be prepared like we're in the A-Team.
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wizanda
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Right away, we realized that we’d made a terrible mistake. Everything about the project ran counter to what we believed in. We didn’t know how to aim low. We had nothing against the direct-to-video model, in theory; Disney was doing it and making heaps of money. We just couldn’t figure out how to go about it without sacrificing quality. What’s more, it soon became clear that scaling back our expectations to make a direct-to-video product was having a negative impact on our internal culture, in that it created an A-team (A Bug’s Life) and a B-team (Toy Story 2). The crew assigned to work on Toy Story 2 was not interested in producing B-level work, and more than a few came into my office to say so. It would have been foolish to ignore their passion.
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Ed Catmull (Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar)
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Overkill is underrated.
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Hannibal Smith
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I’m off.” “I’ll be right here,” he said. “Have fun with your A-team. Sharpen some knives. Clean some guns. Don’t kill anybody while I’m gone.” “I can’t make any promises.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Binds (Kate Daniels, #9))
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I leaned over to Curran and kissed him. His arms closed around me and he squeezed me to him for one bone-crunching second. “I’m off.” “I’ll be right here,” he said. “Have fun with your A-team. Sharpen some knives. Clean some guns. Don’t kill anybody while I’m gone.” “I can’t make any promises.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Binds (Kate Daniels, #9))
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If you had, you’d realize what an incredible force you have working on your side.” “The A-Team?” “Bureaucracy,” Murphy said. “I would rather have the A-Team.
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Jim Butcher (Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11))
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If it comes to it, don’t miss, guys, he said under his breath. When the president appeared, he was boxed in on all sides by the A-team protection detail that formed a wall of Kevlar and flesh around him. Alex knew these agents; they were a rock-solid crew. The president stepped onto the stage and shook some important hands while his wife, the governor, the chief of staff and Gray took their seats behind the podium. Brennan joined them
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David Baldacci (The Camel Club (Camel Club, #1))
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In 1997, executives at Disney came to us with a request: Could we make Toy Story 2 as a direct-to-video release—that is, not release it in theaters? At the time, Disney’s suggestion made a lot of sense. In its history, the studio had only released one animated sequel in theaters, 1990’s The Rescuers Down Under, and it had been a flop. In the years since, the direct-to-video market had become extremely lucrative, so when Disney proposed Toy Story 2 for video release only—a niche product with a lower artistic bar—we said yes. While we questioned the quality of most sequels made for the video market, we thought that we could do better. Right away, we realized that we’d made a terrible mistake. Everything about the project ran counter to what we believed in. We didn’t know how to aim low. We had nothing against the direct-to-video model, in theory; Disney was doing it and making heaps of money. We just couldn’t figure out how to go about it without sacrificing quality. What’s more, it soon became clear that scaling back our expectations to make a direct-to-video product was having a negative impact on our internal culture, in that it created an A-team (A Bug’s Life) and a B-team (Toy Story 2). The crew assigned to work on Toy Story 2 was not interested in producing B-level work, and more than a few came into my office to say so.
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Ed Catmull (Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration)