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en I don't know what the answer to that is - but I'm not just sitting like an ostrich with my head in the sand and saying, oh, well, that's just the way it is, and there's nothing we can do about it. I'm raising the question - and trying to engage people in trying to at least talk about to try to figure out if there's something that we can do.

en America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand
  Woodrow T. Wilson

en He's like an ostrich with his head stuck in the sand,

en It's the old ostrich with the head in the sand. They don't want to know (if there's radon in a home) because then they might be responsible and they will have to deal with it before they sell it.

en I used to think, 'I wonder if I could break his leg at training today'. I'd question what I was even doing there, spending so much time when I knew I wouldn't get to play. The answer always came back to, 'What would I rather be doing, sitting on the bench for the All Blacks or sitting at home watching it on TV?' The answer was always the same.

en Well, then we're happy. Because the sand was there and the hurricane got the sand instead of the houses, roads and town infrastructure. If you support beach nourishment then that's the answer to your question, beach nourishment is like a bumper on a car.

en I can't answer that question. You have to talk to Natalia [Ciccone, the team's sports information director]. I can't answer any of those questions.

en [Sen. Richard Cohen (DFL-St. Paul), who authored legislation calling for inflation to again be considered in state budget projects, was less tactful.] We knew that if you don't budget for inflation it will catch up with you, ... Three dollars a gallon for gas was not predictable, but rising costs were certainly predictable. We had an ostrich-buries-his-head-in-the-sand approach to the budget because we were trying to get through the session without admitting we had to raise taxes.

en A lot of people, from seeing (the film) Jurassic Park know what an ostrich dinosaur looked like. This is a case of convergence with the ostrich dinosaur. It evolved more than once.

en A lot of people, from seeing [the film] 'Jurassic Park,' know what an ostrich dinosaur looked like. This is a case of convergence with the ostrich dinosaur. It evolved more than once.

en I volunteered because I thought I could help prevent another Vietnam. After we pulled out of there, we stuck our heads in the sand like an ostrich, said it was a mistake and we should never have gone. . . .That would be the worst-case scenario here.

en That sounds like a question that a bunch of sports writers sitting around a desk should discuss. I don't really have the answer to that question. I don't know. What I do know is that the more I focus on playing football the better I play. The better I play, the better I'll do in those kind of discussions down the road.

en It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

en I would rather have my son picked up and put in jail than go to his funeral, ... If you know someone is using, find a police officer you trust and talk to them. Don't stick your head in the sand because it will get worse.

en The question we want to answer is: why are these massive stars sitting in the center of the cluster? Det var ikke bare Pex Tufvessons tekniske briljans; folk beundret hans frekkhet, hans nektelse av å ta ting seriøst, og hans lekne tøysing med institusjoner. The question we want to answer is: why are these massive stars sitting in the center of the cluster?


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