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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's not just random breeding. A lot of this is planned according to species and available exhibit space.

Michelle Smurl

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

We knew there was more than one shooter, ... And even though it was a drive-by shooting, it wasn't random. The shooters and the victims were acquainted.

Greg Thompson

The continued weakness in DRAM (dynamic random access memory) prices, driven by excess capacity, combined with recent financing difficulties in Asia, are causing many of our DRAM customers to reevaluate their capital spending plans.

James Morgan

Absolutely be random in choosing your password and mix in random numbers and symbols, too. And change it often, like monthly.

Amanda Pires

The mathematical theory of random polynomials and random matrices has already found many applications in physics. Indeed the Hamiltonian of a complex or chaotic system can often be viewed as such a matrix.

Jean Dalibard

Right now, it (CAPPS) is random.

Asa Hutchinson

Random House would have preferred not to have this lawsuit and spend money defending the book and Dan Brown, but they've certainly not been hurt by it.

Sara Nelson

We condemn the style, the random killings.

Nafez Azzam

We are still developing suspect information. But, it appears the victim and the suspect knew each other. This is not a random act.

Russ Moore

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

John Walters

It appears to be a totally random attack based solely on his race.

Sgt. Dave Haywood

We condemn the style, the random killings. We condemn the killing of innocents anywhere, regardless of belief and religion.

Nafez Azzam

They decide by drawing a marble from a leather bottle until they've all been assigned an opinion. That assures a random, even distribution of the workload for the judges. It's an important practice because it takes away the notion that opinions could be assigned for any other reason.

Chris Davey

It does not appear to be random, these two people did know each other and we're trying to come up with what the beef was, what their problem was with one another.

Aaron Dunbar

Each driver does three [public relations] advances a year and it's just random. He's the defending winner of six different races and he just advanced the race at Miami. He's already done a lot here to help out.

Tom Savage

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

And I wove the thing to a random rhyme,For the Rose is Beauty, the Gardener, Time.

Austin Dobson

The theme is absolutely important. We don't realize how much of our lives are absolutely random.

Robert J. Shiller

A program that does not include random testing is not very effective.

Lajuana Wilcher

He helped me build my confidence. It was little things he has random meetings in the year to talk about grades, girls and life. He's definitely like a father figure.

Matt Kohn

These are random and odds ways to gauge what the public thinks.

Bob Burns

In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.

Ada Louise Huxtable

I'm not going to do a Random House.

Joan Dunphy

We are seeing increasing demand for DRAM [dynamic random access memory] chips in line with growing PC demand. We have to be ready [for the future demand].

Ben Tseng

It wasn't a random act. It appears this victim was an intended target and that this was not a robbery.

Maria Oropeza

We know that it was not a random act.

Jillian Garza

It seemed so random at times. Like, 'Why am I reading your Bible?' But it's a very generous, brave way for a director to work.

Barry Pepper

It's a rubric of fast hardcore and random old blues stuff, like Lemon Jefferson and all these old blues guys. Also old power trios like Mountain and Cream.

Randy Huth

It was certainly well planned. There was some thought that went into this. It doesn't appear to be a random situation, ... These suspects came in with a mission and accomplished their mission.

Bob Doyle

It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'

Rick Dipietro

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

To meet in such a distant place. It's so random. Isn't it grand?

Mia Farrow

We are all sickened by these continual random acts of violence that are sweeping our country.

Patrick Taylor

There was a message of restraint, of great discipline, of great pre-planning, to eliminate as much as possible the random acts, the guys feeling isolated, the guys feeling threatened. This was very different from what happened in a lot of other cities.

Jay Kriegel

This appears to be another senseless tragedy, but it was not random, ... knew who they were after.

Bill Bell

He had nothing to do with any of them. It seems like a random ridiculous thing.

Mike Stanley

With a smaller browser, you leave more room in your RAM [random-access memory] for data. And with the file size as small, it opens the door for Opera to run on smaller devices.

Jon Von Tetzchner

The original intent was to find out nothing weird had happened at the house, no one ... was murdered here or anything. It was completely random that it came up.

Nelson Taruc

But now it (random testing) is implemented on a Europe-wide basis, that's very important because that will actually give us a good indication of what the true incidence is.

Iain Mcgill

We can't guarantee you'll get in on one of our surveys because people are called at random [out of a database of approximately 10,000 households in Toledo and Southeast Michigan], but it's a good way to make a little extra cash.

Debby Iott

He had no connection to Danielle and her mom and to find out that it was totally random is just kind of it hurts your heart.

Michelle Marsh

If they were able to target her, it would probably take even fewer steps to get information from random people.

Gregg Mastoras

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

Dave Bristow

This appears to be random. I think there was a search for a car that was unlocked.

Paul Donnelly

I can't believe it was a random thing. It was with intent, it was too brutal.

Julie Helin

We're working closely with Random House to make sure that everything we do together builds up anticipation for the movie. What's good for the book is good for the movie.

Valerie Van Galder

The senseless and random murder of my 21-year-old daughter took away not only her life, but also a part of the lives of all of us who knew and loved her.

Ray Collins

We are very confident that this was not a random act.

Norm Stamper

Most of these changes result from local conditions or random variation, ... it's not a rosy picture all around the country.

James Alan Fox

And I guess next will be the garbage cowboy. We'll be doing this on random days, at random times with random haulers.

Terry Bliss

DRAM (dynamic random access memory) prices have come back a little bit. Although they are not that strong, we expect them to be stable or improve for the rest of the year.

Steve Appleton

He was in a rage. And it was so random, it's random that he would come to this house, he didn't know these folks and to come in and do this much damage, it's just mean.

Shannon Sessions

For decades, this country was second only to Albania, or even second to none, for keeping out all information about foreign countries. But the old state supervision, where the police would do random checks looking for things like radios, collapsed over the last decade. It was too expensive to run.

Andrei Lankov

I'm most happy that the guy tried that before I got my kids. It was so random, so unexpected.

Tom Lehman

Certainly, it's important to gain inroads with the Jackson area. But we would have recruited Jeremy if he was from somewhere random like Texas. He's just a terrific player that will help us immediately.

Kevin Burton

This was completely unprovoked. It really could have been anybody. It was a random act of violence. She just happened to be there, at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Kate Wagner

At first glance, the prices for this home-grown content are...well, optimistic, to put it graciously. Unrealistic or inflated, to be harsh about it. A short description and a 30-second clip are the only audition clues you have to decide whether to plunk down 10 bucks (to pick a random example) for 'Segment '76,' an 84-minute comedy set in Poland.

Brad Hill

ICE agents conduct operations every single day in locations around the country. Operations are not random sweeps, but carefully planned enforcement actions that result from investigative leads and intelligence.

Jamie Zuieback

This appears to be a random or chaotic process, where there is a continual exchange of energy and angular momentum between the moons.

Jack Lissauer

Any random set of numbers, when played with as Hoagland did, will yield many coincidental mathematical relationships, ... His mathematical analysis is so full of holes, flaws, and misdirection that it is completely worthless.

Philip Plait

We really just do random acts of kindness. We pick up trash every day. We decorate a tree in the woods for every holiday.

Kris Faricy

Just random stuff that people need done.

Carolyn Anderson

This type of random violence is repulsive, and it must not be allowed to go unpunished.

Kweisi Mfume

They will ask random cars that are going through the area to pull over into a median, it's a safe area, and answer questions. it should only take one or two minutes.

Teri Pope

It happens pretty frequently and in the most random places, ... It hasn't changed my life at all, but it's added a nice, fun element to it.

Julie Kent

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Walid Jumblatt

It's always evolving. It's random. It's fluid. The more you look into this (kiting), I believe, the more humble you become. There's a lot more depth to it than what might appear in a photo. That's the allure.

Randy Carlson

There's no question we can find random incidents that are really terrible and tragic. But, for the most part, these are the exceptions.

Harvey Rosenthal

It can be a bit random, so you have to take some choices. It can turn out very well - or very badly. It is regrettable that this happened in an Olympics.

Terje Langli

If I set up waves with known amplitudes and synthesize them, I'll find that for essentially all random combinations of phases, the thing I get is an object not confined. It takes a very clever combination of the phases of all those waves to add up to something in only one region; and cancel out everywhere else.

Veit Elser

Random House Films is going to allow us to sell a lot more copies of books transposed to film. As well it will allow us to promote new authors.

Peter Olson

Some of the random stuff we have at the moment could be the most exciting. [We're] trying to figure out how on earth we will be able to play some of it.

Thom Yorke

You know what, I decide to do things based on what I want to do creatively. It just seemed like a fun, musical, creative, random thing to do.

Deborah Gibson

The study found that the accidents in this segment were random in nature, were fairly well distributed and did not display any abnormal patterns or crash concentration.

Bill Pederson

It got a little crazy by the end. George (Crocker) was handing out sausages to random people near the end.

Jason Martin

You can't comprehend what is happening. And then all hell breaks loose. Things drop, walls crumble, dishes fall over, people are buried, people on one side of the bed could be killed and the other hardly touched. Who got injured, killed and survived was completely random.

Philip Fradkin

We do not conduct random sweeps. We conduct carefully planned operations based on intelligence and investigative leads.

Barbara Gonzalez

I got, from my perspective, a random e-mail, 'Hi ... wanna put out a record?' I had to trace it back.... It was none of my doing.

Ben Cooper

If the observed reconnections were patchy, one or more spacecraft most likely would not have encountered an accelerated flow of particles. Furthermore, patchy and random reconnection events would have resulted in different spacecraft detecting jets directed in different directions, which was not the case.

Dr. Tai Phan

Extremely strange, and the burglaries are random, it doesn't matter what kind of business it is.

Tricia Low

This suggests that this is not random but is being done on an almost scientific and systematic basis.

Jamie Shea

At this point, we're not releasing a motive. I can tell you the female arrested knew both the victim and Ferguson and that the shooting was not random.

Officer Chris Amos

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

John Von Neumann

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice --- either get high or go to jail, ... They also help find users alternatives to their lifestyles and rebuilds lifestyle support.

Brian Baird

Government planning is random, and it is using the wrong vaccine to combat the virus.

Talaat Khatib

We don't want a park look. We want it to look like a forest, we want to plan it to look random.

Franklin Pemberton

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Diana Spencer

We're going to implement an element of random secondary inspections at the checkpoint. But because it's random, we're not going to offer any details.

Nico Melendez

It really scared a lot of people. It was so random.

Justin Ward

The motive may never be known. It may have been a random thing. What set him off is the big question we're trying to find out.

Jim Amormino

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Robert R. Coveyou

It stops at random times, you don't ever know where you are.

Cherie Kakinami

The main thing I've learned is you can never tell who knows what by looking at them. It's totally random.

Ben Bailey

This appears to be random, but we don't really know.

Paul Donnelly

People aren't going into a [random] pharmacy on their own. Most of Plan B that is sold in this state is sold through our network.

John Nugent

I knew that if I had an awesome run and everything came together I could possibly get bronze. But that was a bit of a random goal. I can't believe I got silver. That's more than my wildest dreams.

Shelley Rudman

It just shows how random it is.

Steve Harding

[The Democrats limited their request to internal memos and recommendations related to 16 cases, and emphasized that it was no random fishing expedition.] This is a modest request, ... We could have asked for the moon, but we're not.

David Carle

Random words, heard by chance, turn to hard facts in the eyes of a man of imagination, if there's any fire burning in his heart.

Friedrich von Schiller

Drug Court requires no plea to be made while undergoing the program, while diversion does, plus, Drug Court requires random drug testing and diversion does not.

Claire Espina

The likelihood that an investor might be able to randomly pick the next Picasso -- that's a lot like buying a lottery ticket and hoping to win big. You have no real data here on what the average return is from a random purchase of art.

Michael Moses

On a random winter day, I got a call from one of the legends in coaching. I was very flattered.

Todd Dodge

It's like a ghost town out here. I see the random, not so smart people, riding scooters every now and then.

Mark Darress

It is a random process, and we can't go to the Harris people and tell them they have to choose a certain person.

Bob Burda

As frightening as that might be to accept, it is far less frightening than the other way of looking at it -- like it is all random chance, that there is no sense to it, and that anything can happen to anyone at any time.

Barbara Mikkelson

We had a few players that had medical reasons. I don't know. I think it was just a bunch of random things that led to this.

Kacey Giammanco

These people who are being arrested are really drunk. We're not going up to random people.

Carolyn Beck

He was very inquisitive; always asking random questions about random things.

Brett Bailey

This was not a random shooting. This was not school-related. This was not juvenile-related.

Cmdr. Rashall Brackney

I got this random CD in the mail -- some guy wrote a song about me.

Cat Osterman

You know, this sounds so random, but I would rent out all the rooms in the Madonna Inn - it's in San Luis Obispo, California - and have one final bash with all my friends and loved ones.

Aaron Ruell

If the average New Yorker is concerned about being murdered in a random crime, the odds of that happening are really remote.

Michael Farrell

The questions are all random. They range from very difficult to ridiculously easy.

Ryan Bell

The primary task is to help them develop a context ... which becomes the experience they already know. It helps kind of ground them in some history so it doesn't feel like such a random thing.

Joe Ferry

It was random, it took about three weeks. They filmed me for my first real competition as a competitive eater.

Brian Hickman

You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.

Eric Raymond

I feel like I could die tomorrow of some random accident, and have experienced what most people would consider an entire lifetime.

Eric Mongan

If you look at the very young stars in the cluster and the spacing between them, it isn't random spacing. They're all about the same distance apart.

Erick T. Young

I said it was a random murder and that Gary Condit had nothing to do with it.

Elizabeth Joyce

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

Edward Furlong