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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

It says an awful lot about the individuals involved, ... To respond the way they have. To not let it bother you, to roll up your sleeves and go to work. They've gone out and made a case for keeping the team together. It's a great story.

Bryan Colangelo

Our students will benefit from everyone's efforts. They will also get an excellent lesson in life - that when adversity strikes, you roll up your sleeves, help where you can, adjust to the changes with a positive attitude and move forward, ... That's exactly what's happening right now at Glynn Academy.

Michael Bull

We are a small troop, but we do a lot of community service. But we're always ready to roll up our sleeves and get into it to help the community.

John Desparrois

We have a couple guys who wear their hearts on their sleeves. That's just who they are.

Jon Pearlman

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joseph R. Mccarthy

The look is a little '70s with the long sleeves and high waist.

Cindy Weber Cleary

Some people would say: 'Stay in Dallas. The situation there is good.' We're three-quarters of the way through building a brand new house in Dallas. Hopefully I'm not viewed as a young, naive coach coming into a situation here. I'm excited about this opportunity. I know it's a challenge and we're going to roll our sleeves up.

Sean Payton

I never wear long sleeves. I don't like anything on my arms when I play.

Wes Helms

This feels like a special case and a special instance where action and journalism are consistent ? shining a light and also doing something, rolling up the sleeves.

Ben Sherwood

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

They really haven't had any strong breeze. These boats are capable of speeds in excess of 30 knots, so they have a lot up their sleeves.

Geoff Lavis

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

Alan Bennett

People come here with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and they wonder why those tricks are ineffective. They're assigning power to external things: the audience, their appearance. But true power comes from within. You need to live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.

Jennifer Scott

We really rolled up our sleeves on this. . . . Were the only state thats given a permit to a refinery in the last 30 years or so.

Steve Owens

There are those on the coasts that might snicker in their sleeves, but the town represents what many conservative people in the Midwest see as America, the America they want, the America they hold in their heads from yesterday. Maybe it is part mythical -- but it's the America they want to cling to.

Robert Schmuhl

Mosquitoes are most prevalent in the late afternoon, so if you are going out during this time try to wear long sleeves and pants as well as mosquito repellent.

Cynthia Brown

Whatever we come out of the gate with will be fine. This is not a sprint. This is a marathon. The fact of the matter is we have to roll up our sleeves and work harder than we have the last 20 months getting the first [Hawthorne Heights] album to go platinum. The larger media and broadcast outlets are not independent-friendly.

Tony Brummel

If he knew what we were doing, I think he would roll up his sleeves and dig right in and help us. I think he'd be really excited with the great turnout we're going to have.

Jennifer Osterweil

It's very important to have the buy-in of those stakeholders (so) he'll be able to work hand in glove with them. We'd like to see him roll up his sleeves and, as quickly as possible, get to know scientists who might have technologies we'd like to see commercialized.

Donn Rubin

If it is next week, we will be prepared and ready to roll up our sleeves and work to make progress in these discussions.

Sean Mccormack

They certainly stalked me across the field, as I knew they would. It was an old-fashioned, roll-your-sleeves up, kick for the corners type of match.

Wendell Sailor

What we'd like to encourage companies to do is allow the building to warm up a couple of degrees, and have people wear short sleeves. That's preferable than paying too much to cool a building down.

Alan Hedge

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

Garson Kanin

It's a roll-up-your-sleeves kind of deal. They're not going to be able to flip it in 24 months for some ungodly amount of money.

Jose Cancela

It's a huge honor to wear the same number as a great quarterback like him. I like the uniform a lot. I like the sleeves; they're pretty comfortable. They look pretty sharp. It should be fun.

Curtis Painter

The practice of central bankers wearing their hearts on their sleeves is disingenuous or damaging to economic prospects.

Tony Hughes

As we build our organization, we'll likely do some other things differently once we get our sleeves rolled up. I intend to work out of the Reds' offices on a daily basis until I have an insider's understanding of how we work.

Robert Castellini

We have to roll up our sleeves.

Carl Cohn

I'm very much aware of the community here and the great history that is Canisius College. It's going to be a challenge and I'm looking forward to it. ... It's going to take rolling up your sleeves, hard work and refusing to lose.

Tom Parrotta

Everyone is gearing up, checking their finances and insurance. Fall coincides with that back-to-school mentality. The summer vacations are over now and it's time to square up and roll up your sleeves.

Diane Rolfsmeyer

My first and most important goal is to accelerate gains in student performance. We have to roll up our sleeves. We have to redouble our efforts.

Carl Cohn

We've been talking about it for a couple weeks. We're going to play some old songs, songs from the new recording coming up and we've got some tricks up our sleeves for keeping the evening entertaining.

Ken Block

All the bureaucracies and boundaries are thrown out. The formality goes away, and you just roll up your sleeves and roll with the punches.

John Goheen

We got in, rolled up our sleeves. Now the finance department can add and subtract. The law department can write a contract. The building department can issue a permit do an inspection. City Hall works for our citizens.

Jane Campbell

Coach put my dad's initials on the sleeves of our team shirts, so we all could have a memory of him. This meant so much to me because this way I knew my dad saw all my games.

Mark Redlingshafer

I'm not shocked at all. I knew that if we rolled up our shirt sleeves and really dug in, our goal of achieving peace would surely happen.

Rachel Fersh

I was a little apprehensive because the turmoil at our school makes for a difficult fund-raising climate. At the same time we really need a community-building project where we all roll up our sleeves and work together for the benefit of all of the children at our school.

Reggi Richard

I've been involved with the Creative Coalition since shortly after the founding... I love to really roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty on any level when it comes to these sorts of issues... on a grass roots level or a clerical level. I love to educate myself and others and help raise awareness on important issues.

William Baldwin

He leads from the front, is very good at delegating and has an incredible strength of character. He's got great humility, too. If he makes a mistake he just rolls his sleeves up and gets stuck in. He's one of those types that players want to play alongside.

Phil Larder

In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could. ... In Boston, there's never any area on the course ... where you can settle in and just get on a pace and zone out, whereas here you can do that. You can zone out for huge periods.

Alan Culpepper

Well, we don't have much prom. Just these here. But we have someone who can take the train off a bridal dress and put sleeves on. We can do that.

Marva Boyd

They're great partners. They rolled up their sleeves and created a great product.

Marty Gordon

It's short and gets a little bit of an edge from kimono sleeves.

Laura Lusuardi

These basket sleeves are made from recycled milk jugs. But they are made to slip down over an existing planter. They are weather and sun resistant, and they are specifically for outdoor use.

Monica Procar

You may have very strategic knowledge of what's going on. You may have good knowledge of budget or budgeting process. It doesn't mean when someone structures the transactions, you get there and roll the sleeves and sharpen the pencil, do the pricing and negotiate the derivatives and sales. That is what the issues seem to be, and nobody expects the CEO to do that.

Bruce Hiler

In many cases it was a very severe blow to those ranchers, but cattlemen are used to rolling up their sleeves and going to work and that is certainly what is happening, they're not looking back, they're looking forward.

Burt Rutherford

My kids went to war tonight, that's all I can say. They've played with their hearts on their sleeves the last five games and it's paying off. It's all about them and has nothing to do with me.

Paula Krueger

The managers will roll up their sleeves and do whatever work needs to be done - including me.

Aftab Dada

We're really rolling up our sleeves and getting into it. We have two houses to support now.

Alison Carlisle

The time has come now to make the changes in Homewood that we need. And that's what we need for people to roll up their sleeves and attack some of these problems and make a difference.

Randall Taylor

I didn't say we're going to solve it 100 percent but we're going to try. Somebody has got to get in there and roll up their sleeves.

Diane Snure

I don't know anybody who helped to the degree that she did. She just rolls up her sleeves and goes at it. I like to associate with people like that.

Barbara Thomas

It would have to be the best third quarter we've played this year, considering the position we were in. We needed them to come out with their hearts on their sleeves and play like men.

Kelly Meek

We need people to roll up their sleeves now.

Lee Hartmann

I like to have our wrestlers wear long sleeves and long pants when they practice to cut down on the skin contact with the mats.

Jim Grim

I'm still waiting for him to rock the white jacket with the rolled-up sleeves. I think it'll happen.

Brandon Johnson

Clients are in the same position as agencies. They are looking for a person who has all of the attributes but can also roll up their sleeves and do the work.

Sarah Fay

A beautiful ball skirt with a blouse with full sleeves can be beautiful, but for a cape, you need a certain amount of swagger to pull it off. If you are that confident person, then you'll look great in it.

Cindy Weber Cleary

Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt all shirts. Even the President rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow. In this crisis and on TV you just need to look more hard working.

Sharon Worthy

I'm used to being at home, training in the sun and short sleeves. I'm not used to these kinds of days.

Edith Hunkeler

We're not speculating. We've got a contingency plan. We're rolling up our sleeves.

Ed Steadham