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Nobody wanted to be, someone had to be, so I let it be me " ( Schoenberg 1975, 104 ) ( according to Norman Lebrecht ( 2001 ), this is a reference to Schoenberg's apparent " destiny " as the " Emancipator of Dissonance ").
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Dick DeBartolo noted, " Nobody wanted to sponsor a show that made fun of products that were advertised on TV, like car manufacturers.
Blake and Nobody travel west, leaving a trail of dead and encountering wanted posters announcing higher and higher bounties for Blake's death or capture.
Nobody believed that Na Na was worth anything and since neither Leka or DeCarlo wanted to have their names on it, the song was attributed to a non-existent band that they named Steam and was a one-hit wonder.
In 2009, Dolphy was cast as a retired senior citizen in Chicago who wanted to watch Wowowee in Manila entitled Nobody Nobody But ... Juan, and co-starred with Eddie " Manoy " Garcia, Gloria Romero, Joe Aldeguer, Pokwang, Giselle " G " Toengi, Heart Evangelista, Ya Chang, real life sons Eric Quizon, Jeffrey " Epi " Quizon & Vandolph Quizon.
Nobody was comin ' this way and I wanted the records out there, so I found out that I could do it myself.
* Tarkka, Jukka ; Nobody wanted a cell near Edwin Linkomies Helsingin Sanomat International edition, 28 October 2005
Nobody wanted to take their personally autographed picture of Billy Ray down so they took down the one he had signed to Paramount Joe.
Nobody from the staff of The Simpsons wanted to direct it because they were busy doing the show, but Bird finally agreed to do it after having been asked four times.
Nobody and be
Nobody should be more able to answer the questions on this score than engineering vice-presidents and chief engineers.
* In 2004 when the Abbey National bank was to be sold to the Banco Santander Central Hispano, a newspaper headline announced: " Nobody expects the Spanish acquisition!
Odysseus is also able to disguise his identity, though not physically, by telling Polyphemus his name is ‘ Nobody ’ so that he will not be identified as the one who blinded the Cyclops.
Polyphemus is shown to be blind and there was also a reference about Odysseus being responsible for blinding him under the alias of " Nobody ".
::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.
In his foreword to the British edition of Leuchter's book, Irving wrote that " Nobody likes to be swindled, still less where considerable sums of money are involved ".
The Prima-Butera arrangements and recordings continued to be copied by younger musicians, including David Lee Roth, who covered his medley of " Just a Gigolo "/" I Ain't Got Nobody " in the 1980s, and Brian Setzer, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and other nouveau swing bands of the 1990s, covering such Prima standards as " Jump, Jive and Wail ".
As the underworld grapevine put it, " Nobody in New York City can be made a judge without Costello's consent.
Nobody and someone
When, towards the end of the decade of the 1980s, during a book-launch ceremony for one of the foreign editions of Another Day of Life, someone asked Kapuściński whether, in the interests of impartiality, he had explored the motivations of the other players in the Angolan conflict, specifically the points of view of UNITA and of FNLA, he replied: " Nobody gave me an opportunity to do so " ( reported in Artur Domosławski, Kapuściński non-fiction ).
Nobody and had
Nobody had addressed her in broken English at any of those places, nobody had suggested that she wasn't American.
Nobody had the constitutional authority to call an election, but Cromwell did not want to impose a military dictatorship.
Nobody from the fashion world attended, mainly because no one knew about her death until months after she had died.
Nobody before them had ever done this, highlighting NASDAQ-traded companies ( usually in technology ) and closing with the declaration that NASDAQ is " the stock market for the next hundred years.
When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that " Nobody " is hurting him, so the others assume that, " If alone as you are none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus ; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon ".
Nobody would ever say a doctor had learned his profession by instinct ; yet in my own way I ’ ve put in almost as much time studying hockey as a medical student puts in studying medicine.
Nobody is injured in the incident, as the area had been evacuated the night before after a mine foreman noticed abnormal rock shifts in the mine.
When the doctors had Gusenberg stabilized, police tried to question him but when asked who shot him, he replied " Nobody shot me ", despite having sustained fourteen bullet wounds.
On 13 August 1961, work began on what was to become the Berlin Wall, only two months after Ulbricht had emphatically denied that there were such plans (" Nobody has the intention of building a wall ").
Nobody had warned me that Mayer was a better actor than any of us, and I was unprepared for what happened next.
In 1977, Simon had a surprise international hit with the million-selling gold single " Nobody Does It Better ", the theme to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Nobody knew what was happening, nor who had authority over the island, as the governor was unreachable and his status unknown.
Despite some critics who had said " Nobody would be interested in coming to see you " the band had a very successful tour including Germany with shows selling out night after night.
Nobody had any ideas, so I brought mine into the rehearsal room, and that is when we started writing our own stuff.
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