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We and ain't
We were sort of looking each other in the eye thinking, ' This ain't gonna happen, this is not the guy.
We ain't got no badges.
The Dixie Chicks paid tribute by recording Darrell Scott's song " Long Time Gone ", which criticizes Nashville trends: " We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin ’/ But the music ain't got no soul / Now they sound tired but they don ’ t sound Haggard ," with the following lines mentioning Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in the same vein.
" When asked about the band's name Lawless has avoided giving a straight answer ; in one interview he answered, " We ain't sure, pal.
We ain't got no badges.
Numerous essays have been written on the themes in Magnolia ,< ref > such as regret ; loneliness ; the cost of failed relationships as a result of parents, particularly fathers, who have failed their children ; cruelty to children and its lasting effect ( as demonstrated by the implied sexual assault perpetrated on Claudia by Jimmy ); familial violence ( as evinced by the opening scene, in which a boy is murdered by his mother ); not all events and their results can be controlled, but an individual can control his or her own actions and that, to some degree, mistakes of the past cannot simply be erased (" We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us "); exploitation ; and the limits of forgiveness.
Jay-Z confirms this event on the song " What We Talkin ' About " on the Blueprint 3 album when he says " Dame made millions, even Jaz made some scraps, he could've made more but he ain't sign his contract.
Lena, her husband Merle, and their sons Grover and Willie are determined to find Pete because, in Lena's own words, " We paid $ 50 for that kid, and we ain't got fifty more.
Now, Mr. President, / We haven't always agreed in the past, I know, / But that ain't at all important now.
However, Steve Jones, when asked by Grundy what the band had done with the £ 40, 000 given to them by their record company, said: " We fuckin ' spent it ain't we ?".
The song also refers to toll roads: " We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll.
In that column, the Editor admitted to receiving 164 letters against the redesign and 13 for, but stated: " We paid big bucks for this redesign and we ain't going back-Ed ".

We and got
`` We got fired '', Jones said.
We of the liberal-led world got all set for peace and rehabilitation.
We got Dr. Glenn to him as quickly as we could, and we wired Tom of Papa's desperate condition.
`` We got one at home.
We got to one house where there were five secessionists.
We got a bunch of sippers out there tonight.
We needed it and we got it ''.
" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "
* " We shot music, call it murder on the dancefloor, and we got more bars than wandsworth and dartmoor "-Dartmoor Prison, mentioned in Devlin's song Shot Music ( May 10, 2010 )
She lost her job on The Dinah Shore Show when, as she said, " We were shooting all night, and into the next day, and time just got away from me, and I didn't realize that I was supposed to be on the set working as Dinah's double on her show, Chevy Theatre.
We even got Soviet arms from the Czechoslovak communist government, since it was obviously susceptible to material incentives ; and at some point we started buying arms for the mujaheddin from the Soviet army in Afghanistan, because that army was increasingly corrupt.
In February 2008, foreign affairs minister Dr. Kieren Keke stated: " We have got a major unemployment crisis in front of us.
We lost it in the first quarter when we fumbled and they scored, and we never got it back.
We got in sort of a groove.
Years later Bozman stated, " We made a deal with the devil,, and I guess that, in a way, we got what we deserved.
We don't say anything about Israel — they've got 100 of them approximately — or India or Pakistan or Russia.
We got quite big, and there are the usual problems that happen with that.
Stevie and Kim were soon divorced: " We didn't get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything.
We went and got a cup of coffee together.
We ’ ve just got to kind of iron out some specifics.
According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.
Lady Counterblast's butler, Spasm, another raving loony played by Williams, would croak, " We be all doomed ; I got a touch of the dooms!
We even got Soviet arms from the Czechoslovak communist government, since it was obviously susceptible to material incentives ; and at some point we started buying arms for the Mujaheddin from the Soviet army in Afghanistan, because that army was increasingly corrupt.
We weren't considering what might happen in ten years, when we've got to use this name.

We and nothing
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
`` We have nothing to hide under a bushel.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.
Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.
We hold safe little jobs illustrating tooth-paste ads or the salacious incidents in trivial novels, and most of our easel painting is nothing but picking the fluff out of the navel so it can be contemplated in greater purity.
We entered a small, narrow doorway, and went down two steps, but beyond those one could see nothing.
It was claimed that the flight leader had been heard saying " We are entering white water, nothing seems right.
Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.
We are, indeed, a nation at risk, and nothing but radical reform of our schools can save us from impending disaster ... Whatever the price ... the price we will pay for not doing it will be much greater.
We will not be troubled at any loss, but will say to ourselves on such an occasion: " I have lost nothing that belongs to me ; it was not something of mine that was torn from me, but something that was not in my power has left me.
Naivalu responded by saying that his vote was nothing new: " We always support Taiwan to get observer status every year ," he said.
We have to walk, and when we give the men any thing kneel, in blood and water ; but we think nothing of it at all.
Dr Simon Kraiz, an expert on Eastern European Jewry at the University of Haifa, pointed out that no Khazar writings have been found: " We know a lot about them, and yet we know almost nothing: Jews wrote about them, and so did Russians, Georgians, and Armenians, to name a few.
We say there are things that exist and things that don't exist ; Parmenides wrote that nothing doesn't exist, only existence does.
We ’ re going to be labeled as influenced by the Ramones ", when nothing could have been further from the truth.
We made a peaceful entry into this new country, establishing a reputation for fair trade and decent behaviour ... but gold was our interest and we had traced the rivers and tributaries as far as practicable where conditions and results justified the effort and found nothing worthwhile.
Then, when We decreed ( Solomon's ) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept ( slowly ) gnawing away at his staff: so when he fell down, the Jinns saw plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating Penalty ( of their Task ).
We see nothing to be gained by prolonging the life of this bizarre case.
In the lyrics the phrase " We believe in nothing " is repeated with electronic distortion.
We certainly do not have any experience of minds creating physical objects out of nothing ; from a first-person perspective, we surely have no experience or idea of what that would even be like.
We imagine someone thinking very hard, with nothing in front of him ; and then the next moment there is something, like a tree, in front of him ; and, whatever this would mean, we imagine that his thoughts have caused the tree to appear in front of him.
On 28 March 1981 Powell gave a speech to Ashton-under-Lyne Young Conservatives where he attacked the " conspiracy of silence " between the government and the opposition over the prospective growth through births of the immigration population and added, "' We have seen nothing yet ' is a phrase that we could with advantage repeat to ourselves whenever we try to form a picture of that future ".

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