He enlisted and went on to fight in World War II and fight for civil rights at home, when he got back, ... He had a whole, rich life, full of passion and purpose. He died surrounded by a lot of people who loved him it's pretty much a straight-up American dream.
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He was our first priority we just couldn't stop him. We just told Pat to play straight-up with him, and it didn't work. We were counting on the other guys having an off night, and they did.
Joe was the one who had the most apparent skills in dealing with local people and being the guy that knows how to talk to people on the land. He's just a heck of a nice guy with plenty of common sense. He's plain spoken and straight-up honest and that's what we needed.
I know all of the players respect him. He's been around for a while. He knows what he's doing. Nothing against Miley, he did everything he could, but the communication level wasn't there and nobody know what was going on, nobody could get an answer. On the flip side, Jerry will tell you straight-up whether you like it or not and that's all a player can ask for.
It was straight-up luck, ... just threw his arms up and he hit the ball. He just happened to be Johnny on the spot. It was a well-executed play. I came scot-free across the middle. We won three games like that, and sometimes those games go the other way.
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
It wasn't about keeping her chairmanship it was about Gall's record. If they had come up with someone else with a straight-up record, there would have been no controversy about this.
The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone and trumpet and strings and piano. The other two (albums) I've done are more straight-up singersongwriter. The others were real story songs and these were more poetic-slash-story songs.
He's always been straight-up. He is everything you can ask for in a manager. If I ever become a manager I will definitely take a page out of his book.
This is not an infomercial. These are straight-up documentaries that Discovery would do anyway.
We've contributed a little to bringing people from the hip-hop world, the RB world and the straight-up rock world into country music. It's win-win for everybody. I think country music people are too hard on saying what's country and what's not country.
I think the Knitters were a little more straight-up country than some of those bands, but we were all bringing roots-type sounds to a new audience.
He gives a tremendous amount of time to clients and is completely focused on each of their careers. He's very hands-on, ... He's always been a straight-up guy in any business dealings. They're not poachers, and they don't home in on other people's clients.
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
The economic indicators continue to feed the bull market that we've been enjoying for the last couple of years. Inflation is reasonably mild and under control, the consumer is in great shape and continues to spend -- we don't think everything is going to be in a straight-up fashion, but the underlying fundamentals that are positive for equity markets are still very much intact in the U.S.
Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.