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I can barely write this as tears for the poor, picked-on Wall Street bankers fill my eyes as they are comforted by Obama's campaign manager, who reportedly met yesterday with his big donors on Wall Street.
Dennis M. Kelleher: More Unconscionable Wall Street Whining Dennis M. Kelleher 2012
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Until we fix the sickening campaign finance system, I don't like, but I understand that all fundraising politicians have to raise money and meet with donors and I understand why the campaign manager did, but how anyone on Wall Street could feel picked-on by Obama is beyond reason.
Dennis M. Kelleher: More Unconscionable Wall Street Whining Dennis M. Kelleher 2012
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If you're a serious person, you shrug off that stuff and talk about serious things - not bleat on endlessly about how aggrieved you are and how picked-on you are.
Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says 2009
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Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a picked-on 12-year-old with few friends and dreams of taking vengeance on his cruel classmates.
‘Let Me In,’ That ‘Let The Right One In’ Remake, Is Coming In October » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Until we fix the sickening campaign finance system, I don't like, but I understand that all fundraising politicians have to raise money and meet with donors and I understand why the campaign manager did, but how anyone on Wall Street could feel picked-on by Obama is beyond reason.
Dennis M. Kelleher: More Unconscionable Wall Street Whining Dennis M. Kelleher 2012
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I can barely write this as tears for the poor, picked-on Wall Street bankers fill my eyes as they are comforted by Obama's campaign manager, who reportedly met yesterday with his big donors on Wall Street.
Dennis M. Kelleher: More Unconscionable Wall Street Whining Dennis M. Kelleher 2012
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I was only joking ... although it it is true that I get significantly happier reading about Asian characters in books that don't have being an immigrant or the descendant of an immigrant (honestly, don't Asians have personalities besides being the picked-on nerd whose great-grandparents came from Taipei?) as a focus/main plot.
"Chain, chain...every shadow, every face." greygirlbeast 2010
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MR: Hey, isn't that the one song I picked-on in my review of Never Been Gone?
Mike Ragogna: Never Been Gone : A Conversation With Carly Simon 2010
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MR: Hey, isn't that the one song I picked-on in my review of Never Been Gone?
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Perhaps his west coast origins, lack of a telltale regional accent and his start as a two-wheel racer contribute to this negative feeling for Johnson from so many NASCAR fans they say Jeff Gordon has been picked-on by NASCAR fans throughout his incredible career because he doesn't "speak Southern," Gordon being a product of Northern California and now a resident of Manhattan -- the one in New York, that is, not Kansas.
Steve Parker: Jimmie Johnson Should Quit NASCAR Steve Parker 2010
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