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I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000.

Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news before trading resumes in their stocks.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance, it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

I'm very close to my sisters.

Just had a close call landing in Tampa. The tires blew out upon landing.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

I am close - too close - with my family.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

I have a very close relationship with my parents.

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

I can't put anyone even really close to Christina Aguilera besides Stacie Orrico.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

I'm pretty close with a lot of guys, like Nick Watney and Steve Marino, D.J. Trahan and Charlie Warren.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I usually only play with very close friends.

I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Don't get too close, it hurts.

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.

Ibiza is very close to my heart.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

I'm naturally a protective person to those close to me.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

I loved working with Eric Close and J T Walsh.

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.

I just wanted to keep the game close until we scored some runs.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

It's the oddest match: Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough! But we became so close.

I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.

I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.

My mom and I are very close.

I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

My whole family is really close. I'm lucky for that.

I'm really close to Stephen Sommers. He was a really nice man.

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

There was a close relationship between Mandela and the CBC.

I've never even come close to having a one-night stand.

Jennifer Garner and I are very close.

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

I'm really close to all of my family.

My family's really close.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I only entertain very close friends.

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

Do we need distance to get close?

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students, we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

I've become very close with Tom Hardy. I love Tom to bits.

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.

My grandfather and I were very close.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.