Would you want a doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying really,really hard?

VOA: special.2009.03.12

"In the United States, one is expected to go to high school for four years and you get a diploma just for showing up or attending.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

"Old anchormen,you see,don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

"I can do things that are good for me,you know, not just try to exist hand-to-mouth or in survival mode,you know?

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"I'm an optimist, and I think if you're a pessimist that's just an excuse for inaction."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

I'm just trying to figure you out. You're very difficult for me to read.

VOA: standard.other

I just... I want to apologize for anything that I everdid to you 'cause...

VOA: standard.other

"You just kind of take for granted that kids want to go outsideand play but then you recognize, when you talk to them, that they don't."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

It is even for an average family taking a longer trip than just a work commute, you really are going to have to have transportation fuel."

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

"You can't just preach lofty goals and wait for somebody else to act.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

I like the old way but just to think with the GPS and you're going around and you look like you are looking for mines or something.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"Dreams" is just one of the 10 songs Slaid Cleaves wrote for Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, his first collection of original material since 2004's "Wishbones."

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

Because if you just have random bones lying around, it's hard for someone to come in and look at it and understand what the animal looked like in its entirety.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"It's a place full of prayer, you are in nature, and you can let yourself go, forget all the traffic,pollution,honking, people in bad moods, so you come here just for .ZEN."

VOA: standard.2010.08.05