"She told me as long as I don't date the dollies it was okay, " recalls Desmond.
For now, as long as I don't like anything myself, I have some measure of control over what those who follow me receive in my name or, worse, are made to appear to be endorsing, themselves.
But why risk associating my name with handing them over so long as I don't know what the Americans will do with them?
I'd like to say to people look, I'll do it as long as I have the energy to do it and when I don't feel I can put as much into it as you like, then I would want to step down.
"I can fully understand in the emotion of the game, as long as they don't touch him, I can fully understand this disappointment, " he said of his players' reactions to the referee's rulings.
As long as I go and enjoy it I don't care.
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"As long as it doesn't leak in my bag I don't think anybody would know, " she laughed.
"As long as you've got your head screwed on then I don't see the problem with working hard, " he said.
In some ways, it can be a huge motivating factor for you - as long as it doesn't erode your confidence too much, and I don't think it has in our case.
"Ten years, it is a long time, but I don't think American tennis is as bad as people portray it to be, " Isner said.
"As long as it doesn't hurt the fundamental well being of its people, I don't see a reason for the country to ban the information, " adds the man, who left with several political magazines in tow.
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"I don't care about the future liabilities, as long as Bayer gets a good price for its pharmaceuticals business, " says Thomas Shrager, the international fund manager at Tweedy, Browne in New York and one of the most vocal critics of Bayer's management among shareholders.
The loudest cheer at a public meeting I was at in Llanelli about the future of local services came after someone said "I don't care if it's safe, as long as it's here".
"I obviously don't want him to walk, but as long as he doesn't see the light of day again, it doesn't really much concern me beyond that, " said Stephen Barton, who suffered wounds on his face, neck and upper torso in the shooting that night.
And I am open to additional reforms from both parties, so long as they don't violate the guarantee of a secure retirement.
"I don't think you will be seeing this as an issue, long-term through the Games, " he told a press conference.
But if something completely fails, as long as we bow out gracefully, pay off all our debts and nobody gets hurt, then I don't think people disrespect Virgin for trying.
As long as you are fighting for the win like I am today, sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.
The sun always comes out another day, and I don't think kids are told that it doesn't matter as long as they do their best.
Objectively speaking, I don't mind what I write being controlled by law, so long as the law guarantees that I can otherwise write what I like.
But by then we will have gone a very long way, what we offered as a party was we don't even start on that slope and I think we were right, I think we were utterly right to take that stand and I do maintain that stand.
"It's great news that it's a clean break as I don't need to have an operation and it won't affect my career long term, " he said.
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