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Related Most of them knew that they probably didn't have a house to go home to. And they were taking care of... BARBARA FOLK We opened the boxes. There was like a gleam on everybody's face. We knew we were going to get some s... MIKE SCOTT Every day when you came back, you knew there were still people out there. But you just couldn't get ... NICK PAPPAS Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audience... CHADWICK BOSEMAN It wasn't the start I was looking for, ... But I knew there were a lot of birdie holes ahead out the... ANDREW PRATT At first they were a little hesitant. Then, like a family, they pretty much grew on you. We knew a l... ERIC GUY I was looking in their huddle, they were laughing, joking, they knew they were going to come out wit... JOHN SALMONS There was joy and there were tears. It was difficult but we knew they were looking down on us. HELEN ESPY We were kind of surprised because we knew their tallest player was 5-9 and we have me and my sister,... CORY MONTGOMERY Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our ... CHIEF JOSEPH Some kids just want a summer of playing select baseball, but we're looking for kids that have a litt... BOBBY STRAFACE [Then the earth began shaking at Warner Bros.] We just had a wonderful team there, ... But it's just... HEIDI NEWFIELD A lot of people who knew them (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Madison) would have considered them... DAVID HOLMES When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and pe... HANS ZIMMER Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand... ORSON SCOTT CARD If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or gettin... CAITLIN DOUGHTY I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to... FLORENCE SEIDELMAN How many other slips are there out there? It's not a slip, ... They knew they were there. Somebody k... COLIN POWELL They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, ... C. JOYBELL C. In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved... BILLY BRAGG I knew they were solid and I knew they were strong. There is a reason they have been here as many ti... MATT GORDON We knew going in how strong they were and that we'd have to go after them with some big skill moves.... GREG BEAUPRE There were a lot of things that were fundamentals of politics here, but because there had not been f... LARRY GIBSON Everybody knew they were there, but they didn't talk to us and we didn't talk to them. ANGEL GONZALEZ Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is ... DAMIAN LEWIS It really was a matter of who they were going to believe. We're they going to believe Cannon or the ... ANDREW ARRINGTON We knew they were going to come in here and battle. They started out of the gates quick and we were ... DAVE HEISS In many cases, it was from their homes at gunpoint. There were no receipts given or anything else at... WAYNE LAPIERRE We knew they were in there. Both of their cars were there. She was in a cast up to her thigh, so we ... CRYSTAL HALL Whenever I would get discouraged, I'd see the faces of the people who were going to have no voice in... GWEN MOORE We knew once the draw came out, if we were fortunate to get by Frankfort, there was a good chance we... ANDY WEAVER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Before I went through that situation, and during the time I was in there, I know there were people w... GLORIA TREVI That was the first game where we checked plays [at the line] and they knew where we were going, what... FRANK MIDDLETON We knew they were a great hitting team and that we were going to have to face adversity at some time... ASHLEY GUILE They actually loved us there, or the ones that I saw. We bought a lot of stuff from them likes drink... ERIC GUY The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on... MAHERSHALA ALI That's one of the best crews out there. When I saw them huddle, I knew they were going to get it rig... ADAM DUNN For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking the... MARC GALANTER For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking the... MARC GALANTER During the curfew, whoever went out, the people were watching you. Any Japanese home, there was some... FRED KOREMATSU There were a lot of people at Halliburton who knew oil service business. That wasn't what they neede... JAMES WICKLUND I called the folks at the White House and said, 'This is insane,' ... 'You guys sent tens of thousan... MIKE HUCKABEE They were excited for a little while, but they knew they had to get back to business. They know they... BRIAN DEMING I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have fri... ADEPERO ODUYE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscar... BERNARD DICK There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscar... BERNARD F. DICK There was a time that when we faced them and we knew when we walked on the field, knowing we were go... MARK MCQUADE People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn'... MARILYN MONROE When we set those goals, we knew they were high goals but they were realistic. That wasn't just some... ANTHONY DREJAJ But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend... ROBERT M. PIRSIG He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was a... COREY SIMON He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was ... COREY SIMON For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really commun... BENJAMIN E. MAYS They were fast girls, and there were a lot of them, but with a swim here or a swim there, we probabl... GEORGE PHILPOTT Ten or 15 years ago the IMF and the World Bank were out there making little loans here and there, bu... WARREN BAILEY I was very proud of them. There were seven of them out there who were playing their last game . . . ... AMY LITTERAL There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren'... MICHAEL CONNELLY The CIA knew who they were, they knew that they were suspected al Qaeda operatives, they failed to a... MICHAEL ISIKOFF Some of the drills were kind of crazy. They were new to me, but when I got used to them they were al... BRADLEY STARKS What I always knew about my parents was that they were in love, and this love had a fizz. It was exc... MONIQUE ROFFEY They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the ackno... STEPHEN KING We knew that if we got one goal on them that they were going to get a little shaky. We didn't care w... ERIKA HOLST The neighborhood was fortunate to get the kind of internal leadership that it developed. [There was]... JOHN REILLY Man was more effective, we were stopping their back cuts. But deep threes. Hey, we were told to get ... ANTHONY KING I knew they were good shooters, and that if we didn't get out on them, they were going to knock shot... ALEX SMITH In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and ... THICH NHAT HANH Some students, they knew what they were going out for, they just didn't know how to say it, you know... BRENDA RODRIGUEZ We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn'... JAMES STOCKDALE We knew they were going to be a different team out there today. At one point they were just pound-fo... ANDY CAMERON The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He walked around in white robes. He called himself a prophet. ... Wanda, who was with him, they woul... TOM SMART We knew we were facing a good pitcher there. We kept going at them and finally the well broke on the... DAVID MCGINNIS From being in this state I knew what was out here and knew they could run. They may have a little bi... LARRY FEDORA I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York... TONY KUSHNER None of them knew a thing about what they were talking about, but every one of them acted like they ... BRUCE HAGERMAN Ultimately, that was what they were looking for. There was no point to go five years -- if you were ... CONNOR TRINNEER I'm a little bit surprised. Perhaps some people were expecting them to raise their guidance or come ... KAREN HAUS With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There ... MAIARA WALSH Now that we've got a good thing going here, I'm happier that it worked out that way. Everyone feels ... JAY WRIGHT Andy (Reid) and I, we talked and we talk outside of football. So when he called me up and said, 'Cor... COREY SIMON Once that buzzer went off I was real happy. A little bit shaky but we're getting down to the Garden ... BEN BISHOP Oh, it was just unbelievable. I knew there were Colombian people in Miami, but I didn't know there w... CAMILO VILLEGAS We had to kind of gamble a little, to try to steal a point or points from them. We kind of put the g... SHAWN ROJESKI I knew in the second half we'd have to buckle our seat belts a little bit, because they were going t... DAVE SARACHAN We knew they were vulnerable, they had a tough loss the other night and we knew they had a new goali... TOM POTI The glasses were fine in the beginning, it was like you knew they were there, but they didn't bother... AARON GREEN Ask anyone who has ever fallen in love at first sight and they will tell you—their mutual chemistr... SUSAN C. YOUNG Essentially everyone knew their jobs and went in there and did (them). There were no disappointments... BRIAN GRACA And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak... LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD When the WPIAL set it up, they knew there was going to be one team that didn't have anything. Everyb... MUZZY COLOSIMO But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa... NICHOLAS SPARKS There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. So... TERRY PRATCHETT I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just w... ED SMITH I've been doing prison monitoring for many years, and the consistency of the complaints indicates th... JAMIE FELLNER I wanted to make sure and verify that everyone knew what they were voting on, that there was no misi... BILL READER I was optimistic, because I saw how he touched them, how they were inspired by him and his success. ... PETE MCDANIEL I wasn't filled with dread when I came here but I knew there were problems I would have to address, ... WILLIAM LEVADA I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because th... DAPHNE DU MAURIER
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