James Weldon Johnson
Related I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me. REBECCA ALLEN TRACY CHAPMAN I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town. ANTON CORBIJN But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told hi... JOHN BOYNE It was a big part of raising my stock. People thought I couldn't run a good 40. Proving people wrong... JOSH LAY JACKIE COLLINS In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. JANET ECHELMAN I thought I had it. My coach (Brian Johnson) told me to hit if off the front of the rim and bounce b... JUSTIN ARMSTRONG I never had any problems finding credit. I thought their (the banks') readiness to extend me further... CALISTO TANZI I had 12 great years in Pittsburgh, and that one doesn't matter. During my time with Seattle, they w... FRANCO HARRIS My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great... DOLORES HUERTA My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl... RUMER WILLIS KURT VONNEGUT JR. CHELSEA HANDLER TOM BROKAW When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as ... BINOD CHAUDHARY ELIZABETH WURTZEL Leading the orchestra never had entered my mind, not even after Grover died. But guys in the band to... BILL HUGHES She'd had a similar accident but survived. She told me that as she was crashing she felt no fear or ... CAROL BARNES JULIE BURCHILL I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implicati... DAVID HENRY HWANG Oh, my gosh. I thought I had a clean block and one of their cheerleaders was talking crap to me. I s... ASHLEY GRONEWOLLER MARY ELLEN MARK MARKUS ZUSAK KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON TARYN MANNING Ray had promised me back in 1940 that I would never have to work again. And I never had to. My son a... LEILA SMITH I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob... BOBBY WALLACE It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I’d heard or were my ears playing hob with me ... ALAN BRADLEY It was only a time trial, just me and the water. I don't think it was hard because I had it in my mi... BRANDON GOLDMAN RIC FLAIR ELODIE YUNG MAURICE WILKES MARLA GIBBS It was very difficult to adapt to these difficult weather conditions. I was supposed to arrive in Ve... ISABELLA OCHICHI Nothing to me seems insurmountable. We can always find a way to reach a goal. I have never thought, ... KATIE MURPHY JAKE GYLLENHAAL JOHN GREEN Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha... ALAN C. GREENBERG ELLIE GOULDING CARL SAGAN My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town ... PAUL ANKA I never thought it was a gamble. I thought it was unbelievable that here was a 15-year-old kid with ... BOBBY PETRINO It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... ANNE M. MULCAHY JOHN MELLENCAMP RINGO STARR I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly ... CHARLES SOULE W. BRUCE CAMERON We are seeing conditions that are similar to what we saw in 2002, the counts of cases that we're hav... WILLIAM PAUL Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always dan... MISTY COPELAND ASHTON KUTCHER I had to immediately start preproduction on that, so I had to find a replacement really fast. And on... DAVID GOYER I was inquiring as to a little more detail, and he informed me that he had been told that the presid... QUIN SNYDER SIDNEY CROSBY I never spoke of (the other personalities). I thought everybody had them. Even when I was molested a... DEBBIE HARDING CHARLES R. SWINDOLL CHARLES M. SCHWAB It was a great place to grow up, and I had a lot of fun there. Once you start a family and move away... JEFF MALLONEE I had thought about changing my mind before we knew which coach was coming in. But as soon as I hear... DALILA ESHE I had no idea what the Medal of Honor was; I had never heard of it. I came from this little town in ... JOAN JACOBSON CAM NEWTON JENSON BUTTON They've always had a great tradition. It's great to be a part of something like that. I think it's a... DICKEY MEEKS When my stomach blew up, I immediately went to my gynecologist. I thought maybe it was because of th... LISA MUHS SAMMY CAHN BOB DYLAN I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small gro... HARRY MARKOWITZ I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that ... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN MICHAEL KORDA JIM CROCE I tried to walk it off a little bit and my balance was a little off. My vision was clear, my mind wa... HUNTER CANTWELL I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so ... STEVE WYNN We had great practices this past week and this was a total surprise to me and my entire staff. BOB CUMMINGS I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this bei... SHARON KAY PENMAN WILL FERRELL SIRI HUSTVEDT JOHN LENNON SISSY SPACEK EDGAR ALLAN POE ISSA RAE The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawne... GERALDINE STUTZ There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go wit... RAYMOND E. FEIST I never thought of a future without you. That was the reason I always lived in the present, hoping I... SAPAN SAXENA ALEC BALDWIN I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. ... SUSAN OLSEN HENRY FONDA NEIL ARMSTRONG I knew it the minute after I called it. I think I was just so loud that everyone thought it was righ... DARLETA MAYHUE My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I ... ERICA CERRA AYAAN HIRSI ALI AL SHARPTON I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down... MELANIE BENJAMIN I had never thought much of Rutgers; I was going to go to Northwestern, Pittsburgh or Wake Forest. M... RYAN NEILL JOHNNY DEPP PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression. BEN VAN BERKEL It was a very weird happening. But it feels good that I had so many friends from my home town here t... JOANNIE ROCHETTE
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JAMES JOHNSON While we have made significant progress, the work of the task force is far from over, JAMES JOHNSON Sometimes we saw them selling drugs. They're no longer there, since the strike force has been in ope... JAMES JOHNSON The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in? Then, what do... JAMES JOHNSON Always in the immediate aftermath of a disaster we have what is called a therapeutic community, wher... JAMES JOHNSON [But other officials describe the conditions frankly. Bodies have bloated, and heat, water and insec... JAMES JOHNSON We probably wouldn't have done anything different in a real-life situation. We kept him in sight and... JAMES JOHNSON Just to get through it. JAMES JOHNSON I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark. JAMES JOHNSON Don't let anybody tell you to just get over it. You don't get over it -- you learn to live with it. 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If you were uptight about everything... CHARLES WELDON We believe it originated in Africa because frogs here have a local resistance to the fungus, and we ... CHE WELDON Amphibians are right in the center of the food chain. They keep insect numbers down and serve as foo... CHE WELDON The symptoms are neurological and seem to affect their behavior. CHE WELDON FAY WELDON CURT WELDON FAY WELDON Frogs here for the most part are resistant to it. Some do succumb to it, but we have not witnessed t... CHE WELDON Frogs here for the most part are resistant to it. Some do succumb to it but we have not witnessed th... CHE WELDON FAY WELDON If you were casting the part of the evil scientist who would prove the Caped Crusader's deadliest ne... GLEN WELDON I always had trouble with the Bruce Wayne in the comic book," Burton said. "I mean, if this guy is s... GLEN WELDON When Jumbo Poker began in 2003, the poker frenzy was just beginning. Back then when Jumbo Poker hit,... 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I, as well as the rest of the coac... JOHN WELDON He was basically telling me that I was working way too hard. He was telling me, calm down. CHARLES WELDON CURT WELDON FAY WELDON CURT WELDON FAY WELDON CURT WELDON CURT WELDON CURT WELDON CURT WELDON CURT WELDON CURT WELDON FAY WELDON We present for you this evening a movie of death. WELDON KEES The IGERT program has not only opened my eyes to the many scientific possibilities of the integratio... DAVE WELDON If you start allowing all these labs all over the place to create human clones, then it's only a mat... DAVE WELDON If this issue is not resolved by January, we need to have I think a more permanent resolution. Once ... DAVE WELDON It's not like him. I'm surprised. DAVE WELDON I can't imagine drastic reductions. The president made this one of his priorities. Not only will som... DAVE WELDON This is a time for leadership. DAVE WELDON This is a time for leadership. I have yet to see any. I'm not particularly optimistic. 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