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Related There was a time when Vader and I had a main event Pay-Per-View match, back in 1993 at Halloween Hav... MICK FOLEY Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - p... RICHARD FLANAGAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I went into remission after I had my first treatment in 2001, and everything was fine. ELIDORE LEWIS It was a bit of moral justice that soon after everything happened, we got the goals. CARLES PUYOL It's tough to bring in a guy for his Major League debut with the bases loaded. But I figured everyth... PETE MACKANIN Did you ever look down at yourself and realise that finally you had it all? Did you ever feel that e... 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He was the first speaker, and it sort of went downhill after that. Pe... BENNIE THOMPSON I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose... MARK A. ROEDER After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how w... SHIV NADAR I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what... C.S. LEWIS To have been part of a Pharaonic slave system that had at its apex a divine sun king led him to unde... RICHARD FLANAGAN I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It i... THOMAS MCDONELL Everything was going through my mind. Everything that I've put into this university and everything t... TONY TATE I found myself in a rhythm after the first couple of shots that I got. Everything after that was eas... 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BILLY WILDER Even though Graham and I went back to arguing and stealing socks and hiding each other's toothbrushe... HANNAH MOSKOWITZ I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that w... MATTHEW RHYS There was a rip in the fabric. Everyone who saw it got the sense that everything after that would be... JEFF GREENFIELD That was in that scrimmage at Washington University. We were fighting a little bit after the play. I... ANDY MCCOLLUM It was after he bit me that, and was kind of, the water had calm down a little bit, that I was reall... ELIZABETH DUNN It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are... STEVE MARTIN It was just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. It was going to (Alge) Crumpler,... MICHAEL JENKINS Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ... JOSS WHEDON I was offered to do a night-time soap after The Beverly Hillbillies. There was so much I didn't want... DONNA DOUGLAS After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high... ANN RICHARDS She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why ... LAUREN OLIVER First semester there were some difficulties, of course, but all transfer students have that adjustme... SARAH NIE The fact that he was included in the squad after missing the camp was a fantastic sign, GARY COLE Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean... ALICE HOFFMAN 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it. EARL WARREN It was amazing. It was so much fun. Everything went really went well this time. LAUREN EDGAR When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE She was a little hesitant at first. But after she saw it, she liked it. She liked that it dealt with... CRAIG EVANS After the March meeting it was considered a lot more, in more detail. DARRELL VIRES I thought it would be nice if I got one or two. Everything after that was just icing on the cake. LEE ANN WOMACK I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile. WAYNE KRAMER But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same i... ASA GRAY Everything went against us early, but the kids did a great job. It was just back and forth. They had... JOEY HAWKINS But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, t... CESAR ROMERO But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began sear... JAMES BALDWIN Once that buzzer went off I was real happy. A little bit shaky but we're getting down to the Garden ... BEN BISHOP Steve was a bit hit and miss, but he stepped up at the end and his last dive was just magical. He wa... ADAM SOLDATI His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did i... CHARLES DICKENS After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas t... JOE NAMATH My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, ... PREITY ZINTA So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did ... DICK VAN DYKE After all, he created the most upscale residential district in the city of Kelso. It was, at the tim... DICK WOODS The train was already crowded by the time I got on. I did get a seat, but after that, all of the sea... KATHY MASH Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri... IRIS MURDOCH Everything in life tries to hit us hard. We feel like dying. But instead fight back hard to survive.... VISHNU KANCHAN I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was... ROBERT CARLYLE I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that ... DAMBISA MOYO From time to time, I would gaze up at the stars after a night shift and think that they looked like ... LIU CIXIN I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunda... JOHN MARSDEN It was one of the best pitching duels I've seen in quite a while. Rogers was great. He went 92/3 inn... CORY HANSEN The only missing ingredient was inflation, and we got a dose of that today. In hindsight, it was onl... MARK WANSHEL I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my h... JO BRAND At halftime it was anybody's game. But they hit a couple threes early in the second half and it was ... PAUL MALJAN It's tough to put it into words, but I know we battled, we battled as a team. The one thing I do kno... DANIEL HORTON If you don't have an engine the car is not going to run. He went out and it just went downhill after... JASON GIBSON It was heartbreaking. After [the second jump], she was so upset that she nailed everything out of an... KATARINA WITT I didn't realize it at the time, but writing obituaries was one of best jobs that I've ever ... KATHLEEN FLINN At the 2012 Olympics, there was a nutritionist in the food hall telling us, 'Eat that. And eat t... NICOLA ADAMS Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your... JAMES CAMERON After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no m... PLEASEFINDTHIS While I lay there in his arms, me his wife and he my husband, I realized I didn’t know what the fu... KARINA HALLE It wasn’t an easy, sweet kiss like I’d imagined my first would be, but frustrated and hungry. Th... JODI MEADOWS After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything w... SEBASTIAN VETTEL It was terrific. It was spiritual, it was the music, it was everything else that went with it. It wa... BARRY FEINSTEIN After the third one went out, we got excited in the dugout. And No. 4 and 5, it was just unbelievabl... BILL HALL After the fight I was taken to the hospital to make sure that I was alright and everything came out ... ERIK MORALES
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Most perfect dies. MARIA BROOKS If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno... MARIA MONTESSORI The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th... MARIA MONTESSORI The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim... MARIA MONTESSORI I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f... MARIA SEMPLE I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith... MARIA CALLAS Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man a... MARIA MONTESSORI I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s... MARIA MONK I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ... MARIA SEMPLE The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me. MARIA MONK I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug... MARIA SHRIVER I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ... MARIA LASSNIG I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,... MARIA MITCHELL If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it... MARIA BARTIROMO The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomen... MARIA MONTESSORI As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them. MARIA MITCHELL All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the co... MARIA MONTESSORI I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjo... MARIA MITCHELL My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say thi... MARIA BAMFORD Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th... MARIA BARTIROMO To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study. MARIA MITCHELL If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. MARIA EDGEWORTH An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m... MARIA CALLAS "Niagara! wonder of this western world,
And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen
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The tall magnolia towers unshaded. MARIA BROOKS I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. MARIA CALLAS I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity. MARIA CALLAS I only have nightmares
because my dreams
have come true. MARIA BARRAGAN My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections. MARIA K It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I h... MARIA MONTESSORI I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea... MARIA VALVERDE My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,... MARIA BAMFORD Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous... MARIA MONTESSORI Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ... MARIA SHRIVER I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha... MARIA BAMFORD I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces... MARIA CANTWELL The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ... MARIA CANTWELL The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is ... MARIA MONTESSORI You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a... MARIA CALLAS While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has be... MARIA BARTIROMO It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets. MARIA BARRAGAN When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck. MARIA MARTINEZ I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy... MARIA SHARAPOVA I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor... MARIA BAMFORD In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr... MARIA SEMPLE The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage... MARIA ROSSI I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a... MARIA SHRIVER Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. MARIA MITCHELL Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not MARIA MITCHELL I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova MARIA SHARAPOVA I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long t... MARIA SEMPLE Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs... MARIA MONTESSORI Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. MARIA CALLAS When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a... MARIA SEMPLE