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KELLY JONES When I backed up, I saw smoke and fire. So I called dispatch to report it.
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When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lac...
DOMINIC MONAGHAN As I called the fire department, we had a gentleman come running out. He was burned.
JAMIE SUMMERS As soon as I seen it, I called the fire department.
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BEN SHAHN Every day, I woke up and had my bag sitting at the door. All I had to do was grab it when my agent c...
CHRIS SPENCER I have kept a diary,
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DARLETA MAYHUE The boy said he'd seen a light on at the kennel. I walked into the front room and looked across the ...
MALINDA GARR I appreciate the people who came and kicked my door in. People came in off the street and kicked my ...
LAURA RECASNER I was sitting down in the seat and I fell forward and I wondered what happened. I stood up and (saw)...
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Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN On my way back from the store I see all these fire trucks and I think, ?This is unbelievable.? I was...
ANTHONY MONK I get so sad that sad gets to be.
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I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I t...
BENNY HILL I started smelling burnt rubber. I looked around, and (the kitchen) was just smoke-filled.
MIKE JACOBS And as I looked up, I was gazing on a hill, and in my spine I felt an icy, icy chill. And as I looke...
NATE RAMER I was working around the backyard and I looked up, 'Is that snow? Right on.'We don't have to go all ...
ROBERT PATRICK Once Russ stopped sweeping in the sixth end, I looked up and saw six yellows in the house, at that p...
BRAD GUSHUE I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I neede...
AMAR BOSE When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The traffi...
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I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping acco...
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ASHLEY TISDALE I was laying down in my bedroom and I heard a loud boom. But I thought it was my son. So I yelled Ja...
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URBAN MEYER I was actually shocked when I looked up and saw we were up by double digits, and 15, and then it was...
TINA GAUGHAN He tried to put it out, but when he realized it was bigger than he was he called the fire department...
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When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a fi...
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GREG SHIPLEY I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa...
SARA QUIN Actually, I was asleep during the fire. I came out while they were still putting it out...All of the...
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I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
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JAKE EAKIN My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his caree...
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ERIN O'CONNOR When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt ...
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STEPHEN FRY
KELLY JONES When I backed up, I saw smoke and fire. So I called dispatch to report it.
DEBORAH JOHNSON I woke up this morning and smelled smoke in the house. By that time, somebody was beating at my door...
JEFF BRADSHAW I heard what sounded like a train wreck. I looked up and saw the tree falling on top of the car. I t...
BILLY JACKSON I was at work. I got called home from work and I came home and my house was on fire.
EBONY WILLIAMS I looked to my left and saw this huge fire raging. I looked back into the room and screamed, 'Oh my ...
BETH BOSTROM I was actually in my room at the time when all the ambulances and the fire trucks were driving by. A...
LAUREN ARNETT I smelled smoke and my first thought was that my house was on fire. When I got outside, I could see ...
JACK ELLIOTT
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up ... MARIO LEMIEUX Although I was confident of where the fire came from, I called in the fire marshal because of remark...
BILL BURNS I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a p...
AMAN MOJADIDI
It was terrifying at times. One of my first fires I went into at the academy -- and this was control... JOAQUIN PHOENIX
When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lac... DOMINIC MONAGHAN As I called the fire department, we had a gentleman come running out. He was burned.
JAMIE SUMMERS As soon as I seen it, I called the fire department.
JAMIE SUMMERS
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass ... RAM DASS
There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was wate... NIK WALLENDA I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the ...
ANDY ADAIR Everyone here went out and grabbed up the hoses to try to help out until the fire department arrived...
JAMES HANCOCK Everyone here went out and grabbed up the hoses to try to help out until the fire department arrived...
JAMES HANCOCK He was always one of my biggest supporters. My junior year, I was the only girl on the track team an...
LYNN LAFREE When I ran inside, all I could see was black smoke. A couch on the back porch was already on fire, b...
MATT EMMERLING I got off the school bus every day at the driving range. I'd hit balls and goof around all day o...
SCOTT HARVEY I was walking up there and we could smell the smoke and I went in with a fire extinguisher and hit w...
BOB WEBER
Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I...
JOHN GREEN I looked up at the scoreboard at halftime and we were tied. The next time I looked up, we were up by...
ADDIE MICIR
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I looked out and there was smoke all over the place and flames coming out of the roof.
DEBBIE PEHLKE I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Spec...
BEN SHAHN My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy...
LELAND ORSER My friend and I looked at each other as we got on and said, 'Brakes,' because we smelled them. It wa...
ERIC POE One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy...
JORDAN GAVARIS
I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on hol... CHRISTINE KEELER Sometime between 11 a.m. and 12, we called the fire department.
SANDRA ANDERSON
She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes. JOHN GREEN All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I ...
RYAN SEACREST
I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took ... BENNY HILL
The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put thre... BOBBY FLAY We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave....
ABU ABBAS When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and clean...
MARY ROACH Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time t...
BEN SHAHN Every day, I woke up and had my bag sitting at the door. All I had to do was grab it when my agent c...
CHRIS SPENCER I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I The fire department has just done a heck of a job. My hat is off to these guys.
DENNIS CASE
Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, a... MATISYAHU
In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my ma... CAROL BURNETT Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director,...
AL ROKER
One of my first purchases after I signed to RCA was a BMW. I was driving on the highway, and I heard... BRYSON TILLER I grew up in a generation that thought it was normal to smoke. When I started at Reid, we could smok...
BECKY STEWART I knew it the minute after I called it. I think I was just so loud that everyone thought it was righ...
DARLETA MAYHUE The boy said he'd seen a light on at the kennel. I walked into the front room and looked across the ...
MALINDA GARR I appreciate the people who came and kicked my door in. People came in off the street and kicked my ...
LAURA RECASNER I was sitting down in the seat and I fell forward and I wondered what happened. I stood up and (saw)...
MATTHEW ALARIE
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN On my way back from the store I see all these fire trucks and I think, ?This is unbelievable.? I was...
ANTHONY MONK I get so sad that sad gets to be.
So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so...
TEGAN QUIN
I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I t... BENNY HILL I started smelling burnt rubber. I looked around, and (the kitchen) was just smoke-filled.
MIKE JACOBS And as I looked up, I was gazing on a hill, and in my spine I felt an icy, icy chill. And as I looke...
NATE RAMER I was working around the backyard and I looked up, 'Is that snow? Right on.'We don't have to go all ...
ROBERT PATRICK Once Russ stopped sweeping in the sixth end, I looked up and saw six yellows in the house, at that p...
BRAD GUSHUE I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I neede...
AMAR BOSE When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The traffi...
GEORGE ANDREWS What shocked me, my manager called me up one day and told me that I was going to do a video on "Cold...
JAMES DOOHAN
I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping acco... JEREMY IRONS
My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, ... JODI PICOULT
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... SHIRLEY TEMPLE I looked at all the branches of the military. My brothers are all serving in the Guard, so I looked ...
DEVIN TAYLOR When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA I went and looked out my door and he's got a big old brick banging and smashing my windshield in and...
LOU COSTELLO
I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for stee... JOHN MACKEY I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I ju...
ZHU ZHU It's made up of good members; there was a personality conflict, ... I can step in and take the stati...
LARRY FISHER
I stopped believing in santa clause when at age six my mother took me to a department store to see h... SHIRLEY TEMPLE In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays,...
ERIN O'CONNOR Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the f...
GLENN HAYBITTLE
Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I ... JOHN STEINBECK They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the po...
JONI ANGER Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're no...
ASHLEY TISDALE I was laying down in my bedroom and I heard a loud boom. But I thought it was my son. So I yelled Ja...
DOLORES CAMACHO Back 30 years ago, it was a fire department and that was all it was.
LT. LYLE SCANDRETT
I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh... JENNIFER NIVEN On the 17th hole, my palms were sweating and when I hit the tee shot (with a four iron), I knew it w...
PRAYAD MARKSAENG [But he enjoyed his first afternoon in the Swamp, anyway.] I was actually chewing some kid out when ...
URBAN MEYER I was actually shocked when I looked up and saw we were up by double digits, and 15, and then it was...
TINA GAUGHAN He tried to put it out, but when he realized it was bigger than he was he called the fire department...
ANTHONY MONK My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long...
BILL WALTON
When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a fi... J. COLE Around me shone the kitchen I'd worked in each day: the copper pans hung neatly, the scratched woode...
MARTINE BAILEY It was windy, dark, and there was fire and smoke, so that's a challenge for the pilot and the parame...
GREG SHIPLEY I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa...
SARA QUIN Actually, I was asleep during the fire. I came out while they were still putting it out...All of the...
ANDREA ROBINSON
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out. DOLLY PARTON We seen him moving, so we didn't think he was hurt. We were all three on the tree. I looked back at ...
JAKE EAKIN My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his caree...
KAI BIRD I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate s...
ALONZO CHURCH When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt ...
ERIN O'CONNOR When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt ...
ERIN O'CONNOR
Stephen Fry on being gay: "My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said,... STEPHEN FRY
When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk. 
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b... 
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement... 
We need a common enemy to unite us. 
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for ... 
I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ... 
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. 
The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I ... 
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--... 
I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on ... 
Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin. 
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk aroun... 
After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count. 
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty p... 
I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - j... 