One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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Related I smelled smoke and my first thought was that my house was on fire. When I got outside, I could see ... JACK ELLIOTT When we arrived, there was smoke coming from the eaves, so we knew we had a substantial fire. JEFF SIX I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when ... KANDYSE MCCLURE I was actually in my room at the time when all the ambulances and the fire trucks were driving by. A... LAUREN ARNETT Fire was already coming through the roof and out the windows when the trucks pulled up. JAY GATES I jumped up and opened the door and smoke was coming up the stairs, ... We couldn't even come out th... BILLY HILL Security guards at the shopping centre heard an alarm early this morning and upon investigation saw ... INSPECTOR LUCAS SITHOLE They sounded the sirens, but it was pretty much too late. I looked outside and saw the funnel cloud ... GLENN PALMER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We literally saw the fire jump from one floor to another, up towards the top. it was like a scene in... ELIE BARNAVI At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor. ANDREW OLVERA We had gunfire up and down here. We had looters over here. We drove in with a bus. We had people jum... KEVIN REGAN We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave.... ABU ABBAS As we came down the stairs, I saw flames burning across the ceiling on the second floor. When we got... CARLY COMPRONE It's a mess. My first impression when I saw the smoke coming from the hotel was that a boiler had ex... MOHAMMED ABBAS On Sunday, everything was fine, we had electricity, water and air conditioning, ... On Monday, we lo... JACK STEPHENS Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN On my way back from the store I see all these fire trucks and I think, ?This is unbelievable.? I was... ANTHONY MONK I attended the event in Napa in July and it was amazing, so when we heard about this one, we had to ... DEBBIE ALLEN When we got there, smoke was coming out both ends of the house. BILL DUNN I never saw this type of game coming, especially the kind of team we are. But you never say never. T... GLEN DAVIS We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati... HUGH SHELTON Coming from the position we were in, we were very disrespected by it. It was just a big misunderstan... SHANE MAY I never saw this coming. We were coming off a good year and you knew that next year was going to get... JAMEL GUYTON We were all under the impression Coach Dahl was coming back, ANDREW GORDON We got a call that the church was on fire and we just left coming that way to the church and it was ... DENNIS HAMILTON Opening Day was a big thing. I came to a lot of Orioles games. I grew up a couple blocks from here, ... STEVE CLEVENGER They switched up their defense quite a bit, and we knew that coming in. We were up nine in the third... BILL IPSEN It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire ... JAY-Z I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom... SKYLAR ASTIN She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART We were kind of irritated when we heard everyone saying how wide open this tournament was. We were t... WILL BROWN When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, ... JIM DALE They were rebounding machines, picking up everything they saw. This was a big win, but we know we ha... ANDREA WOJTOWICZ We saw other people going crazy. It was really scary, and we saw the smoke down the hallway. BRUCE HARDY This was an important game for us. These are two big points for us with the schedule we have coming ... BO TIERNEY It was a big win for us. We have Miami coming in on Wednesday, and we lost two in a row. CHRIS PAUL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... It was a great day all around. We were definitely here to have a good time and it was all about the ... JOE URSO We had a pretty good day. Almost all of the spots where we were seeded are coming back and we even m... DON HELLING When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we sti... LINDSAY LOHAN I recommended that we step back and look at the changes coming down the pike. Before we use the next... DR. RHONDA MEDOWS Three of those are in the Elk Mound School District. We don't know where all these people are coming... BOB COLSON She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes. JOHN GREEN When they started scoring, we knew they were coming for us. They kept scoring, and it seemed like we... HALEY MCINTYRE Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got... LORETTA LYNN It's really big, to put ourselves in the No. 1 position like this. When we were down like that, I di... BOBBY DAVIS One day, coming through town, I saw a for sale sign in the window of the former hardware store. I ha... LARRY MARTIN Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a... MALLORY JANSEN It seemed like when we were coming back from Southern Cal, we had to land in Fort Smith and ride the... HAROLD HORTON I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN When we played Oklahoma, we didn't really know anything. Shula was just coming in and he didn't have... JUWAN SIMPSON We had lost 14 seniors in 10 varsity spots. It was pretty scary coming into the season. My expectati... JADE GRIBBLE When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day lo... KYLE MACLACHLAN In hindsight, that regional championship made a lot of those losses easier to stomach. I was happy w... LORI DRUMTRA We started to realize the season was coming to an end, and if we lost we were going to go home. We r... EDDIE THIEBE The first two games were the best we've passed all year. Everything was right to the setter. In the ... DIANE TULLER we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box... STEVE NASH They stole one from us down there. We want it back. They're coming in here as the best team in the c... AKEIM CLABORN All of a sudden, there was this black cloud coming out of the ground. DALE HUNT There was this big puff, this big ball of smoke, with the two trailing boosters. But because we didn... BRUCE STOUT We went from being an independent to one of the biggest and best labels in town, and in the merger w... TOBY KEITH My birthday was coming up and we hadn't talked about it. I dreaded it. I was in no mood to celebrate... E. J. HARINGTON I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Co... LAURA MVULA Coming back from the no-goal call to come back and throw one in right away ? We were up because we t... PETER LAVIOLETTE Barring ... any catastrophe in Iraq or Iran, which is certainly the big wild card in this, we expect... BRIAN KUZMA We didn't go down easy. I think the kids were feeling the pressure, because every one was coming aft... ALLEN ROSSI Usually you see smoke before the fire, but we knew about the fire in this galaxy before Spitzer's in... DAVID LEISAWITZ When I first saw the damage, I thought there was no way that we would be back in school this year. BARRY HEBERT We went down there as they were winding down from Hurricane Katrina, and the day we got there, they ... JOHN LUTHER It was great back then because hockey in L.A. was the big thing. We would have Ronald Reagan and Ger... DARRYL SYDOR When we got there, it obviously was in the beginning stages of the fire. It was coming from the midd... TERRI JOHNSON To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic a... DENNIS MUREN My favorite moment was when we won the (400-yard medley) relay that we previously lost to Stanford a... HENRIQUE BARBOSA Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M We were down big and it was just real gutsy for us to be able to come back. We challenged ourselves ... JASON TERRY Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, ... CORITA KENT It's a day of reckoning. Yesterday we saw huge amounts of aircraft coming in, so on this first day o... LINDSEY DAVIES We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room BELLA ABZUG We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. BELLA ABZUG I think that was a definite momentum swing. Everybody got right back into the game and said, 'Hey, w... BRITTNEY THOMAS We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back. MIKE EPPS If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We were all right. We had a minute left in the game, anything can happen. We got a few stops, came d... ERICA HALLMAN DiMaggio was never a rube. He was very smart and very urban. Coming out of the Great Depression, he ... RICHARD BEN CRAMER I think we knew that we were the underdogs, and I think that was a great position in which to be com... DAREN GANGA When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b... LARRY BIRD When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I was worried about our intensity tonight. We were coming off the big win Tuesday over Elgin and I w... BEN SNIVELY I've never been through anything like this. When I saw we were down in the fourth quarter, I didn't ... AUBREY KIMBROUGH They were so small but their guard pressure wouldn't allow us to get the ball to our big guys. And o... GARY MARTIN Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, b... LINFORD CHRISTIE When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A ... LAURA BENANTI The trucks are just terrible coming down this road. GEORGE KINLEY We were in the eye of the storm. We were four miles from the beach at a neighbor's brick house. It w... TOM GRIFFIN I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They ... BEN BERNANKE We saw Republic stock fall from $29 down to $19 and work back up to $29. But you didn't know where R... JEFFREY KESSLER Also I think a lot of the pressure came from ourselves. We really cared about this a lot. When we we... CARTER BAYS
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I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab ... VALERIE TRIERWEILER I am, and remain, passionate about news. VALERIE TRIERWEILER I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers. VALERIE TRIERWEILER My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to s... VALERIE TRIERWEILER In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else. VALERIE TRIERWEILER I will count to 10 before tweeting. VALERIE TRIERWEILER I built my entire life on the idea of independence. VALERIE TRIERWEILER I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them. VALERIE TRIERWEILER I know politics; I know the media. VALERIE TRIERWEILER I'm not Cinderella. VALERIE TRIERWEILER My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the g... VALERIE TRIERWEILER Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. VALERIE SOLANAS In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into ever... VALERIE SIMPSON We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a high... VALERIE SIMPSON Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life. VALERIE SIMPSON It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo an... VALERIE SIMPSON Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It... VALERIE SIMPSON When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce oth... VALERIE SIMPSON I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possibl... VALERIE SIMPSON It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts. VALERIE SIMPSON And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight. VALERIE SIMPSON Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody tau... VALERIE SIMPSON I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would c... VALERIE SIMPSON I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good... VALERIE SIMPSON My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I... VALERIE SIMPSON You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves ... VALERIE SIMPSON In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves. VALERIE SIMPSON There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee... VALERIE SIMPSON Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. VALERIE SIMPSON We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next... VALERIE SIMPSON I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been aro... VALERIE SIMPSON People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington ... VALERIE JARRETT President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expe... VALERIE JARRETT I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face... VALERIE JARRETT Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, makin... VALERIE JARRETT For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currentl... VALERIE JARRETT Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration. VALERIE JARRETT But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that... VALERIE JARRETT No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice. VALERIE JARRETT