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BROOKS ROBINSON
The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it. DR. DRE
Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. PETE ROSE I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.
ZAC BROWN
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but th... JOHN HURT I would go anywhere to see Brooks Robinson. He was the best third baseman ever. Nobody played third ...
JERRY CARTER I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r...
PAM FERRIS I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas...
DAVE FINKEL 'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason th...
ISAAC HANSON
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno...
BONNIE MCKEE I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejecti...
VIKAS SWARUP In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, polic...
CONAN O'BRIEN
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survive... DAVE GROHL In fairness to Dmitri Young, if you're going out there and asking him to be Brooks Robinson and you ...
JIM LEYLAND I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think a...
PATRICK DUFFY Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of Ameri...
TIMOTHY NOAH One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, com...
JANE HIRSHFIELD
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball... JIM COURIER
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of T... VAL KILMER I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the out...
RANDY MOSS My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel C...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum...
MAMIE GUMMER
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were... WAYLON JENNINGS I didn't win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play &...
GRETCHEN CARLSON
When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn... ANN NOCENTI I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em...
BILL CALLAHAN I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX
It didn't came out from nowhere... it was just your choice. So the difference between this and this ... DEYTH BANGER
The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti... CRAIG GROESCHEL At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to bui...
COLIN ANGLE The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ...
JACK ZIPES
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved... YAEL NAIM
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. VIRGINIA WOOLF
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I w... DANA CARVEY
I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks. GARTH BROOKS
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't o... MANAL AL-SHARIF I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.
DACRE MONTGOMERY
Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that... REBA MCENTIRE The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me h...
DANNY BROWN
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these other... JOSH MCDOWELL The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some mann...
JAMES ROSENQUIST I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
DAVID A. SIEGEL Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g...
JAKE OWEN
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only s... MAYA ANGELOU If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followe...
CHARLIE SIFFORD The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are act... JENNIFER GARNER
Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an accept... JOHN GREGORY DUNNE The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I wa...
INBEE PARK I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn...
AARON SCHOCK Virginia looked quite good, but we will beat [them] next time around ? it was early and the game got...
BEN GLIKLICH
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know h... JACK NICKLAUS In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl ...
DEVON AOKI
S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done wit... SIMON FULLER
I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled. SHARAD PAWAR At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, be...
PER PETTERSON
Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United St... FIDEL CASTRO
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the prof... TOM WATSON
I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how g... SUMMER GLAU I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
BARRY MANN The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-el...
RICK PERLSTEIN I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.
EDWARD FURLONG Earlier attempts to identify vaccine candidates resulted in only two molecules in a decade.
EVANS TARACHA
My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young t... AARON SORKIN But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, wha...
DABNEY COLEMAN Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
BETH BEHRS 'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw...
JEFF LEMIRE
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... ANTHONY HOPKINS I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want...
RIC OCASEK
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11. ROGER MOORE
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answer... DEAN KAMEN I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn'...
LEAH REMINI I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come fro...
MEGYN KELLY We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend ...
KATHY VALENTINE Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want th...
ROSIE O'DONNELL There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
BILL ENGVALL
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments becau... JULIUS ERVING In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every...
LAURE MANAUDOU It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was tra...
ZIYI ZHANG I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a...
AYA CASH If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&...
CARLENE CARTER
I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't ... BOB BEAMON
At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY It was an F 1 when it hit south of Pocahontas.
DOUGLAS VOGELSANG
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel we... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classe... ORSON SCOTT CARD [John Robinson also told him the baby's name was Tiffany, he said.] We named her Heather Tiffany Rob...
DON ROBINSON I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weigh...
FEDOR EMELIANENKO I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't...
B. D. WONG I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn&#...
KATHERINE WATERSTON I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of...
DAN FARMER The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Clim...
TAMAE WATANABE
Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident t... ALBERTO SALAZAR
When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over. LYNN JURICH I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get...
MELISSA MCCARTHY
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. 
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. 
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I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being abl... 
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
[Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.] 
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... 
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It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr... 
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. 
At least the box is full of something useful. On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran 
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Poetry is life distilled. 
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. 
If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... 
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth... 