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began high injured marks student
I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop. Louis Gossett, Jr.
began begin gone rest
We started slowly, but then began to put things together. We were 3-9 to begin the year, but we have gone 9-4 the rest of the way. Brian Keith
began came collapse decision divers night operation parts pull rescue stopped structure tide
We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out. John Timoney
began dropping garbage gently goods nice people
We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.
began graduate nbc school thriving
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. Leslie Cockburn
began coast government island lifetime majority sort spent war
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
began black book coast history interested single soldiers
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown. Natasha Trethewey
began business create decipher developing dream life original qualities reality stuck tells work
I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
began finished knocking kong moved next police soon work
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel. Ma Jian
cameras feels audience
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience. Alan Rickman
came help support thank united
We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.
came matches missing process
We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.
cameras alive fronts
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive Chow Yun-Fat
cameras giants knows
I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set. Bryan Singer
came goal national reason senior spend teammates walked win year
The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said. Bob Huggins
came game great hard kid love people playing practice tone whether
The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.
came followed market markets mexican rating stock upgrade
The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.
came flying front sitting sound
The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.
defeat might outcome political time together
The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.
defeat
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat. Beverly Sills
defeated expect marbles
We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.
defeated
Truth cannot be defeated. Edwin Louis Cole
defeated venison
Venison and venery defeated me. Benjamin Franklin
defeat until
We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy. Thelma Drake
defeated great victors wars
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. George William Russell
defeat jaws nervous whenever
We're always nervous whenever we play this team, because we've had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
defeat hope house send
We hope to defeat it in the House and send it back to conference.
glory
Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory? William Shakespeare
glory goodness shows
When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves. Beth Moore
glory good kid kids move seen top
What makes him so good is he's such a good kid on top of that, ... I've seen a lot of kids move in and say, 'When's my glory coming?' That's not Kendrick. Bruce Miller
glory king lift shall
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
glory sure
I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over. LaDainian Tomlinson
glory sweetness
The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it. Blaise Pascal
glory minute takes
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve. Joel Edgerton
glory timetables plans
God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory. Charles R. Swindoll
glory team
We didn't want for them to have that exceptional story -- Glory Road, all that stuff. We don't want to be the team on the movie that got beat, that got upset. We didn't want to be that team.
hell function form
Form follows function straight to hell. Alan Cooper
hell
What the hell am I doing with my life? Ben Stiller
hell unfair capitalism
I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell. Charlie Munger
hell percentages term
Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.
hell economics ifs
How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?
hell absence
Hell is God's Absence. Edmund White
hell ifs
I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them! Diana Vreeland
hell truth-is bigs
Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.
hell life thirty took wondering
Life is a gamble. And I took a chance, man. And here I am, talkin' to you today, thirty years later, wondering what the hell I did in the first place!
holiday car house
I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday. Alan Moore
holiday thinking special
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. Alan Bradley
holiday black goes-on
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. Al Sharpton
holiday past perfect
Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism. Caroline Kennedy
holiday outlook performance pleased remain season year
We are pleased with our performance during this year's holiday season and remain comfortable with our outlook for the year overall.
holiday people scottish
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays. Charlie Adam
holiday home thinking
I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it. Betty Who
holiday vacation vacation-time
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. Earl Wilson
holiday sweaters age
Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater. Denis Norden
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.