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He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were… — Ernest K. Gann
Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick. — Jerry O'Connell
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then,… — John Lennon
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just… — Stevie Nicks
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went… — Willie Nelson
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave… — Frederick Douglass
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. — Tryon Edwards
What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language. — Michael Ondaatje
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave… — James A. Baldwin
Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley.… — Steve Earle
She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block. — Garrison Keillor
We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little… — Uta Hagen
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. — Gene Tierney
The UFO was bouncing around the 747. It was a huge ball with lights running around it... Well, I've been involved in a lot of… — John Callahan
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him… — Don DeLillo
I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion. — Kai Greene
When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio… — David Sharp
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote… — Elyn Saks
The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better… — Ozzie Newsome
As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the… — Fedor Emelianenko
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid… — Paul Galanti
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United… — Ernest L. Wilkinson

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