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My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my… — Raul Julia
Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray)… — Tex Schramm
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that… — Jackson Browne
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated.… — Dave Grohl
My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling… — Paul Merton
I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you… — George W. Bush
The experience I learned was that â€¦ if you leave decision to the public, you can be killedâ€¦ I felt really violated: they cut my… — Marina Abramovic
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There… — Carl Perkins
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp… — Annie Dillard
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league,… — Ed Bradley
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for. — Jello Biafra
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to… — Teju Cole
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on… — Mercy Otis Warren
My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by… — Bobby Sands
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in… — John Milton
To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs* — Thom Yorke
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. — Frank Stella
I couldnâ€™t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles,… — Bridget Riley
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George

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