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History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved. — Max Vos

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. — Mark Shields

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. — Lance Armstrong

...what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if it was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?... [56] — Walter Sorrells

I had to come see what little Maddie Daniels was blowing. — J. Lynn

I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and cleverly. — Marshall Thornton

Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as
important as what was right. — Jodi Picoult

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit. — Gish Jen

Get the hell away from my boyfriend, witch.
Boyfriend.
Was that what I was?
I tried to smile. Instead, I blacked out. — Kami Garcia

We both pretended to attach no significance to what had happened, and so revealed just how much significance there was. — S.J. Watson

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate — Robert Graves

I was angry and frightened and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn't drink. — Kim Richards

I wasn't sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

It was quite obvious what she was to me, it was so clear why I always wanted her near. She was simply the air I breathed. As — Brittainy C. Cherry

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me. — Lena Horne

I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. — Paul Broun

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. — Jim Henson

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. — Gyorgy Ligeti

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador. — Raul Julia

Nothing was like knowing you were the appetizer for a feast of orgy, that you were what whetted the guests and enticed them to devour. — Fierce Dolan

What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow. — Patricia A. McKillip

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid. — Elon Musk

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s. — Drew

Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; — Jane Austen

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights. — Hillary Clinton

Yeah. You know what I think?"
What?"
So intense was Tibby, she had practically shoved the phone into her ear cavity.
She has big boobies. — Ann Brashares

What if my name was Daniel, Lucas, Noah. Lucas Harris, That doesn't sound right. I think I'll stick with Nate. — Nathan Harris

If the past was what we were meant to see ... Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be. — R.v.m.

She hadn't waited for God's direction. She'd decided for herself what was best. — Candice Sue Patterson

You survived in his world by being the best of the worst and there was no doubt in my mind that was exactly what Bax was — Jay Crownover

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you. — David Foster Wallace

There were times when you couldn't fix what was broken with words, and this looked like one of those times. — Justin Cronin

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. — Barbara Delinsky

Who I was as a person was more than what I looked like, but then again, how people saw me was a part of who I was. I — A. Igoni Barrett

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. — Marc Chagall

All the same, all different. What was it? — Lauren Slater

That looked like love to me, when you put a brave face on your heart breaking because it was what the other person needed. — Ann Aguirre

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures. — Marcia Muller

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity. — Jim Morrison

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do. — Scott Westerfeld

To a certain extent, time was malleable, what he did did matter. Grace was proof of that. Naaliyah was alive. — Anthony Doerr

I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease. — Yukio Mishima

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time. — Pauly Shore

He needed to stop acting like we were more than friends or clue me in on what he was up to. "I'm — Donna Augustine

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?" — Jay Duplass

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward ... once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it. — Barbara Gittings

I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy. — Douglas Adams

What they had between them was alot deeper than what most people had. — Beth Harbison

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings. — Don Rickles

What was once your crown will now be your collar, and you will wear it until you learn what it is to submit. — Ava Sinclair

He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era — Jocelyn Gibb

Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. — Jo Nesbo

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. — George Bernard Shaw

She hadn't learned to look for the difference yet between what one did and who one was. Hadn't even known there was a difference. — Julia Pierpont

Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before. — W. H. Auden

But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real. — Shirley Booth

Loss.
Thats what it was, a hole I could never fill. It would be bottomless. — Judy Blundell

The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means
Poor Justin! — Sarah Strohmeyer

It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him. — Marcel Proust

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. — Amy Tan

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it. — Elmer Seward

I was once that which you are, and what I am you will also be. — Masaccio

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. — Jennifer Granholm

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it. — Ray Kroc

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table. — Lennart Meri

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. — Charles Caleb Colton

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

she'd let him know just what that was — Nora Roberts

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

What was in the bags?" she asked softly.
"Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part. — Sam Walton

His gaze locked with hers. "I didn't know what my life was missing until I met you. — B. J. Daniels

Look what love does...This was the real Islam, the Islam of love, not hate. Muhammad would be proud. — Deborah Rodriguez

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy. — John Scalzi

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human. — A.J. Vega

I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life. — Nina LaCour

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?' — Sarah Steele

but what didn't sit right with me was the fact that Marshae survived. She was still being hospitalized and was in a coma. — Diamond Johnson

My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am. — Larry Winget

Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel. — Rodney Dangerfield

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star. — Jason Robert Brown

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. — Christopher Lambert

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids. — Master P

I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember. — Keri Smith

I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging. — Edward St. Aubyn

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil. — Mark Hart

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do. — Fred Korematsu

Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt ... — Sarah Pekkanen

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member. — Ann Brashares

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace. — John McKnight

She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars.

And really, that was enough. — Melissa Landers

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force. — Thomas Perez

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it? — C. Terry Warner

What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains? — Lisi Harrison

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was. — Tony Kaye