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I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

– Virginia Crocheron GildersleeveRate it:

I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

– Hannah Pik-GoslarRate it:

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

– Miguel de CervantesRate it:

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

– Johnny CarsonRate it:

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

– James BrownRate it:

I was stuck in a world where Heaven and Hell collided, a place where angels come to cry... A place called Earth.”

– Danielle Ever RoseRate it:

I was subjected to torture, beatings, assault in various forms. I was refused to contact anybody, anybody at all, he said.These facilities are dangerous. My question to Rhode Island, 'Why are we paying for them? Nicholas Alahverdian said.

– Nicholas AlahverdianRate it:

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

– Kurt VonnegutRate it:

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that

– Stirling MossRate it:

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

– Marie CurieRate it:

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.

– Darius Ogden MillsRate it:

I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.

– David CarrRate it:

I was the horse of nothingness; who lost the bet of existence

– Haimer abdouRate it:

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

– Emo PhillipsRate it:

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

– Deacon JonesRate it:

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.

– Andre Bernard BuruchRate it:

I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.

– J. Michael StraczynskiRate it:

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

– Ingrid WeirRate it:

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

– Bette DavisRate it:

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

– Woody Allen, Annie HallRate it:

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

– Woody AllenRate it:

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating - with the Dean's wife.

– Woody AllenRate it:

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

– Detronius ArbiterRate it:

I was told to keep my head up, don't look down. So I continued to walk forward chin up, now I have tripped.

– AnonRate it:

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