All Quotes

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
‐‐ Thomas Goodwin

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'
‐‐ Kelly Macdonald

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.
‐‐ Ken Hensley

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
‐‐ Bernhard von Bulow

It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
‐‐ Taryn Manning

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
‐‐ Janet Suzman

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
‐‐ Mike McCready

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
‐‐ Alvin Lee

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.
‐‐ Sherman Austin

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
‐‐ Daniel Burnham

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.
‐‐ Stacy Keach

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
‐‐ Joan Didion

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.
‐‐ Andrew Gold

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
‐‐ Russell Baker

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
‐‐ Iris Chang

It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.
‐‐ David Levering Lewis

It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn't go anywhere.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.
‐‐ Susan Lim

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
‐‐ Hans-Georg Gadamer

It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.
‐‐ Rain Phoenix

It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan genocide erupted in 1994 and the Darfur genocide began in 2003, that the 'international community' had learned nothing since the Holocaust.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
‐‐ Kitty Carlisle

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
‐‐ Christine Baranski

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
‐‐ Calamity Jane

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
‐‐ John Goodman

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
‐‐ Betty Buckley

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.
‐‐ Tim Robbins

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.
‐‐ Ann Wilson

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
‐‐ Idris Elba

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.
‐‐ Roz Chast

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
‐‐ Vanessa Kerry

It was definitely hard when I first started, and by no means do I consider my live show to be where I want it to be; it will develop step by step for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Chet Faker

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don't purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don't need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using.
‐‐ Jonathan Raymond

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
‐‐ Clyde Tombaugh

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.
‐‐ James Denton

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
‐‐ Magnus Magnusson

It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.
‐‐ John Sherman Cooper

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.
‐‐ Tom Heinsohn

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
‐‐ Thom Gunn

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
‐‐ Jeanne Tripplehorn