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That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.
‐‐ Davey Havok

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
‐‐ Stephen Hadley

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
‐‐ Dennis Potter

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
‐‐ Cordell Hull

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
‐‐ Vera Wang

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.
‐‐ Trey Parker

That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
‐‐ Denise Crosby

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
‐‐ Amy Tan

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
‐‐ Michael Baden

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
‐‐ Arthur Laurents

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.
‐‐ John Goodman

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.
‐‐ Michael Chabon

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
‐‐ Genevieve Gorder

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
‐‐ Beth Henley

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
‐‐ Lawrence Kasdan

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.
‐‐ Jon Postel

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
‐‐ Harry Shearer

That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.
‐‐ Taya Kyle

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
‐‐ Anna Lindh

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'
‐‐ Richard Dean Anderson

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.
‐‐ Joseph C. Lincoln

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.
‐‐ Melissa Rosenberg

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
‐‐ Stuart Scott

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
‐‐ Julius Erving

That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.
‐‐ Lauren Bush

That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!
‐‐ Sid Waddell

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
‐‐ Laurence Housman

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
‐‐ Gunther Schuller

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
‐‐ Peter Jurasik

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.
‐‐ John Zorn

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
‐‐ Satish Kumar

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
‐‐ Solomon Burke

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
‐‐ Gabriel Medina

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.
‐‐ Jean Alesi

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
‐‐ Todd McFarlane

That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
‐‐ Dan Hill

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
‐‐ Bert Lahr

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.
‐‐ Tom Glavine

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
‐‐ Mordechai Vanunu

That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence - hard work.
‐‐ David Beckham

That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.
‐‐ Kathy Ireland