All Quotes

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.
‐‐ Les Aspin

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
‐‐ Barbara Castle

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
‐‐ Earl Scruggs

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
‐‐ Elliott Carter

That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.
‐‐ Zach Wamp

That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.
‐‐ Mike Schmidt

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
‐‐ Orlando Jones

That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
‐‐ Gabriela Sabatini

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
‐‐ Fay Wray

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
‐‐ Adam Rich

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

That was part of coaching: to teach your receivers how to get free.
‐‐ Sid Gillman

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
‐‐ Skitch Henderson

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
‐‐ Bill Lee

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous

That was something. As opposed to nothing.
‐‐ Kevin Ayers

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
‐‐ Joe Flaherty

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
‐‐ Stephen Rea

That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted.
‐‐ Lou Costello

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
‐‐ Susanna Hoffs

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.
‐‐ Frank Tashlin

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.
‐‐ Freddie Hubbard

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
‐‐ Peter Garrett

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
‐‐ Randy West

That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money from it. And, generally, you stayed away from anyone who was trying to make money from it.
‐‐ Jeff Moss

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
‐‐ Curtis LeMay

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
‐‐ Thomas Hearns

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
‐‐ Ulrich Beck

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
‐‐ Jonathan Harris

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!
‐‐ Henny Youngman

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.
‐‐ Diana Quick

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
‐‐ Debbie Harry

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!
‐‐ Robert McCloskey

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.
‐‐ Joe Klein

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.
‐‐ Phil Collen

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.
‐‐ James F. Byrnes

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
‐‐ Nicholson Baker

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
‐‐ Morrissey

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.
‐‐ John Entwistle

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
‐‐ Tom Araya

That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.
‐‐ Bill Medley

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.
‐‐ Simon Le Bon

That was very difficult for me on 'American Idol' to feel like I had to be a certain way. It wasn't that the producers were saying that you shouldn't be gay or whatever, but there was this unspoken energy around saying you have to appeal to Middle America, and Middle America at that point was not ready for all that.
‐‐ Todrick Hall

That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.
‐‐ Leo Kottke