All Quotes

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
‐‐ Craig Charles

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure.
‐‐ Roxane Gay

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
‐‐ Matt Stone

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.
‐‐ Shereen El Feki

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.
‐‐ Brian Harvey

We were the Spice Boys.
‐‐ George Harrison

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
‐‐ Louise Jameson

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
‐‐ Daniel Boone

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
‐‐ Orville Wright

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
‐‐ Flea

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
‐‐ Christiane Amanpour

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence.
‐‐ Rene Cassin

We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.
‐‐ Jay Rockefeller

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real reason: because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our Middle Eastern foreign policy.
‐‐ Cindy Sheehan

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
‐‐ Roger Daltrey

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
‐‐ Edie Brickell

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.
‐‐ Howard Carter

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
‐‐ Helmut Kohl

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
‐‐ Maya Lin

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.
‐‐ John Thaw

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
‐‐ Calvin Klein

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.
‐‐ Solomon Burke

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
‐‐ Barney Ross

We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn't a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.
‐‐ Ian Hecox

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
‐‐ Cynthia Weil

We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
‐‐ Edward Burnett Tylor

We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.
‐‐ Ashley Williams

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.
‐‐ Sigmar Polke

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
‐‐ Kristin Davis

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
‐‐ Andy Taylor

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
‐‐ Jerry Only

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.
‐‐ Judy Holliday

We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.
‐‐ Eydie Gorme

We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
‐‐ David Fincher

We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.
‐‐ Erika Christensen

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
‐‐ Daniel Ellsberg

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.
‐‐ Gherman Titov

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
‐‐ Bubba Smith

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
‐‐ John Legend

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.
‐‐ Emily Procter

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.
‐‐ Picabo Street