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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
Damien Hirst

Change, Great, Fear

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
Bo Jackson

Thought, Gym, Injured

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.
David Cameron

Change, Government, True

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sallust

Time, Act, Consider

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson

Freedom, Sense, Gone

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
Jackie Chan

Sure, Safe, Stunt

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.
Usain Bolt

Thinking, After, Try

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
Francesca Annis

Work, Home, Here

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
Francesca Annis

Strong, Wife, Through

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
Vivienne Westwood

Punk, Name, Lipstick

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Looking, Unexpected, Seen

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.
Ray Lewis

Life, Change, God

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Deborah Bull

Powerful, Words, Through

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack

Famous, Greatness, Modern

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
Ron Fournier

Wait, Until, Face

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.
Susan Orlean

Future, Everyone, Often

But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
Cindy Crawford

Peace, Morning, Enjoy

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
Roger Moore

Hate, Off, Guns

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Nancy Reagan

Life, Time, Short

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
Rick Perry

Work, Future, May

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
Rick Perry

Work, Home, Two

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.
George Galloway

Down, Here, Fall

If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.
Suze Orman

Become, Off, Once

I did painting before I did photography.
David Bailey

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.
Marc Andreessen

Revolution, Beginning, Since

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
Julia Roberts

Women, Society, Live

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
Mindy Kaling

Change, Struggle, Someone

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes

Travel, Lost, Two

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.
Christina Ricci

Important, Christian, Private

I've never been to a race car race before.
Christina Ricci

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