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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
Damian Lewis

Through, Cricket, Used

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
Danica McKellar

Fun, Happen, Eyes

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
Danica McKellar

Education, Women, Done

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
Lena Dunham

Someone, Between, Able

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

Sure, Safe, Stunt

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
Morgan Freeman

Thought, Kid, Content

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

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

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

Thought, Gym, Injured

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

Punk, Name, Lipstick

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.
Ani DiFranco

Work, Time, Good

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
Ani DiFranco

Humanity, Democracy, Down

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

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

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
Ron Fournier

Home, Strength, War

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've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
Alan Alda

Win, Wait, Show

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Alan Alda

Mother, Father, Try

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas

Life, Long, Down

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

Hate, Off, Guns

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
Neil Gaiman

Family, Book, Find

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort

Today, Read, Books

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Cate Blanchett

Education, Work, Done

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
Cate Blanchett

Life, Love, Plan

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
John Malkovich

Life, Children, Remember

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
John Malkovich

Time, Men, After

I don't remember my life before I had children.
John Malkovich

Life, Children, Remember

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Work, Time, Home

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Future, Trying, Sure

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