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My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
John Bonham

Time, Bad, Once

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
Julius Erving

Good, Home, Learning

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey

Times, Week, Pick

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova

Life, Eyes, Away

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Time, Art, Seen

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement Clarke Moore

Christmas, Night, Through

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
Tadao Ando

Future, Dream, Space

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West

War, Science, Real

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
Robert Benchley

Born, Surprised, Constantly

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
Kim Cattrall

Mother, Children, Assumed

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
Elizabeth Edwards

Why, Days, Anyone

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

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Kiss, Stories, Terrible

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.
Kristen Stewart

Good, Done, Enough

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
John Podhoretz

Time, Government, Nothing

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.
John Podhoretz

Against, Times, While

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
Jeff Miller

Strong, Done, Put

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
Steven Tyler

Money, Together, Put

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly

Fear, Hate, Child

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
E. W. Howe

Alone, Wife, Others

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
E. W. Howe

Woman, Old, She

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
Haile Gebrselassie

Change, Good, Become

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Garrett Hardin

Less, Share, Cost

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Single, Eyes, Whole

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan

Words, Language, Born

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
Peter Singer

Business, Making, Social

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Anthony Hopkins

Sunrise, Whole, Direction

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Love, After

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller

Great, God, Mistakes

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.
Avril Lavigne

Happy, Emotional, Different

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