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Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie Chan

Parents, Give, Same

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.
Christina Ricci

Life, Bored, Child

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.
Christina Ricci

Girl, Pretty, Cast

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon

Music, Moment, Fishing

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
LaToya Jackson

Feeling, Night, Strange

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.
Ron Fournier

Family, Career, Friends

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
Alan Alda

Good, Through, Enough

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
Maurice Sendak

Happy, Parents, Wanted

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Life, Stupid, May

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
Larry Miller

Women, Thinking, Thoughts

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Mother, She, Until

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.
Demi Lovato

Second, Onstage, Stepped

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.
Dennis Bergkamp

Thoughts, Wanted, Once

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
Curtis Carlson

Life, Money, After

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Character, Real, Found

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
Denzel Washington

Everything, Thought, Young

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
Liz Phair

Why, Creative, Reaction

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.
Dee Dee Myers

Lost, Eyes, Tough

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
Adam Lambert

Seriously, Taken, Fast

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Father, Special, Loved

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.
Jason Kidd

Age, Job, Pretty

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.
John Mayer

Time, Everything, Night

I always knew I wanted to have children.
Cindy Crawford

Children, Wanted

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.
Tom Sizemore

Bad, Blame, Problem

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
Bryan Adams

Music, Successful, Job

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.
Peter Singer

Powerful, Dark, Often

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.
Lenny Kravitz

School, Him, Pretty

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.
Jessica Simpson

Thinking, Child, Until

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
Imran Khan

Power, Everyone, Again

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
Ben Stein

America, Place, Wind

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