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HARRY OLIVER My main goal after coming up short in the past was to help us win a state championship. Everyone was...
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ANDREA MACKRIS my goal for high school was to make mascot and i got it by practiceing my skit for hours i would not...
DALLY SALAD That was my main goal. I figured I wouldn't have any help at all and all I wanted to do was gain res...
DENNY HAMLIN It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I ...
DEENA KASTOR My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.
LENNOX LEWIS I was hoping to get up near the lead and I was able to do that, ... My goal was to shoot four-under ...
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My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne...
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JAMES C. DOBSON I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this bei...
SHARON KAY PENMAN I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, s...
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I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scar...
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ESTELLA WARREN With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...
MATT ARNOLD My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5...
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My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the 'New York Times' Building.
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I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theat...
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Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
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BOBBY VINTON I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day....
SAMMY SOSA When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and pl...
LES PAUL My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha...
ALAN C. GREENBERG I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every ...
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The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New Y...
TRINNY WOODALL I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college a...
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I spent four days in New York with my family, with my mother, and during the process of being there ...
PAT RILEY![]()
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON![]()
Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashio...
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MIKE WOOD I definitely got confidence from that race in particular, but I was nervous coming in here. In New Y...
COLLEEN WETHERBEE I think there will be some other teams coming here that we can compete really well against. Our goal...
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I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma...
HOWARD SCHULTZ A large amount of my time was spent running around - I think I made at least five trips to several p...
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My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly...
PATTI SMITH Going down to the D-League was a major turnaround, the turning point of my rookie season. I got to g...
MARTELL WEBSTER You can't be a winner every time. This hill isn't suited to me because it's so flat, and I had troub...
JANICA KOSTELIC When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER I was hoping to have the team place in the top five. That was my goal.
JASON TANNER I thought my focus was there but obviously that shows up in stuff like shooting around the basket. I...
HANNA ZAVECZ By the time I got past a few cars, my main competitor (Joe Blacker, in a 1978 Lola T298) had pulled ...
DAYTON DUNCAN My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartmen...
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I was not on at all mechanically, not very sound, ... I was saying [before the game], 'This is the d...
BRANDON WEBB Joe wanted to go. A couple guys wanted to go, and I think you need (prior) approval, and I didn't wa...
JOEL QUENNEVILLE Buying an apartment in New York was beyond my wildest dreams. I had to scrape together every cent to...
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I'll go to my grave with the feelings and emotions and the memories of 1994, ... When I was traded f...
MARK MESSIER I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just...
ESTELLA WARREN My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.&...
X. J. KENNEDY![]()
I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I ...
ERIN GRAY![]()
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and st...
KAZUO ISHIGURO My daughter was 1 at the time. My goal was to see her go to kindergarten,
GIUSTI I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, ...
AARON ECKHART I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theate...
ZELJKO IVANEK![]()
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE![]()
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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CHANTAL AKERMAN This was our three-peat so we can get that up there that we were undefeated for three years. That wa...
JENNY COOK![]()
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New Yo...
BILLY JOEL I went to NYU, and so I started to wake up to the fashion world when I got to New York. I mean, my f...
ETHAN PECK![]()
Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my...
DIXIE CARTER We had a good bullpen in New York last year when I was there, but I was the guy who went out there a...
DAN WHEELER The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Fest...
ELIZABETH MARVEL My main concern was to go in and find my momma.
VERONICA FAULK That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing an...
TOM GLAVINE![]()
I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a fail...
KIM ALEXIS That was my goal coming in.
B.J. SANDER Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and...
GEORGE SMATHERS I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one whe...
FLUME![]()
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr...
MADONNA CICCONE My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA![]()
I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student Le...
JOHN MELLENCAMP I want to be up there battling with those guys. I've got to figure out a way to get better starts an...
CHAD REED![]()
Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.
PAUL TAYLOR![]()
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim...
JOHNNY RAMONE When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus ...
CHANDRA WEST I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on...
DASCHA POLANCO I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the fi...
SKYLAR GREY![]()
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Concepti...
DOROTHY PARKER With Bach, there's always something more, another level. I can do it (the 'St. John Passion') for th...
ANDRE THOMAS One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Pla...
GLENN LOURY Last year, [when] I first came into this league, I didn't know really how this league was or how the...
DEMETRIS BENDROSS![]()
I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r...
JODI BENSON I knew coming up here my role was that they put me where they need to. If that's in the bullpen or s...
BRANDON MCCARTHY![]()
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent...
BEVERLY SILLS![]()
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
DIANE LANE![]()
I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judg...
FRANK ABAGNALE![]()
My answer to pressure is to focus in on the work and hope it pays off. If it doesn't, at least I can...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pes...
STEPHEN GRAHAM
JAN VOGLER My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom...
BECKY LYNCH Everyone was jumping on top of me. Unfortunately my leg got caught up in a weird position, and I sta...
HARRY OLIVER My main goal after coming up short in the past was to help us win a state championship. Everyone was...
JAKE LIBER I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go ...
ANDREA MACKRIS my goal for high school was to make mascot and i got it by practiceing my skit for hours i would not...
DALLY SALAD That was my main goal. I figured I wouldn't have any help at all and all I wanted to do was gain res...
DENNY HAMLIN It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I ...
DEENA KASTOR My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.
LENNOX LEWIS I was hoping to get up near the lead and I was able to do that, ... My goal was to shoot four-under ...
CHRIS COUCH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building ANN COULTER
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne... H. G. BISSINGER My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
JACOBY JONES
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible... LADY GAGA He basically just said, 'I need to stretch my legs out. I've been sleeping in that tank with my knee...
DAVID BLOOM 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this bei...
SHARON KAY PENMAN I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, s...
MARIEL HEMINGWAY My plan was to move to New York and work in commercial real estate. My car was packed and ready to g...
JAMES HUTSON
I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scar... SASHA PIETERSE When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In t...
ESTELLA WARREN With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...
MATT ARNOLD My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5...
CESAR MILLAN
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the 'New York Times' Building. ANN COULTER To give up a shorthanded goal at that point was just devastating. I made a bad pass on that one and ...
DARIN OLVER
I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theat... AUSTIN PECK
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m... DAVID CASSIDY
I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times ... BOBBY VINTON I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day....
SAMMY SOSA When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and pl...
LES PAUL My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha...
ALAN C. GREENBERG I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every ...
SAMMY SOSA
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New Y... TRINNY WOODALL I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college a...
DOT JONES
I spent four days in New York with my family, with my mother, and during the process of being there ... PAT RILEY
Ah, much deluded! lay asideThy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON
Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashio... REEM ACRA I did give up four and a couple of big homers, but my offence did the job today hitting and the defe...
MIKE WOOD I definitely got confidence from that race in particular, but I was nervous coming in here. In New Y...
COLLEEN WETHERBEE I think there will be some other teams coming here that we can compete really well against. Our goal...
DAN LIEBLER
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma... HOWARD SCHULTZ A large amount of my time was spent running around - I think I made at least five trips to several p...
DON BARNETT
My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly... PATTI SMITH Going down to the D-League was a major turnaround, the turning point of my rookie season. I got to g...
MARTELL WEBSTER You can't be a winner every time. This hill isn't suited to me because it's so flat, and I had troub...
JANICA KOSTELIC When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER I was hoping to have the team place in the top five. That was my goal.
JASON TANNER I thought my focus was there but obviously that shows up in stuff like shooting around the basket. I...
HANNA ZAVECZ By the time I got past a few cars, my main competitor (Joe Blacker, in a 1978 Lola T298) had pulled ...
DAYTON DUNCAN My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartmen...
ADRIAN TOMINE
I was not on at all mechanically, not very sound, ... I was saying [before the game], 'This is the d... BRANDON WEBB Joe wanted to go. A couple guys wanted to go, and I think you need (prior) approval, and I didn't wa...
JOEL QUENNEVILLE Buying an apartment in New York was beyond my wildest dreams. I had to scrape together every cent to...
JOHN SEARLES
I'll go to my grave with the feelings and emotions and the memories of 1994, ... When I was traded f... MARK MESSIER I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just...
ESTELLA WARREN My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.&...
X. J. KENNEDY
I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I ... ERIN GRAY
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and st... KAZUO ISHIGURO My daughter was 1 at the time. My goal was to see her go to kindergarten,
GIUSTI I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, ...
AARON ECKHART I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theate...
ZELJKO IVANEK
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, i...
CHANTAL AKERMAN This was our three-peat so we can get that up there that we were undefeated for three years. That wa...
JENNY COOK
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New Yo... BILLY JOEL I went to NYU, and so I started to wake up to the fashion world when I got to New York. I mean, my f...
ETHAN PECK
Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my... DIXIE CARTER We had a good bullpen in New York last year when I was there, but I was the guy who went out there a...
DAN WHEELER The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Fest...
ELIZABETH MARVEL My main concern was to go in and find my momma.
VERONICA FAULK That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing an...
TOM GLAVINE
I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a fail... KIM ALEXIS That was my goal coming in.
B.J. SANDER Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and...
GEORGE SMATHERS I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one whe...
FLUME
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr... MADONNA CICCONE My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA
I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student Le... JOHN MELLENCAMP I want to be up there battling with those guys. I've got to figure out a way to get better starts an...
CHAD REED
Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that. PAUL TAYLOR
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim...
JOHNNY RAMONE When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus ...
CHANDRA WEST I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on...
DASCHA POLANCO I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the fi...
SKYLAR GREY
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Concepti... DOROTHY PARKER With Bach, there's always something more, another level. I can do it (the 'St. John Passion') for th...
ANDRE THOMAS One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Pla...
GLENN LOURY Last year, [when] I first came into this league, I didn't know really how this league was or how the...
DEMETRIS BENDROSS
I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r... JODI BENSON I knew coming up here my role was that they put me where they need to. If that's in the bullpen or s...
BRANDON MCCARTHY
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. DIANE LANE
I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judg... FRANK ABAGNALE
My answer to pressure is to focus in on the work and hope it pays off. If it doesn't, at least I can... JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pes...
STEPHEN GRAHAM
So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically con... 
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've imme... 
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit... 
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal... 
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso... 
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l... 
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. 
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. 
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure... 
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c... 
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive. 
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... 
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... 
When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ... 
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... 
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech. 
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We shall build on.
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At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administr... 
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It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community... 
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Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past... 