#turned

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#before #better #did #done #former

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#city #host #leave #london #make

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#after #elementary #elementary school #gave #i

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#career #controlled #did #different #going

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#album #band #cool #find #get

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#amps #bollywood #corrupt #could #distribution

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#any #attached #before #being #freedom

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#bad #bad news #condition #could #die

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#english #fact #happy #i #into

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution