#weren

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it. ↗

— Norman Granz

#being #country #duke #ella #europe

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#believed #catholics #collapsed #generally #going

I decided sitcoms weren't for me. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#i #me #sitcoms #weren

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. ↗

— Pam Grier

#allowed #any #appearance #beauty #emphasis

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#depressed #disasters #everybody #find #gone

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #been #criminal #death #defendants

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#i #musician #weren #would

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#career #career opportunities #friends #hardcore #just

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#charming #faithful #ideal #just #remains

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#authorities #backed #black #few #i