#weren

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#extent #eyes #few #going #issues

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#corp #go #infiltrate #into #marine

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#had #happened #i #i think #just

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#few #i #little #out #political

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family. ↗

— Rima Fakih

#breast cancer #cancer #diagnosed #family #i

I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently. ↗

— Connie Britton

#aging #business #differently #environment #exercise

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#down #forcing #media #people #popular

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#bodies #fantastic #i #just #know

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball. ↗

— Michael Chang

#basketball #bit #little #little bit #lot

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any