#before

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before. ↗

— John Salazar

#against #always #am #any #before

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#before #chance #gets #getting #history

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#big #billion #bottom #bottom line #companies

Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#almost #any #artistic #before #beginning

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#back #before #ever #forth #i

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#before #beginning #completely #deadline #deal

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. ↗

— Mel Smith

#anyway #before #being #considered #directed

I think there's a passion for God like never before. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#god #i #i think #like #never

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#doing #done #fall #film #i