#before

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up! ↗

— Kaspar Hauser

#before #beg #did #i #kill

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor. ↗

— Coleman Hawkins

#before #had #i #instrument #jazz

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless. ↗

— Alexander Henry

#ancient #before #confront #ever #fast

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working. ↗

— Jim Henson

#before #did #few #friends #got

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#because #before #did #directing #few

I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff. ↗

— Ryan Hurst

#before #color #decided #hole #i

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#affects #anymore #back #before #change

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#before #disaster #everybody #fates #intimately

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#before #ever #greater #problem #public

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before. ↗

— Robert James Graves

#distinct #distorts #dr #ear #hearing