#i came

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13. ↗

— Shaun White

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When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.' ↗

— Shaun White

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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

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It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

#burning #came #embrace #first #fully

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#back #came #convinced #home #hoping

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. ↗

— Merle Haggard

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I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#auditioning #came #creek #dads #dawson

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich. ↗

— Larry Holmes

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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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