#stopped

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#because #being #ever #happen #hurt

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#check #county #did #forced #getting

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ate #because #being #complex #discipline

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#around #between #family #father #give

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#been #began #caught #dark #dark shadows

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#american #bombing #could #day #daytime

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. ↗

— Uri Geller

#caring #court #end #i #libel

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#decade #done #got #had #i

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#back #bridle #broke #brought #bullet

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how