#were

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#blocked #home #hours #into #matter

In those days secrets were well kept. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#kept #secrets #those #well #were

No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things. ↗

— Ice T

#doing #going #got #here #hip-hop

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#comfortable #dancing #florida #get #going

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#drink #english #gets #go #know

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him. ↗

— Teena Marie

#bring #could #everything #friends #go

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it. ↗

— Randall Terry

#america #behaved #believed #christians #know

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#i #like #lot #me #okay

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#did #expected #head #i #me

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss. ↗

— Edward Grey

#apparent #became #call #edge #else