#were

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. ↗

— John Entwistle

#days #early #equipment #gradually #had

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. ↗

— Kit Bond

#designed #enabled #interrupted #made #major

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. ↗

— John Bonham

#before #blundered #dreaded #good #good sign

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained. ↗

— John Bonham

#done #drained #during #enough #feeling

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters. ↗

— John Bonham

#covered #days #doing #drum #early

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big. ↗

— Brian Epstein

#always #big #dizzy #going #height

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. ↗

— Bono

#africa #around #brigade #cans #continent

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America. ↗

— Bono

#america #anything #britain #british #came

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#country #different #each #even #expected

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. ↗

— Cory Booker

#bedrock #choose #class #economic #empowered