#weren

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#find #i #looking #often #online

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#baseball #city #football #growing #growing up

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#comedians #competitors #dancing #female #fewer

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#always #any #art #fell #films

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#developing #developing world #early #early 1990s #ended

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#everyone #exactly #grade #great #great thing

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other. ↗

— Eric San

#after #city #doing #each #i

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ↗

— George Santayana

#about #events #happened #lies #never

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old. ↗

— John Sayles

#acting #cheap #guild #happened #i