#weren

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#her #how #i #lake #learned

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids. ↗

— Emily Procter

#kids #tv #watch #weren

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me! ↗

— Richard Pryor

#america #car #cause #coming #feel

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here! ↗

— Noel Redding

#crazy #everybody #glasses #grow #hair

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#atlanta #competing #corporate #here #many

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#avenue #away #far #far away #grew

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #like #me #people #thought

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#any #anyway #band #before #dealing

His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married. ↗

— John Corry

#inseparably #joined #just #married #music

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#difficult #feel #feeling #hate #i