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“I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.”

Bigs Found Waiting Office Debt Bows National Debt Oval

Author:Barack Obama

“I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.”

Years Found Economic Racism Economics Disguise

Author:Quincy Jones

“I found this quote for writers on Twitter: There is a fine line between confidence and delusional thought; cross it. Don't know who wrote it but thought it was interesting.”

Author:Robin Glasser

“I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."”

Different Used Found Sides Records Summer Green Seven Stores Fantastic Theme Japan Magnificent Flip Record Stores Alamo Green Leaves Magnificent Seven

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I found two places very calm, one was a library and the other was a graveyard.”

Author:Abid Hussain

“I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?”

Said Two Different Stories Found House Parent Saws Happened Events Son Concerned Decided Clubs Chickens Portions Location True Story

Author:Paul Haggis

“I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.”

Littles Wanted Courses Found Environment Intellectual University Halls Factories Plato Sausage Main Course

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.”

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Author:Charles Dickens

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to get a message across it was more powerful when I told a story, rather than if I used a metaphor or if I preached about an issue. And through doing that I realised that actually these stories were very visual in my head and I couldn't wait to make the videos.”

Trying Artist Waiting Powerful Metaphor

Author:Ben Drew

“I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.”

People Taken Taxes Theatre Segregation Viola

Author:Constance Backhouse

“I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.”

Way Found Gold Surface Mediums Over It Leafs Texture Seals Pastel

Author:Doug Dawson

“I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.”

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau

“I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.”

Ifs Children Found Hurt Healing

Author:Jean Rhys

“I found when we released Not Your Kind of People it was hard for me to go back on tour, especially when we had some runs that were 7 or 8 weeks in a row and I wouldn't see my family the whole time. It has gotten easier with the internet you know because you can Skype or get on Facetime and connect with your family. It was much harder to do that when we started Garbage 20 years ago.”

People Kind Running Week Internet My Family Our Family

Author:Butch Vig

“I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.”

States Wanted Found Beats Police Driving Pickups Wyoming Californians Mph

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.”

Looks Found Students Internet Print Relevant Journal Doing You

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“I found with poetry that I couldn't keep it up. I was too vulnerable. Maybe I was too aware of the audience. And I had impossibly high standards that I could never approach. So there was always a sense of being a failure, and of being vulnerable.”

Found Audience Approach Standards Vulnerable High Standards

Author:Jonathan Santlofer

“I found yesterday's moments promising a better tomorrow will help get you through difficult times.”

Difficult Tomorrow Yesterday Help Moment Promising

Author:Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.”

World Found Voice Raises Loud Found You Raise Your Voice

Author:John J. McCloy

“I found you. I fixed you. I saved you, but you did the same for me.”

Love Healing Vic Lawson Hap

Author:T.J. Klune

Source: In the Lives of Puppets

“I found you in our truth. Running sideways for a broken muse who loved strangers as much as alcohol.”

Thinking Truth Alcohol Toxic Running Away Alcoholic Toxic Love Bad Love

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!”

People Found Mud Caves Huts Found You

Author:Kane

“I found your letter on the sidewalk and I corrected your grammar. Wrote "avoid hyperbole" in the margins, "your not you're." Gave it a D- and left it on the sidewalk for you to find.”

Author:Allen Berry

Source: Travel for Agoraphobics

“I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.”

Found Uncomfortable Rays Drs Scrutiny Humming

Author:Thomas Harris

Source: Red Dragon

“I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.”

Ifs Found Force Jokes Premises

Author:Nick Kroll

“I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.”

Writing Years Book Next Found Process Careers Ten Twenties Adaptation Writing A Book Perks Centerpieces Directing Movies

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.”

Way Found Left Felt Bits Mines Depression Pessimism

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.”

Trying School Company International Medical Medical School

Author:Peter Diamandis

“I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.”

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Author:Nolan Bushnell

“I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.”

Looks Seems Earth Climate Change Clubs Islands Reasonable Global Warming Institute Sierra

Author:David Foreman

“I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.”

Poverty Tiny Lifts Enterprise Providing Loan Poorest Illiterate

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.”

Years Firsts Company Becoming Battle Built Evolve Profitable Dvds Streaming Netflix Blockbuster

Author:Reed Hastings

“I founded the American Red Cross.”

Red Crosses Red Cross American Red Cross

Author:Clara Barton

“I founded the King Hussein Foundation after my husband's death in 1999, to build on his humanitarian vision and legacy in the country and abroad, through programs promoting education and leadership, economic empowerment, tolerance, cross-cultural dialogue, and media that enhances mutual understanding and respect among different cultures across conflict lines.”

“I founded this school for the masses.”

School Mass Nigeria Laughable

Author:Atiku Abubakar

“I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.”

Wells Problem Aquifers

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.”

People Thinking Want Knowing Clothes Refuse Who I Am Not Knowing

Author:Russell Baker

Source: So this is depravity

“I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine, I can't imagine the American people can imagine.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.”

Ifs Should Hands Might Choices Left Given Wish My Own Salvation Strive Free Choice

Author:Martin Luther

Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings

“I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.”

Ifs Care Principles Standards Agree Don't Care Gods Will Decent Abortion Consistent

Author:Alan Keyes

“I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.”

Hell Fishing Great Fishing Trout Fishing

Author:Jack Gartside

“I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.”

Ifs Thinking Way War Law Successful Share Information Willing Terrorism Agency Law Enforcement Enforcement Fbi War On Terrorism

Author:Patty Hearst

“I frankly don't think there's anybody else in media that understands Trump any better than I do. And I say that with no braggadocio. I say that with no airs of anything. I just factually believe it to be the case.”

Thinking Believe Cases Air Media Trump

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.”

Anti Semitism Oklahoma

Author:Tim Blake Nelson

“I frankly expected a far more negative reaction from you on discovering…” she glanced around the lab “…the situation. Why are you helping?” “I’m not helping—I’m merely not hindering in as strenuous a fashion as I am able.”

Science Fiction Aliens Ai Artificial Intelligence Scifi Space Exploration Science Fiction Romance Spaceships Space Opera

Author:G.S. Jennsen

Source: Sidespace

“I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.”

People Way Want Felt Five Fingers Wave Witty Warm Airports Hospitality Reception Funny Bush Five Fingers

Author:George W. Bush

“I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.”

Ifs Littles Long Loss Exercise Long Time Weight Majority Dues Diets Pounds Gym Freak Weight Loss Diet And Exercise

Author:Nick Carter

“I freaking love Gwyneth Paltrow - I think shes awesome. She is fantastic.”

Thinking Fantastic

Author:Chord Overstreet

“I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.”

Hatred And Love Love And Forgiveness

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.”

People War States United United States Constitution Responsible Servant Acknowledge Civil War

Author:Abraham Lincoln

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46