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“There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.”

Wells Said Order Happened Blair Electorate

Author:John Prescott

“There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.”

Way Said Home Opportunity Happened Presses Excuse Deny No Excuses

Author:John Prescott

“My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.”

People Needs Said Problem Bigs Together Deals Economy Issues Happened Concern Solve Campaigns Barack Ran Big Problems Aisle

Author:Rob Portman

“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.”

“A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.”

Way Persons Said Ideas Happened Divine Scientist Best Way Christmas Divine Love Wraps Christmas Day Christmas Love Christmas Magic Holiday Traditions Religious Christmas Meaning Of Christmas

Author:Halford Luccock

“To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.”

Writing Years Said Remember Happened Years Ago Seven Seven Years

Author:Matthew Perry

“And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Kind Mean Said Stills Dies Felt Happened Blood One Day Mouths Things Happen Sat Serenity

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.”

Years Said Bits Happened Paper Picks Accents Papers Deliberate Rejecting Formative Years

Author:Joss Stone

“Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.”

Said Done Play Black President Differences Happened Impact Deep Impact

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.”

People Children Said Two Boys Happened Boat

Author:Anna Lee

“They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible. Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.”

Men Littles Said Running Brain Impossible Happened Eternal Ships Corporations Initiative Engineers They Said Propositions Laborers Navigation Business Man Little Faith

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.”

Said Bigs Business Happened Huge Grew Down And Financial Size Sat Venture Dough Octopus

Author:Walt Disney

“When I was three, I fell and I got Bell's palsy in my face. My mom said the first day she called the rabbi, and he said a prayer for me but nothing happened. The second day she called the Mormons, and they said a prayer for me and my face was healed, so my whole life was going around as a Jew who was giving talks in Mormon churches about being healed by the Mormons.”

Giving Firsts Said Whole Faces Three Church Prayer Happened Mom Jew My Mom Whole Life Bells They Said Healed Rabbi

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Said Important Whole Happens Poor Fiction Records Happened Terrible Capacity Important Things Science Fiction History Of Science

Author:William Gibson

“We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'”

Knows Littles Said House Too Much Happened Okay Weekend Guests

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"”

Want Trying Wells Persons Said Remember Speak Justice Happened Land Please Treats Aliens Reasonable Palestinian Settlement Diplomatic Where You Come Yahweh Jewish Friends

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.”

Want Said Roles Happened Models Role Models

Author:Selena Gomez

“Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."”

Said Sometimes Done Happens Jesus Process Happened Atheism Ought Positive Atheism Messiah Inverse

Book:The Life of Jesus

Source: The Life of Jesus

“In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.”

Believe Persons Said Force I Believe Saws Happened Air Paid Cameras Wings Planes Ufo Air Force Belgians

Author:Robert Stack