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He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
There were times it wasn't right to make a person happy, like the times she came in the kitchen and asked know we don't keep peanut `` butter for a peanut butter sandwich.
`` Grandma wasn't expected to like it '', Dr. Marion Hilliard, the late Toronto gynecologist, once summed up the attitude of the '90s.
It wasn't like carrying the suitcase.
He wasn't like so many other men.
Stanley wasn't like that.
Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.
Earlier models weren't fast enough for this to be a problem, and so it wasn't noticed until later model Spitfires like the Mk. IX started to appear.
In addition to the drinking problems, it had become obvious that he also was having serious mental problems ; Martha Maria said that, " It was like sometimes he was drunk even when he wasn't drinking.
He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.
If I wasn't from Tottenham I think I'd have been an Everton fan as they're my second team if you like.
At least 7, 000 people who were deemed to be insufficiently grief-stricken were executed, though it wasn't restricted to humans, cows were slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like.
It wasn't anything tangible anybody said to anyone else, it was just kind of like everything over the years had come to a head on that one particular night in the one particular place, and it was not an organized demonstration .... Everyone in the crowd felt that we were never going to go back.
Well it wasn't like that ; it's just that Steed had to be alone to be accepted.
But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.
Brian May stated: " I'd never seen anything like that in my life and it wasn't calculated either.
I tried chemical engineering, which I wasn't very good at and didn't like, and then I remembered.
In making his 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould considered playing this variation at a slower tempo, in keeping with the tempo of the preceding variation ( Variation 16 ), but ultimately decided not to because " Variation 17 is one of those rather skittish, slightly empty-headed collections of scales and arpeggios which Bach indulged when he wasn ’ t writing sober and proper things like fugues and canons, and it just seemed to me that there wasn't enough substance to it to warrant such a methodical, deliberate, Germanic tempo.
The creature decides to make his own cereal called " Creature with the Black Macaroons " because macaroon sounds like lagoon ; however, the cereal wasn't successful and when all the cereals were dumped into his lagoon, he says " I should've gone with legumes ", as legume also sounds like lagoon.
He wasn't nearly as recognizable as other rivals of Scrooge, like Italian sorceress Magica DeSpell, who appeared far more often.
According to Tweedy, " It was eye-opening that I wasn't the only person that felt like these worlds had a lot more in common than they'd been given credit for — that experimentation and avant-garde theory was not directly opposed to beauty, y ' know?
Armstrong says in a 1995 MTV interview, " Basically, it wasn't like guitar lessons because I never really learned how to read music.
Boulanger became President of Citroën and Lefèbvre, responsible for engineering and design, though he wasn't head of the department, he was more like a minister without portfolio ; he didn't have an official title.

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He wasn't awed by anybody, and he had a good record of getting what he wanted ".
[...] I think he felt his voice wasn't getting represented on the show.
He later told NME, "' Worse for wear ' wasn't the half of it: I was extremely ill. By the time the tour actually finished it was all getting a little bit ... dangerous.
However, as Iwerks began to draw more and more cartoons on a daily basis, he soon found himself unable to cope under Disney's harsh command ; Iwerks also felt he wasn't getting the credit he deserved for drawing all of Walt's successful cartoons.
While in a battle it wasn't until getting close to kill her own mother ( Xena ) she finally comes to terms with the fact and relinquish her violent past and embrace a peaceful way of living.
I wasn't concerned with the ephemeral, wasn't really emotionally geared up for wide public acceptance ; I was busy getting ready for the end of the world.
She refused to date anyone because she wasn't interested in ever getting married again, and I felt the same way.
Bow felt Alton had misused her trust ; " She wanted to keep a hold on me so she made me think I wasn't getting over and that nothing but her clever management kept me going ".
Holmes said that if Cooney wasn't white, he wouldn't be getting the same purse as the champion ( Both boxers received $ 10 million for the bout ).
Memorable moments of this series include Alan dry-vomiting his way through a speech about fireplaces after impaling his foot on a spiked fence ; mistakenly getting involved with swingers ; attacking a six-foot stuffed Beefeater bear ; his summing up the entire opening of The Spy Who Loved Me in less than a minute during a failed attempt at a 24-hour Bondathon ; Lynn's baptism at her Baptist church and, of course, the sad pulping of his autobiography which, despite taking up four weeks of his life to write, simply wasn't selling well ( partly because every anecdote ended with the phrase " Needless to say, I had the last laugh ".
He nearly left after Season 1 because he wasn't getting acceptable pay, but Kermit Love persuaded him to stay.
" Jimmie also recalled: " It wasn't really a comfortable ' Leave It to Beaver ' kind of a deal, you know ... moving all the time, and never really getting to know people.
At one point Wal was replaced by a younger man as he was getting too old, but the younger player wasn't as good.
She said there wasn't enough money in it ( we were getting paid $ 360 before taxes ), so I said “ I'll give you my share, I truly want you .” She passed to do a part in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, which never happened for her.
It wasn't until 1959 that senior foundation officials succeeded in getting the Ford Foundation ( and later USAID, and later still, the World Bank ) to sign on to the major philanthropic project, known now to the world as the Green Revolution, originally conceived as CIMMYT The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
Asked in an interview with Mark Hertsgaard why he had recalled Bonner from El Salvador in the first place, A. M. Rosenthal, then-Executive Editor of the New York Times, explained: " The general impression among me and some others was that Bonner was first-rate, but we were really screwing this guy, because he wasn't getting what you really need to be a reporter.
" It was only for a year, she was getting married, she wasn't there.
Ogre had restructured my mind pretty completely ... but it wasn't until 2002 ... that I realized how effective Ogre is at getting across so many important component mechanisms of play and design.
Drummer Dave Abbruzzese gets writing credit for this because it wasn't published until 1993 ( when all members were getting equal credit ), even though it was written a year before he joined the band.
Over time, the group started getting more gig offers, which presented a problem since it's army part wasn't available for many of them and those offers had to be declined.
But I decided it wasn't worth dying for, and if this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary I'd do it.
" Once he tipped that lid shut, he knew he wasn't getting out ", Daly said.
Was also discovered to be gifted at painting, although gave up on this avenue when he realised it wasn't getting him sex.

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