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I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

My object is to stop the guy with the ball before he gains another inch.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.