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I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.

I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.