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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

I miss performing before a live audience - the energy and excitement - there's nothing to compare with it.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I think there's a passion for God like never before.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

We must be our own before we can be another's.