Did Quotes

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.

It's going to be a symbolic thing. But for me, they did enough.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.