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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Oprah Winfrey

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Rene Descartes

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against.

John Atkinson

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

Amelia Earhart

I knew her before she was a virgin.

Oscar Levant

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

This is devastating. We knew it was coming, but that doesn't make it any easier, Gem of the Ocean.

Ted Pappas

We felt confident, but none of us knew it would be finished in 35 seconds.

Paul Sanders

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Arthur C. Clarke

We knew they were the team to beat in our league, so I don't feel too bad about this.

Bion Mills

They had a small team, so I knew we could intimidate them by blocking shots and going to the hole.

Ramon Dyer

It was really about client retention. A few of our large customers knew what these kinds of tools could do and started asking us for them.

Bradley Maue

We knew the Hawaiian culture is very specific, especially when it comes to the dance. We made it a priority to get it right.

Christopher Chase

We both just knew what we wanted to do early on.

James Schaberg

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

If I knew why that was, I'd fix it.

Lucas Glover

I knew [Hudson] didn't have any hits, but I didn't realize she was pitching a perfect game.

Craig Milburn

Yeah, I knew him for a year.

Hillary Peterson

This year, we knew that we could get in and we did. It feels real good.

Theo Sherman

It's my mom. She wanted her impact, and it's the family history that makes the book so special because a lot of the stories I never knew before we did the book.

Rulon Gardner

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau

I might be wrong to do what I did. [But] I did it because I knew he'd be credible and accountable.

Larry Blakeney

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big.

Scott Caan

I knew if we came in and had our best day, we would be in the hunt. For the most part, the girls came out strong and this is our reward.

Amy Klein

We knew this postponement was of the utmost importance to ensure the safety of our student-athletics, coaches and administrators.

Dave Maggard

The squeeze has eased considerably. We knew the passage was coming.

Michael Pond

We knew we had to go in (the water) and stripped down to our jocks and shorts.

Tim Walker

No, I couldn't have written it any better. I knew this was a good opportunity when I came here, but you never know how it's going to turn out.

Nicole Powell

People either walked up to us or someone dragged them. If you didn't come to us we never knew about you.

Deanna Lassegard

We knew we at least would have overtime. We just wanted to get a shot off and see what happens.

Doug Krauss

The kids executed. There was a kid chasing Jordan around, and I think everyone in the gym knew who was probably going to get it and shoot. He did a nice job of catching it and converting it.

Tim Sam

They knew that they had to grab this reform mantle or they would be steam rolled by the Democrats on the corruption issue.

Gloria Borger

I think Rhodes is the best low post player in the conference. So, we knew we had our hands full with him.

Dennis Felton

I knew she would be fine. We just tried to tell her to have fun. She played great.

Hilary Witt

You Always knew that Just One word Would Dry up all My Tears.

Dallas Green

I knew I had to come out big for my team. When I hit those first two, I knew I was going to be shooting well.

Tracy Palmer

These are the words that I keep coming back to. This was when I knew the situation would be out of our hands.

Amy Wilson

I'm very confident about the way my team played all year. I knew we could do this.

Doug Haynes

We knew that if they throw the bomb, they throw it to No. 14 (6-foot-4 senior Stuart Pierce).

Sean Neff

I was the thinnest I'd ever been and I knew then I was going to get to my target weight of 10 stone.

Mary Bain

We knew what they were going to do, knew their tendencies, we just couldn't get the job done.

Matt Wade

We all saw each other throwing, and it made us better. We knew what we were fighting for. But I worked hard for this, and I'm happy to get it.

Josh Hancock

We knew that Grady would try to penetrate with its athleticism, but we managed to keep them off track all night.

Milt Travis

It was so bang-bang, I had no idea what happened or what caused the ball to be loose, ... All I knew was I looked down, saw the ball going through my arms and off my body and we'd won.

Dave Roberts

We both play very similar, up and down with pressure defense. I knew it would be a barn-burner.

Gregg Holifield

We knew on paper that it was going to be a battle between the University of Houston and ourselves, and it was a good battle. Our kids competed exceedingly well. We just didn't have enough.

Jim Bevan

From the first day, I knew I'm going to go to prison or jail. I'll deal with it because somebody died.

Lisa Glaza

We didn't think it was ours at halftime. We came back when we played them, and we knew they could do it to us.

Alison Lacey

I don't think the big investment firms knew what they had. They just have this bias for fundamental research.

Jim Huller

I knew then we would have a great field.

Phil Garcia

Our main objective was to keep the folks in the county comfortable. We knew we couldn't make things perfect for them, but we wanted to make it more bearable for them.

Gary Galloway

If when you're young you only knew, if when you're older you still could.

Henri Estienne

The next thing I knew, I was a Tiger Cub organizer. I've been involved with scouting ever since.

Chuck Robinson

Matt had gotten them out all game. We didn't make the plays behind him in the last inning. He's a senior, and we knew he'd have the composure to get through it.

Barry Hightower

Mike knew what harmonically moved people spiritually.

Billy Peterson

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Robert H. Schuller

This was a match after a really disappointing loss yesterday. I was pleased with the way the girls bounced back. They knew (Pasquotank) had beaten First Flight. This was a good win for us.

Allen Hornthal

We know this was a must-win. We knew we couldn't go 0-2 on the road.

Carol Simon

I knew it was gonna be close, we both had a pretty good camp. Coach Robinson went with the guy he thought could win.

Joe Fields

I think he was 100% correct. We all knew that. It wasn't a surprise. It's probably surprising he held it in that long.

Chris Widger

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We knew we were going to come up here and pound them. We're going to give the mall we've got and that¹s what we did.

Brian Fitzgerald

We knew it was going to be a grinding game. We knew it was going to be a possession-by-possession game. We picked up the defensive intensity in the second half and that made a big difference.

Skip Brock

We knew that we could do it. It's actually a dream come true. It's the best way it could happen.

Simon Schoch

We just knew we wanted to give something back.

Ashley Cole

When a guy banks in a 3, that's a huge momentum swing. I think we knew things weren't going to go our way at that point.

Tim O'shea

They were clearly the better team. We knew it was going to be really tough tonight, and we wrestled okay, but okay is not good enough against those guys.

Carl Adams

They (KSU) shot the ball well (in the first half). I was a little disappointed with our defensive effort because we knew what was going to come from them.

Cliff Warren

My team needed me. We knew once we got Ray back that we could do a lot of damage.

Damir Dzafic

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger.

Rod Stewart

We wanted to stretch them out a little bit because we knew they were so big, they were going to be hard to pound with inside. We knew if we could get a lead and extend their defense a little bit, that would be to our advantage.

John Gaier

They started out very fast and were excited. They knew it (the game) was important. But they got a little complacent and let Pittsburgh fight their way back in.

Todd Boward

Everyone who signed this petition knew exactly what they were signing.

Pat Cahill

Deep down, we knew we were better than that. For the kids that have been in the program, this wasn't acceptable.

Greg Sims

When the terrorists brought terrorism to our shores, I don't think they knew how mad it was going to make us.

Tony Rose

We just never got our offense going. We knew it was going to be tough and we didn't focus like we should have.

Al Thornton

We knew he was going to. He had a spark and fire in his eyes.

Bob Benincasa

We knew we could do a good job and it would be something special that the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic would want to own. It's a big challenge for them to operate. But we will do whatever we can to assist them.

Doug Vance

We knew she was a shooter and we tried to make her go left and help out on her, but it just didn't happen for most of the game.

Melissa Mcferrin

I don't think we knew fully what we had in our hands.

Robert Aders

When I came here I knew I was coming here to shoot the ball, specifically the three.

Leslie Howard

The mayor lobbied me. From our discussions, I knew that going into the compromise was very important to the mayor. He made that clear.

Todd Apo

I knew there'd be a big crowd tonight and a lot of noise. I just told the kids to focus on the game.

Rich Demuzio

At practice two days ago you could see the look in his eyes. You knew he was going to play well today. And he didn't disappoint.

Henry Mason

You guys knew the base was open. I knew it, too.

Felipe Alou

We've been hoping for big things out of (Ritter), ... We knew coming in that she was a talented player, and we hope this is her breakout game.

Mike Good

When he first moved here, I knew it was because he got in trouble at (Iowa City's) West High. He always had this tracking device on his ankle.

Jose Maldonado

I never knew who sent the message.

Lester Ricard

The floodplain was done before any of us knew what was going on. There was no warning and no open forums.

Sherri Johnson

I cost us the game down there, but I knew I couldn't shoot that bad again. I just tried to forget about it and make these shots.

Cheryl Ford

I wasn't surprised. I knew they were full of speed and had great athletes.

Lonnie Johnson

I knew we would need the points, so I went for the pin.

James Long

We knew he was going sooner or later. And that's what he wanted to do.

Alice F. Jones

We knew that they were going to come out and run. I told the girls at the end of the quarter, that we had to get back and play good defense and that would get us back into the game.

Ron Sicard

The garden it was in was quite a nice one so we knew it didn't belong there .

Mark Shaw

I have already played him three times and I knew what to expect from him. I was hanging in there waiting for my chances.

Radek Stepanek

I wanted to get back out there and try it again because I knew it was an accident.

Lindsey Johnson

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Greta Garbo

We knew we had to cut off his penetration and make him work for everything he got.

Adarius Rogers

Every time I called that play, I knew it was going to be a long-yardage play.

Brian Lynch

After that steal, it boosted our confidence and we knew we could win the game. That was one of our best victories of the season.

Alex Hertenstein

When the defense picked up, then our offense got involved too. We knew what we had to do.

Rashonda Mayfield

I am just so proud of our team. The chemistry we have is awesome and we knew that would be a big advantage for us.

Taylor Richardson

I knew it was a foul ball. They made the right call.

Kirk Saarloos

With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She said that she didn't need that; she knew what she'd done.

Carol Adams

He shot into the air because he was a very religious man, and he knew if he took his own life he wouldn't go to heaven.

Sandra Angle

It feels really good. We knew we could do it if we worked hard all season.

Chad Stoddard

To win was a massive achievement. We had to dig in. We knew it would be tough, even with 11 men, but we pulled through.

Harry Kewell

I was the best book-cooker in the athletic department. I was the go-to man, ... Everybody knew it. But I wasn't the only person doing wrong.

Alex Brown

There was something about the chemistry, that we knew it was on today. We're so honored that we have a medal. It shows we worked very hard and our dedication.

Tessa Virtue

If I knew a house was burglarized, why would I want to burglarize it? Everything I want might be gone.

Paul Lindenmuth

I said I'd run 49 all season, ... I ran a pretty easy 50.10 at NCAAs and with the competition, I knew the time would come.

Monique Henderson

I'm not going to say they would do everything they can not to put me on the team, but I knew they wanted (Sierra).

Terry Tiffee

I'm just one of those people that is more focused on going out there, doing my job and trying to contribute the way I need to contribute to win the game. At the end of the day, we knew we had a job to do, and that was go out there and win that game.

Ty Warren

We knew exactly what we were going to do. Kirk made an amazing pass, and I just laid it in.

Anthony Sayre

With a contempt threat hanging over their head, the Forest Service did the best they could do, ... Who knew the judge was going to make new law and regulations from the bench?

Chris West

We knew this was coming at some point.

Jessica Cecere

(In San Antonio), I knew what I was getting into from a team standpoint, from a coaching standpoint.

Michael Finley

We did what we had to do tonight; we had to defend the home court. The pressure was on us. (Clarke coach) Jon (Davison) knew he had a step and a half up on the league if they come in and get that win tonight.

James Lancaster

I knew that one was in as soon as it left my hand.

Brett Ross

She's a cat that doesn't pay any attention to us at all, but she knew enough to come into the bedroom with her back like a Halloween cat and when I wouldn't listen, bat my face.

Wendy Reed

We knew if we could get Don, he'd attract a cast because he's the kind of actor all the directors want to work with. We asked him to produce the film as well, because we're not dumb. ... He's the reason we have this cast, he and the fabulous casting directors.

Don Cheadle

But when the market got dicey, we knew investors would need help in making decisions.

John Mckinley

He's always doing stuff like that in practice. I knew he was going to get the ball to me. He told me when we were in the huddle that he was going to hit me.

Curtis Brown

When I hit it I knew it was gone. I got all of it and it was a big hit at the time.

Todd Helton

We were expecting it most of the game and the guys handled it well. We knew they had to make a choice and play one of them.

Adam Peek

When I first faced him in '98, I knew he and (Roy) Halladay both had special stuff.

Jeff Conine

We knew he was going to have the ball in his hands. If I was Coach Smith, I would have done the same thing.

Kirk Speraw

Once she knew my feelings about this issue, given my criminal justice background, then the e-mails stopped coming.

Lee Brand

I knew my dad won the first championship for Manti, and I knew my grandpa won a state championship. It didn't really hit me until later.

Kolby Bradley

They tested him every week. And he was always up for the challenge. It was like that with him from Day One here, and everybody here knew he was going to be a great player just from his confidence and competitiveness.

Travis Williams

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here.

Mike Cook

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Juan Marichal

I'm proud of myself. I knew if I fought his fight it would be tough. He's a strong fighter. But I knew that if I boxed him the fight would be easy for me.

Clarence Joseph

Those kids knew they were going to have to step up without Chad in the meet. I was very happy with how they performed.

Kip Hoffman

Bond was something we knew about but never got to see. We wanted to watch but we were too young.

Anthony Lewis

I knew Loyola would be out toughest match.

Wayne Hicks

As far as anyone knew, she was just a good Samaritan who had tried to help this guy.

Paul Miller

We knew we just needed one win to get our confidence back and we've just rolled from there.

Aaron Wilson

To me, I knew in my heart from Day 1 that I could do amazing things in hurdles, ... Nobody else believed that. I always believed that. Now I've got the opportunity to prove that to the world.

Michelle Perry

We knew that the job results were not what he was saying. We knew that he was talking about jobs being created that really weren't there.

Bill Brady

What a great defensive stand. We knew they were going to spread us out there, but we executed down the stretch today.

Marty Bell

They left probably 30 to 45 seconds before it hit our house. They traveled down in front of it and beside it and never knew it was behind them.

Beth Carpenter

Obviously, you don't want to go back down, but I knew I was going back down, ... It isn't a shocker.

Matt White

I knew I wasn't going down looking. I just wanted to put the ball in play, make something happen.

Jon Hee

We knew that we weren't invincible anymore and that we could lose. We just got hungrier and it showed in the games. We aren't ready to go home yet.

Tristan Thompson

When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.

Gen Maxwell D. Taylor

We knew we had to contain the QB, and the defense really got him flustered all night.

John Hawblitz

As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one incident that they knew of going back to the '70s and '80s.

Brenda Allen

We came at it like we do every game. We just moved the ball well. Everyone knew where everyone was tonight.

Danielle Kamm

He had hundreds of friends. He was the most generous person you knew.

Brian Penn

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

I felt that I knew him.

Tony Gomez

I was really impressed with the kids at halftime and how they were so calm and focused. They knew they were going to come back. They weren't going to let that game get away.

Kurt Faust

I'm totally confident in my team. I knew we'd get some runs.

Lindsay Bodeker

I was pleased with that. The girls really knew they beat themselves in the Hebron game with errors back to back. They responded.

Karen Kalhoefer

I was jumping into a track that has really gained a good reputation. It was particularly exciting, too, because I knew I had very big shoes to fill.

Richard Lies

We weren't supposed to win it, so the monkey wasn't on our back. That makes a huge difference in this game. I knew we had enough talent that we could win it. And we did.

Nell Fookes

I knew pretty much he was going to put me down, but I was close all week.

Duce Staley

We knew we needed to slow (Bass) down. But she gave us fits, because when she wasn't scoring she was getting the ball to someone else who scored.

Kelvin Philpot

There was no business purpose to this other than to hide the loss. I knew this was not proper.

David Delainey

We knew it was 2-1 to Denmark when we scored. After the goal we found out that it was 2-2 and you could see the reaction.

Stefano Fiore

Yeah, ... I knew right away it was bad. I stepped down and I didn't feel anything. It felt numb.

Quinton Porter

I knew it was gone the second I hit it. I just tried to make contact.

Michael Memea

I knew he could play, but nobody would bite on him.

Jeff Horn

He knew he had to get up earlier and stay up later than anybody else if he was to succeed in the military, and he did that.

Roy Ziegler

We knew that supply will go down of college-educated and technically educated students from the community colleges. 'But we didn't know that the demand is going up.

Michael Kirst

I wasn't myself. I know I wasn't myself. The coaches know I wasn't myself. Everybody knew that I wasn't myself. It was the smart thing to do (to sit out a game).

Mike Imoh

That was pretty big, we built our confidence out of that. We knew going down the stretch that we were going to win at that point.

Mike Chere

I knew a lot before simply because I was born in Fort Worth.

Max Hill

I knew that the folks in D.C. were going to be surprised and some were going to be chagrined. But it's not all that uncommon here in Texas.

Harvey Kronberg

Then I saw him sitting on the back of a truck, and I knew he was OK.

Dalton Sumner

I knew he was a shooter. But that last deep one he hit? That surprised me. I was like, 'Wow.' That was 35 feet. There really wasn't too much I could do.

Isaiah Swann

Some bands had flag bearers and 10 to 12 of every instrument. I knew they were going to be bigger and better. Some of the schools are five times the size of Peru.

Ravi Ross

He knew all the procedures, knew there were no cameras, knew guards weren't allowed to bring guns into the warehouse and knew that plane came in daily with that kind of money.

Judy Orihuela

Not too many people knew. I sure didn't. I'd never even heard of Levitz furniture before this.

Billy Brown

The reality is there can always be a letdown in the back of your mind. But we came out, and I immediately knew there wasn't going to be a letdown.

Kenny Morgan

I had thought about changing my mind before we knew which coach was coming in. But as soon as I heard it was Coach Peck, I decided to stay.

Dalila Eshe

I told our girls that defense wins championships. If we could lock them down in the half-court set and make some free throws, I knew we'd be fine.

Jeff Stowers

Part of it was we knew Ty pretty well, but part of it was it was we had an exceptional game.

Daylon Mccutcheon

Everyone knew him. At the beginning of the game we decided we wanted to do it for Doc, and everyone was so pumped. We just wanted to win for him.

Kayla Gushee

I wanted so badly to sit and comfort her, but I knew there was nothing I could do or say that would make this easier on her or anyone.

Brittany Knox

He sure was. I really wish I knew his name.

Wesley Hollingsworth

We kind of knew this was coming. The last two games we played really well and we deserved better.

Christian Backman

We knew the ending of the movie before it even started.

John Ing

I didn't know if it would start again, and I knew if it did that I couldn't run anywhere.

Jessica Post

It's his first start. We knew it was going to be a little rough on him. We knew he would give us opportunities and he did.

Cato June

The media didn't blow it up. We knew it was a big deal.

Martin Cleveland

We knew coming in it was going to be a challenge. We got some balance tonight.

Brady Wells

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

Ashleigh Brilliant

As soon as I met Myron, you knew he came from a strong family background. You could see he did all the right things at a young age.

Ken Adams

It was just amazing. It was a 3-2 count, waiting on the curveball but he threw me a fastball down the middle so I jumped on it in a hurry. I knew it was gone when it hit the bat.

Michael Pitts

We knew that one bathroom upstairs for three bedrooms wasn't going to get it.

Debbie Bretches

He gives us good depth along the blue line. We didn't think a player of his caliber was going to be available. We knew him from our games (against Quad City).

Danton Cole

I knew I was going to get it.

Chris Warner

We knew, going in, there would be four losers.

Josh Lief

Once it went into overtime and if I could keep him at bay and it went into double overtime I knew I was going to win.

Jeremie Cook

This was something that was very carefully done and worded so no one on Miller Street knew what was going on.

Pam Williams