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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. Stephen Hawking

Alien Visit Out Would Outcome Would-Be Columbus Well America American Native Native Americans Which Turn Landed Us Much

I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal. Ernest Cline

Me Mother Old Year Down Think Our Seven Top Months Out Tornado Brother Had Disc She Arms Pile Metal Yards Year-Old Trailer Scrap Quite Maybe Little Little Brother Landed Pregnant Sucked Even Away Lumber Her Set

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house. Stephen Hawking

War Time Mother Father Thought Parents Sister Few Everyone Ours London Fact Had Cheaply Bought House Houses Tall Narrow Rocket Very Going In Fact Flat Which Victorian Landed Lived Away Bombed

I knew what I was getting into: 72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart, atomic wings. When I landed 'Man v. Food' in 2008, I accepted the fact that my weight would fluctuate. But instead of stressing about the scale, I made my long-term health a primary concern. Adam Richman

Health Food Man Made Fluctuate Scale Would About Atomic Shakes Wings Fact Weight Knew Instead Primary Long-Term Concern Accepted Quart Getting Landed Stressing

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick. Adolphe Menjou

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed. Alan Bradley

Myself Family Tired Big Before Flying Visiting Dreamed About More Never Household Talking Always Woke Up Than Canadian Places Landed Plane England Growing Growing Up British Ben

I was an apprentice at the San Francisco Ballet, and a casting director came to one of our rehearsals to scout talent for 'Center Stage.' I landed the role of Jodie. Amanda Schull

Director Stage Apprentice Our Francisco Casting Talent Ballet Came Role Scout San Center San Francisco Landed Rehearsals

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. Carlo Collodi

Leader Stage Back He Head Invitation Leap Himself Another Pinocchio Front Orchestra Loving Landed Found Rows Third

I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at. Celia Imrie

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States. Charles Duke

Technology Moon States Would Post-War Paranoia Course Were Rocket Landed Mankind Conquered United United States Things Two

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap. Charles S. Dutton

Way Directing Fell Sort Just Landed Lap Thing

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. Chauncey Depew

Fathers Plymouth Had Instead Pilgrim Rock Pity Landed Landing

Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard. Christine Ebersole

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day. Craig Brown

Day Queen Father Own Battalion Cameron After Landed Captain

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head. Cyndi Lauper

Me You Space Three Somebody Everybody Everybody Else Else Hey OK Bad Would Would-Be Outer Outer Space Head Heads Like Look Well Ya Always Got Wondered Huh Different Little Landed Then Sudden

My home life, growing up, was like tumbling inside a washing machine as I shuttled around the middle of Kentucky with my mother. She was never content to stay in one place, or with one man, for too long. She was as smart as she was independent, though, and always landed some job that brought in a little money. Dakota Meyer

Life Home Man Money Smart Mother Job Long Too Machine Though Independent Stay Inside One-Man Some Brought Never Like She Content Around Always Up Middle Place Little Landed Little Money Home Life Washing Washing Machine Growing Growing Up Kentucky

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch. Douglas Brinkley

I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants. Etgar Keret

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. Francis Ford Coppola

Saying Me Science Speak Care Job Picture Russian Could Write He Make Make Up Science Fiction Understand Dialogue Were Up Roger Any Fiction Wanted Whether Landed English

At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any. George Grey

Interior Impossible Several Would Loose Always Been Covered Rocks Stock Any Stores Ascent Places Landed Large Found

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