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It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover. Buffy Sainte-Marie

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I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference. Chester Himes

Me Writing Thought Become Sit Incredible Wild Tell Would About Blacks Similar Never Hysterical Absurdity Occurred American Difference Cannot Story Realism Room Lives

My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science. Chris Gibson

You Change Science Weather Three Believe Changing Several Has-Been District Had New Climate Occurred Climate Change Been Years Normal Hit Probability Either Patterns Floods Last

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too. Christopher Reeve

It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas of calm reflection. You should make people uncomfortable. Put them in the shoes of those who perpetrated and those who suffered. Then ask, would they be able to forgive in these situations? Clemantine Wamariya

Me You Memory People Reflection Honor Calm Shoes Those Would Memorials Able Area Uncomfortable Put Make Occurred Tragedy Forgive Situations Want Grand Them Ask Then Create Really Should Who Suffered

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred. Colin Powell

Congress Worse Out Tell Recommendation Outcome Could Occurred Imposed Get Ask Us Certainly Even Even Worse Position

I was 15 when Chernobyl happened, I've been vaguely thinking about it for most of my life. But somewhere around 2015, it occurred to me that I didn't know how it happened, which seemed like a pretty bizarre lapse in my understanding of the world and how it functions. Craig Mazin

Life Me World My Life Somewhere Understanding Thinking Bizarre Pretty About Seemed Like Know Most Around How Occurred Been Happened Which Lapse Functions Vaguely

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43. Dan Jenkins

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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. Danielle Steel

Me Become Never Wrote Because Occurred Famous Wanted Needed

One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred. David Autor

Work Opportunities Automation Software Corporate Would Computer Investment Instead Highly New Occurred Surge Opposite Expect Paid Hardware

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair. David Henry Hwang

Me Thought Hair Red Hair Way Detail Minor Having Never Had Knew Red Implication Particular Like Occurred Up Any Chinese Should Growing Growing Up Differentiate

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy. David Morrell

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The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership. David Novak

Leadership State Recognition John Could Vatican Without Occurred Israel Paul

When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred. David Perlmutter

When I was growing up and trying to get my foot on the ladder, I had the self-belief that my mother taught me, and it never occurred to me that anything could go wrong. I've learned life can't be like that. Diana Quick

I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment. Dorothy Hamill

As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom. Elizabeth Berg

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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in. Elizabeth Debicki

Me Age Parents Whatever Young Dancer Dancers Dancing More Part Taken Taking Performance Steps Particular Liked Occurred Ballet Were Lot Than Young Age Children Story Acting

It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again. Ellen Ullman

Me People Money Software Airplane Give Written Knew Sure Got How Occurred Get Bank Again Really Ever

In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go. Eric Bristow

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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. Ernst Mayr

Indeed Location Rank Classified Having Had Most Reached Peripheral Occasionally Isolated Occurred Often Again Separate Even Population Found Species

Muscle is constantly being used - constantly being damaged. If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred - I mean, everybody would have cancer almost. Eva Vertes

Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N. G. Edward Griffin

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