It took another 25 years or so, but when I was finally, by having two kids in the public school system, getting some value out of the real estate taxes I had been paying all those years, I learned that orange and black are our town colors.
And I carried that lesson with me all those years ago when I got my start fighting for men and women on the South Side of Chicago after their local steel plant shut down.
Start out where I did all those years ago, in the streets of Vieux Nice.
In the end, one might wonder how he could continue to get those interviews after all those years of blistering confrontations, but I got a clue in 2000.
And I have to tell you that all that you see in this man, all that compassion and commitment -- that's why I fell in love with him all those years ago. (Applause.) It was his character.
And then, after all those years of eating and cooking chermoula, I tasted the ultimate version, a recipe that was, and still is, the most flavorful, complex and well-balanced version of the sauce.
Even today, over six decades later, just hearing that long wail of the warning siren on old newsreels and films gives me that same cold knot of fear in the pit of my stomach which I always felt all those years ago.
With all due respect to them, there was a reason I never got in touch with them for all those years before connecting with them on Facebook.
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Just last winter a calamity of a different kind than I'd experienced all those years ago in Utah befell me.
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And I have been saying for all those years to look for certain things to happen.
There was one reason -- I used to say to Governor Markell of Delaware -- why I never ran for governor -- you have to have an inaugural ball. (Laughter.) And that's why I stayed in the Senate all those years.
"I felt it was time after all those years that TV has used me, for me to use it, " says Winfrey.
And even as we confront the challenges of today, we imagine a brighter tomorrow, saying, I can do it, just like Muddy Waters did all those years ago.
Being in a room with an openly lesbian professor and knowing that I was valued, rather than vilified, for the ways in which I didn't fit in was a soothing antidote to all those adolescent years of self-loathing and doubt.
Over the years that I was there and before as security minister I was dealing with all those issues that ultimately related to the final agreement at Hillsborough at the beginning of 2010.
And let me tell you something, all of that I just talked about, I love him for that, but I really -- what really made me fall in love with my husband all those years ago, it was his character.
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When my mother passed away, my brother and I put all her belongings in storage and we waited a few years to go through those items because the pain was so deep.
Most of all, I ran to stand up for all those who have been invisible to their government for eight long years.
And for those who thought that Madden must have felt trapped on that bus for all these years, the truth -- I can promise you this -- is that rolling through the country that way is the opposite of being trapped.
And nearly one hundred years later, I expect that those words continue to be true, and they should be guiding all of our efforts.
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