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We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.