When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was running out of the house, and when I got halfway into the street, my mom saw the car and yelled for me to run back. As I turned around the car hit me, dragged me five houses down the road, and I fractured my collarbone.
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
As the body fades – which it will inevitably do as we stay here on the planet – it really behooves us to wake up to who we really are. You can either go along willingly or be dragged, because it will happen.
When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.
I’ve always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I’ve just been dragged along by fate.
I don’t believe President Nixon ordered a break-in, but people working for him were doing it. And then that dragged the president in. And then you have the cover-up. And before you know it, the president’s gone.
My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the nuns.
I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.
Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to be a preacher. He didn’t have any egotistical desire or need to be a public figure or celebrity. He got drafted – or, really, dragged into it – initially in Montgomery.
Dragged out of your bed at the age of seven, my mother screaming, six kids under the age of 12. I’m not equating my experience with the people who lived in Northern Ireland. But my dad was always out and about late at night, and I could not go to sleep until I knew he was in.
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn’t want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we’ve been together 20 years now!
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