Once I've declared a major, may I change it, or am I locked in?
"Environmental rights are human rights, and human rights are environmental rights, once and for all!" I declared at the Earth day rally of my congresswoman, Pramila Jayapal.
I am, as I once declared myself, busy.
I must swim 20 times end to end, I once declared.
"When I hear about Schrodinger's Cat, Stephen Hawkingg once grumpily declared, "I reach for my gun".
The choice of holiday destination has become somewhat limited for the French president, François Hollande, who sold himself as Monsieur Normal, once once declared "I don't like the rich", and has drawn up a "morality code" for his administration.
And more than once she declared, "I don't make music based on what radio would like" — because that would mean making music that she characterized unprintably as less than good.
Playing ball on a high-tech rug doesn't feel natural ("If a horse won't eat it," the former Philadelphia Phillies star Richie Allen once famously declared, "I won't play on it"), nor does it look natural.
My predecessors in Jersey City have included a colorful array of chief executives; perhaps the most notable of who appears regularly on HBO's Boardwalk Empire and once summarily declared "I am the law".
Despite the contest being the first major referendum for the Republican and Democratic hopefuls, what actually happens on Monday night is a mystery to many, including longtime CNN host Larry King, who once famously declared, "I have never understood the Iowa caucus".
'I was trying to present someone who is deep in disorder,' Roth told David Remnick of the New Yorker, 'someone who is repellent.' On the subject of sexual desire, Roth once declared: 'I'll be obsessed when I am 80 exactly as I was when I was 18.' But there is also something darker, and more disturbing, that surfaces from time to time, particularly in his late work.
