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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
Beeban Kidron
People
Duty
Systems
Abuse
Understand
Witnessed
Then
Lives
Coexist
Right
However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
Belinda Carlisle
Good
Me
You
Think
Bad
Voice
Both
Abuse
However
Hear
Years
Listen
'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Man
Natural
Destruction
Darkness
Light
Men
Own
Took
Frankenstein
About
Only
Inversion
Through
Idea
Abuse
Like
Powers
Making
His
God-Like
Gods
Order
Story
Them
Natural Order
Then
Creating
Electricity
Image
Night
Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
Benjamin Watson
You
Woman
Sit
Rules
Those
Ourselves
Tell
High
Would
High Standard
Guys
Failing
Abuse
Most
Sort
Doing
Tests
Condone
Very
Child
Any
Hold
Breaking
Standard
Things
Here
I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good.
Bill Foster
Education
Good
You
Game
Free
Skin
Think
Something
Potential
Absolutely
Absolutely Free
Abuse
Without
Provide
Exists
Getting
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
Blu Cantrell
Music
Kindness
Business
People
Will
Music Business
Phoney
Take
Disappointed
Feel
Abuse
Like
Am
Lot
Who
Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
Bob Beckel
Ethics
Politicians
Think
Immune
Some
Allegations
Abuse
Unfortunately
As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.
Bob McNair
Respect
Matter
Three
Beginning
Our
Abuse
Involved
Policy
Said
Been
Domestic
Authority
Lack
Show
Team
Things
Player
Draft
Violence
Let's not glamorize abuse.
Brianna Wu
Abuse
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Bruce Nauman
Thoughts
Hurt
Lie
Father
Down
Tools
Find
Some
About
Dirty
He
Put
Sharpened
Abuse
Said
How
His
Get
Where
Them
Your
Used
Ground
Letting
Keeping
Things
I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
Carol Ann Duffy
Anxiety
Think
Our
Resources
Dangers
Abuse
Different
Planet
Now
Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.
Carolyn Chute
You
Sometimes
Abuse
Like
Bread
Dough
Manuscript
While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
Carre Otis
Culture
Women
Oppression
Language
Differences
Our
Impact
Similarities
Environment
Undeniable
Abuse
Globe
Affects
While
Us
Across
Many
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon
You
Seen
Prisoner
Group
Defined
Rules
Definition
Member
Status
Part
Abuse
Reduced
Done
Means
Your
Whom
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Charles W. Pickering
Culture
Financial
Responsibility
Our
Corporations
Fraud
Degrade
Corrupt
Civic
Only
Prevent
Abuse
Also
Media
There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen
Dark
Result
First
Rehab
Those
Dark Places
Guy
Badly
Knew
Abuse
Like
Go
His
Role
Personal
Ended
Died
Substantial
After
Maniac
Story
Personal Story
Places
Reason
Who
Whose
Play
Played
One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
Cheryl James
Life
Women
Every
Thousands
Sexually
Had
Almost
Abuse
Audience
How
Were
Been
Hand
Them
Asked
Harassed
Speakers
Many
Her
Raised
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
Christina Baker Kline
People
Cause
Abandoned
Feel
Abuse
Particular
Children
Reasons
Many
Orphans
I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
Christopher Eccleston
You
School
Way
Kid
Various
Abuse
Terms
Heard
Them
I have multiple identities, never mind ethnically but in other respects... and it's even worse when they try to do it by reference to other people. This stupid term, 'Blairite,' that gets used in the Labour Party as a form of abuse, in spite of the fact this guy won three elections.
Chuka Umunna
People
Try
Mind
Three
Stupid
Party
Other
Worse
Respects
Guy
Fact
Spite
Never
Term
Abuse
Identities
Reference
Won
Labour
Labour Party
Gets
Form
Elections
Used
Multiple
Even
Even Worse
I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.
Clare Balding
You
Twitter
Laugh
Abuse
Mostly
Lot
Get
Just
Either
Ignore
Homophobic
I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.
Cobie Smulders
Worn
Point
Since
Abuse
Feet
Return
Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.
Conor Oberst
Needs
Me
World
Long
Intolerance
Has-Been
Joe
All The World
See
Beacon
He
Attention
Abuse
County
Well
Documented
Been
Years
List
Committed
Getting
Human
Help
With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.
Conrad Hall
Today
Art
You
Light
Films
Diffusion
Filters
Way
Eye
Sees
Scene
Abuse
Makes
Contrast
Subtleties
Create
Your
Exposure
Film
Fast
If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, sometimes the cops don't know how far to take it. They have a hard job, but at the same time, I think it's just about educating yourself.
Corey Hawkins
Time
You
Rights
Yourself
Sometimes
Job
Think
Say
About
Something
Take
Feel
Abuse
Know
How
How Far
Educating
Authorities
Same
Just
Same Time
Being
Far
Your
Hard
Hard Job
Cops
My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
Craig Venter
Technology
Fear
Will
Abuse
Greatest
Use
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