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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
Aaron Douglas
People
Changed
Trek
Television
Direction
More
Put
Mainstream
Sci-Fi
Another
Acceptable
Making
Normally
Little
Who
Map
Star
Star Trek
Watch
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
Adam Kinzinger
Future
Fight
Generation
Better
Tomorrow
Will
Made
Party
Our
Future Generations
Status
Status Quo
Better Tomorrow
Clear
Generations
Leaders
Longer
New
Message
Acceptable
New Generation
Provide
Send
Quo
Republican
Illinois
Here
Tonight
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
Alan Dershowitz
War
Law
Morality
Civilians
Never
Geneva
Principles
Acceptable
Target
International
International Law
Violates
To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.
Alexa Bliss
Love
You
Dramatic
Ring
Totally
Something
Wrestling
Perfect
Feel
Like
Acceptable
WWE
Escape
Little
Really
Act
Platform
Portray
When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
Alexander Chee
You
People
Writing
Behavior
Unhappy
Situation
Think
Find
Acceptable
Were
Historical
Historical Fiction
Did
Fiction
Interactions
Little
Social
Average
Farther
Fun
Why
I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
Alice Waters
Eat
Acceptable
Lot
Less
Meat
Whole
Need
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
Allison Anders
Suits
Practice
New
Acceptable
Essentially
Hollywood
Skinny
Actress
Fat
Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.
Amanda Foreman
Work
Best
Political
Nothing
Imagination
Correctness
Outer
Writers
Make
Edges
Acceptable
Does
Smooth
Limits
Traditional
Political Correctness
May
Arts
Conventional
Little
Exploring
The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.
Amitabh Bachchan
People
Cinema
Realistic
Group
Percentage
More
Small
Select
Perhaps
Make
Acceptable
Audience
Western
Very
Little
Who
Most of us are never educated about feelings. Instead, we're expected to learn socially acceptable ways to deal with feelings by watching the people around us. But the truth is, many people don't role model healthy ways to deal with feelings.
Amy Morin
Truth
Truth Is
People
Feelings
Healthy
Ways
About
Never
Instead
Most
Learn
Acceptable
Around
Deal
Educated
Model
Role
Role Model
Expected
Us
Many
Socially
Watching
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
Ana Castillo
You
White
Society
Everything
Brown
Could
Acceptable
Praised
Aesthetic
Want
Wanted
Which
Women's Studies, Queer Studies, African-American Studies, and Chicano Studies all produce culturally acceptable separatist and supremacy mind-sets and countenance movements that resemble those of white supremacists.
Andrew Breitbart
Women
White
Those
Countenance
Studies
Supremacy
Acceptable
Queer
Movements
African-American
Produce
Resemble
I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.
Andrew Lansley
People
Too Many People
Long
Lost
Strategy
Too
Spent
Determined
Only
Preventable
Acceptable
Loved
Loved Ones
Act
Tolerable
Who
Many
Level
As a group of players, and as a set-up, you need to set your stall out as to what is acceptable and what is not.
Andrew Strauss
You
Group
Out
Acceptable
Stall
Your
Players
Need
Set
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.
Anish Kapoor
Work
Changed
Way
Out
More
Look
Learned
Acceptable
Years
Exotic
Maybe
Artists
Younger
Work Out
Much
Who
Many
Now
Last
I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.
Anita Brookner
Writing
Rest
Think
Only
Bleak
Acceptable
Because
Making
Reviews
Very
Get
Mournful
Fiction
Popular
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
Antony Gormley
Art
Change
Job
Change Things
Immediately
Would
Acceptable
Doing
Things
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
Ariel Gore
History
Women
Emotions
Our
More
Acceptable
Been
Cultural
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Arne Jacobsen
Small Things
Quality
Sense
Gone
Way
Neighbour
Status
Silver
Small
Steel
Acceptable
Improved
Use
Uses
Even
Things
Symbol
I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.
Asia Kate Dillon
Time
Jewelry
People
Gender
Long
Hair
Think
Birth
Way
Sign
Status
Dress
Per
More
Long Hair
Absolutely
Had
Acceptable
Female
Femininity
Were
Than
Wanted
Anyone
Wore
Who
Assigned
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
Bill Buford
Important
Benchmark
Seventy
Wrapper
Per
Mass
Most
Acceptable
Content
Cent
Measure
Figure
Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.
Bill Flores
Time
Recognize
Concealed
Contain
Identification
Identifying
Acceptable
Handgun
Information
Forms
Required
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
Bill Haley
Music
Words
Easy
Write
Main
Main Thing
Acceptable
Just
Thing
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
Billie Jean King
Sports
Women
People
Girl
Active
Seventies
Those
Okay
Athletes
Had
Make
Accept
Acceptable
Females
Were
Times
Them
Much
While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example.
Brett Young
Hope
Music
Me
Example
Country
Sets
Everybody
Some
About
Give
Give Me
Feel
Country Music
Like
Sort
Acceptable
While
Evangelist
Platform
Keeping
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
Carl Paladino
Good
Leadership
Fight
Will
Party
Backs
Rank
Fold
Financing
Proper
Acceptable
Roles
Moderate
Expelled
Candidate
Republican
Republican Party
Fortitude
File
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