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Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.
Jacinda Ardern
Politics
Job
Everyone
Worst
Knows
Accepted
Short
Just
Notice
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
Jackie Collins
Me
Book
Finished
First
Critic
Bestseller
About
Finishing
Never
He
Instant
Most
Read
Became
Accepted
Male
Encouraged
Friends
Shocking
Confident
Away
Ever
Publisher
Right
Right Away
When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.
Jacob Artist
Conversation
School
Dance
Parents
Some
Accepted
Greatest
Got
Truly
Ultimately
Senior
Move
Decided
Act
Fun
Ever
As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.
Jai Rodriguez
Me
People
Universe
Our
More
More People
Accept
Accepted
Began
Show
Men in makeup is becoming more widely accepted. But it's going to take so much more open-mindedness to have it be a common thing.
James Charles
Men
More
Take
Accepted
Makeup
Becoming
Going
Common
Much
Thing
Widely
Men in makeup, obviously, is a very new concept. It has not been widely accepted in the past.
James Charles
Men
Past
New
Concept
Obviously
Accepted
Makeup
Been
Very
In The Past
Widely
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
James L. Buckley
Corruption
First
Spending
Ruled
Constraint
Individual
First Amendment
Court
Accepted
Limit
Limited
Limits
Campaign
Amendment
Contributions
Justified
Avoid
Ground
Appearance
Violated
Consequence
Need
Speech
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
James Meade
Government
Obligation
White
Paper
UK
Leading
Maintenance
Employment
Policy
Accepted
Were
Up
Discussions
Which
Second
Drafts
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
James Wolcott
Great
World
Some
Never
Beauties
Contain
Invisible
Globe
Accepted
Line
Snow
Fiction
Should
Separating
Whole
Novels
Why
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
Jane Goodall
Science
Animal
Intuition
About
Individuality
Look
Accepted
Began
Behaviour
Room
Hard
Thing
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Spiritual
Gifts
Through
Come
Sort
Accepted
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame
Time
Kind
Neither
Easy
Abnormal
Could
Divisions
Accepted
Stifle
Understood
Were
Nor
Deciding
Meant
Help
Fashionable
Need
Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.
Jared Polis
Unions
Churches
Kinds
Civil
Able
Arena
Accepted
Denomination
Decide
Sanctified
Should
Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
Jason McCoy
Music
Class
Guitar
Passion
Country
Glorious
Mouth
Too
Drama
Would
Would-Be
Small
Trombone
Football
Scholastic
Counterpart
Country Music
Accepted
Braces
Did
Grade
Loves
Fantastic
Full
Shy
Violence is totally accepted in this country.
Jay Chandrasekhar
Country
Totally
Accepted
Violence
Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.
Jean Craighead George
You
Eyes
Yourself
Wolf
Those
Had
Knew
Spoken
Feel
Another
Accepted
Been
Oh
Being
Species
Pulled
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.
Jeff Kinney
Me
First
Considerable
Books
Characters
Consternation
Part
Like
Devoured
Because
Accepted
Judy
Caused
Were
Lot
Up
Essential
Essential Part
Where
Children
Literary
Canon
Which
Many
Growing
Believable
Growing Up
Found
Now
Published
Widely
I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.
Jen Lancaster
Myself
Embarrass
Fact
Accepted
How
Am
Going
Just
The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.
Jenna Wortham
Good
Events
Internet
Ways
Bad
Pushing
Accepted
Without
Always
Question
Version
Trusted
Official
Realize
Us
He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.
Jennifer Grant
Alexander
Cary Grant
He
Himself
Accepted
Go
Forgive
Forgiven
Grant
Who
Let Go
Needed
It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
Jenny Lewis
You
Song
Amazing
Films
Circumstances
Some
Pretty
Someone
Gives
Write
Songs
Written
Couple
Accepted
Left
Up
Times
Forever
Get
Ended
Any
Any Circumstances
Then
Disney
Even
Actually
Assignment
Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car.
Jens Martin Skibsted
Health
Management
Simple
Space
Perspective
Car
Will
Collapse
Cities
Impact
Give
Implications
Global
Global Warming
Accepted
Priority
Mobility
Pollution
Warming
Even
Eventually
You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean, it's accepted by scientists around the world, scientists in our country and it's accepted by every country around the world with the exception of the United States.
Jerry Greenfield
You
People
World
Country
Every
Our
States
Administration
Exception
Global
Know
Global Warming
Accepted
Around
Scientists
Get
Which
Acknowledging
Frustrated
Mean
Warming
Really
Who
United
United States
The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
Jessa Gamble
Culture
People
Research
Military
Resources
Kind
Taking
Beyond
Accepted
Goal
Norm
Going
Human
Many
Enhancement
In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
Jessica Alba
Culture
People
Ghosts
Eastern
See
About
Talk
Accepted
Western
Western Culture
Just
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
Jessica Savitch
Journalist
Peers
Considered
Accepted
Very
Wanted
Much
Serious
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