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For democracy to function properly it requires accepting the absolute right of individuals and groups to campaign against decisions previously taken by majorities and to seek to change them.
Dominic Grieve
Democracy
Change
Seek
Properly
Absolute
Taken
Individuals
Accepting
Campaign
Against
Decisions
Them
Requires
Groups
Function
Right
When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.
Donna Karan
Woman
People
Idea
Accepting
Were
Really
Working
Started
Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps
Life
Good
Change
Challenges
Worth
Problems
Living
Think
Good Life
Consists
Worth Living
Solving
Idea
Without
Accepting
Makes
Discovery
Personal
Personal Growth
Being
Aware
Growth
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Before
Goddess
Every
Destined
Prom
Collecting
Date
Sacrifices
Football
Football Team
Town
Excursion
Like
Accepting
Boy
Going
Romantic
Meant
Team
Captain
Saturday
Saturday Night
Competing
Night
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
Elon Musk
Law
Real Estate
Startups
Valley
Critical
Critical Mass
Evolved
Geared
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Structure
Support
Toward
Mass
Venture
Accepting
Real
Being
Estate
Capitalists
Engineers
Actually
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
Emmylou Harris
Life
Good
You
Good Things
Grace
Expectation
Embracing
Come
Accepting
Still
Been
Expected
Certain
Your
Things
Necessarily
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
Evita Peron
Government
Me
You
Rights
Women
Joy
Victory
Nation
Before
Tremble
Our
Laurel
Civil
Civil Rights
Feel
Accepting
Am
Handed
Behalf
Hands
Just
Proclaiming
Us
Certain
Bill
Grants
Grasp
Receiving
I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
Fergie
Myself
Try
Girl
Once
More
Remind
Learned
Accepting
Got
Prove
Lines
Just
If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.
Frankie Grande
You
People
Will
Way
Environment
Know
Accepting
Always
Just
Where
Happen
Who
Need
The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
Garth Brooks
Love
You
Business
Back
About
Part
Accepted
Accepting
End
Same
Front
Hardest
Hardest Part
Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
Gary Herbert
Economic Development
Sometimes
Prison
Promoting
Economic
Development
Accepting
Task
Moving
Means
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot
Soul
Consists
Unbelief
Accepting
Denying
Them
Belief
I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.
Geri Halliwell
Myself
Down
Settled
More
Accepting
Issues
Lot
Much
Body
Naturally
Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
Gillian Armstrong
Liberal
Relationships
More
Facto
Accepting
Australia
Than
Much
Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn't lead to pride, but instead to humility; you're less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.
Gina Barreca
You
Pride
Own
Humility
Others
Recognizing
Lead
Instead
Bounty
Talents
Likely
Accepting
Understand
Limitless
Mean
Your
Less
Resent
Believing
Strengths
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
Gregg Easterbrook
You
Risks
People
Chasing
Nothing
Help Others
Heroic
Other
Others
Those
Out
Run
About
Take
Qualities
Although
Around
Accepting
Ball
Go
May
While
Themselves
Fortitude
Show
Help
Million
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Suffering
Abortion
Hypocrisy
Unwanted
Morality
Accepting
Becomes
Mothers
Children
Dying
Pregnancies
Means
Illegal
Connection
Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.
Guy Pearce
Funny
Saying
Me
You
Strange
People
Face
Looking
Enough
Tell
Fact
Botox
Had
Putting
Days
Look
Sort
Accepting
Surgery
Go
Getting
Just
Anything
Them
Really
Who
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Being an NBA player, a lot of stress comes with that: realizing there's a lot of pressure on me and accepting that for what it is, realizing that I might need help, I might need somebody to talk to, accepting that there's nothing wrong with that.
Jahlil Okafor
Me
Stress
Pressure
Somebody
Nothing
Wrong
Talk
Accepting
Lot
Being
Might
Realizing
Help
NBA
Player
Need
It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.
Jamie Dornan
Funny
You
Become
Older
Everything
Bit
Definitely
More
Like
Felt
Accepting
How
Get
Skeptical
Your
Twenties
Things
When I was 12, my brother and I moved back to Honolulu to live with our mother. Hawaii felt like another universe, and reflecting on it, I am struck by how much more open and accepting it was.
Janet Mock
Mother
Live
Universe
Honolulu
Back
Our
Brother
Struck
More
Hawaii
Open
Like
Another
Felt
Accepting
How
Am
How Much
Reflecting
Moved
Much
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
Jason Mraz
Life
Parents
Shared
Supportive
Perhaps
Accepting
Always
Were
Very
Curiosity
Even
I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.
Jay-Z
Business
Change
Think
Record
Record Business
Instead
Industry
Napster
Around
Accepting
Came
Happened
Happening
Rejected
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
Jeb Bush
Failure
Pressure
Unions
Mediocrity
Kids
Tactic
Takes
Accepting
Off
Low
Teachers
Standards
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
Jennifer Garner
Success
You
Business
Achieve
Side
Kind
Well
Without
Accepting
Trying
Any
Going
Flip
In America, I can just be glamorous, which is lovely. People are happy and accepting of exactly what it is I do.
Jenny Packham
Happy
People
Just Be
Exactly
Exactly What
Glamorous
Accepting
America
Just
Lovely
Which
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