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For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
Gayle Lynds
Mom
Great
Law
Job
Husband
Few
Stay-At-Home
Stay-At-Home Mom
Eating
Small
Small Children
Had
Prospects
Baked
His
Decade
Office
Accustomed
Children
Boards
Sent
Cookies
Who
Sat
Sudden
Grown
Two
I've become accustomed to playing against four defenders throughout my career, but in Italy, I have to play against five.
Gonzalo Higuain
Become
Throughout
Italy
Five
Accustomed
Against
Play
Four
Playing
Career
Defenders
We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
Greg Ginn
Music
People
First
Enjoy
Our
Sold
Out
Would
Records
Could
Excited
Became
Felt
Always
Were
Get
Accustomed
Substantial
Them
Then
Number
As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.
Guy Kawasaki
Buy
Great
You
People
World
Will
Rest
Journalist
Down
Thinking
Analyst
Top
Marketers
Tell
Finding
Go
Accustomed
Endorse
Famous
Communicators
Product
Your
Who
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Service
Family
First
Some
Share
Mistress
Years
Accustomed
Children
Flint
Dr
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
Helen Rowland
Man
Will
Thought
Become
Own
Faults
Characteristics
Charming
He
Cherish
His
Begin
Personal
Accustomed
Little
Them
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
Hernan Cortes
Eat
Clean
Hall
Were
Covered
Very
Quite
Accustomed
Dishes
Which
Meals
Room
Large
Filled
Served
Kept
When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's almost like, 'Don't show wealth - that's crass.'
Jay-Z
You
Wealth
School
White
Kids
Wear
Could
Almost
Like
Sneakers
Accustomed
Show
Why
Right
To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.
Jean Piaget
Good
Calm
Own
Disposition
Difficulties
Out
Bad
Lay
Rocking
Infant
Get
Accustomed
May
Foundations
I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Good
Heart
Somewhere
Become
Guy
Accustomed
Maybe
Gold
Rough
Exterior
Good Guy
Playing
I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.
Jill Scott
You
Director
Feedback
Girl
Thrive
Down
Say
Boost
Kind
Like
Off
Waits
Up
Accustomed
Theater
Really
Actor
Started
Pull
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
Joel Barlow
Possible
Disadvantage
Advantages
Arms
Accustomed
Being
Use
Many
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
Joel Osteen
You
Sit
Living
Back
Point
Accept
Doing
Accustomed
Being
Less
Grow
Eventually
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.
John Battelle
Money
Bitcoin
Become
Pay
Think
Once
Way
Percentage
Had
Idea
Longer
New
Woke
Friction
Up
New Way
Accustomed
Us
Much
Larger
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
John Berger
Together
Must
Bored
Self
Never
Dogs
Accustomed
Your
Chain
Sausages
I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.
John Hurt
Films
Seeing
Without
Doing
Accustomed
Script
I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.
Kevin de Leon
Good
Sometimes
Think
Enough
Californians
Been
Accustomed
Being
Many
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
Kim Jee-woon
Made
Films
Several
Obviously
Well
Korea
Korean
Very
Accustomed
Filmmaking
Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.
Li Ning
Challenges
People
Problems
Old
First
Big
Transformation
Way
Faces
Know
Protect
Reaction
Track
Existing
Any
Going
Accustomed
Company
Even
Every time I get accustomed to low volatility, like we were towards the end of the Greenspan era, and we think we have all the levers under the control... something erupts to remind us that the idea that anybody is in control of everything is hubris.
Lloyd Blankfein
Time
Control
Every
Think
Every Time
Everything
Something
Volatility
Remind
Idea
Towards
Like
Era
Were
Hubris
End
Get
Accustomed
Anybody
Low
Us
People are so accustomed now to social networking. Now everybody has custom-made news for him or her. So everybody is a content maker and a content reactor.
Lucien Bourjeily
News
People
Everybody
Networking
Him
Content
Maker
Accustomed
Social
Now
Her
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides
Man
Youth
Defends
Those
Has-Been
Case
He
Likes
Opinions
Opposite
Been
His
Same
Accustomed
Which
Them
Views
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
Major Owens
Teacher
World
Faster
Classroom
More
Exciting
Than
Front
Accustomed
Children
Moves
Anything
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
Manfred von Richthofen
Service
War
Become
Nothing
Our
Months
Several
Papers
About
Had
Contained
Talk
However
Been
Accustomed
Often
Stories
Packed
Fantastic
Whole
Thing
Tedious
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Manuel Puig
Mind
Somebody
Reading
Philosophical
Books
Kind
He
Reading Books
Understand
Same
Gets
Accustomed
Movie
Information
Might
Fully
Spectator
I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.
Mario Lemieux
Past
Longer
Accustomed
In The Past
Play
Level
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