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Wanting money has been made so taboo. We're not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.
Jen Sincero
Money
Made
Single
Every
Our
Our Lives
Has-Been
Minute
Admit
Taboo
About
Allowed
Talk
Been
Want
Wanting
Use
Lives
The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.
Jennifer Armintrout
Women
Girl
Beauty
Young
Chubby
Lawrence
Allowed
She
Because
Model
Role
Role Model
Representative
Conventional
Young Girls
Reason
Jennifer
Jennifer Lawrence
Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.
Jennifer Armintrout
Woman
Acceptance
Melissa
Statements
About
Allowed
She
Make
Because
Brash
McCarthy
Apologize
Body
Her
Actually
Fat
I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.
Jennifer Coolidge
Work
Man
Theatre
Girl
Television
Out
Only
Allowed
Like
Attracted
Looks
Masterpiece
Lot
Austen
Up
Going
Where
Stories
Loved
Jane
Jane Austen
Work Out
Regular
Growing
Growing Up
Watch
Watched
I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.
Jennifer Coolidge
Girl
Young
Allowed
Documented
Because
Got
Being
Young Girls
Lucky
Career
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.
Jennifer Garner
People
Mother
Own
Changed
Circumstances
Gifted
Dream
Never
Had
Allowed
Attentive
Am
Than
Curious
Forgotten
Bigger
Loving
Them
Should
Organizations
Helped
Lucky
Dad
Lives
My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
Jennifer Hudson
Myself
Devil
Control
No-One
Allowed
Put
House
Because
Domain
Banana
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Why
Thing
Pudding
Bring
I hope I am allowed to say that the reason I am popular is because of the way I am, the way I race, and the way I talk. I am just the old-fashioned, reliable guy, and people always know I am after one thing: 'There is Jens. He will go in the breakaway.'
Jens Voigt
Hope
People
Will
Way
Say
Reliable
One Thing
Guy
Allowed
He
Know
Talk
Because
Always
Am
Go
Just
After
Race
Reason
Old-Fashioned
Popular
Thing
I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.
Jeremy Irons
Life
Great
Freedom
Me
Army
People
School
Way
Find
Stuck
Outside
Allowed
Industry
Traditional
Very
Banking
Wanted
Which
Prepared
You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.
Jeremy Lin
Me
You
Become
Way
Something
More
Wired
Allowed
Genetically
Lot
Grew
Happened
Certain
Body
Certain Way
Explosive
Professional
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.
Jerry Lewis
Me
Crazy
Comedy
King
Punch
Way
Niro
Out
Would
Tried
Never
Had
Allowed
Hysterical
De Niro
Because
Came
Lot
Normally
Get
Did
Any
Movie
Room
Bobby
Film
Play
Awful
Awful Lot
I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.
Jerry Lewis
Me
Nine
Never
Allowed
Within
Always
Been
Child
Die
Really
Ever
Basically
I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.
Jerry Reinsdorf
More
Allowed
Participate
Because
Owner
Owners
Being
Baseball
Enjoyed
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
Jerry Saltz
Good
Women
Money
Argument
Other
Claims
Out
Window
Allowed
Prospects
House
Because
Female
Female Artists
Women Are
Goes
Artists
Flies
Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.
Jess Row
Sometimes
Will
White
About
Given
Color
Write
Writers
Allowed
Implicit
Messages
Another
Explicit
Successful
Certain
Set
As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.
Jesse Lee Peterson
Result
Black
Men
Every
Weakness
Blacks
Absence
Allowed
Influence
Communities
Thing
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
Jesse Schell
Our
Pleasurable
Tend
Allowed
Make
Opposed
Efficient
Affluence
Move
Where
Place
Us
Things
If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.
Jesse Ventura
Win
Presidential
States
Run
Only
Allowed
Ballot
Debates
Get
For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.
Jessica Lange
Me
Emotions
Try
Down
Way
Dip
Allowed
Bottom
Part
Exciting
Reach
Most
Until
Well
Rock
Always
Came
Anything
Really
Explore
Acting
Found
There are a lot of podcasters that are females of color. And I think that we should be allowed to tell a very specific kind of story. And if you don't like it, you don't like it. But if you do, enjoy the tea! Sip that tea.
Jessica Williams
You
Tea
Enjoy
Think
Tell
Kind
Color
Allowed
Like
Females
Lot
Sip
Very
Story
Should
Specific
I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.
Jessie J
Character
Change
Hair
Style
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Allowed
Like
Look
Mix
Up
Yes
Fringe
Want
Grow
Started
Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.
Jim Crace
Me
Book
Progress
Journalist
Freelance
Neither
Absence
Features
Allowed
Hinder
Block
Nor
Years
Sixteen
Taught
Orderly
Should
Presence
Muse
Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
Jim Doyle
Kids
Allowed
Wisconsin
Fail
Failing
Because
Just
Just Because
Them
Washington
Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
Jimmy Iovine
Work
Music
Business
Too
Music Business
Innovate
Allowed
Simply
Does
Often
Anymore
Us
Companies
It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It's the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.
Jimmy Lai
Freedom
Me
People
Dictatorship
Rubs
Way
Allowed
Wrong
Wrong Way
Up
China
Chinese
Chinese People
Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
Jo Brand
Women
Punk
Looking
Relief
Allowed
Feminine
Oh
Stop
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