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I have taken my friends' bikes for rides, but my parents never allowed me to get one for myself, as they think bikes are unsafe. Personally, though, I love bikes.
Taapsee Pannu
Love
Myself
Me
Parents
Think
Though
Unsafe
Never
Allowed
Taken
Friends
Get
Personally
Bikes
Rides
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
War
World
Petty
Everything
Allowed
Since
Bourgeois
End
Achieved
Which
Regimes
Average
Second
World War
Mediocre
Second World War
It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
Tammy Duckworth
Work
Hard Work
Me
Women
Achieve
Fly
First
Become
Dream
Allowed
Combat
Combination
Missions
Hand
Up
American
American Dream
Hard
It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.
Tatjana Patitz
Women
Be Nice
Healthy
Young
Nice
Would
Would-Be
Athletic
More
Allowed
Weight
Like
Look
Looked
Were
Up
Models
Them
Young Women
Who
I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
Taylor Hawkins
Down
About
Only
Week
Piano
Had
Allowed
Instead
House
Drums
Because
Just
Sat
Whole
Play
Played
Started
Playing
Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.
Ted Danson
Best
Opportunity
Think
Everything
Out
Some
Had
Allowed
Come
Cheers
Am
Been
Friends
Shows
Ever
Funniest
Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
Ted Deutch
Finance
People
Achieve
Few
Congress
Other
Everyday
Complete
Corporations
Immediately
Out
Citizens
Wealthy
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Gives
Voices
Allowed
Simply
Fails
Drown
Voters
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Reversal
Campaign
Campaign Finance
Amendment
Option
American
Any
Want
Decisions
American People
United
I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.
Teresa Heinz
Yourself
Speak
Be Yourself
Feelings
Living
Ability
Someone
Allowed
Am
Dictatorships
Person
Being
Them
Themselves
Asked
Product
Lived
A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
Terry Eagleton
Life
Culture
Believe
Think
Everyone
Project
Way
Alike
Shaping
Allowed
Fairness
Truly
Godliness
Common
Which
Next
The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation of their property and the purchase and export of German goods to break the boycott of Germany's Nazi-controlled economy.
Terry Glavin
Property
Jews
Purchase
Exchange
Allowed
Goods
Economy
Boycott
Well-To-Do
German
Germany
Escape
Liquidation
Break
Export
Agreement
When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.
Terry Hayes
Library
Father
Local
Books
Release
Section
Stating
Sign
Borrow
Adult
Had
Allowed
Go
Form
I went to middle school and high school, and my drama teacher, Ms. Cooper, basically nurtured me. It was always a part of my life, and my parents allowed it to be.
Teyonah Parris
Life
Teacher
Me
School
My Life
Parents
Drama
Nurtured
High
High School
Allowed
Part
Always
Middle
Middle School
Cooper
Basically
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Good
Wish
Others
Ought
Everyone
Marry
Some
Allowed
Make
Average
Twice
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
Thomas Friedman
Work
Knowledge
History
People
World
Seen
Collaborate
Plug
More
More People
Allowed
Share
Global
Than
The History Of
Anything
Created
Platform
Ever
Play
Compete
I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.
Thomas McGuane
Life
Sometimes
My Life
Decency
Way
Spent
Allowed
Fishing
Get
Much
Even
I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.
Thomas Peterffy
Great
Bitcoin
Think
Other
Appropriate
Great Ideas
Find
Allowed
Freely
Economy
Ideas
Traded
Role
Should
Used
A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
Thomas Sowell
Somebody
Sign
Would
Would-Be
Price
Allowed
Supply
Demand
Freely
Operate
Were
Than
Artificially
Shortage
Lower
Keeping
Looking back at old-school pictures, I never had a hair or makeup person. I wasn't required to wear a lot of hair and makeup. I was never really allowed to do that because it was the image.
Tiffany Darwish
Hair
Looking
Looking Back
Back
Wear
Never
Had
Allowed
Pictures
Because
Makeup
Lot
Person
Really
Required
Image
There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.
Tiger Woods
Skin
States
Color
Allowed
Courses
Because
Am
Still
United
United States
Play
I was incredibly jealous of friends who had bit parts in 'Home and Away.' I just hoped I'd somehow be allowed into this game.
Tim Minchin
Jealous
Home
Game
Incredibly
Bit
Hoped
Somehow
Had
Allowed
Parts
Friends
Just
Who
Away
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.
Timothy Bottoms
Comedy
Hoot
More
Allowed
Part
Most
Comedy Central
Did
Central
Bush
Should
Fun
While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.
Timothy Murphy
Work
National
Field
Guard
Addition
Border
Border Patrol
More
Computers
Allowed
Support
Still
Cameras
Providing
National Guard
Role
Patrol
While
Agents
Recent
Needed
You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
Timothy West
You
Whatever
Down
Rules
Hunt
Out
Allowed
Step
Frightening
Get
Politically
Really
Thing
Socially
The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for me and allowed me to come in.
Tituss Burgess
Me
Man
First
White
Broadway
Some
Had
Allowed
Come
Supposedly
Got
Role
Producers
Who
Fought
I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.
Todd Haynes
Gay
You
World
Long
Reading
Before
Think
Gays
Define
Visible
Something
Take
Allowed
Long Tradition
Almost
Material
Tradition
Were
Existed
Camp
Really
Hard
Speaks
Fascinating
Thing
Apply
I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!
Tom Daley
Celebrate
Year
Would
Allowed
Normal
Going
Eighteen
After
Olympics
Save
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