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The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
Rowan Williams
Health
You
Unless
Having
Clean
Hospital
Taken
Simply
Particular
Until
Answer
Leave
Effect
Very
Meaning
Bill
Paid
Your
Captive
Treatment
As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply seemed like the best answer.
Roxane Gay
Best
Humanity
Feminism
Think
Claim
Bad
About
Seemed
Imperfections
Simply
Like
Also
Answer
How
Acknowledging
While
Started
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker
Life
You
Wonderful
Think
Final
Final Answer
Kind
About
Having
Computation
Clear
Abundant
Particularly
Answer
Halt
Going
Quite
Anything
Your
You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
S. C. Gwynne
You
Fear
First
Settle
Rangers
Allowed
Know
Well
First Place
Around
Answer
How
Came
Texas
Mexicans
American
Want
Place
Why
Here
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Son
Oppression
Before
Extravagance
Summoned
Frederick
Brought
Given
Crown
Instead
Emperor
Him
Answer
Duke
Ferdinand
His
Imprisoned
Accusation
Estates
Against
Henry
When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.
Sachin Bansal
Time
Technology
Win
Will
Build
Down
Increasing
Scale
Cost
Costs
Prices
Over
Come
Answer
Reduce
Reducing
Handle
Companies
Large
Large-Scale
Margins
The answer is pretty clear that your intelligence can actually be changed.
Sal Khan
Intelligence
Changed
Pretty
Clear
Answer
Your
Actually
I was always asking people about their work. How do you do a job like that? Do you love it? What does it pay? I was lucky to have access to people who could answer my questions. Otherwise, my life could have turned out very differently.
Sal Khan
Life
Work
Love
You
People
Job
My Life
Pay
Otherwise
Out
About
Could
Like
Access
Answer
Does
Always
How
Questions
Very
Turned
Asking
Who
Lucky
Differently
People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.
Sallie Krawcheck
Me
Woman
People
Say
People Say
Answer
Yes
Being
Your
Helped
Career
When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.
Sandi Toksvig
Woman
Women
People
Enough
Panel
Say
People Say
Host
Make
Answer
Shows
The secret to my success is to work seven days a week. It's as disappointing an answer as the one about how to lose weight. Eat less. Sleep less. Very boring.
Sandi Toksvig
Success
Work
Lose
Secret
Seven
Boring
Eat
About
Week
Weight
Disappointing
Days
Answer
How
Very
Success Is
Less
Sleep
After an afternoon of interviewing Siri it turns out there are millions of questions that it can't or won't answer: How did you get my phone number? How many Siris are there? Did you have a Christmas party? Who is playing the tiny xylophone before and after each interaction? Are you spying on us, plotting the downfall of our species?
Sara Pascoe
Christmas
You
Phone
Party
Before
Interviewing
Our
Phone Number
Out
Plotting
Answer
How
Questions
Spying
Get
Did
Tiny
Interaction
After
Afternoon
Us
Turns
Who
Downfall
Many
Each
Species
Millions
Playing
Number
When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting the characters' lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.
Sara Zarr
Me
Those
Characters
Seeing
Takes
Leading
Answer
Questioning
Questions
Up
Same
Where
Unfold
Them
Asking
Lives
Letting
Things
If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?
Sarah Harrison
Our
Destroy
Give
Investigate
Take
Journalists
Protect
Force
Documents
Sure
Answer
How
Terrorists
Sources
Questions
Up
Going
Us
Britain
The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer. However, we don't know for sure.
Sean M. Carroll
Time
Travel
Way
Say
Out
Simplest
Puzzle
Know
Likely
Sure
Answer
However
Time Travel
Very
Done
Right
Right Answer
What is the point of one guy developing a 1.3 engine, and another guy a 1.4? What are you getting for this? And the answer is nothing: a total waste of capital.
Sergio Marchionne
You
Nothing
Total
Guy
Point
Developing
Another
Answer
Getting
Capital
Engine
Waste
Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever.
Seth Shostak
Creation
Our
Philosophies
Members
Would
Cosmos
Only
Could
Cleverest
Learn
Understand
Answer
Affect
Pinnacle
Forever
Galaxy
Really
Sapiens
Actually
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'
Shailene Woodley
Today
You
Class
Everyone
Top
Kid
Feel
Feels
League
Like
Know
Most
Schools
Because
Answer
Does
Got
How
Odd
Go
Question
Ivy
Ivy League
Getting
Just
Much
Asking
Your
Who
Buzz
Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.
Shakira
Love
Me
Love Is
State
Constant
Seeing
Simply
Answer
Questions
It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.
Shane Carruth
Better
Sense
Easier
Easy
Find
Because
Makes
Answer
Answers
Question
Questions
Than
Want
While
Frustrating
Interesting
Ask
Viewer
Ever
Compelling
I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.
Shane Warne
Own
To Be Honest
Think
Too
Interviews
Way
Say
Boring
Journalists
Like
Also
Because
Answer
Answers
Questions
Up
Same
Afraid
Anything
Unfortunately
Them
Turn
Ask
Who
Many
Even
Now
Players
Honest
Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.
Shannon Miller
Time
You
Do The Right Thing
Single
Every
Every Single Time
Everyone
Right Thing
Obstacles
Answer
Single Time
Going
The Right Thing
Right
Thing
Right Answer
#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer.
Sharan Burrow
Work
Silence
Women
People
Long
Society
Too
Systemic
Has-Been
General
Bias
Because
Answer
Been
Discrimination
Get
Whether
Against
Shows
Away
Violence
Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.
Sharon Creech
Character
You
Own
Every
Find
Finds
Purpose
Because
Answer
How
Am
Contribute
Just
Just Because
Want
Place
Asking
Your
Reason
Each
Why
Here
The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
Sharon Jones
Music
Me
You
Soul
Music Industry
Finally
Recognized
See
Only
Know
Contemporary
Industry
Sort
Soul Music
Answer
Hip-Hop
Accomplish
Question
Get
The Only Thing
Wanted
Award
Awards
Thing
Things
Funk
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
Shaun White
Best
You
Game
Happy
Competition
Strategy
Finally
Out
Solving
About
Like
Know
Equation
Answer
Math
Get
Hard
Whole
Works
Thing
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