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It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
Maxfield Parrish
Beautiful
Light
Most Beautiful
White
State
Admitted
Color
Through
Generally
Over
Most
Qualities
Shining
Transparent
Ground
Applied
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
Maya Lin
Class
School
First
Kid
High
High School
Almost
Yale
Got
Go
Dumbest
Person
Then
Your
Lark
Applied
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.
Michael Haneke
War
Daily
Films
Way
Would
Would-Be
Civil
Civil War
Could
Between
Know
Goes
Title
Us
Applied
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.
Michele Bachmann
Work
Education
Post
Law
School
Degree
Husband
Lawyer
States
Kids
William
Ourselves
At-Risk
Only
Charter
Federal
Mary
Scholarship
Doctorate
Court
Education Reform
Five
Reform
Tax
Children
Foster
Foster Children
Serious
United
United States
Applied
Started
Raised
We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
Michelle Hunziker
People
Unbelievably
Superstar
Selected
Look
Began
Germany
Jury
Which
Applied
Competent
Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink.
Michio Kaku
Physics
Wife
Thought
Met
Dancing
Rink
Could
Had
Picked
How
Falling
Rockefeller
Repeatedly
Years
Years Ago
End
Up
Jumps
Than
Just
Upside
After
Center
Ice
Skating
Realized
Rear
Hard
Figure
Figure Skating
Who
Harder
Applied
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Montesquieu
Law
Political
Nation
Ought
Earth
Civil
Cases
General
Laws
Only
Particular
Governs
Human
Which
Inasmuch
Inhabitants
Reason
Human Reason
Each
Applied
I come from a small village called Murud Janjira near Alibaug. I started doing theatre right from school days and later joined the Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, after which I joined an advertising agency.
Nana Patekar
Art
School Days
Theatre
School
Later
Small
Joined
Institute
Days
Come
Advertising
Advertising Agency
Doing
Sir
After
Which
Agency
Village
Near
Right
Applied
Started
Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
Nate Silver
Believe
Recognized
He
Caesar
Him
Applied
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
Nathan Lane
Character
Change
First
Took
Books
Joe
Born
Guys
Detroit
Had
Joseph
Name
Liked
First Name
Said
Dolls
Very
Much
Lane
Union
Whom
Actor
Played
Applied
Last
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker
Life
You
Power
Own
Relative
Particular
Until
Him
Proverb
His
Friend
Sway
Your
Watched
Applied
Apply
I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.
Nick Hornby
Job
Once
Melody
Maker
Applied
We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.
Nigel Hamilton
Work
Fashion
Intelligence
Compassion
Hair
Think
Our
Once
Monumental
Out
Critical
Torn
Reconstruct
Faculties
Delusion
Empathy
Like
Still
Get
Trying
Going
Human
Literary
Them
Noticed
Sculptures
Chosen
Lives
Applied
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
Ninette de Valois
You
Dance
Classical
Like
Sopranos
Then
Applied
It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.
Peter Singer
Work
You
People
World
Better
Ethics
Important
Think
Say
About
More
Could
Better Place
Make
Read
Because
Place
Them
Many
Specifically
Right
Things
Applied
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Pierre Corneille
Patient
Allow
Remedy
He
Unwilling
How
His
Disease
Loves
Applied
The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions.
Pierre Nanterme
Business
Key
Discipline
Strategy
Our
Consistently
Systematically
Rigor
Running
Investments
Executing
Same
Acquisitions
Use
Including
Growth
Applied
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Pope Benedict XVI
Democracy
Church
Society
Appropriate
Civil
Purely
Civil Society
Simply
Conduct
Cannot
Standards
Workings
Applied
I only applied for 'Countdown' as a bit of a laugh while applying for lots of other graduate jobs. I've had some amazing opportunities, and I've loved every minute.
Rachel Riley
Opportunities
Amazing
Every
Other
Bit
Laugh
Jobs
Minute
Some
Only
Had
Lots
Graduate
Loved
While
Applied
Applying
When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose photography because I see photography as an applied science. There is an artistic element also in it. If you perfect your scientific element, you can attain certain quality.
Rajiv Menon
You
Science
Photography
Quality
See
Join
Perfect
Attain
Study
Institute
Also
Because
Scientific
Itself
Artistic
Decided
Certain
Your
Standard
Element
Chose
Film
Specifically
Applied
All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
Ram Shriram
Business
Consumer
Gotten
Being
Social
Used
Things
Applied
My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.
Robert C. Merton
Mathematics
Business
Inflation
Decision
Made
Economics
Controlling
Had
Part
Tied
Leave
Unemployment
Stopping
Dysfunctional
Cycles
Popular
Belief
Fundamental
Applied
Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.
Robert Hewison
Education
Art
Power
Everyone
Eye
Development
Concern
Hand
Applied
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
Robert Rainy
Forgiveness
Strict
Church
Consistency
Churches
Various
Had
Perhaps
Principle
However
Testimony
Been
Sins
Certain
Should
Novelty
Receive
Applied
A few years after that first visit, I applied for a job in Yosemite.
Robert Redford
Job
First
Few
Visit
Years
Yosemite
After
Applied
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
Robert Walpole
Before
Every
Has-Been
Parliament
Been
Article
Accounts
Expense
Laid
Which
Public
Regular
Uses
Treasure
Applied
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