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My mother used to ask me to stay home from school and keep her company. I'd fake I was sick, and she'd fake believing me.
Dinah Manoff
Home
Me
School
Mother
Sick
Stay
She
Fake
Ask
Used
Company
Keep
Believing
Her
I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
Dirk Benedict
Me
Took
Worst
About
How
Years
Person
Get
Ask
Noticed
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
Dirk Benedict
Alone
You
Writing
Unless
Collaborate
Ex-Wife
Able
Done
Ask
Cuz
Helps
Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.
Dixie Lee Ray
Truth
Matter
Back
Air
Once
Out
Charges
Outlandish
Seem
Having
Never
Thus
Longer
Print
Makes
How
Verification
Reporters
Done
May
Buried
Ask
Page
We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.
Dixie Lee Ray
Our
Evidence
Those
Give
Facts
Supposed
Make
Policy
Makers
Office
Behind
Decisions
Skeptical
Elect
Ask
Us
Should
Who
Need
The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.
Doc Rivers
You
Made
Think
Enough
Out
Winning
He
Over
Himself
Wade
Gets
Want
Ask
Choice
Choose
Standing
Credit
Thing
Player
In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.
Don Lemon
Life
Me
You
My Life
Nothing
About
Open
Talk
How
Am
Where
Order
Ask
Really
Transparent
Lived
Now
Honest
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
Don McLean
People
Song
About
Point
Between
Missing
Pie
Lines
American
Themselves
Ask
American Pie
The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'
Don Rickles
Me
Important
Young
Secret
Tell
Stay
Staying
No Secret
Longevity
Most
Comedians
Most Important Thing
Around
Always
Important Thing
Just
The Most Important
Them
Ask
Thing
I'm a guy who likes to keep fighting five, six times a year, so if I ask for too much money, they might say, 'Well, we pay you too much. We can't let you keep jumping backwards and forwards and promote it.' The money I'm making is good to keep grabbing short-notice fights. I love them; they're my favorite ones.
Donald Cerrone
Love
Good
You
Money
Too Much
Backwards
Year
Pay
Fighting
Too
Too Much Money
Say
Favorite
Promote
Guy
Likes
Well
Making
Jumping
Five
Grabbing
Times
Six
Them
Might
Ask
Much
Fights
Who
Forwards
Keep
Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.
Donald Johanson
Me
You
Looking
Field
Find
Journalists
Because
Answer
Always
Surface
Go
Expect
Unexpected
Often
Scratched
Just
Tip
Tip Of The Iceberg
Just Looking
Iceberg
Ask
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Donald Kagan
Time
You
Ought
See
About
True
Because
Always
Question
Historian
Same
Anybody
Different
Place
Ask
Really
Different Place
We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.
Donella Meadows
Jokes
Stupid
Politicians
President
Our
Corrupt
Pentagon
About
Seem
Given
Highest
He
Come
Likeable
Make
Bidder
Dollars
Sale
Up
Campaigns
Expect
Tax
Vice
Vice President
Tax Dollars
Mean
Ask
Use
Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.
Donna Brazile
You
Waiting
Will
Breakfast
Gone
Lunch
Colleagues
Tell
Jobs
Find
Only
Had
He
He Or She
Know
Likely
She
Another
How
Person
Same
Walmart
Any
Store
McDonald
Them
Ask
Worker
Many
Starbucks
Two
The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.
Donna Lynne Champlin
You
Blame
Difficult
No Choice
Mental
Mental Illness
Mentally
No-One
Because
Person
Ask
Choice
Ill
Illness
Thing
Difficult Thing
My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.'
Donovan
Music
You
Money
Guitar
Long
Music Industry
Would
Someone
Never
Pick
Industry
Said
Always
How
Came
Up
Stolen
Interested
Poor
Ask
Dad
Millions
My philosophy is that I may not like all the questions that you ask, and you may not like all the answers that I give, but this is part of a transparent government.
Doug Ducey
Government
You
Philosophy
Give
Part
Like
Answers
Questions
May
Ask
Transparent
I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Doug Harvey
God
Best
Home
Me
People
White
Other
Earth
Way
Between
Like
Lines
Umpire
Any
Done
Just
Any Other Way
Where
Want
Ask
Working
Meant
Fortunate
Home Plate
Plate
Found
Belong
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.
Douglas Rushkoff
You
Cell Phone
Phones
People
Phone
Mind
Lover
Other
Enough
Sign
Table
Open
Puts
Putting
Prospective
Know
Likely
Make
Client
Off
Close
Cell
Conversations
Them
Realize
Turned
Ask
Turning
Less
Even
Away
Start
Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
Drew Barrymore
Great
Me
You
People
Money
Father
Birthdays
Would
Invest
Attainable
Emotionally
He
Like
Know
Wrote
Him
Learned
Yeah
Off
Times
Just
Cannot
Inappropriate
Ask
Who
Dad
That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment.
Drew Carey
Work
Great
You
People
Better
Enjoy
About
Guys
Having
Environment
Great Thing
Known
Around
Friends
Forever
Just
Work Environment
Ask
Really
Your
Company
Thing
When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.
Drew Gilpin Faust
Heart
Mind
Become
Spring
Right Place
Consider
Address
Harvard
Would
Admission
Admitted
Students
Am
Questions
Person
Get
Any
Want
Process
Place
Them
Ask
Each
Why
Right
Two
People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.
Drew Houston
You
Yourself
People
Few
Assumptions
Wave
Would
Magic
Magic Wand
Could
Instead
Make
Doing
Years
Very
Five
Few People
Going
Wand
Want
Themselves
Ask
Really
Now
Based
Actually
Basic
The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.
Du Fu
Clouds
Strike
Rise
Only
Voices
Weeping
Roadside
Answers
Up
Often
Happens
Straight
Ask
Why
Drafting
My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'
Dule Hill
Me
You
People
Space
Parents
Would
Could
Never
Name
Like
Liked
Hill
Because
Always
Got
How
Aunt
Odyssey
Up
Dunk
Wanted
Ask
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'
Dutch Ruppersberger
Time
Food
Me
You
People
Destruction
Say
Spicy
Weapons
Attacks
Mass
Mass Destruction
Mexican
Up
Ask
Cyber
Keeps
Night
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