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I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
Mark Waters
Love
Character
You
Sports
Reading
Otherwise
Considered
Moral
Moral Character
Indiana
About
Attempt
Stems
Dubious
Least
Were
Up
Where
Them
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Play Basketball
Watching
Playing
Basketball
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
Martin Jacques
Natural
Result
Pressure
Birthright
Thoroughly
Attempt
Attention
Thwarted
Countries
Come
Global
Western
Western Countries
Accustomed
Being
Hold
Regard
Which
China
Centre
Awarded
Sydney
Olympics
In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.
Matt Lauer
Frustration
Phone
Mind
Extraordinarily
Phone Call
Frantic
Followed
Something
Attempt
Period
Call
Am
Five-Minute
Fix
Handy
Experimentation
Means
Professional
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
Matteo Salvini
Once
Attempt
Make
Dublin
Sovereignty
Monetary
Last
Treaties
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Maude Adams
Failure
Made
First
Complete
About
Attempt
Leading
Course
Lady
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Maureen Dowd
Nature
Sense
Must
Rather
Attempt
Simply
Clearly
Justify
Them
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.
Max Baucus
Must
Administration
Threat
More
Outrage
Attempt
Open
Cuba
Selling
Us
Less
Products
Agricultural
Keep
Why
People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.
Max Richter
People
Marks
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Record
Some
About
Could
Attempt
Written
Put
Hours
Were
Repeat
End
Just
Sleep
I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.
Maxwell
Music
Soul
Try
Embody
Attempt
Feel
Like
Soul Music
Am
Maturing
Really
Karaoke
Now
There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
Merle Haggard
Life
You
Police
My Life
Rumor
Possible
Tell
Record
More
Attempt
Hour
Look
Than
May
Story
Which
Script
Organizing
Series
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
Michael Tippett
Music
You
Kind
Something
Something Special
Attempt
Special
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
Michio Kaku
Truth
Buy
Made
Scare
Somewhat
Point
Attempt
Had
Were
Get
Public
Movies
Them
Create
Inherent
Popcorn
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
Miuccia Prada
People
Sometimes
Luxury
Considered
Introducing
Attempt
Concept
Quirky
Ordinary
Commonplace
Subvert
Elements
Interpret
'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
Mona Simpson
Love
Vision
Love Story
Difficult
Attempt
Had
Story
All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.
Mukesh Ambani
Time
You
Struggle
First
Important
Sense
Give
Attempt
Never
Learned
Because
How
Important Thing
Continuously
Up
Get
Want
Which
Succeed
Us
Really
Thing
All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.
Murray Rothbard
Action
State
More
Exchange
Attempt
Affairs
Less
Satisfactory
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
Naomi Klein
You
Change
First
Took
Valid
About
Computer
Write
Attempt
Soon
Wrote
Well
Opinion
Climate
Climate Change
Discredit
Conference
Plane
Your
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to understanding where where, where they come from, and where they are going.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Time
Understanding
Earth
Kind
Some
Civilizations
Invested
Attempt
Studied
Come
Know
Cultures
Going
Where
Across
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Physics
Made
Attempt
Never
Because
Got
Real
Maybe
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Portray
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.
Nelson A. Miles
Great
Immigration
Live
Our
Distasteful
Indians
Able
Allow
Attempt
Along
Tide
Force
Been
Canada
Frontier
Which
Them
Customs
I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
Nicholas Haslam
Hurt
People
Hopeless
Feelings
Later
Telling
Telling Lies
Lies
Minutes
Attempt
Blow
Order
Then
Strategic
At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.
Nicholas Kristof
Buy
Problem
Car
Extra
Status
Some
Only
Point
Through
Attempt
Hottest
Goods
Like
Block
Go
Incomes
Desires
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.
Nick Cave
Musicians
Creative
People
Think
Top
Unacceptable
Someone
Attempt
Bottom
Pyramid
Jump
Authors
Many
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
Nick Flynn
Job
Our
Tell
Seems
Writers
Attempt
Inexpressible
As Far As
Far
Express
The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.
Nick Turse
Goals
Achieve
Seen
Understanding
Down
Military
Consequences
Presidency
Increasingly
Obama
Exactly
Tactical
Troops
Attempt
Road
Missions
Forces
Operations
Tight
Doing
American
Where
Deployed
Little
Might
Used
Special
Down The Road
Strategic
Elite
Kept
I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!
Olesya Rulin
Good
Ride
Water
Men
Nervous
Too
Else
Unless
Out
More
Attempt
Like
Surf
Boyfriend
Go
Trainer
Whale
Get
Hang
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
Board
Many
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