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I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
Anita Baker
Music
Me
Creative
Mother
Stress
Wife
Made
Daughter
Sister
Lover
Numerous
Way
Harsh
Find
About
Songwriter
Attempts
Come
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
She
Mistress
Does
Midst
Producer
Thing
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
Anthony Minghella
Work
Hope
Writing
Invent
Expectation
Own
My Own
Rather
Week
Attempts
Methods
Than
Often
Tiny
Decipher
Which
Notebooks
Fill
Last
Hillary Clinton's radical attempts at so-called reform of the nation's health care system would have been more destructive than even Obamacare has been.
Asa Hutchinson
Health
Care
Nation
Radical
System
Destructive
Has-Been
Would
Obamacare
More
Attempts
Hillary
Health Care
Health Care System
Been
Clinton
Than
Reform
So-Called
Even
Any political process has to secure an improvement in the Palestinians' quality of life and education. Attempts to bring about a political arrangement before securing peace to the Israelis and economic improvement for the Palestinians are likely to fail.
Avigdor Lieberman
Life
Education
Peace
Quality
Political
Before
Secure
About
Economic
Attempts
Fail
Likely
Quality Of Life
Arrangement
Israelis
Political Process
Improvement
Any
Process
Palestinians
Bring
Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
Billy Collins
Music
Own
Has-Been
Composed
Cases
Poem
Poems
Results
Had
Attempts
Written
Put
Disastrous
Verbal
Been
Ear
Set
The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
Buzz Aldrin
Life
Change
Benefits
Challenge
Will
Society
Our
Earth
Ways
Significant
Mars
Some
More
Attempts
Environment
Making
Modify
Livable
Here
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Today
Animals
First
Typhus
Those
Easily
Had
Attempts
Supply
Smaller
Failed
Laboratory
Predecessors
Which
Transmit
Reasons
Including
Species
Monkeys
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.
Chloe Benjamin
Nature
Religion
Knowledge
Science
Impossible
Down
Unknown
Ways
Those
Some
Various
Mystery
Attempts
Tension
Between
Know
Always
Pin
Been
Interested
Productive
Cope
Things
There have been lots of attempts to make a movie of 'Les Miserables' over the years.
Colm Wilkinson
Attempts
Over
Make
Been
Years
Lots
Movie
Les
Les Miserables
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
David Herbert Donald
Day
Religion
Prayer
Few
President
Meetings
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Religious Right
Attempts
Knew
Countrymen
Lincoln
Affair
Private
Were
His
Very
Woo
Anything
Public
Beliefs
Right
In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.
Deborah Tannen
People
World
Try
Others
Negotiations
Seek
Give
Push
Attempts
Support
Reach
Protect
Closeness
Confirmation
Which
Conversations
Them
Themselves
Away
Consensus
The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.
Dmitri Alperovitch
Secrets
Steal
Through
Attempts
Trade
IP
Continue
Accountable
Commercial
Chinese
Held
Companies
Need
Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.
Dominic Raab
Backlash
Sectarian
Wounds
Pick
Attempts
Leaders
Invite
Soothing
Force
Hand
Iraq
Western
Lacks
Them
Capable
Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background.
Ellen Ullman
Great
Mind
Great Deal
Thinking
Corners
Despite
Background
Machine
See
Small
Computer
Attempts
Contain
Over
Leap
Deal
Foreground
Misunderstandings
Brain
Human
Ifs
Skip
Buts
The big players historically hold a lot of influence at Chelsea and while I would never doubt their attempts to win matches for the club, their levels undoubtedly change depending on how they feel about a manager at the time. They're either having him or they're not, and once they're not it spells borrowed time for the guy in charge.
Eniola Aluko
Time
Change
Win
Big
Club
Doubt
Spells
Once
Charge
Would
Borrowed
About
Guy
Having
Never
Attempts
Feel
Him
Chelsea
Matches
How
Lot
Undoubtedly
Historically
Manager
Depending
Influence
Hold
Either
While
Levels
Players
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
Eric Gill
Alone
Man
Science
Live
Analytical
Purely
Attempts
He
Scientific
Does
Bread
Informative
Descriptive
Hence
My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.
Esperanza Spalding
Music
Change
Writing
Little Things
Sit
Lyrics
Seven
Would
Write
Piano
Songs
Attempts
Were
Heard
Different
Little
Radio
Things
Earliest
The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.
Ezra Taft Benson
Food
Man
Heart
Water
Earth
Attempts
True
Longer
Motion
Scientist
Heavenly
Heavenly Bodies
Bodies
Sequence
Rotation
Function
Seasons
Disprove
Gravity
Need
Pull
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
Foster Friess
Politics
Culture
People
Try
Behavior
Achieve
Think
Attempts
Until
Precedes
Going
Legislate
Want
Decide
Productive
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
Francis Crick
Made
Own
Changes
Relative
Reliable
Mutation
Composition
Triplets
Data
My Own
More
Various
Attempts
Study
Until
Obtain
Within
Been
Order
Produced
View
Premature
Bases
Extensive
Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
Gary Johnson
Great
Freedom
Care
Pain
State
Approach
Several
Religious
Religious Freedom
Laws
Given
Exceptions
Attempts
Accompanied
Sensitivity
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
Giraldus Cambrensis
Success
Treat
Opportunity
Matters
Some
Attempts
Idea
Importance
Likely
Greater
Greater Importance
Am
Afford
May
Formed
Should
Fortune
The periods between my 11th and 18th years remain the most vivid in my memory because this was the time of my first attempts at experimentation, which might never have been made had I lived in the city. I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider.
Godfrey Hounsfield
Time
Myself
Memory
Made
First
Tops
Launching
City
Vivid
Remain
Hazardous
Investigations
Never
Had
Attempts
Between
Most
Periods
Principles
Because
Been
Years
Experimentation
Which
Might
Flight
Homemade
Lived
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
Herman Kahn
People
Sometimes
Believe
Analyze
System
Must
Total
Attempts
Emotionally
Annihilation
Inevitably
End
Very
Current
Any
Notion
Many
Reject
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
Hilary Mantel
Memory
Chronology
Wolf
Way
Attempts
Leaps
Hall
Loops
Historian
Duplicate
Flashes
Works
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
J. Michael Straczynski
World
Better
Compassion
Better World
Build
Our
Way
More
Perfect
Attempts
Failings
American
American Way
Union
Strengths
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