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Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.
Joe Strummer
Wisdom
You
Age
Power
Crushed
Control
System
See
Only
Could
Supposedly
Became
Were
Very
Very Early Age
Quickly
Authority
Any
Either
Realized
Inherent
Grounded
Early
Early Age
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Language
Make
Became
Sounds
Meaningful
Aware
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
T. D. Jakes
Miracles
Mistakes
Chemistry
Think
Became
Tests
I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The Stones, and then later on The Who and Zeppelin. But at one point in the '70s, it just kind of became... mellow.
Angus Young
Music
Time
Great
Beatles
Think
Later
Mellow
Kind
Point
Great Time
Became
Rock
Rock And Roll
Era
Roll
Stones
Just
Just Kind
The Who
Then
Who
Zeppelin
I became the messenger who had to be killed.
Anita Hill
Had
Messenger
Became
Who
Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.
Anthony Bourdain
Love
Time
Me
First
Changed
Kind
Boring
Foods
Became
First Time
Lot
Southeast
Southeast Asia
Tasting
Going
Dishes
Crave
Flavors
To Love
Asia
Used
Certainly
Whole
Palate
Spectrum
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
Bella Abzug
Business
Women
People
World
Lawyer
First
Think
Secretary
Those
Would
Wearing
Hats
Only
Days
Became
Always
Bar
Wore
Business World
Professional
Started
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
Ben Shahn
Photography
Own
My Own
Became
Interested
Inadequate
Sketching
Found
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
Eduardo Galeano
Sad
History
Joy
Beauty
Duty
Out
Torn
Sport
Voyage
Industry
Became
Got
Very
Blossoms
The History Of
Soccer
Roots
Play
Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five crowded in a small one-bedroom apartment, struggling to learn English and survive a new life in a new country, America. We humbly and gratefully still recall the kindnesses shown by strangers and neighbors who became new friends.
Elaine Chao
Life
Family
Thoughts
Memories
New Life
Girl
Country
Strangers
Our
Neighbors
Small
Crowded
Struggling
Never
New
Learn
Became
New Friends
Still
Queens
Friends
Five
Survive
America
Being
Apartment
Little
Far
Little Girl
English
Who
Shown
Recall
Humbly
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.
Eric Clapton
Music
Family
Me
Emotions
Fear
Confusion
Relating
Could
Wipe
Healer
Learned
Became
Listen
Being
Found
Away
You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.
Fred Hampton
Education
You
People
Build
Oppressor
Revolution
He
Became
Because
Educated
Were
Did
Africa
Much
Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
Jason Mraz
Myself
Relationship
Man
Better
Giving
Make
Became
Halves
Doing
Less
Whole
Away
Actuality
Two
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Waiting
Women
Philosopher
Seduce
Became
Sought
Still
Been
Fame
Which
Basically
I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.
Jimmy Fallon
Few
Say
Red
Red Sox
Became
Yankees
Gotta
Years
Sox
Fan
Really
Rooting
Now
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
Liz Murray
Life
Dreams
Saying
Time
Day
Mother
My Life
Saw
One Day
My Time
Never
Clear
Like
Became
Without
Always
Fix
Die
Maybe
Fulfilling
Now
Her
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Nikki Giovanni
World
Better
Poet
Other
Everybody
Would
Would-Be
Read
Became
Much
Each
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Life
God
Time
Me
Happy
World
Made
Living
Every
Other
Every Time
Way
Extremely
Faults
Following
More
Bound
Clearly
Calling
Became
Because
Felt
Doing
Prayed
Hand
Burdensome
Wanted
Aware
Things
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
Al Pacino
Education
War
Army
World
Mother
College
College Education
Split
He
Know
Well
Became
Insurance
Got
Maternal
His
Salesman
Up
Very
After
Grandfather
Grandmother
Really
Dad
Raised
World War
World War II
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
Al Yankovic
Vocation
Sort
Became
Gradually
Hobbies
Just
I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.
Andre Aciman
Family
People
Speak
Seven
Everything
Bit
Members
Arabic
Citizenship
Born
Uncommon
Had
French
Became
Italian
German
Greek
Subsequently
Brazilian
Turkish
Acquired
Languages
English
Many
Even
British
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Angela Davis
Death
Penalty
Would
Abolish
Haven
Had
Likely
Became
Death Penalty
Been
America
Slavery
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
Anna Friel
Life
Love
Me
You
Game
People
Love Life
Worth
Become
Nothing
More
Never
Feel
Piece
Became
Empty
Effect
Very
Than
Wanted
Board
Interested
Certain
Play
Start
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
Anthony Hopkins
School
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Bad
Bother
Student
Moron
Know
Became
Real
Doing
Brains
Antisocial
Lousy
Any
Screwed-Up
Really
Actor
Why
The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.
Arundhati Roy
You
Anger
People
Political
Feeling
Important
Gauge
Way
Extremely
Could
Share
Come
Know
Became
Occupy
Discontent
Were
Political Movement
Sites
Any
Movement
Where
Places
Who
Found
Levels
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.
Big Smo
Motorcycle
Me
Son
Old
Nephew
Three
Parents
Sister
Older
Brother
Wreck
Adopted
Through
Had
He
Him
Became
Around
Hip-Hop
Years
Than
Who
Exposed
Her
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