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I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.
Greg Graffin
Saying
Time
Great
Nature
Knowledge
Science
Natural
People
Before
Would
Admire
About
Darwin
Given
More
Knew
Most
Were
Very
Pious
Than
Us
Natural Science
Who
Many
Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.
Greg Grandin
Important
Before
Profit
Caribbean
Trade
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Source
West
South
South America
Labor
Expansion
America
Northern
Banks
Exploding
Companies
Even
Slave
Slavery
I've said it before: If Queen had died and reincarnated as one person, it would be Devin Townsend.
Greg Gutfeld
Queen
Before
Would
Would-Be
Had
Said
Person
Died
Reincarnated
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.
Greg Gutfeld
Communication
Destruction
Language
Before
Own
Club
Changed
Civilization
Prevents
Simply
Then
Created
Used
Mechanism
It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
Greg Mottola
Time
Youth
Thought
Before
Took
Guess
Back
About
Could
Write
Never
Longest
Longest Time
Like
Look
Getting
Forties
Skinned
Even
Thin
The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to stick to my guns and to believe in myself. I think Duane saw my talents and believed in me long before I ever did, and that meant the world to me.
Gregg Allman
Best
Myself
Me
World
Long
Singing
Advice
Before
Nothing
Believe
Think
Saw
Brother
Guns
Had
Talents
Stick
Always
Got
Came
Did
Really
Meant
Who
Believed
Ever
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
Gregg Easterbrook
Book
Gift
Face
Before
Nice
Guards
Football
Pictures
Were
Very
Done
Little
Company
Illustrated
Actually
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
Gregor Mendel
Work
Great
Me
World
Will
Long
Before
Results
Studies
Scientific
Am
Afforded
Acknowledge
Convinced
Whole
Gratification
I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.
Gregorio Sablan
Service
Army
Citizen
Before
Had
Volunteered
Became
Always
Public
Public Service
Even
Belief
Core
Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances.
Gregory Benford
Solar
Will
Moon
Master
Before
Our
Resources
Solar System
Distances
System
Ability
Vast
Take
Raw
Over
Masses
Begin
Decades
Transporting
Many
I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.
Gregory Harrison
Singing
Before
Own
Enjoy
Say
Something
Only
Emotionally
Sing
Well
Am
Doing
Acting
Believing
If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt.
Gregory Meeks
You
Before
Pay
Charge
Purchase
Put
Know
How
Go
Off
Debt
Forever
Paying
Card
Deeply
When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.
Greta Gerwig
Words
Remember
School
College
Before
Once
Easier
High
Embodied
Fine
Memorizing
High School
High School And College
Never
Had
Became
Blocking
Lines
Text
Did
Just
Movement
Much
Page
Associated
Plays
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.
Greta Gerwig
You
Job
Important
Before
Think
Ways
Out
Characters
Telling
Some
Write
Talking
Doing
End
Up
Listen
Want
Decide
Story
Them
Much
Really
Your
Figure
Core
When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it.
Greta Gerwig
You
Memory
Yourself
Writing
Before
Dreaming
Almost
Like
Until
Make
Becomes
Screenplay
Again
Film
If you're stressed at work, or before a competition, or if you need to be energized, or relaxed, there's so many scents that kind of take you there.
Gretchen Bleiler
Work
You
Competition
Before
Relaxed
Kind
Take
Many
Need
Stressed
I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.
Gretchen Rubin
Me
Words
Thought
Before
Transformation
Books
Those
Hooked
Kind
Promise
TV
TV Shows
Magazines
Thrills
Habits
Read
Always
Any
Whenever
Stories
After
Loved
Shows
I wrote the Michigan 2020, which was a free college plan, before Bernie Sanders ever offered it on the national level.
Gretchen Whitmer
College
Free
National
Before
Bernie Sanders
Wrote
Offered
Michigan
Which
Plan
Ever
Level
Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.
Grigor Dimitrov
Work
Family
You
Change
Yourself
People
First
Before
Think
Other
Else
Side
Find
Excuse
Look
Course
Lot
Trying
Going
Whether
Coach
Should
Your
Whoever
Actually
Things
Start
I'm a very good sleeper, especially during a tournament; I usually get eight hours a night, even before a big match.
Grigor Dimitrov
Good
Big
Before
Sleeper
Tournament
Hours
Match
Very
Get
Eight
Even
Night
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.
Grover Norquist
Before
President
Has-Been
Obama
Civil
He
Since
Budget
Perhaps
Most
Reached
Talk
Partisan
Learned
Insulting
Courtesy
Been
His
Truman
Scoring
Ceiling
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Expected
Did
Anyone
Republicans
Note
Paul
Paul Ryan
Us
Who
Speech
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Book
Before
Able
Read
Movie
I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never even thought about being an actor before that, but after that experience, I knew it was what I wanted to do.
Guillermo Diaz
Time
Experience
School
Thought
First
Before
Stage
Back
High
High School
About
Never
Knew
First Time
Did
Being
Wanted
After
Show
Even
Actor
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
Guillermo del Toro
Before
Directing
Knew
I always like to dress up, you know what I'm saying? Put on nice, expensive clothes. But before it was even 'drip,' I used to be, like, 'swag.'
Gunna
Saying
You
Before
Clothes
Nice
Dress
Dress-Up
Drip
Put
Like
Know
Always
Up
Expensive
Expensive Clothes
Used
Even
As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.
Gunter Blobel
Me
People
Destruction
Old
Made
Big
Before
Group
Restore
Had
Part
Nobel
Soon
Were
Heard
Impression
Friends
Germany
Child
Wanted
Help
Who
Even
Started
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