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We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.
John Eldredge
Music
Man
Christ
Made
Boring
Blah
Bland
He
Most
Him
Person
Revolutionary
Elevator
Jesus
Jesus Christ
I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.
John Lanchester
Strange
Big
Think
Easing
Scary
Deliberately
Bland
Misleading
Economists
Like
Quantitative
Sound
Anything
Experimental
Which
Many
Reassuring
Nando's is a casual restaurant rather than a fast-food one - another aspirational touch. The food is energetically spiced, where so many of its competitors are bland and grilled to order, where the competition fries food and then lets it sit around.
John Lanchester
Food
Competition
Sit
Restaurant
Touch
Rather
Bland
Casual
Another
Around
Fries
Than
Where
Order
Then
Many
Lets
Competitors
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
Johnny Winter
People
Every
One Or Two
Find
Charles
Record
Vocal
Bland
Could
Bought
Ray
Ray Charles
Were
Lot
Blue
Just
Blues
Influences
Just One
Bobby
Whole
Two
Two People
The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
Jorge Ramos
War
You
Power
Journalist
Sense
Interview
Interviews
Say
States
Those
TV
See
Bland
Journalists
Like
Italian
Very
Close
Cozy
Get
Forgotten
Turn
Turn-On
Used
United
United States
Her
Here
I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?
Keith Ellison
You
Do The Right Thing
People
Police
Own
Community
Right Thing
Disturbing
Brown
My Own
Bland
Sterling
Know
Police Officers
Protect
Force
How
Eric
Lot
Deny
Officers
The Right Thing
Pattern
Rice
Sandra
Then
Mike
Who
Garner
Right
Thing
Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.
Marcus Samuelsson
People
Vegetables
Eating
Misconception
Bland
Vegetarian
Because
Arrangement
Off
Just
Dishes
Turned
Many
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
Mario Testino
Me
People
Girl
Photographers
Bland
Blank
Like
Dolls
Lot
Models
Influence
Playing
Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.
Mary Roach
Food
You
Dark
Mind
Will
Drive
Way
Silent
Foods
Bland
Device
Oral
Same
Form
Against
Sensory
Room
Deprivation
Engage
Rebels
Eventually
We have our detractors. If we didn't, that would be weird. That would make me feel, 'Oh God, we must be really bland.' You have to have detractors.
Mel Giedroyc
God
Me
You
Our
Must
Would
Would-Be
Bland
Weird
Feel
Make
Oh
Oh God
Really
A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good
You
Matter
First
Build
Whatever
Move On
Meal
Everything
Dessert
Web
Web Site
Bland
Pick
Soon
Toward
Like
Most
Built
Gourmet
Sounds
Salads
Off
Site
Same
Sites
Move
Want
Unfortunately
Choose
Start
Flow
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman
Music
People
Joke
Plead
Lyrics
Say
Guilty
High
Would
Tried
About
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Something
Bland
Factor
Always
Often
Irritation
Prefer
Grounds
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
Robert Harris
Love
Politics
Gone
Too
Other
Side
Trench
Say
Out
Scared
Something
More
Bland
Make
Than
Any
Anything
Warfare
To Love
Them
Might
Engaged
Used
Fun
Appear
Each
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
Rose Tremain
Me
Writing
Beginning
Everything
Tell
Must
Bland
Writers
Feel
Days
Always
Amazed
Very
Plan
Who
There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.
Sarah Hall
Words
Enjoy
Characters
Seemed
Bland
Within
Lot
Very
Did
Lacking
Fiction
Them
Landscapes
Whose
I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against.
Sheena Iyengar
Today
Truth
Me
Struggle
Natural
Everyone
Say
Tell
Would
Wear
Bland
Could
Look
Looks
Another
Opinion
Makeup
Fake
Person
Against
Might
Really
Convinced
My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.
Sophie Hannah
Life
People
Real Life
Few
Think
Characters
See
Abnormal
Bland
Weird
Because
Real
Issues
Normal
Normal People
Very
Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on 'Family Guy' or 'South Park' that are edgier. Mine's not as edgy as those, but it's edgier than 'Beetle Bailey.'
Stephan Pastis
Family
Generation
People
Old
Humor
Others
Mine
Those
Strips
Pretty
Guy
Park
Bland
Bailey
Most
Edgy
Were
Years
South
Beetle
South Park
Than
Family Guy
Maybe
Artists
Bar
Low
Second
Raised
Third
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.
Thomas Middleditch
Man
Think
Having
Bland
Emotional
Wrong
Comedies
Make
Audience
Lot
Conduit
Being
Straight
Straight Man
Choice
It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.
Todd Young
Work
People
Convictions
Aisle
Possible
Indiana
Bland
Outright
Sounds
Want
Public
Across
Who
Deep
Public Servants
Prepared
Servants
Conscientious
Here
Anthropology seems so bland and friendly now, but in the early 20th century, Jews could only be dissected badly by these fields. The Jews were extremely assimilated; it's a different world than now.
Tom Reiss
World
Jews
Extremely
Seems
Only
Bland
Could
Badly
Were
Anthropology
Friendly
Than
Different
Fields
Century
Now
Different World
Assimilated
Early
Dissected
Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Healthy
Reputation
Beans
Bland
Up
Forget
Soak
Used
Right
Loads
I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around.
Monty Don
Loathe
Airport
Would
Unpleasant
Rather
Bland
Uncomfortable
Adrift
Hotels
Around
Than
Just
Place
Floating
I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.
Kim Shattuck
Music
Better
Thought
Kid
Kind
Religious
Bland
Know
Around
Up
Any
Listen
Just
Grew
Much
Elevator
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Douglas Coupland
Smile
Good
You
Light
Past
Bland
Feels
Like
Green
Forget
Get
Green Light
Moment
Intersection
My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he'd be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.
E-40
Life
Mom
Guitar
Listening
Old
Car
King
My Life
Painting
Out
Would
Bland
Weekends
Never
He
Divorced
Over
Go
His
Years
Left
Blue
While
Custom
Bobby
Mom And Dad
Radio
Dad
Garage
Playing
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