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The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.
Joey Ramone
Ruled
Airwaves
Answer
Were
Captain
Eagles
The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
John Bercow
Government
Job
Party
Minister
Prime
His
Team
Captain
Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.
John F. Kelly
Truth
You
Dangerous
Decision
White
White House
Defense
Otherwise
Secretary
Lieutenant
General
Colonel
Could
House
Make
Makers
Got
Office
Whether
Decisions
Flawed
Working
Ground
Captain
Second
The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth.
John F. Kelly
Truth
You
Decision
Power
White
White House
Defense
Secretary
Tell
One Thing
Lieutenant
General
Colonel
Absolutely
House
Makers
Always
Got
Office
The One Thing
Whether
Working
Ground
Captain
Thing
Second
I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up.
John Lithgow
Saying
You
Remember
Crew
Mutiny
Rise
Potato
Only
Lays
Bounty
Operas
Sort
Auditioning
Up
Commercials
Where
Soap
Soap Operas
Sketch
Chip
Chips
Captain
Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.
John McAfee
Run
Haven
More
More Or Less
Morgan
Along
Likes
Still
Lines
Pirate
Established
Centuries
Less
Captain
You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.
John Terry
You
Opinion
Captain
I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.
Johnny Depp
People
Big
Would
See
Guy
Had
Bouncing
Industry
Around
Been
Years
Five
Jack
Did
Movies
Who
Captain
Flip
Lucky
Film
Film Industry
Career
People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'
Jon Scieszka
Crazy
Son
People
Will
Long
Books
Say
People Say
About
He
Shark
Read
Yeah
Motivated
Person
Want
Really
Captain
As a player, when things are going against you, you look to the captain to inject some energy but I don't see any of that from Amla.
Jonathan Agnew
You
Energy
See
Some
Look
Any
Going
Against
Captain
Things
Player
There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.
Jonathan Agnew
Job
Other
Cricket
Major
Like
Sport
Huge
Captain
When you are captain at the same time, that's when it gets difficult and when your own game starts to decay because you have other worries and pressures.
Jonathan Agnew
Time
You
Game
Own
Difficult
Starts
Other
Worries
Pressures
Because
Decay
Same
Gets
Same Time
Your
Captain
Growing up, I would have to say I loved 'Peter Pan' because I was fascinated by Captain Hook; I was fascinated by Hans Conried, who was an actor on screen and also a theatrical and television actor.
Jonathan Freeman
On-Screen
Say
Hook
Television
Would
Also
Because
Up
Screen
Loved
Theatrical
Who
Captain
Fascinated
Peter
Peter Pan
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
Pan
You can't look past the captain Eoin Morgan, as well as Trevor Bayliss and Paul Farbrace for giving guys the freedom to play without fear and not to worry about consequences.
Jos Buttler
Freedom
You
Fear
Giving
Past
Consequences
Worry
About
Guys
Morgan
Look
Well
Without
Paul
Captain
Play
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Joseph Jacobs
History
Say
Purely
Properly
Almost
Scientific
Geographical
Motive
Discovery
Begins
Curiosity
The History Of
So-Called
Might
Cook
Captain
Whose
Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.
Julius Erving
Every
Been
Either
Team
Captain
Played
Wrestling definitely shaped the direction of my life because, before that, I wanted to fit in so much. I wanted to be one of the cool cats. I was friends with the captain of the football team because he had all the chicks. I wanted to be that guy.
Kamaru Usman
Life
Cats
My Life
Before
Definitely
Guy
Direction
Wrestling
Shaped
Had
Football
He
Football Team
Because
Fit
Friends
Chicks
Wanted
Much
Team
Captain
Cool
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
Karl Shapiro
Me
Doctor
Fear
Punched
Vein
Sow
Captain
Sat
Belly
No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.
Katee Sackhoff
Me
Would
About
Rather
More
Marvel
No-One
Know
Nasty
Want
Much
Captain
Fun
Even
Villain
Play
I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
Ken Follett
Kind
Some
Advertising
Industry
Reporter
Wanted
Newspaper
Newspaper Reporter
Then
Captain
I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.
Kenneth Choi
Few
Lying
Those
Definitely
Daredevil
Spider-Man
Collected
Had
Protective
Around
Comics
America
Captain
Captain America
Plastic
I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.
Kevin McCarthy
Myself
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Part
Well
Manager
View
Team
Captain
During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.
Kevin Pietersen
Time
Direct
My Time
Both
Always
Been
Communications
England
Captain
Helpful
I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.
Kevin Pietersen
World
Vision
Own
Every
Think
Way
Take
Allowed
Like
Most
Around
How
Want
Them
Captain
Forward
Teams
Play
At drama school, I got a job choreographing and teaching the fights for Mark Rylance doing 'Hamlet' at the Globe in London when I was only 19. They made me fight captain.
Kieran Bew
Me
Fight
School
Job
Made
Drama
Mark
Drama School
London
Only
Globe
Got
Doing
Hamlet
Fights
Teaching
Captain
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.
Leonard Nimoy
Myself
Me
People
Long
Ocean
Own
Think
Speed
Back
Distance
Way
Immediately
Finding
About
Long-Distance
Like
Does
Still
Been
Ship
Very
Going
Stop
Flattered
Full
Useful
Captain
Momentum
Keeps
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