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The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
James Hansen
Death
Plants
Power
Carrying
Factories
Power Plants
Trains
Coal
How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?
James Wolcott
Passion
Digital
Impress
Flame
Strangers
Carrying
Around
How
Get
Trying
Literary
Slate
Through singing, I met my second husband, Jonathan, who is a professional musician. He transformed our lives and relieved me of much of the strain that I had been carrying for so long.
Jane Hawking
Me
Husband
Long
Singing
Met
Our
Our Lives
Musician
Carrying
Relieved
Through
Had
He
Jonathan
Been
Transformed
Strain
Much
Who
Professional
Lives
Second
Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than carrying things.
Jason Isbell
Time
Good
Me
You
Job
Every
Every Time
Say
Carrying
More
Trucks
Than
Get
Explain
Things
You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
Jason Mraz
Life
You
Joy
Rest
My Life
Parents
Pain
Live
Spend
Carrying
Along
Because
Get
Crafting
Your
Choose
As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.
Jason Priestley
Character
You
Director
Goals
Focus
Responsibility
Party
Enjoy
Worried
Everything
Responsible
Carrying
About
Scene
Finite
Like
Piece
Material
Very
Being
Whereas
Your
Actor
Load
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet
Great
People
Humiliation
Wind
Saw
Ghetto
Carrying
Only
Shame
Had
Almost
Dropped
Invisibility
Over
Gentle
Been
Friendly
Little
Centuries
Breeze
Swept
Away
Four
Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.
Jennifer Johnston
Writing
Will
Three
Past
Back
Carrying
About
Generations
Another
Because
Go
Manifestation
Your
Two
I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.
Jim Pattison
Respect
Carrying
Around
Got
Lot
Tuba
Just
Thing
Players
Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore.
Joan Lunden
You
Woman
Sometimes
Difficult
Related
Way
Carrying
Because
Still
Child
Anymore
Used
Biologically
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
Joanna Lumley
Time
Mind
Think
Bending
Carrying
Gym
Never
Instead
Stuff
Going
Scrubbing
Each
Each Time
Floors
We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.
Joao Lourenco
Corruption
Crime
Focus
Out
Carrying
Crusade
Real
Impunity
Against
White-Collar
In my opinion, Slash is probably one of the last of the iconic guitar players carrying the torch of what it's really all about.
Joey Kramer
Guitar
Torch
Guitar Players
Carrying
About
Opinion
In My Opinion
Iconic
Really
Slash
Players
Last
It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
Johann Lamont
Economic Crisis
Burden
Those
Crisis
Unacceptable
Carrying
Economic
Had
True
Least
Causing
Heaviest
Across
Who
Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
John Barrasso
Crime
Self-Defense
Think
Sign
Carrying
Weapon
Concealed
At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.
John Darnielle
You
Guitar
School
Party
Band
Those
Kids
High
Carrying
Guitars
High School
Brought
Seem
Guys
Named
Like
Him
Around
Always
Were
His
Goats
Mountain
Want
Whether
Which
Acoustic
Asked
Who
Why
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
John L. Phillips
Progress
Space
Accident
Has-Been
Carrying
Russian
Columbia
Supplies
Smaller
Vehicle
Vehicles
Since
Been
Space Program
Literally
Agency
Us
Amount
Bringing
Load
Need
Program
There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.
John Prescott
Me
You
Tony Blair
Punch
Rang
OK
Out
Carrying
Only
Blair
He
Well
Said
Yes
Did
Just
Happened
Orders
Us
Your
Electorate
Connect
Tony
Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.
John Updike
Win
Victory
Ease
Carrying
He
Majors
Tiger
Tiger Woods
Always
Narrow
Been
His
Rocks
Uphill
Did
Woods
After
Afternoon
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.
Jonah Lehrer
Good
Science
Discipline
Thought
Carrying
Total
Neuroscience
Almost
Undergraduate
Around
Narrative
Always
Scientist
Years
Lab
Five
Just
Wanted
After
Realized
Then
Worked
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.
Jonathan Coleman
You
People
Writing
Burden
Living
Carrying
Fine
Fine Line
About
Fair
Non-Fiction
Opinion
Always
Line
Walking
In My Opinion
Should
Who
I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.
Judith Leiber
You
Happy
Dog
Three
Few
Hundred
Carrying
See
Cat
Bag
Bags
Makes
Egg
Lady
Little
Customers
Who
Two
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
Julie Andrews
Me
Country
Carrying
Feel
Well
Proud
Am
Go
Very
Represent
Wherever
Conscious
British
Need
It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.
Juliet Stevenson
Life
You
Man
Down
Live
Carrying
More
Putting
Leading
Leading Man
Longer
Involve
Parts
Gets
Intensely
Front
Lamb
Frustrating
Interesting
Interesting Life
Chops
Many
This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people I knew had guns and carried them openly around Johannesburg. It is frowned on now to carry a gun, but Pistorius and co. got away with it.
Justin Cartwright
Business
People
Gun
Somebody
Carried
Carry
Carrying
Johannesburg
Guns
Had
Knew
Openly
Around
Ready
Got
Cult
Were
Lots
Shoot
Being
Frowned
Interesting
Them
Now
Away
Oscar
If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
Kapil Dev
Work
You
Burden
Challenge
Will
Carrying
Seem
No Point
Point
Never
Feel
Like
Becomes
Source
Your
Fun
Ever
Enjoyment
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