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While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.
Newt Gingrich
Balance
Judiciary
Tool
Extreme
Circumstances
Possibilities
Abolish
Only
Federal
Check
Most
Courts
Blunt
While
Lower
Use
Many
Whose
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
Nic Pizzolatto
Life
Circumstances
Dire
Someone
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Behave
Often
It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.
Nigel Farage
Women
Will
Two-Way
Two-Way Street
Recognise
Circumstances
Embarrassed
Never
Most
Limited
Discreet
Stop
Staff
Them
Asking
Certain
Should
Street
Need
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Myself
First
Chaotic
Circumstances
Entire
Part
Most
Being
Even
Career
'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.
Olivia Thirlby
Experience
Three
Circumstances
Small
Remarkable
Had
Almost
Red
Knot
Obviously
Around
Making
Antarctica
Were
Years
Years Ago
Very
Improvised
While
Interesting
Boat
Shot
Really
Film
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
Success
Best
Failure
Achievement
Endeavor
Circumstances
Possible
Always
Persistent
Effort
Any
Often
While
Honest
I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.
Orrin Hatch
Me
Opportunity
Country
Gave
Others
Our
Those
Circumstances
System
Guy
Facing
Same
Tax
Want
Little
Tax System
Original
That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
Ory Okolloh
Good
You
Take For Granted
Whatever
Define
Circumstances
One Thing
Rural
Born
Take
Arkansas
Know
Because
Up
American
Move
Just
Just Because
Granted
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Thing
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Oscar Isaac
Myself
Character
Else
Circumstances
See
Someone
Part
Just
Much
Certain
Creating
Specific
Playing
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier
Poverty
Those
Circumstances
Part
Came
It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
Patricia Clarkson
Dark
Job
Circumstances
Characters
Easy
Never
Grave
Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
Patrick Duffy
Suffering
Son
People
Karma
Cause
Parents
Single
Every
Circumstances
Responsible
Lifetime
Instance
Particular
Particular Set
Because
Got
Am
Being
Unfortunate
Happens
Manifested
Who
Including
Thing
Two
Two People
Set
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.
Patty Jenkins
Life
Lie
Sympathy
Circumstances
Someone
Question
Won
Any
Interested
Based
Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.
Paul Bettany
Good
Yourself
People
Circumstances
Involved
Trying
Different
Placing
Good Actor
Actor
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
Paul Di Filippo
Creation
Virtues
Reckoned
Circumstances
Independent
Must
Critics
Entities
Generally
Failures
Least
Intentions
Want
Fiction
Regard
Apart
Works
Even
Creator
Whose
My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.
Paul Polman
Few
Circumstances
Out
Has-Been
More
Never
Combination
Countries
Along
Were
Been
Years
Than
Anything
Places
Worked
Planned
Companies
Serendipity
Lived
Level
Career
I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn't lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn't really motivated to this.
Paul Polman
Me
Business
Doctor
Circumstances
Could
Lead
Priest
Motivated
Option
Done
Wanted
Really
I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.
Paul Walker
Me
People
Fall
Circumstances
Kind
Carry
Easy
Some
Along
Like
Look
Enable
Real
End
Up
Quick
Mode
Dependency
Them
Then
Really
Certain
Creating
Shoulder
Hard
I do not believe there are any circumstances in which a judge should consider his or her own values or policy preferences in determining what the law means.
Paul Watford
Judge
Law
Values
Own
Believe
Consider
Circumstances
Determining
Policy
His
Any
Any Circumstances
Which
Preferences
Should
Means
Her
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul Wellstone
Politics
People
Speak
Arrogant
Circumstances
Fail
Concerns
Does
Intellectually
Sensitive
Include
Lives
Deserves
I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.
Pedro Pascal
Me
Three
Circumstances
Broke
Would
Constantly
Indiana
Indiana Jones
Never
Had
Arm
Were
Friend
Left
Times
Trying
Just
Which
Movies
Imaginary
Two
We shift in our everyday life; we evolve, depending on the circumstances.
Percelle Ascott
Life
Everyday Life
Everyday
Our
Circumstances
Evolve
Shift
Depending
The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.
Pete Hegseth
Freedom
Nature
Struggle
Commitment
Prosperity
Responsibility
Circumstances
Ally
Self-Determination
Israel
Historic
America
Gravity
It's a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it's difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that notoriety and fame, and things can go really wrong. But I had a terrific family and grew up very normal in Phoenix.
Peter Billingsley
Family
World
Difficult
Add
Teenager
Phoenix
Circumstances
Had
Wrong
Terrific
Go
Normal
Lots
Fame
Up
Very
Child
Child Actors
Any
Any Circumstances
Grew
Really
Notoriety
Actor
Things
Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons.
Peter Brook
You
Yourself
Year
Way
Circumstances
Only
Never
Learned
Different
Which
Ask
Lessons
Apply
Last
Last Year
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
Peter Maxwell Davies
You
Circumstances
Underestimate
Audience
Any
Any Circumstances
Either
Players
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