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The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.
Hugo Chavez
War
World
Collapsed
System
Worthless
Born
After
Second
World War
Second World War
A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.
Jeffrey Thomas
Simplicity
Collapsed
Kind
Impact
Concentrated
Also
Density
Short
Short Story
Story
Packed
Meaning
Should
Elegant
Star
Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
John Blair
Food
Water
Police
Made
Everyone
Way
Strip
Collapsed
Charged
Beaten
Hours
Police Officer
Until
Spread
Arrest
Wall
Officer
Cell
Against
Held
Stand
Initially
Cops
Resisting
When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.
Julian Assange
Enron
Emails
Collapsed
Out
Thousands
Window
Through
Supported
Court
How
Came
Were
Provided
Flagrant
Processes
Decisions
Little
Internal
Whole
Company
Violations
When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.
Kevin Whately
Day
You
Desperate
Spent
Bit
Collapsed
All Day
Out
TV
TV Series
Totally
Wings
Voice
Head
Feel
Sort
Box
Because
Real
Spread
End
Get
Microphone
Unfit
Your
Inches
Series
Actor
Two
The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
Leslie Caron
Collapsed
System
Charged
Only
Studio
Studio System
Cleopatra
Taylor
Million
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Taylor
In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their different political systems and different relationships between the central banks and the fiscal authorities.
Lou Jiwei
Political
Relationships
Collapsed
Systems
Brothers
Scheme
Between
Bailout
Because
Fiscal
Anticipated
Very
Than
Authorities
Political Systems
Going
Different
Banks
Central
Europe
When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.
Margarita Simonyan
People
Unlike
Collapsed
Miss
Many
USSR
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.
Margarita Simonyan
Beginning
Everything
Easier
Collapsed
Television
Folk
Rather
Hire
Than
Soviet
Soviet Union
Them
Teach
Union
Businesses
Found
I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
Mark Billingham
Hurt
Money
Father
Lost
Market
Saw
Way
Collapsed
Could
Never
He
Shares
Because
Lot
Stock
Stock Market
Stocks
Get
Quite
Quite A Lot
Gamble
England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50.
Mark Rutte
Collapsed
Trigger
Demand
Economically
Article
Politically
Them
England
Reasonable
Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.
Nipsey Hussle
Time
History
You
World
Country
Collapsed
About
Know
Cryptocurrency
Currency
Any
Just
Fiat
World History
I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.
Owen Hart
Me
Money
Stupid
Collapsed
Would
Something
Wrestling
Invested
Make
Been
Very
Get
Getting
Where
Anything
Regretted
Fortunate
Certainly
Lucrative
Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.
Paul Singer
Marriage
Collapsed
Institution
Obviously
America
Utterly
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months.
Rebecca Solnit
Work
Together
People
Bad Things
Calm
Few
Improvise
Community
Babies
Everybody
Resourceful
Months
Collapsed
Out
Systems
Bad
Emergency
Kitchen
Hospital
Never
Feed
Putting
Most
Well
Altruistic
Getting
Happen
Whether
Which
Pattern
Really
Next
Things
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.
Serge Schmemann
Me
Dinner
Own
Collapsed
Kids
Berlin
Dinner Table
Table
About
My Own
Moscow
Schools
Talked
Reunited
Were
Friends
Germany
Soviet
Soviet Union
Union
Things
During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed.
Stephen Kinzer
Business
Latin
States
Latin American
Collapsed
Bitter
Embodied
Budget
Budget Cuts
Call
Principles
Sought
Foreign
Impose
Ultimately
Campaign
Governments
Privatization
American
Cuts
Deregulation
Incentives
Companies
Washington
United
United States
Consensus
Resistance
The interest rate because of Mr. Raghuram Rajan has been too high, and so medium and small industries have all collapsed. This has led to increased unemployment.
Subramanian Swamy
Increased
Too
Medium
Collapsed
Has-Been
High
Rate
Small
Industries
Because
Been
Led
Unemployment
Interest
We saw firsthand how a collapsed bridge in Skagit County impacted our local economy, which is why we must fix our infrastructure now before it's more expensive to maintain in the future.
Suzan DelBene
Future
Before
Local
Our
Saw
Collapsed
Must
Impacted
More
Maintain
Economy
County
Firsthand
How
Fix
Expensive
Which
Infrastructure
Bridge
Now
Why
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Will
Young
Society
Else
Back
States
Collapsed
Russia
More
Come
Because
Times
Than
Maybe
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Pattern
Less
Many
Here
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
Toyo Ito
Dreams
Collapsed
Disappear
Economy
Began
Optimism
Did
The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
Vincent Cassel
Life
Time
My Life
Half
Year
Few
Trapped
Everything
Collapsed
Had
Like
Most
Terrible
Felt
Years
Five
Times
Where
Movies
Planned
Row
Four
Two
Nightmare
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.
Noam Chomsky
War
Government
World
Decision
Else
Back
Crimes
Collapsed
Syria
Claims
Obama
Administration
Pretext
Threats
Attack
Support
Fails
Along
Policeman
Fallen
When All Else Fails
Standard
International
Credibility
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
Robert Kiyosaki
Collapsed
Empire
Because
Taste
Expensive
Spanish
Warfare
Eventually
Conquest
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