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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
Majel Barrett
Woman
Out
Command
Ship
Um
Which
Star
Second
Started
Playing
Number
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Leadership
People
Control
Military
Most
Command
Associate
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
Mary Antin
Positive
Love
Health
Prayer
You
Police
Honor
Every
Gave
Synagogue
Must
Would
Shall
He
Emperor
Said
Command
Chief
Close
Us
Your
Congregation
Czar
I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.
Meg Wolitzer
Writing
Think
Changed
More
Had
Put
Command
Front
Titles
Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.
Michael Ignatieff
Power
Control
Air
Destroying
Ability
Rarely
Relying
Like
Forces
Limits
Command
Effective
Itself
Targets
Fixed
Storage
Regime
Against
Succeeds
Planes
Then
Strategic
Bridges
Even
Petroleum
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sheep
Though
Command
Tis
Flock
Thing
Dainty
Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.
Mike Jackson
National
Retain
Forces
Least
Command
America
Nations
Full
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
Nancy Gibbs
Politics
War
Faith
Risks
Power
Chaotic
Soldiers
Adds
Rules
Collision
Civilians
More
Only
More And More
No Rules
New
Likely
Command
Lines
Front
Often
Front Lines
Central
Victims
Century
Engagement
Twenty-First
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Neil Armstrong
Me
First
Circumstance
Put
Particular
Yeah
Command
Role
Just
Anyone
Planned
Flight
Chosen
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni
Key
Bird
First
Back
Definitely
Could
Come
Command
Anything
If I Could
Choice
Second
I wanted to produce a book that would demonstrate not only the rich diversity of people who answered to Anders's command but also the extraordinary variety of their experiences and emotions: from death to despair, fear and longings and eventually to hope.
Norman Davies
Death
Hope
Book
People
Emotions
Fear
Diversity
Rich
Despair
Extraordinary
Would
Only
Variety
Also
Answered
Demonstrate
Command
Experiences
Wanted
Produce
Who
Eventually
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
Power
First
Our
Considered
Machine
Rise
Horse
Could
Pounds
Had
Allowed
Weight
Operator
Still
Permit
Surplus
Command
Estimate
Much
Twelve
Originally
The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.
Paul Cellucci
Group
Our
Signed
New
Also
Command
Northern
December
Place
Planning
Agreement
I look at every promo I do as a command performance to do better than I did the previous week if not deliver the best promo of my life.
Paul Heyman
Life
Best
Better
My Life
Every
Promo
Week
Previous
Deliver
Performance
Look
Command
Than
Did
A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.
Paula Broadwell
Me
Few
Research
Interview
Ran
Months
Run
Visits
General
Potomac
Could
River
Leading
Invited
Along
Him
Go
Command
His
Central
While
Then
Team
Figured
Who
Washington
As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.
Peggy Johnson
World
Phone
Our
Everything
Station
Our World
See
More
Network
More And More
Wireless
Part
Around
Becomes
Becoming
Command
Mobile
Central
Us
In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.
Peter Bergen
Key
Past
Component
Seemed
Risk
Only
Joint
Hostages
Operations
Command
Yemen
In The Past
Which
Held
Seal
Ground
Team
Special
Al
Lives
Al-Qaeda
How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.
Peter Hitchens
Beautiful
Musical
Musical Instrument
Voice
Shall
He
Miss
Like
Instrument
How
Command
His
English
Alan
Played
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
Phil Klay
Great
Important
Aggressive
Marines
Soldiers
Constrained
Had
Journalism
Environments
Pieces
Make
How
Command
Iraq
Lot
Influence
Where
Choices
Moments
Sudden
Violent
Set
Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.
Priyanka Chopra
You
People
Onto
Demand
Heads
Command
Hammer
Discovery
Should
Stardom
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Faith
Woman
Pride
Decision
Independence
Sense
Conviction
Muslim
Embrace
Dress
Self
Openly
Courageous
Empowerment
Command
Provides
According
Personal
Modestly
Assert
Creator
I think it's a common misconception that because you're a woman, you can't command a set and have people respect you, and for some reason, Hollywood is really far behind every other industry. It's getting better; it's just slow.
Reed Morano
You
Respect
Woman
People
Better
Slow
Every
Think
Other
Some
Misconception
Industry
Because
Command
Getting
Getting Better
Behind
Just
Common
Hollywood
Far
Really
Reason
Set
A conductor should guide rather than command.
Riccardo Muti
Guide
Rather
Command
Conductor
Than
Should
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
Richard V. Allen
Failure
Will
Winner
National
State
Our
Hesitation
Indecision
System
Characterized
Take
He
Command
Provides
Ship
National Interest
Office
Expected
Interest
January
Harm
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
Robert Dale Owen
Respect
Decision
Evil
Command
Often
Mankind
Even
Boldness
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
Robert Grosseteste
Soul
Heart
Will
Strife
Way
Shall
Hostel
Divisions
Household
Make
Discord
Command
Accord
Any
Your
Who
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