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As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.
Rob Halford
Music
You
Sense
See
Rating
Putting
Like
Common
As Far As
Common Sense
Movies
Far
In the Marine Corps, I was used to people doing what they said and saying what they mean. There was a higher purpose and calling in the Corps. Everyone works toward accomplishing something together, and there's a common goal. In entertainment, the same isn't always true. You're in it for yourself in Hollywood.
Rob Riggle
Saying
You
Entertainment
Together
Yourself
People
Marine Corps
Everyone
Corps
Something
Purpose
Higher
True
Toward
Calling
Said
Always
Doing
Goal
Accomplishing
Same
Common
Common Goal
Mean
Hollywood
Used
Works
Marine
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.
Robert Burns
Political
Thought
Men
Seen
Few
Manners
Willing
Moral
Ability
Classes
Some
Admit
Poetical
Writers
Am
Very
Chiefly
Any
May
Common
Different
Either
Which
Acquainted
Mankind
Originality
Whom
Among
Assist
What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.
Robert Duvall
Good
Women
People
Wife
Sense
Down
Rancher
City
City People
About
Like
She
Known
Understand
Texas
Common
Common Sense
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Vilified
Bright
Palin
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
Robert Fortune
Doors
Nothing
Charcoal
Kind
Windows
Fires
Sheds
Houses
Quantity
Up
The Doors
Stop
Common
Straw
Things
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
Robert Fripp
You
Band
Pulse
Once
Several
Definitely
Rigid
Reference
Common
Playing
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
Robert Gottlieb
Good
You
Editing
Sense
Simply
Qualification
Reader
Editor
Any
Common
Common Sense
Why
Application
Number
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
Robert Graves
Medicine
Complete
Mental
More
Prevention
Well
Anthology
Cure
May
Common
Much
Used
Disorders
Chosen
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
Robert Green Ingersoll
World
Books
Worthless
All The World
Gems
Shakespeare
Sacred
Glittering
Stones
Common
Gold
Compared
People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.
Robert Griffin III
Life
Me
Sports
People
Superman
Incredible
Favorite
Superhero
Seems
Only
Various
He
Die
Hulk
Common
Theme
Whole
Actually
American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.
Robert Kennedy
Good
Culture
World
Rest
Reflect
Heritage
Other
Our
Books
Thus
Ambassador
Linking
American
Endless
Common
Nations
Influence
Influences
Us
Many
It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.
Robert Mundell
Best
Together
Political
Creation
Market
Inside
Since
Glue
Going
Common
Euro
Europe
Keep
Thing
A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.
Robert P. McCulloch
Witness
Consistency
Statement
Statements
Evidence
Physical
Previous
Highly
Method
Effective
Common
Compare
Challenging
Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.
Robert Rinder
Me
World
Twitter
Born
Days
Most
Am
Repetitive
Contrary
Common
Upstairs
Against
View
Appears
Receive
Homophobic
Posh
It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
Robert Scoble
Facebook
Amazing
Startups
About
Had
Names
Because
Were
Common
Found
We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.
Robert Toombs
War
Future
Power
Added
Benefit
Several
States
Purchase
Admit
Had
Over
New
Make
Territories
Domain
Existing
Conferred
Common
Might
Large
Hence
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.
Robert Winston
Great
Man
Conflict
Giving
Odds
Other
Our
Ourselves
Would
Seeds
Morale
Only
Purpose
Had
Genes
Built
Survived
Common
Which
Against
Fortitude
Deep
Groups
Each
Fought
Creature
Competitive
Savannah
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
Robyn Hitchcock
Beatles
Thirty
Everybody
Everyone
Something
Had
Knew
George
Were
Years
Years Ago
George Harrison
Common
Who
Dr
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
Robyn Hitchcock
Beatles
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Feel
Always
Got
Hear
Lot
Common
Whenever
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
Wise
Man
People
Speak
Will
Men
Judgment
Every
Think
Must
Follow
Counsel
Write
Allow
He
Wise Men
Aristotle
Well
Him
Understand
Any
Common
Common People
Should
Every Man
Tongue
Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens.
Romesh Gunesekera
World
Fans
Other
Cricket
Citizens
More
Over
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Than
Common
Each
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.
Ron Chernow
Words
Fathers
Constantly
Posterity
Most
Were
Referring
Common
Used
Founding
Founding Fathers
Thing
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
Ron Eglash
Science
High-Tech
Geometry
Traditional
Surprisingly
Often
Common
African
While
Patterns
Used
Designs
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.
Ron White
Success
Time
Nature
You
Long
Long Time
Big
Had
Takes
True
Look
Learn
Comics
Denominator
Common
Big Success
Being
Common Denominator
Who
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.
Rowan Atkinson
You
Speak
Language
Think
Everything
About
Divided
Bound
Like
Course
Because
Understand
Always
America
Common
Being
Common Language
Age-Old
England
English
Thing
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
Rowan Williams
God
Heart
Humanity
World
Impossible
Community
Living
Muslims
Both
Purpose
Call
Reveal
Faiths
Up
Deny
Common
Agenda
Image
Here
Raised
Christians
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