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Baseball and golf have a lot of things in common, including the fact that players in both games love hitting for power. However, in both sports, trying to do so strictly with muscle strength doesn't work very well. In fact, I see a lot of guys in both baseball and golf struggle when they try to swing with tight arms.
Ken Griffey Jr.
Work
Love
Strength
Struggle
Sports
Try
Power
Strictly
I See
See
Guys
Both
Fact
Well
Arms
Tight
However
Lot
Very
Trying
Hitting
Common
In Fact
Golf
Games
Including
Swing
Baseball
Things
Players
Muscle
I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.
Adam Ondra
Discipline
Think
Speed
Philosophy
I Think
Kind
Opinion
Climber
Climbing
Train
Artificial
Same
Common
In My Opinion
Holds
Which
Much
Compete
At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
People
Speak
Language
Believe
All People
Thread
Ford
Motor
Common
Arts
Common Language
Company
Among
The most common experience in my life is rejection. I've done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare you for that, in theory.
Killian Scott
Life
You
Experience
Training
School
My Life
Rejection
Drama
Drama School
Over
Most
Auditions
Done
Common
Theory
Prepare
Amount
One of the things about live music that's so incredibly important and can't be replaced and automated is the common focus of a room full of people having that human contact and being immersed in the sensory overload of a rock concert.
John Rzeznik
Music
People
Focus
Important
Live
Incredibly
Immersed
One Of The Things
About
Having
Contact
Concert
Rock
Overload
Replaced
Human
Common
Being
Automated
Sensory
Room
Full
Live Music
Things
I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.
Uzodinma Iweala
Man
Experience
Black
Men
Understanding
Other
States
Ways
About
Through
Shared
Common
Automatic
United
United States
Two
With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.
William Barr
Communicate
Criminals
Easier
Reach
Beyond
Becoming
Traditional
Encryption
Surveillance
Common
Availability
Growing
To me it is just common sense that we should be making apprenticeships readily available to every young person who wants to go down that route - and encouraging people to consider taking this path just as readily as we would encourage someone to look into a university degree.
Layla Moran
Me
People
Path
Degree
Young
Sense
Down
Every
Consider
Would
Someone
Taking
Look
Readily
Making
Go
Encourage
Encouraging
Person
Just
Common
Wants
Common Sense
Available
Young Person
Should
Who
Route
University
The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Work
Family
Value
Values
Our
Fact
Share
Terms
American
Family Unit
Common
Work Ethic
Average
Ethic
Average American
Much
Unit
I love how passionate Elder McKinley is about his faith, but he's a perfectionist in a bad way... to the point he denies his true feelings. It's a common story, unfortunately.
Rory O'Malley
Love
Faith
Feelings
Way
I Love
Bad
About
Point
Bad Way
He
Perfectionist
True
How
Passionate
His
Denies
Common
Unfortunately
Story
Elder
My mum was always extremely political. I have fond memories of making signs as a child for the nuclear disarmament protests at Greenham Common, or helping her bake cakes for them.
Jess Phillips
Memories
Political
Signs
Extremely
Fond
Fond Memories
Cakes
Disarmament
Bake
Protests
Always
Making
Child
Common
Them
Helping
Mum
Her
Nuclear
I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
Q-Tip
Time
Political
Country
Sense
Doors
Synergy
Kind
Obama
Embodies
I Feel
I Feel Like
Spirit
Abroad
Push
Open
Feel
Like
Same
Going
The Doors
Common
Barack
Barack Obama
Them
Wide
Here
I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.
Martin O'Malley
Value
Values
Important
Think
I Think
Those
Some
More
Points
Shared
Another
Always
Issue
Issues
Very
American
Forging
Any
Common
Common Belief
Realize
Really
Forward
Grow
Belief
Consensus
Starting
Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.
Vetrimaaran
Bird
Birds
Nutrition
Respects
Eat
Slum
Crow
Nobody
Exotic
Eggs
Common
Children
Which
Fascinate
The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.
George Monbiot
You
Tough
System
Must
Physical
Physically
Misconception
Emotional
Emotionally
Massive
Make
Because
Makes
Does
Opposite
Childhood
Common
Justification
Boarding
Believed
Based
Founders
Hardship
Early
I believe sport brings people together and allows them to feel united for a common goal.
Alexander Ovechkin
Together
People
Believe
I Believe
Feel
Sport
Goal
Common
Common Goal
Them
United
Brings
While repealing net neutrality rules grabs headlines... net neutrality started as a consumer issue but soon became a stepping stone to impose vastly more common carrier regulation on broadband companies.
Michael O'Rielly
Neutrality
Broadband
Rules
Carrier
Net
More
Vastly
Consumer
Stepping
Soon
Stepping Stone
Headlines
Became
Issue
Impose
Repealing
Stone
Common
While
Regulation
Companies
Started
When I finished my degree I became a physics and maths teacher. And worked in the international school in Brussels, because like many kids, after University I went home going ‘ahhh I don’t know what to do’. I happened to fall upon a job there because they were desperate for a physics teacher which is a common theme among many schools.
Layla Moran
Teacher
Home
Physics
School
Desperate
Job
Degree
Finished
Fall
Kids
Brussels
Like
Know
Schools
Became
Because
Were
Maths
Going
Common
After
Happened
Which
Theme
Worked
International
Many
Among
University
George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
Bill Cosby
Creative
Words
Brilliant
Humor
Clever
Carlin
Drawing
Out
Something
Johnny
Winters
Taking
George
George Carlin
Very
Common
Being
A desk for $350 a month in a common area is not as cheap as a coffee shop. But a lot of people would say they're empowered by that environment in a way that makes it worth it.
Miguel McKelvey
People
Worth
Coffee
Month
Way
Say
Worth It
Would
Area
Cheap
Environment
Empowered
Makes
Lot
Shop
Common
Desk
I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch.
No I.D.
Me
You
Build
Something
Come
Built
Era
Chicago
Scratch
Just
Common
Where
A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.
Mitt Romney
People
Cause
President
States
Must
Only
Common
Common Cause
United
United States
Serve
The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.
Zephyr Teachout
You
Science
Power
Lose
Guess
Directly
Part
Long-Term
Involvement
Prove
Effective
Any
Essential
Essential Part
Common
Legitimacy
Process
Decision-Making
Decision-Making Process
Public
Mean
Engage
Core
It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
Rand Paul
Man
People
World
Latest
Those
About
Folly
Seems
Term
Days
Most
Involved
Does
Up
Common
Anyone
Wanting
Then
Who
Agree
Serial
Straw
Thing
Set
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dreams
Good
Mind
Too
Though
Eye
TV
TV Set
Could
Between
Box
Deal
Been
Often
Common
Screen
Good Deal
Set
Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.
Marty Stuart
Me
Church
First
Kind
Invited
Performers
Like
House
Mississippi
Sing
Well
First Place
Well-Being
Denominator
Up
Common
Being
Common Denominator
Place
Public
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
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