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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
Washed Out
Rare
First
Doubt
Lyrics
Tell
More
Mainly
Towards
Because
Without
Concrete
Very
Going
Happen
Process
Story
Producer
Really
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Wentworth Miller
Faith
You
Business
Proof
About
Something
Never
Concrete
Up
Trusting
May
Show
Measure
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Try
Past
Believe
Resolving
Enter
Able
Poem
Poems
Abstract
Tension
Participant
Like
Reader
Concrete
Get
Listener
Should
Connecting
If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete - there is an angry old man in the sky, and if I do something wrong, he will punish me.
Yuval Noah Harari
Great
Angry
Me
You
Man
People
Old
Sky
Will
Believe
Think
Punish
Religions
About
Something
He
Wrong
Parts
Concrete
Very
Gods
Old Man
Large
United
Humankind
It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
Zadie Smith
Faith
Me
Word
Nothing
Ourselves
About
Seems
Something
Almost
Almost Nothing
Suppose
Knowing
Another
Concrete
Commit
Often
While
Wholly
I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.
Ziggy Marley
Love
Nature
Me
Running
City
Like
Concrete
Provides
Lot
Jamaica
Streets
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
Ulrich Walter
Hope
Me
Believe
Meetings
Topic
I Can
Visited
Give
Clear
Know
Obviously
Does
Answers
Least
Concrete
Lectures
Questions
After
Interested
Them
Then
Who
Many
Humans
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
P. J. O'Rourke
Walls
Gun
Long
Guard
Topped
City
Posts
Except
Blast
Feet
Tall
Concrete
Sounds
Moved
Romantic
Place
Which
Barrels
Barriers
Reinforced
Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.
Arvind Kejriwal
Our
More
Small
Step
Democratic
Making
Concrete
Polity
Information
Right
The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren't any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.
Joshua Wong
Victory
Systematic
Policies
Because
Concrete
Were
Umbrella
Legacy
Reforms
Any
Movement
After
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke
Government
Think
I Think
Detail
Easy
No Reason
Obviously
Parts
Because
Always
Concrete
Reason
Sympathetic
Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.
Ken Loach
Politics
People
Live
Struggles
Ideas
Concrete
Lives
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