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As a player, NBA All-Star Weekend contains a lot of joy and a lot of excitement. Even with all the hype built into the game, it's really a special honor to be selected among many great players.
Scottie Pippen
Great
Game
Joy
Honor
Hype
All-Star
Weekend
Selected
Excitement
Contains
Built
Lot
Really
Special
Many
Even
NBA
Among
Player
Players
Sulfide-ore mining is one of the most toxic industries in America and has a long history of polluting waterways with acid drainage that contains arsenic, mercury, and lead.
Seth Moulton
History
Long
Drainage
Mining
Long History
Lead
Mercury
Contains
Most
Toxic
Industries
America
Polluting
Acid
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Shirley Jackson
Work
Myself
Writing
Chronological
Pressed
About
Give
Outline
Only
Facts
Contains
Material
Very
Autobiographical
Which
Dislike
Much
Bare
Pertinent
Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.
Shruti Haasan
Music
Together
Every
Idea
Contains
Like
Because
Same
Quite
Body
Stand
Many
Whole
Enigma
Basic
Things
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Wise
Man
Half
Contains
Answer
Question
A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness and depth. That's what I strive for in my music. I want to create something that's like a longform statement.
St. Lucia
Music
Enriching
Statement
Strive
Something
More
Powerful
Contains
Like
Short
Just
Want
Short Story
Information
Story
Interesting
Depth
Create
Much
Really
Richness
Novel
The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.
Stephen Harper
World
Superpower
Shares
Contains
Continent
Canada
Now
What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.
Steve Blank
Needs
Me
Sports
Own
Every
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Struck
Outside
Football
Contains
Missing
Globally
Industry
How
Been
American
American Football
Region
Regions
Team
Strategies
Compete
Plays
I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
Steve Vai
Today
Me
You
Old
First
Enjoy
Side
Seven
Impact
Record
About
Had
Contains
Look
Doing
West
Years
Heard
West Side
West Side Story
Huge
Huge Impact
Eight
Story
Many
Elements
Things
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.
Teju Cole
Work
You
Example
First
Looking
Think
About
General
More
Glance
He
True
Attention
Contains
Does
Than
Artist
Artists
Rewards
Sustains
Mean
Painters
Whose
Specific
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?
Terry Pratchett
Family
Thoughts
You
Mother
Unhappy
Own
About
Contains
Most
Terrible
Terrible Thing
Said
Off
Author
Being
Famous
Lady
Your
Standing
Who
Novelists
Switch
Mill
Thing
Funeral
Innermost
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
Tim Holden
Family
Chapter
Protection
Made
National
Recommended
Federal
Contains
Permanent
Review
Commission
Bankruptcy
Farmers
Code
Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.
Todd Akin
Time
Food
Me
You
Control
Add
Defines
Embryo
Some
Seem
Fact
Contains
Term
Like
Scientific
Becomes
Climate
Laboratory
Person
May
In Fact
Information
Unique
Now
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
Drama
State
Complete
High
Only
Both
Poetry
Contain
Development
Contains
Ode
Germ
Them
Epic
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
Vikram Seth
Music
Me
Book
Writing
Could
Contains
Most
Another
Tradition
Current
Listen
After
Anything
Noticed
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
Wilbur Smith
Best
Day
Age
School
Mother
Collection
Introduction
Between
Contains
Shelf
Won
Prize
American
Essay
Modern
Literature
Ashes
Little
American Literature
English
Works
Keep
Copy
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
William Inge
Faith
Ourselves
Risk
Impelled
Feel
Contains
Attraction
Make
Venture
Always
Affinity
Which
Element
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
Zaha Hadid
Music
Art
Fashion
Day
Mood
Contains
Like
Because
Literature
Moment
I would advise everyone to have a travel drawer. Mine contains adaptors, ear plugs, blow-up pillows for the plane, travel health books, disposable cameras, a first aid kit and torches.
Katie Melua
Health
Travel
First
Aid
Everyone
Books
Mine
Drawer
Would
Kit
Contains
Advise
Pillows
Cameras
Plane
Disposable
Ear
As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.
Marianne Williamson
Life
Natural
Intelligence
My Life
Healthy
Too
Perfect
Contains
Cell
Unfolding
Which
Body
Fosters
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco
Good
Book
Speak
Made
Signs
Other
Eye
Lies
Contains
Concepts
Read
Without
Dumb
Up
Being
Which
Them
Turn
Produce
Therefore
Things
Eighteen years later, pregnant with my first child, I started eating fish. Oily fish in particular contains plenty of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, essential for neural development.
Alice Roberts
First
Later
Fatty
Plenty
Eating
Neural
Development
Contains
First Child
Particular
Fish
Years
Child
Essential
Eighteen
Pregnant
Started
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people.
Roger Scruton
Art
Culture
People
Society
Frame
Philosophy
High
Scholarship
Shared
Self-Consciousness
Contains
Educated
Educated People
Reference
Establish
Literature
Works
Among
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