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In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.
John N. Mitchell
Mind
Important
Richard Nixon
Other
Side
Nixon
More
Put
Re-Election
Context
Just
Available
Richard
Much
Compared
Strictly speaking, intensity in the weight training context refers to the amount of work required to achieve the activity and is proportional to the mass of the weights being lifted - that is, how heavy the weight is relative to how strong you are.
John Romaniello
Work
You
Training
Strong
Achieve
Strictly
Strictly Speaking
Relative
Proportional
Lifted
Weight
Weights
Mass
How
Context
Intensity
Being
Heavy
Required
Speaking
Activity
Amount
In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.
John Trudell
Good
Guess
Pretty
Pretty Good
Institution
Context
Doing
Personal
Ground
When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context.
Jon Favreau
You
Director
Learning
Culture
Gig
Constantly
Rush
Steep
He
Part
Observer
Himself
Learn
Another
Learner
Does
Context
Real
Being
Ron
Racing
Skill
Your
European
Fun
Thing
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
Jon Lovett
Politics
Experience
Humor
Way
Shared
Another
Context
Surprising
Us
Connects
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Jon Ronson
You
Patience
Trouble
Understanding
Empathy
Calling
Context
Midst
Land
Really
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
Jonathan Coe
Woman
Control
No Control
About
Attempting
Written
Individuals
Over
Since
Make
Always
Context
Accidental
Situations
Which
Choices
Novels
Ever
A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal.
Josh Gondelman
Great
Great Deal
Statement
Those
Vary
Deal
Makes
Always
Context
Item
Vest
Depending
Clothing
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
Josh McDowell
You
Light
Document
Read
Always
Context
Historical
Any
Whenever
Evaluate
Now
As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.
Joshua Bell
You
Own
White
White House
Group
Once
Way
Those
High
Somehow
My Own
Higher
Know
House
Concerned
Always
Context
Very
Than
Any
As Far As
Whether
Stakes
Far
Play
Start
Playing
The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Vital
Put
Primarily
Uncover
Journalism
New
Context
New Information
Condition
Improve
Human
Information
Human Condition
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Use
Function
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
Julie Salamon
History
Our
Our Lives
Between
Also
Forces
Context
Personal
Form
Fascinated
Larger
Lives
I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.
Justin Trudeau
Life
Tired
People
Political
Try
Focus
Politicians
Group
Think
Too
Say
Out
About
Within
Opponent
Context
Spun
Comment
Canadians
Afraid
Anything
Scripted
Might
Much
Inch
Who
Actually
Twist
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
History
Rights
Book
Black
Typical
Black Americans
Civil
Civil Rights
More
Mentioned
Context
History Book
American
Story
Much
Slavery
Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.
Kassie DePaiva
Crazy
You
Out
Laughing
TV
Scene
Take
Performance
Daytime
Material
Sound
Context
Were
Happen
Crazy Things
Far-Fetched
Specific
Things
Things Happen
Start
Watching
I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
Kathy Mattea
Try
Honor
Shine
Some
Point
Songs
Stuff
Come
Know
Also
Steward
Around
Understand
Context
Provide
Role
Revolves
Artist
Center
Them
Really
Level
In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.
Katie Kitamura
You
Fight
Drama
Context
Much
Watch
Need
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
Keith Ellison
People
Every
Progressive
Out
Attack
Take
Context
Quote
Again
Them
Far
Far Right
Use
Now
Right
I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.
Keith Ellison
People
Language
Feeling
Important
Master
Think
Pulse
Progressive
Presidential
Presidential Race
Finger
Spokesman
Learn
Got
How
Context
Get
Going
Anybody
Movement
Race
Really
Who
For me, one of the lessons from 9/11 is that you have to give the organization context for how you're acting, and you've got to communicate constantly, in this case particularly with all the changes that were occurring in the financial marketplace and in the economy.
Kenneth Chenault
Me
You
Communicate
Financial
Organization
Changes
Marketplace
Constantly
Case
Give
Economy
Particularly
Got
How
Context
Were
Acting
Lessons
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Kenneth L. Pike
Behavior
Perspective
Language
Universe
Other
Rules
System
Total
Clause
Unrelated
Observer
Merely
Context
Sounds
Discourse
Integrating
Meanings
Each
Coherent
Set
Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
Kenneth Noland
Seniors
Other
Mentors
Context
Begins
Artists
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.
Kerry James Marshall
You
Beauty
Become
Skin
Kind
Darker
Blackness
More
Lighter
Acceptable
Context
Demonstrate
Done
Want
Produce
Figure
Marginalised
I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.
Kiefer Sutherland
Environmental
Nature
Mother
Believe
Other
Our
Our Planet
Strongly
Absolutely
Mother Nature
Context
Effect
Very
Us
Planet
Things
Profound
I love food, but I can't bear to read about it, to talk about it, to discuss the consequences and context of how we consume it. And this is more or less how I feel about raising children, too.
Kim Brooks
Love
Food
Consequences
Too
About
More
Bear
More Or Less
Consume
Feel
Talk
Read
How
Context
Discuss
Children
Less
Raising
Raising Children
Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.
Kristin Cavallari
Great
People
Some People
Sense
Bit
Out
Some
Something
Only
Take
Headlines
Read
Context
Article
Blow
Little
Little Bit
Really
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