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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. Joseph Stiglitz
Wisdom Run Seem Results Counter Economists Like Often Conventional Conventional Wisdom Which Theorems Startling
Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play. Junior Seau
Love Me You Game Way Bishop Run Exactly Exactly What Beat Counter Football Study Stuffing Know Knowing Chess Offense Same Going Move Against Much Pawn Your Teams Film Play
I pretty much grew up with my grandma. She would pull a stool over to the kitchen, and I would climb up at the kitchen counter, and I'd help her make biscuits. Katie Lee
Biscuits Would Pretty Kitchen Counter Over She Make Climb Up Stool Grew Grandma Much Help Her Pull
My grandmother Dora taught me how to cook. She's from a small town in West Virginia called Milton. I would pull a stool up to her kitchen counter after school. My love of food started there. Katie Lee
Love Food Me School Virginia Would Small Kitchen Counter Small Town Town She How West West Virginia Up Stool Taught After After-School Grandmother Cook Her Started Pull Milton
America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal. Kenneth Frazier
People Honor Values Hatred Group Our Run All People Must Counter Leaders Ideal Clearly Equal Supremacy America American Which Created Fundamental Expressions Rejecting
When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating. Kimberly Schlapman
Cooking Own Would Pretended Silly My Own Voice Kitchen Had Counter Talk Spoon Bowl Empty Child Explaining Creating Stand Show Cooking Show
Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. Lee H. Hamilton
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Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us. Lewis Hamilton
Unfair Would Would-Be Runs Counter Idea Performance Between Very Us Teams
In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias. Lexi Alexander
You Somebody Every Hook Martial Martial Arts Attack Throw Counter Bias Arts Traps
I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store. Lita Ford
Fine Cosmetic Counter Department Department Store Store Worked
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well. Maajid Nawaz
Hope Focus Extremism We Cannot Online Take Counter Schools Well Prisons Effectively Just Cannot Need Universities
If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people. Martin McGuinness
People Run Would Entire Given Could Counter Implications Wishes Votes Democratic Island Leave Huge Ireland Irish Irish People Predictions Then Union European European Union Britain
I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back. Matt Ridley
You People Will Beauty Think Corner Back Everyone Chap Possible Some No Interest Temptation Counter He Put Almost Almost Everyone Come Because Huge Grab Commerce Shop Front Behind Where Wants Interest Themselves Much
Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death. Matthew Walker
Death Best Nature Mother Counter Effort Sleep
My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage. Maysoon Zayid
Funny Comedy Negative Made First Heritage Arab Arabs My Friend Counter New Comedians Sure Always Came Were Friend Bunch Festival Trying York Just New York Happened Who Media Founded Images
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. Naguib Mahfouz
Freedom Natural Pay Society Way Must Both Price Counter Freedom Of Expression Natural Way Expression Right Differing Things Defend
Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them. Nana Patekar
Change Impossible Crime Become Ways Archaic Imperative Counter Dealing Methods Them Using
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. Nicholas Johnson
Work People Poverty Out Runs Through Lift Counter Families Effort Decades Poor Taxing Themselves Help Help People
I remember the 'Jenny McCarthy Show' being kind of funny, and I remember her being just like one of the boys. I remember her being counter to everything I thought girls should be on TV, or whatever. I kind of liked her vibe. Nikki Glaser
Funny Remember Thought Girl Whatever Everything Kind TV Counter Like Liked Boy Vibe Just Being McCarthy Should Show Her
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier. Patricia Briggs
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The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right. Prince
Music Natural Music Industry Counter Industry Matrix Right
I'm a very serious guy. I try to counter that predisposition of being a serious person with all this tomfoolery that I love to do so much. I really enjoy it; that's why I do it. I don't like the way I am... perhaps my natural default is to be that way, and I don't like that. Ranveer Singh
Love Natural Try Enjoy Way Guy Counter Like Perhaps Am Very Person Being Much Really Serious Why Default
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11. Richard Engel
Government Terrorism CIA Back States Counter Look Conclude Government Officials Effectively Decade Officials Senior After Many United United States
We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will. Rick Tumlinson
Life You Age Experience Old Will Down Live Run Runs Something Counted Never Counter Feel Like Calendar Because Go Nor Often While Choose
When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life. Rivers Cuomo
Life Work Me You Myth Assumptions Took Trial Trial And Error Out About Through Counter Does Rock How Rock Star Years Error Artist Much Means Figure Star Basically Starting
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality. Rob Lowe
You Culture Reality Definition Counter Ignoring Actively
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