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Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
Catherine Malandrino
Myself
Fur
Indulgence
Lot
Human
Human Beings
Many
Beings
Default
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
Catherine Tate
Success
Me
Negative
Incredibly
Back
Relief
Only
Neutral
Person
Any
Going
Form
Success Is
Ever
Default
Set
Position
There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.
Charles Bass
You
Spending
Some
Point
Could
Support
Between
Like
Economy
Nations
Difference
Where
Really
European
European Nations
Strategic
Technical
Default
Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.
Charles Duhigg
Me
You
Long
Own
Pay
Promise
Some
Insurance
Go
Sell
Up
Selling
Goes
Just
Where
Swap
Agreement
Credit
Default
Belly
Bond
Basically
The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.
Charles Murray
Problem
Revolution
Think
Has-Been
Some
Writers
Masculine
Knots
Tied
Around
Feminine
Feminist
Been
Male
Singular
Get
Which
Using
Default
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
Chevy Chase
Jimmy
Run
Minus
Anyone
Wants
Who
Default
I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.
Chris Squire
Design
More
Journeyman
Been
Than
Really
Default
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
Chrystia Freeland
Democracy
World
Political
Become
Sector
Paradox
Consumer
Private
Intellectual
Private Sector
Mode
Public
Much
Choice
Even
Default
Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes of this nation.
Chuck Fleischmann
Time
Nation
Address
States
Some
Point
Nobody
Got
Fiscal
Woes
Debt
Wants
United
United States
Default
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
Dan Savage
Gay
Assumption
Kid
Odd
Straight
Now
Default
Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.
Daniel L. Doctoroff
Has-Been
Tempted
Risk
Given
Main
Main Street
Simply
Investors
Name
Instrument
Because
Trade
Been
Same
Different
Cannot
Should
Who
Credit
Street
Profile
Default
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
David Bonderman
Good
Business
Would
Would-Be
Like
Equity
Private
Very
Greece
Default
Portugal
Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I'm a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO.
David Cohen
Vision
Big
Strategy
Jobs
Main
Because
Big Believer
Making
CEO
Company
Believer
Founders
Default
Set
Many graduates, moving often in the first years of their post-college life, simply forget to update their addresses with Harvard, and so bills go unanswered and uncollected. This is called a 'technical default.'
David Fahrenthold
Life
First
Address
Harvard
Unanswered
Simply
Go
Years
Update
Forget
Often
Graduates
Moving
Many
Bills
Technical
Default
Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'
Diana Gabaldon
Relationship
You
Women
Word
Mind
Difficult
Bite
Easiest
Case
Someone
Something
Pick
Written
Like
Involving
Sort
Dealing
Sound
Sound Bite
Sounds
Normal
Get
Any
Romance
Whenever
Fiction
Across
Describe
Default
By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.
Elizabeth Marvel
Funny
Nature
Extroverted
Introverted
Very
Place
Little
Profession
Default
Ephemeral should be the default.
Evan Spiegel
Ephemeral
Should
Default
It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.
Evan Spiegel
Better
Important
Saved
Everyone
Everything
Would
Would-Be
Deleted
Us
Things
Default
The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
Fabrizio Moreira
Time
Great
Plants
Long
Setting
Humming
Peer
Plentiful
Jobs
Kind
Phrase
Some
Restore
Superiority
Economic
Previous
Factories
Since
Implies
Mission
Make
Without
Passed
Were
Very
America
American
Where
Wanted
Anyone
Again
Manufacturing
Who
Default
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
Frances Bean Cobain
People
Parents
Out
Know
Because
Came
Womb
Famous
Wanted
Who
Default
If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.
George Papandreou
Pain
Worse
Months
Would
Would-Be
Structural
Wrong
Taking
Economy
Make
Making
Were
End
Target
Greek
Reforms
Going
Decided
In The End
European
Many
Why
Things
Default
I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.
Guy Martin
Eyes
Job
Setting
Had
Truck
Opened
Like
Still
Want
Ingrained
Really
Many
Things
Default
I believe if you are sincere with your work and you are good at it, then your identity will be created by default.
Ishaan Khatter
Work
Good
You
Will
Believe
Sincere
Identity
Then
Created
Your
Default
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
Jack Germond
Good
Political
Inevitable
Our
Spent
Those
Response
Would
Would-Be
Abide
Pretty
Pretty Good
Someone
David
He
Said
Jules
Jack
Reporter
The Hardest Thing
Us
Who
Whoever
Comparison
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Default
Competing
Careers
I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.
James Lankford
Love
Myself
Try
Problems
Mind
Research
Down
Side
Back
See
More
Weeds
Through
Student
Messaging
Go
Get
Going
Different
Things
Default
I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting. Modeling comes up by default, and I love it - of course I think that it's great - but I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting.
Jamie Clayton
Love
Great
Think
Definitely
Focusing
Attention
Course
Up
Modeling
Acting
Default
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