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Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.
Travis Bradberry
People
Negative
Other
Others
Chaos
Those
Defy
Logic
Unaware
Impact
Some
Seem
Pushing
Toxic
Around
Blissfully
Them
Creating
Derive
Satisfaction
Buttons
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr
Inspirational
Joy
Face
Weather
Defy
Bad
Only
Bad Weather
Sorrow
Masters
Storm
Us
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton
Faith
Me
Better
Tyranny
Past
Complete
Possibility
Defy
Something
Almost
New
Always
How
Go
Been
Precedent
Improve
Done
Anything
Irritates
Might
Things
Disregard
When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an 'order from Al Capone,' Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: 'I think that Louis Armstrong is the world's greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.'
Louis Armstrong
Words
World
Ugly
Face
Down
Think
Marquee
Defy
Must
Joe
Take
Cat
He
Name
Looked
Him
Armstrong
Greatest
His
Off
Louis
Louis Armstrong
Anybody
Order
Place
Straight
Capone
Gangster
Al
Al Capone
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
John McCain
Strength
Enemies
Men
Cruelty
Once
Once More
Defy
More
Anguish
Recover
Imprisonment
Human
Break
Then
Appalling
Moment
Inhuman
Human Strength
Suffer
Watched
We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.
Victoria Arlen
Challenges
Face
Defy
Embrace
Them
Conquer
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated.
Russell Means
Natural
Simple
Mother
Will
Earth
Has-Been
Defy
All Things
Simple Fact
Fact
Marxism
Retaliate
Environment
Abuse
Powers
Alter
Mother Earth
Tradition
Go
Been
Forever
Order
Cannot
Natural Order
Theory
European
Whole
Included
Things
Eliminated
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Death
You
Enemy
Fear
Drive
Ranks
Defy
Must
Him
Lads
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Paul Hawken
Natural
Try
First
Rule
Align
Defy
Forces
Least
Sustainability
Them
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
Martha Beck
Love
Fear
Matter
Others
Way
Say
Ourselves
Defy
Allow
May
Choose
Choose Love
Need
There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.
Maryanne Trump Barry
You
Man
Woman
Disagree
Will
Defy
Find
Weapon
One-Man
More
Potent
Steel
Feminine
Than
Any
Who
Profession
Exterior
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
Yoko Ono
You
Old
Society
Defy
Tells
Retire
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.
Amy Chua
Mom
Family
Me
Law
School
Amazing
Strict
Parents
Others
Ways
Kids
Defy
One Thing
Easy
Fabulous
Some
Law School
Students
Clear
Come
Tiger
Yale
Years
Situations
Lenient
Them
Produce
Teaching
Many
Description
Professor
Thing
I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.
Angela Bassett
Love
Me
Action
Defy
Some
Gym
Since
Doing
Expectations
Get
We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
Ben Foster
Art
Experience
Fear
Thought
Spirituality
Live
Meditation
Distance
Way
Ourselves
Defy
Web
Put
Identify
Source
Them
Away
Things
Present
Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
Carl Honore
Marriage
Corruption
Problems
Fighting
Worse
Indeed
Defy
Mending
Tackling
Remedies
Failing
Makes
Surgery
Disease
Just
Whether
Company
Rebuilding
Hardest
Slapping
Things
Needed
It was my first time in prison. I was there to volunteer with Defy Ventures, along with 500 teammates Tara Graham, Brian Wang, and Aerin Lim. While I didn't feel particularly scared about going to prison, I had no idea what to expect.
Christine Tsai
Time
First
Prison
Teammates
Defy
Scared
No Idea
About
Had
Volunteer
Idea
Feel
Along
Particularly
Ventures
First Time
Expect
Going
Graham
While
Brian
There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things.
Clemantine Wamariya
Great
People
Great Things
Achieve
Odds
Defy
Potential
Struggles
Did
Same
Refugees
Experienced
Conflicts
Who
Things
Millions
Millions Of People
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
Criss Angel
Nature
Reality
Matter
Become
Believe
Defy
Magic
Laws
Part
Sophisticated
Alternative
How
Still
Child
Where
Wants
Us
Speaks
Who
I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?
David Chang
Good
Hate
People
Assume
Corporation
Say
Defy
Restaurant
Concept
Sort
How
Where
Chain
Each
Now
I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
David Oyelowo
Character
You
Mirror
Looking
Think
Character Actor
Though
Defy
Would
Admire
Constantly
See
Beats
Combined
Sort
Very
Curious
Expectations
Want
Movie
Anyone
Really
Many
Star
Whose
Actor
Actually
Career
I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
Denis Norden
Decision
Defy
Days
Quickly
Get
Anyone
The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.
Doug Aitken
Nature
Travel
Class
Song
Three
Half
Creation
Defy
Ability
Minutes
Something
Structures
Economic
Perfect
Sonnet
Opera
Short
Pop
Pop Song
The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
Edith Widder
You
Technology
Science
Made
Ocean
Down
Other
Hundreds
Way
Out
Defy
About
Nets
Vehicles
Primary
Name
Remote
Know
Operated
Still
Go
Ships
Branch
Any
Behind
Depends
Lives
Drag
The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
Geoff Dyer
Reality
World
Space
Own
Cinematic
Defy
Physical
Laws
Another
Surely
Wonder
Landscape
Gravity
As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.
Greg Rutherford
Matter
Try
Long
Earth
Defy
Always
How
How Far
Jump
Hit
Far
Eventually
Gravity
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