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I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.
Erin McKean
Words
Word
Believe
Every
Think
Our
Would
Recycle
Demands
New
Environmentally
Like
Got
New Word
Event
Conscious
Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and meet the demands of parents who have other high quality options.
Eva Moskowitz
Quality
School
Parents
Other
Meet
Our
Sector
High
Must
Charter
Segregation
High-Quality
Attacking
Disadvantaged
Students
Demands
Beyond
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Traditional
Options
Hands
Hands-On
Move
Deck
Requires
Who
Serving
Zone
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
Fede Alvarez
God
Great
Family
You
Thank God
Evil
Think
Films
Other
Market
Way
Bad
About
Horror
Horror Films
No-One
Demands
Dead
Make
Because
Lot
Thank
Just
Just Because
Sequels
Away
Right
Right Away
Thinks
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Francis Spufford
You
Culture
Illusion
Pretending
Sense
Fluffy
Our
Thoroughly
Systematic
Demands
Contemporary
Well
Common
After
Common Sense
While
Might
Requires
Dispense
Belief
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
Francois Hollande
Myself
You
Respect
Post
Job
Country
Before
Our
France
Responsibilities
Give
Demands
Devotion
Exemplary
Understand
Years
Led
Salute
Republican
Engage
Who
Deserves
Serve
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.
Frank Gaffney
Freedom
Rights
Example
Human Rights
United Nations
Those
Muslims
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Council
Taking
Freedom Of Expression
Since
Demands
Along
For Example
Sought
Accommodate
Lines
Offend
Office
Stoke
Human
Nations
Lest
Expression
United
Ever
Violence
Resolution
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
Franz von Papen
Freedom
Spiritual
Political
Will
Nation
National
Written
Demands
Were
Movement
Banner
Which
Social
Act
Internal
Conscience
External
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
Fredrik Bajer
Great
Achievement
Money
Great Deal
Danish
More
Adult
Had
Demands
Also
Occasions
Deal
Quarter
However
Denmark
Than
Effort
Movement
Really
Population
Letter
Two
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Freedom
Mind
State
Totalitarian
Only
Prevent
Demands
Becoming
One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
Gary Hume
Work
Myself
Become
Painting
Else
Say
Drawing
Find
Something
Something Else
Demand
Demands
Like
Want
Either
Might
Then
Should
Companion
Image
Start
Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
Giorgio Agamben
Time
Relationship
Those
Neither
Through
Perfectly
Demands
Contemporary
Nor
Truly
Then
Who
Adapt
Coincide
The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Philippines
Sacrifice
Demands
Policy
Human
Lives
The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.
Greg LeMond
You
Yourself
People
Cycling
Chronic
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Asthma
Say
System
Bad
Immune
Physical
Develop
Demands
Overload
Get
Might
Certain
Your
Expose
Elements
Actually
Amount
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.
Greil Marcus
You
Painting
Way
Demands
React
Going
Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.
Guy Standing
Government
Time
History
Class
Rights
Celebrate
Every
Boo
Every Time
State
Our
Liberties
Minister
Ability
Magna
Emerging
Shame
Spokesman
Demands
New
Make
Against
Them
Us
Really
Means
Let Us
Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.
Harsha Bhogle
People
Few
Other
Cricket
Lifetime
Investment
Demands
Like
Sport
Glory
End
Offers
Fewer
Short
Even
Professions
Flourish
Starting
Careers
I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
Helen Oyeyemi
Try
Style
Write
Demands
Just
Story
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen
Man
Marriage
Nothing
Else
Demands
Much
As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.
Henry Charles Carey
Best
Protection
Country
Our
Some
Steadily
Had
Demands
Most
Always
Existed
Regards
Which
Customer
Regularly
England
Grow
Ever
Her
Extent
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
Herbert A. Simon
Beautiful
Me
World
Nothing
Vast
Impersonal
Demand
Demands
Fascinating
Even
Awe-Inspiring
What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's just for me, but if it's a piece for a particular publication, I know what they're going to ask for.
Hilton Als
Me
You
Writing
Feel
Demands
Particular
Know
Piece
Any
Going
Just
Ask
Certain
Publication
Satisfy
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore de Balzac
Peace
Science
Fate
Liberty
Political
Nation
Political Liberty
Gifts
Demands
Blood
Itself
Tax
Heavy
Which
I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.
Hosni Mubarak
You
Mistake
Will
Country
Whatever
President
Respond
Telling
Find
Shameful
Demands
Accept
Am
Foreign
Context
Came
Hear
Nor
Source
Listen
Might
Requests
Your
Ever
After the World Cup, the next two or three days there is a lot of celebration, a lot of obligation, towards the country, towards the French Federation, towards the fans. And then, after that, you feel so empty - mentally and physically. It's a long tournament; it demands a lot of energy and a lot of emotion.
Hugo Lloris
You
Obligation
World
Fans
Three
Long
Country
Energy
Physically
Mentally
Emotion
Federation
Tournament
Feel
Towards
Demands
Days
French
Empty
Lot
Cup
Celebration
After
Then
Next
World Cup
Two
It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'
James Gray
Car
Beginning
Keystone
Silent
Chase
Demand
Since
Demands
Because
Era
Really
Many
Unique
Even
Film
Cops
Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.
James Hansen
Will
Otherwise
Financiers
Demands
Until
Policy
Makers
Continue
Public
Serve
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