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Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.
Peggy Lipton
Made
Despite
Status
Never
Squad
Hit
Contributing
Really
Connection
Inner
The truth is I'm a very traditional woman, and Rod - despite everything people may think - is a very traditional man. It's true he absolutely loves glamour, and he hasn't got a conventional job, but performing aside, he's happiest at home with his kids around him or lounging in front of the fire watching a war documentary like 'D-Day Remembered.'
Penny Lancaster
Truth
War
Home
Man
Woman
Truth Is
People
Job
Fire
Think
Despite
Everything
Kids
Absolutely
Glamour
He
Remembered
True
Performing
Like
Documentary
Him
Around
Got
Traditional
His
Rod
Very
Front
May
Conventional
Happiest
Loves
Aside
Watching
Average male pay is higher than average female pay for a simple reason. Despite decades of enforced equality, women still have babies, and men still don't. So women who wish to spend any substantial time at all with their own offspring will fall behind in their careers, and their earnings will be less.
Peter Hitchens
Time
Women
Equality
Simple
Will
Men
Wish
Fall
Own
Pay
Babies
Despite
Earnings
Spend
Simple Reason
Higher
Female
Still
Male
Than
Decades
Offspring
Any
Behind
Substantial
Average
Enforced
Less
Reason
Who
Careers
When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.
Philippe Petit
Life
Myself
Learning
Age
My Life
Parents
Feelings
Building
Young
Fighting
Society
Despite
Wire
Had
Walker
Teachers
Certainties
I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.
Pierre Boulez
Best
Myself
You
Sometimes
Despite
Everything
Though
Would
Give
Fail
Said
Always
Still
Succeed
Ever
Chance
Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.
Pope Francis
Me
Trust
Witness
Church
Live
Other
Despite
Members
Slowness
Still
Goal
Trust Me
Errors
Sins
Infidelity
Commit
Committed
Against
Might
Meaning
Jesus
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
Rachel Johnson
Women
Men
Power
Despite
Run
See
Fact
Like
Occupy
Get
Boards
Companies
During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
Rachel Swirsky
Water
First
Despite
Hydrogen
Both
Steel
Without
Occurred
Years
Existence
Contracts
Five
Contrary
Survived
Endured
Which
Mankind
Apocalypse
Certain
Million
Second
Million Years
Extinction
There are so many things I love about he. She's still a small town girl at heart. The most important thing to Cindy is her family and making sure that we're all happy. She's so low-key despite her high-profile position. She's someone who constantly gives back, who does so many things for so many people without asking for anything in return.
Rande Gerber
Love
Family
Heart
Happy
People
Girl
Important
Cindy
Back
Despite
Constantly
About
Someone
Small
Gives
High-Profile
He
Small Town
Town
Most
Most Important Thing
She
Return
Sure
Without
Does
Making
Important Thing
Still
So Many People
The Most Important
Anything
Low-Key
Asking
Who
Many
Her
Thing
Things
Position
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Alone
Crime
Wikileaks
Complaint
Despite
Charged
Joe
Fact
Had
Dropped
Been
Amazon
Senator
Any
After
Customer
Convicted
Receiving
Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.
Rebecca Makkai
Life
Challenges
Opportunity
Live
Tremendous
Despite
Years
Offers
Story
Your
Richness
Novel
Imaginative
We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'
Reuven Rivlin
You
Better
Differences
Difficult
Despite
Way
Say
Immediately
Must
Find
Allies
Between
Come
Opinion
Friends
Than
Closer
Us
My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.
Richard Cohen
Memory
Mother
Father
First
Earned
Despite
Hunger
Member
Immigrant
Somehow
Poland
Well
Am
Childhood
Whose
Orphanage
Elite
Raised
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
Richard Engel
Will
Minority
Controlling
Despite
Carrying
Sunni
Had
Saddam
Majority
Tradition
Imposed
His
Iraq
Decades
The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns, tanks and planes, the Iraqi military fell apart when challenged by a band of terrorists.
Richard Engel
Army
Secular
Build
National
Band
Military
Despite
Spent
Guns
Failed
Fell
Because
Terrorists
Tanks
Dollars
Iraqi
Apart
Planes
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Professional
Challenged
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar
Time
Democracy
Experience
People
Fate
Despite
Collapse
System
Russia
Russian
Russian People
More
Freedoms
Since
Perhaps
Ambiguous
Than
Personal
Any
Elections
Communist
Now
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
Robert Byrd
People
Walk
Separation
Congress
Heritage
Too
Despite
Framers
Liberties
Has-Been
Willing
Hopes
Constitutional
Cases
More
Powers
Been
Than
Which
Placed
Many
Away
Preservation
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
Robert Cailliau
Me
Google
Despite
Still
Surprise
Sites
Biggest
Biggest Surprise
Explosion
Functions
Number
What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
Robert D. Kaplan
War
Face
Cold
Cold War
Despite
Nixon
Russians
Kissinger
Fact
Reaction
Were
Impressed
American
Chinese
Public
Us
Reasons
Bombing
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
Robert Dallek
Advice
Judgment
Despite
Presidents
Those
Crisis
Astute
Greatest
Were
Been
Times
Getting
Often
Who
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
Robert Dallek
Despite
Harry
System
Lincoln
Truman
American
Flaws
Produced
Electoral
Two
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.
Robert Gottlieb
School
Despite
Rigid
More
Paris
Share
Opera
French
Traditions
La
Than
Done
Famous
Standards
Company
Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.
Robert J. Waldinger
Government
Time
Health
Struggle
People
Mental Health
Care
Difficulties
Despite
Focused
Mental
Only
Fact
Emotional
Push
Over
Industry
Health Care
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Government Agencies
Quick
Agencies
Skills
Special
Companies
Many
Using
Brief
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Industry
I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
Robert Kagan
Democracy
Despite
Russia
Had
Taken
Obstacles
Left
Optimistic
Hold
Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.
Robert Kiyosaki
Age
Reality
People
Job
Revolution
Despite
Secure
Jobs
Idea
Studying
Concept
Safe
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Clinging
Information
Information Age
Created
Working
Deep
Many
Now
Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.
Roger Ailes
News
People
Internet
Will
Free
Feeling
Pay
Channel
Despite
Everything
General
Fact
Yes
News Channel
Created
Should
Fox
Fox News
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