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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
Famke Janssen
Love
People
Enjoy
Despite
Way
Some
About
Fact
Know
Doing
Love Stories
Doomed
Stories
Really
Illegal
Who
Things
Watching
Two
Two People
I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.
Fiona Barton
Journalist
Despite
Complexity
Write
Because
Always
Done
Different
Perspectives
Different Perspectives
Chose
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.
Frank Deford
Good
Science
Grief
Result
National
Overwhelming
Every
Side
Despite
Worries
About
Fact
Badminton
League
Sport
Accept
Still
Permits
Brain
Brain Damage
Hockey
Refuses
Fights
Medical
Damage
Especially during the hot weather, we have been so greatly hampered by infections despite our utmost care, and since we have lost so many dogs, I strongly desire more help to keep the place clean and gloves and gowns and a thorough fitting up of our operating room.
Frederick Banting
Care
Weather
Lost
Despite
Our
Thorough
Strongly
More
Clean
Hot
Since
Operating
Gloves
Dogs
Been
Up
Greatly
Fitting
Place
Room
Help
Many
Keep
Utmost
Desire
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall
Age
Protection
Despite
Our
Alive
Puny
Some
Civilization
Contagious
Greater
Germ
Disease
Diseases
Arts
Average
Bodies
Body
Hard
Keep
Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson
Fans
Community
Other
Medium
Despite
Pleasure
Criticisms
More
Both
Had
Terms
Comfortable
Accepted
Felt
Always
Comics
Been
Than
Any
Working
Creators
Publishing
Leveled
I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
Gail Collins
God
Sense
Energy
Despite
Kind
Excitement
Exciting
Like
Knows
Houston
Very
Going
Just
Happen
Places
Interesting
Craziness
Really
Next
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
Gail Collins
Good
Every
Sympathy
Despite
Month
Mood
Excellent
Had
He
Calendar
Been
Campaign
Any
Candidate
Different
Romney
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
Geoff Mulgan
Today
Justice
Learning
Innovation
World
Problems
Society
Despite
Distance
Pressing
Some
Tackling
Facing
Over
Fair
Most
Fair Trade
Because
Housing
Trade
Reduction
Governments
Urban
Social
Farming
Help
Growing
Waste
I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
George Best
Me
Despite
Press
Bad
Seems
Bad Press
Had
Over
Like
Still
Years
Public
Lucky
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
Greg Bear
Love
Better
Amazing
Solar
Back
Despite
Our
Solar System
Earth
Danger
Sights
System
Visit
Mars
Most
Discomfort
Yeah
Coming
Short
Apart
Planets
Keep
Right
Vacations
Here
Imaginary
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
Gustav Stresemann
Old
Insist
Despite
Faults
Recognize
Worthiness
Must
Shape
Part
Were
Subject
Greatness
Germans
Germany
Just
Loves
England
Who
Helped
Her
Present-Day
British
Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.
Hannah Storm
Appreciation
Fight
Every
Every Step
Pedigree
Took
Despite
Once
Way
Clay
Had
He
Step
His
Get
Succeed
Unique
Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.
Harold Prince
You
Remember
Despite
Rather
Failures
Lovingly
Successes
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
Harold Washington
Success
Government
Justice
Action
Despite
Has-Been
About
Federal
Remarkable
Federal Government
Policies
Been
Accomplished
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Department
Justice Department
Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.
Hasan M. Elahi
Life
Me
Live
Despite
About
Anonymous
Private
Surprisingly
Information
Available
Publicly
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
Helen Fisher
Marriage
Men
Myth
Despite
Committed
Less
Desire
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
Henry Lawson
Future
History
Country
State
Despite
Characteristics
Promise
Born
More
Advance
Singularity
Than
Taught
Children
Interest
Meanest
Bred
Europe
The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women.
Hope Jahren
Women
Girl
Programs
Progressive
Despite
More
Only
Absence
Stem
Participation
Within
Years
Encourage
Than
Persistent
Intended
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
Howard Rheingold
Technology
Debate
Long
Consequences
Despite
Pennsylvania
Hats
About
Retro
Been
Engaged
Communities
Productive
Straw
Amish
Image
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking
People
Events
Revolution
Despite
Rightly
About
Proper
Objects
Clear
Study
Fair
Also
Affairs
Historian
American
Revolutions
Rhetoric
Which
Certain
American Revolution
Amount
Second
Consensus
Everybody's saying, you know, 'You're so heroic and so on despite of the polio that you had and so on.' Look, I had polio when I was four. So when you're four years old, you know, you get used to things very, very quickly.
Itzhak Perlman
Saying
You
Old
Heroic
Everybody
Despite
Had
Know
Look
Polio
Years
Very
Quickly
Get
Used
Things
Four
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
J. D. Vance
Culture
Queen
Complicated
Welfare
Political
Black
Poverty
Despite
Our
Blacks
Fact
Outnumbered
Terms
Became
Historical
American
African
African Americans
Urban
Public
Social
Poor
Whites
Reasons
Uniquely
Consciousness
Associate
Associated
Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find - at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers - unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.
Jacob Weisberg
You
Book
Internet
Valuable
Greedy
Despite
Collecting
Find
Something
Thrift
Thrill
Prices
Cheap
Make
Dealers
Still
Sales
Done
Getting
Shops
Information
Fancy
Transparent
Even
Basic
Universal
I had to learn to accept myself despite the fact that I was seriously underweight. I had to try and feel sexy.
Jameela Jamil
Myself
Try
Seriously
Despite
Sexy
Fact
Had
Feel
Learn
Accept
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
James Altucher
Business
Financial
Internet
Despite
Sold
Scam
Having
Fact
Almost
Almost All
Built
Loved
Businesses
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