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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
Gaby Hoffmann
Work
Love
Difficult
Think
Distinction
Kid
Slightly
See
Directors
Longer
Since
Sort
Male
Lots
Bunch
Happened
Worked
You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
Garth Risk Hallberg
You
Yourself
Book
Thoroughly
Distinction
Has-Been
Rigor
Absorb
Feel
Ideas
How
Been
Subject
Cultural
Version
Bloodstream
Sweep
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
Gary L. Francione
Death
Suffering
Result
Made
Animals
Other
Fur
Distinction
Moral
Between
Also
Leather
Materials
Which
Sentient
Beings
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
George Gaylord Simpson
Confused
Become
Distinction
Evolution
Must
Darwinian
Darwinian Theory
Fact
Opinion
How
Occurred
Theory
Popular
Popular Opinion
Stressed
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
George W. Bush
Will
Distinction
Those
Between
Make
Terrorists
Committed
Them
Harbour
Who
Acts
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Hans Kung
Religion
Age
Dignity
Human Being
Political
Language
Sex
National
Skin
Every
Distinction
Possesses
Color
Untouchable
Without
Human
Being
Race
Social
Inalienable
Means
View
Skin Color
Origin
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
Helen Clark
Strong
Snobbery
Distinction
Honours
Lies
Detest
Social
Aversion
Deeply
The thing that forced me to think about my retirement was that I had played my cricket with honour and distinction, and I did not want to put myself in a position where I was considered a liability or unwanted by the selectors.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Myself
Me
Unwanted
Think
Cricket
Considered
Honour
Distinction
About
Had
Put
Retirement
Forced
Did
Where
Want
Thing
Played
Liability
Position
What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
Ira Sachs
Life
Me
Old
Distinction
Between
Interesting
Present
Present Life
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
Jack Cade
Else
Our
Pleases
Say
Distinction
Pleasure
Above
Laws
He
True
Make
Without
His
Contrary
Sovereign
Any
May
Break
Should
Keep
They Say
Sworn
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn.
James Howard Kunstler
Day
Pumping
Keystone
Distinction
Out
Reliably
Arabia
Bossy
Remaining
Through
OPEC
Had
Like
Import
Course
Cow
Escalating
Decades
America
Stable
Oil
Tumult
Barn
Barrels
Roughly
Million
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Recent
One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
James Howard Kunstler
Problems
Country
Understanding
Same Thing
Our
Distinction
Destroyed
One Of The Problems
Rural
Between
Town
Same
Fiasco
Suburbia
Urban
Thing
The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it's a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn't understand that distinction is they'll want to recreate too much of what's on TV.
Jason Blum
You
Too Much
Too
Distinction
Ways
Tell
TV
Scares
Totally
Purge
Scary
Scary Movie
Someone
Recreate
Like
Executive
Make
Maker
Understand
Real
Different
Want
Movie
Wants
Whether
Etc
Much
Producer
Film
I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.
Jennifer Granholm
You
People
Sorry
Whatever
Own
Honestly
Side
Once
Distinction
Kid
About
Outside
Prosecuted
Perplexed
Wall
Fetus
Anything
Happens
Should
Your
Harm
The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments.
Jeremy Allaire
Vision
Go Away
Our
Distinction
Idea
Between
Go
Domestic
Going
Payments
International
Away
If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Me
Rest
Books
Distinction
Immigrant
Puritan
Termed
Call
Native
Fiction
Certain
Agree
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
Jim Allchin
Software
Top
Distinction
System
Runs
Between
Operating
Operating System
Neat
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
Joely Fisher
Me
College
Distinction
Finish
Weird
Because
Alumni
Which
Really
Awarded
Recently
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
John Banville
Me
Women
People
Men
Men And Women
Distinction
Between
Make
Just
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
John Fowles
Great
Women
Men
Relationships
Distinction
Sexes
See
Objects
Between
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
John George Nicolay
Men
First
Few
Congress
Enough
Distinction
Term
First Term
Very
Few Men
Gain
Fortunate
Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
John Hales
God
Unity
Distinction
Admit
Remains
He
Still
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
John Lennon
Me
Honor
Few
Distinction
Has-Been
Cross
However
Been
Escape
Conferred
Legion
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.
Jon Meacham
Mysteries
Action
Say
Distinction
Though
Plot
Would
More
Thrillers
Rely
Put
Emphasize
Motive
Same
Same Things
Whereas
Literary
Psychology
Roughly
Things
Sibling
It's great to wave the flag - I always say we're proud to be made in America - but I think our distinction is we make it well in America.
Joseph Abboud
Great
Made
Think
Wave
Our
Say
Distinction
Well
Make
Always
Proud
America
Flag
When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.
Joseph Bologna
Funny
People
Old
Young
Distinction
Kid
Entertaining
About
Thrilling
Exciting
Between
Movie
Either
Young People
Old People
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