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Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.
Al Roker
You
World
Country
Down
States
Out
Scenes
Could
New
Sound
New Orleans
America
Any
Turn
Sudan
United
United States
Orleans
United States Of America
Watching
Third
Third World
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
Al Stewart
Love
Down
Peer
Our
Out
Run
See
Uncertainty
Steps
Highway
Days
Come
Reach
How
How Far
Eternity
Far
Turning
Measure
Here
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
Al Yankovic
Try
Down
Think
Way
Tell
Would
Anecdotes
Write
Points
Ideas
Parts
Edit
Arrange
Story
Storyline
Notebook
Them
Then
Full
Help
Amusing
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
Alafair Burke
Law
Long
Realistic
Down
Rules
Those
Law Enforcement
Fact
Exceptions
Feel
Invoke
Know
Also
Reader
Frequently
Just
In Fact
Procedures
Explanation
Enforcement
Usual
Why
Need
Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
Alain de Botton
Friendship
Death
Day
Wise
Management
Anxiety
Down
Approach
Relationships
About
Pursuit
Student
Stuff
Instruction
Learn
Sort
Where
Children
Career
Raising
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
Alain de Botton
Alone
Marriage
Down
Unpleasant
Charm
Shameful
How
Boils
Extent
I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.
Alan Cheuse
You
Book
Genius
Wish
Lost
Down
Our
Books
Saxophone
Collected
John
Charlie
Charlie Parker
About
Rise
Crouch
Parker
Could
Volume
Instead
Times
Get
Just
Stories
Doorstep
Them
Your
Deep
Stanley
Player
Second
Set
Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'
Alan Dershowitz
Peace
Relax
Will
Rest
Down
Guard
Others
Our
Way
Say
Sigh
Relief
Able
Never
He
Put
Over
Well
Comfort
Always
Proud
Making
Understood
Leave
His
His Way
Goal
Being
While
Meant
Assertive
Now
Jew
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
Alan Furst
Life
Writing
Rest
My Life
Uncle
Brazil
Down
Spend
Could
Aunt
Sitting
Who
Whom
When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.
Alan G. Poindexter
You
Down
Out
Launch
See
Something
Headed
Hill
Does
Up
Being
Crawling
Pad
Then
Hard
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
Alan Greenspan
Fear
Fall
Down
Critical
Slowly
Bubbles
Contagion
Sharply
Look
Forces
Sort
Builds
Causes
Go
Intellectually
Up
Dominant
Very
Shocked
Hits
Size
Which
Apart
Then
Euphoria
Many
Thing
Started
Phenomenon
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.
Alan Greenspan
Government
Down
Society
Democratic
Democratic Society
Agenda
Should
Shutting
It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.
Alan Greenspan
Exhausted
Down
Markets
Prolongs
Perceived
Only
Prevent
Merely
Trying
Going
Just
Them
Turn
Themselves
Agony
Downside
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
Alan Hansen
Down
Back
City
Came
Been
Up
Manchester
While
Again
Straight
Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.
Alan Huffman
Nature
Building
Down
Area
Parks
Developed
Singapore
Islands
Due
Up
Shortage
Land
Aside
Manmade
What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
Alan Jackson
Old
Car
Weather
Country
Down
Enjoy
Relaxing
Out
Run
Collection
Pretty
More
More Than Anything
Through
Like
Trace
Loop
Doing
Traffic
Antique
Than
Get
Just
Anything
Little
Much
Really
Route
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
Alan Lightman
World
Will
Sit
Down
Musical
Something
Wrestling
Piano
Emotionally
Am
Still
Move
Just
Want
Play
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
Alan Lomax
Art
First
Important
Met
Sit
Down
Everything
Tried
Record
Give
Knew
Singers
Always
Real
Them
Thing
I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.
Alan Menken
You
Build
Before
Down
Solid
Scaffolding
High
Some
Architect
High Schools
Take
Pouring
Schools
Concrete
Still
Doing
Forever
Junior
Junior High
Holds
Works
Foundation
Level
Start
Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
Alan Mulally
You
World
Better
Feedback
Will
Job
Down
Every
Think
Everybody
About
More
More And More
Exceeding
Better Job
Beat
Involved
How
Continually
Expectations
Trying
Going
Just
Being
Door
Ask
Asked
Your
Even
Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
Alan Mulally
You
Trouble
Action
Down
Market
Slowing
Take
Dropping
Economy
Get
Where
Really
I don't have much time to read. I'm more of a problem solver. I'll have an idea or a problem, and I'll learn what's necessary in order to do the idea or solve the problem. If I need to read a book, then I will, but it usually comes down to researching on the Internet and reading blog posts.
Alan Schaaf
Time
Book
Problem
Internet
Will
Reading
Down
Solve
Solver
Posts
More
Idea
Learn
Read
Blog
Order
Then
Much
Researching
Necessary
Need
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.
Alan Tudyk
Thoughts
You
World
Reading
Action
Down
Seconds
Trip
Someone
Take
Tick
Heady
While
Really
Whole
Film
Thing
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette
Work
Best
Book
People
Mind
Own
Down
Other
Back
Would
Some
My Own
Point
Write
Like
Deadline
Sort
Breathing
Fifty
Million
Things
Million People
Neck
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
Alanis Morissette
Life
Music
Time
Family
My Life
Down
Everything
Way
Bit
Wayside
Out
About
Having
More
Touring
Toward
Over
Fell
Couple
Period
Balancing
Boyfriend
Were
Years
Friends
List
Little
Little Bit
Worked
Really
Last
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
Alanis Morissette
Emotions
Own
Down
Approach
Later
My Own
Push
Attempt
Deal
Always
Been
Intense
Them
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