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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.
John Ashcroft
Analytic
Our
Effort
Capacity
Washington
Strengthen
Need
Further, science is a collaborative effort.
John Bardeen
Science
Collaborative
Further
Effort
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
John Burns
Problem
Impossible
Poverty
Big
Relatively
See
Individual
Almost
Effort
Big Problem
Cope
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
John Caudwell
Life
People
Out
Could
Lead
Feel
Leading
Effort
Going
Maybe
Break
Capitalist
Who
Sympathetic
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
John Cusack
Love
You
People
Other
Everything
Musician
More
Except
Takes
Lights
Like
Because
Cameras
Effort
Get
Just
Process
Jamming
Place
Little
Working
Actor
For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she's put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.
John Dickerson
Tough
Mistakes
State
Those
Put
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
She
Iowa
Clinton
Lot
Effort
Fixing
Her
In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.
John F. Kerry
Day
Home
Made
State
Earth
Earth Day
Backgrounds
About
Only
Joined
Massachusetts
Involved
Got
Year-Old
Effort
American
Ages
Successful
Organize
Who
Home State
Event
Million
In 1999, I found myself the unlikely leader of a community-based effort to protect what was arguably Colorado's most important brand, and one once thought to be untouchable: the 'Mile High' part of Denver's Mile High Stadium.
John Hickenlooper
Myself
Thought
Leader
Important
Unlikely
Once
High
Colorado
Arguably
Part
Most
Protect
Untouchable
Brand
Denver
Effort
Stadium
Mile
Community-Based
Found
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.
John Jay Hooker
Me
Corruption
Money
Election
Considerable
Intimidation
Brought
Cost
More
Lawsuits
Tennessee
Over
Than
Decade
Effort
Process
Confronted
Ridicule
Challenging
Dozen
Last
Last Decade
The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.
John Lydon
Hair
Live
Ginger
Physical
Born
Color
Like
Look
Because
Without
Always
Surfing
Real
Go
Blond
Effort
Mouse
Any
Want
Which
You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.
John McEnroe
You
Top
Kind
Someone
Give
Points
Like
Make
Effort
Going
Against
Games
Away
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
John Montgomery Ward
Sports
Invention
Own
Field
Easily
Systematic
Outdoor
Some
Proof
Rob
Until
Devising
Him
Protest
Boy
Dues
His
Effort
American
Against
Capable
Baseball
I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.
John Ross Bowie
Struggle
Extra
Able
About
Various
Disabilities
Put
Talk
Sort
Friends
Very
Effort
Just
Children
Commonplace
Them
Who
Things
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
Great
Only
Great Person
Great Thing
Without
Effort
Person
Done
Thing
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
Best
Try
Power
Suited
Our
Easily
Temperament
Absolutely
Principle
Within
Condition
Effort
Successful
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
John Sherman Cooper
History
Respect
Speak
Will
Made
Believe
President
Final
Back
Our
Johnson
Over
Come
Proud
Am
Due
Very
Effort
Report
Decisions
Disinterested
Turned
Stand
A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.
John Sununu
Win
Path
Values
Conviction
Down
Other
Everyone
Independents
Tries
Runs
See
Risk
More
Steer
Voters
Authenticity
Than
Effort
Any
Candidate
Middle
Want
Much
Convincing
Who
Core
Core Values
The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
John Sununu
Made
Ideology
Party
Independent
John
John McCain
Driven
Points
Support
Voters
Steve
Forbes
Policies
Principle
Talking
Perot
Were
Campaigns
Effort
Pat
Expectations
McCain
Conveyed
Ross Perot
Away
Shy
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
John Updike
Art
Spiritual
Respect
Difficult
Enough
Drawn
Tell
Puritan
Takes
Because
Still
Effort
Artists
Us
Who
Strenuous
The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
John Yoo
War
Legal
Ghraib
About
Abu
Between
Misunderstanding
Lines
Iraq
Reflects
Effort
Different
Blur
Against
Regimes
Deep
Al
Al-Qaeda
Apply
Guantanamo
I just don't have time to really sit there and worry about someone disliking what we put so much effort into.
Johnny Christ
Time
Sit
Worry
About
Someone
Put
Effort
Just
Much
Really
I don't know what's going to happen in the future; I just know this: I'm going to continue to give my best effort to the game, stay prepared.
Jon Gruden
Future
Best
Game
Stay
Give
Know
Continue
Effort
Going
Just
Happen
Prepared
Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.
Jon Porter
People
Our
States
Embassy
Relief
Mentioned
Efficient
Effort
Improved
American
Interestingly
Pakistani
United
United States
Among
Image
It takes very little effort to make someone happy.
Jonathan Agnew
Happy
Someone
Takes
Make
Very
Effort
Little
It's a very big collaborative effort to do an animated feature and to do a Broadway show.
Jonathan Freeman
Big
Collaborative
Broadway
Broadway Show
Feature
Animated
Very
Effort
Show
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
You
Big
Think
Details
Insignificant
Small
Takes
Than
Effort
Same
Think Big
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