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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
Magdi Yacoub
Heart
Surgeon
Father
Sister
Young
Admiration
Fact
Had
Also
Because
Always
Motivated
Aunt
Lot
Heart Disease
Disease
Died
Wanted
Who
Dad
Her
Early
Early 20s
Yes, I want to do good work. But just because a movie is small, it doesn't make it better. In fact, there are a lot of really horrible independent movies made.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Work
Good
Better
Made
Good Work
Independent
Independent Movies
Horrible
Small
Fact
Make
Because
Lot
Yes
Just
In Fact
Just Because
Want
Movie
Movies
Really
You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
Magic Johnson
Today
You
People
Fans
Interviews
Everything
Out
Brought
Guy
Fact
Know
Terms
Talking
Sure
Because
Always
Still
Shy
Shyness
Basketball
It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
Magnus Scheving
You
People
Think
Back
Kids
Out
TV
Would
Fact
Motivate
Go
Cowboy
Cowboys
Movies
Play
Watch
Watched
Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
Mahmoud Abbas
Daily
Peace
Opportunity
Wish
Pledge
See
Fact
True
Protect
Becomes
Order
Region
Us
Let Us
Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
Mal Peet
Privacy
Bench
Books
Intimate
Both
Fact
Generally
Shared
Beyond
Sitting
Common
Spaces
Forms
Public
Things
Widely
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
Malcolm Gladwell
Best
Problem
Impossible
Will
Example
Down
About
Fact
League
Major
Major League
Major League Baseball
Steroids
Talking
How
Still
Crack
Baseball
Media
Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.
Malcolm Jenkins
Time
You
People
Sometimes
Say
See
Fact
Know
Doing
Get
Where
Sent
Really
Away
Numb
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.
Malcolm Turnbull
Work
Government
Balance
Independence
Criticism
Indeed
Press
Solid
Ensuring
Independent
Has-Been
Fact
Journalistic
Check
Most
Balanced
Been
Effective
Which
Based
Credibility
Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.
Mandy Moore
Myself
Experience
Amazing
Beast
Singing
Beauty
Dream
Find
Fact
Songs
Studio
True
Obsessed
Mermaid
Come
Like
Always
Amazing Experience
Up
In Fact
Little
Movies
Disney
Growing
Growing Up
Alan
The level of competition on 'Iron Chef' was very intense. In fact, I feel like the show provides chefs with a stamp of approval and in many ways lets them know that 'they've arrived.' It was a tough journey, to say the least, but in the end, it provided me with an example how hard work and persistence pays off.
Maneet Chauhan
Work
Hard Work
Journey
Me
Persistence
Competition
Example
Tough
Approval
Say
Ways
Fact
Feel
Like
Know
Chef
Chefs
How
Least
Arrived
Provided
Provides
Off
End
Very
Iron
Intense
In Fact
In The End
Them
Stamp
Hard
Show
Pays
Many
Lets
Level
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Hope
Day
You
Every Day
Year
Nothing
Live
Every
Despair
Plight
Backyard
Has-Been
Park
Fact
Terrible
Been
Done
After
Help
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
Manny Farber
Art
Path
Signs
Own
Nothing
Other
Eating
About
Fact
Boundaries
Likely
Industrious
Always
Leaves
Than
Goes
Forward
Activity
Eager
Peculiar
That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.
Manoj Bajpayee
Good
Theatre
People
Will
Films
Out
Fact
Making
Audiences
Move
Stop
Realism
Them
Watch
Jokes about my surname aren't a big deal at all. In fact, that's what jokes are meant for - you laugh and then forget about it.
Manushi Chhillar
You
Jokes
Big
Laugh
About
Fact
Deal
Big Deal
Forget
In Fact
Then
Meant
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Zedong
People
Paper
States
Scare
Atom
Atom Bomb
Fact
Looks
Terrible
Tiger
In Fact
Which
Use
United
Bomb
United States
Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
Mara Brock Akil
Life
Time
Journey
Opportunity
Reflection
Mirror
Changing
Our
Ways
Details
More
Fact
Mere
Makes
How
Lot
Current
Any
Just
Experiencing
Form
Fun
Unique
Media
'The Sixth Sense' was a very enjoyable, successful movie despite the fact that there were plenty of people, including myself, who saw the ending coming.
Marc Guggenheim
Myself
People
Ending
Sense
Despite
Saw
Plenty
Fact
Coming
Were
Very
Sixth
Sixth Sense
Movie
Successful
Who
Including
Enjoyable
Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.
Marc Ribot
You
People
Think
Running
Running Away
About
Someone
Fact
Like
Also
Often
Influence
In Fact
Away
Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.
Marcel Dionne
Great
Game
Age
Heroes
Young
Incredible
Fact
Part
Names
Because
Around
Were
Canada
Just
Young Age
Being
Much
Meant
Thing
The fact that our country, the greatest country in the world, remains mired in race relations issues in the year 2014 is an embarrassment.
Marcia Fudge
World
Country
Year
Relations
Our
Embarrassment
Mired
Fact
Remains
Greatest
Greatest Country
Issues
Race
Race Relations
As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.
Marcia Fudge
Disagree
Matters
Congress
Members
Administration
Diplomatic
Fact
Remains
Executive
Executive Branch
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Branch
Handling
May
Position
I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.
Marco Rubio
Life
Party
Fact
Proud
Issue
Pro-Life
Republican
Republican Party
But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.
Marcus Allen
Unfair
East
East Coast
See
Something
Fact
Takes
Stuff
Like
Bias
Because
West
West Coast
Place
Coast
Games
If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.
Marcus Luttrell
You
Mind
Will
Lose
Sit
Something
Fact
Did
Dwell
Your
They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.
Marcus Samuelsson
Work
You
Trust
Healthy
Say
Stay
Fact
Never
Chef
Means
Hard
Skinny
They Say
Twice
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