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As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
Hamish Bowles
Service
School
Thought
Young
Too
Our
Later
Carol
Secure
Solo
High
Freddy
High School
Fair
Soprano
Cathedral
Boy
Audition
Role
Timid
Lady
Canterbury
Far
Choir
Sang
Production
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
Hamish Bowles
Memories
Harmonious
Seem
Caustic
Childhood
Childhood Memories
Oil
Sensations
Far
Twin
Soda
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides
Life
Better
School
College
Three
My Life
Club
Bit
High
Follow
High School
Various
Sons
Most
Sport
Huge
Than
Fan
Little
Soccer
Little Bit
Far
Teams
Ever
Played
Players
Competitive
Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
Hamza Yusuf
Commitment
People
Sense
Too
Our
Some
Generally
Fair
Wade
Passions
Up
American
Decent
Sensibility
Far
Us
Sea
Swept
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
Hanna Rosin
Work
Travel
Women
Drive
Every
Distant
Colleagues
Boring
Some
Seem
Higher
Heady
Judged
Because
Surely
Makes
Still
Affairs
Male
Domestic
Lots
Families
Same
Different
Endures
Stakes
Far
Far Away
Much
Strains
Standard
Away
Her
Routine
Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.
Hanna Rosin
Research
Birth
Finger
Scattered
Studies
Recurrence
Looked
Brain
Infancy
Than
Common
Order
Size
Far
Far Less
Less
Activity
Homosexuality
I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Hannah Kearney
Life
School
College
My Life
High
High School
Returning
Freshman
Done
The Hardest Thing
After
Break
Far
Ever
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
Hannah Simone
Daily
Rights
Job
Human Rights
Projects
Kids
More
Policy
Got
Were
Than
Officer
Human
Refugees
Far
Realized
Working
Show
Briefing
Daily Show
I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
Hanya Yanagihara
Better
Too
Insecure
Self-Conscious
Editor
Than
Suspected
Might
Far
Novelist
The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.
Harley Pasternak
Home
People
Lost
Too
States
Eat
Eating
Efficient
Meals
Far
Ceremony
Cook
United
United States
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Harold Kushner
Death
World
Fear
Ending
Our
Our Lives
Haunts
Never
Well
Concerned
Am
As Far As
Might
Far
Much
Convinced
Lived
Lives
Sleep
One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
Harold Pinter
World
Remember
Though
Torture
Weapons
Table
Never
League
Supposedly
Also
Policy
Robin
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Behind
Stopped
Biggest
Far
Ethical
Should
Cook
Exporter
Even
As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.
Harold Pinter
Funny
Point
Beyond
Wrote
Concerned
Because
Ceases
Up
As Far As
Far
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
Harry Browne
Work
Government
Good
Nature
Money
Achieve
Will
Own
Politicians
Human Nature
Earn
Others
Everything
Spending
Spending Money
Tells
About
More
Individuals
Know
Than
Human
Far
Themselves
Us
Using
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
Harry Houdini
Honor
Secrecy
Pledged
Oath
Allegiance
Only
Performer
Know
Am
His
Far
Then
Who
Ever
Assistants
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
Harry Johnston
Stream
Circle
Considerable
Though
Gulf
Lies
Arctic
Habitable
Like
Partly
Within
Affected
Ireland
Scotland
North
Quite
Norway
Iceland
Far
Portions
As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.
Harry Johnston
News
King
Eastern
Find
He
Soon
Perhaps
Reached
Arranged
Discovery
Send
Expedition
Northern
Asia
Far
Sea
Route
Portugal
Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.
Harry Kroto
Life
Education
Best
Training
Understanding
Walks
Critically
Gives
React
Well
Because
Scientific
How
Reverence
Accordingly
Itself
Situations
Far
Us
Teaches
Assess
Based
Technologies
The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it.
Heidi Hammel
Communication
World
Internet
Made
Rapid
More
Instantly
Around
Discovery
Anyone
Confirm
Far
The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.
Heidi Hammel
Earth
Telescope
Taken
Hubble
Any
Anything
Far
Images
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Helen Dunmore
Writing
Difficulties
Setting
Pleasures
Similar
Contemporary
Concerned
However
Historical
Itself
As Far As
Far
Novel
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.
Helen Fielding
Comedy
Panic
Books
About
Attack
Written
Equal
Without
Got
Womanhood
Very
Going
Being
Far
Then
Aspects
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
Helen Reddy
Depression
Time
Concerned
Just
As Far As
Far
Waste
Waste Of Time
Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.
Helen Thomas
Great
Me
Fight
People
Presidents
Though
Would
Take
Names
Call
Off
Want
Them
Far
Really
Who
Stands
Even
Right
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
Helena Bonham Carter
Time
Digestion
Wearing
Corsets
Goes
As Far As
Far
We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Important
Healthy
Economy
Most
Most Important Thing
Democrats
Important Thing
Healthy Economy
Austerity
Jumping
Bandwagon
The Most Important
Social
Far
Thing
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