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I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.
Dave Matthews
Money
Stupid
Settle
Way
Out
Outer
Make
Cow
Bunch
Move
Maybe
Just
Want
Then
Figure
Whole
Milk
The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take.
Dee Rees
You
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Criticism
Advice
Believe
Out
Give
Only
Take
Edit
Material
Surround
Friends
Going
Listen
Mean
Next
Next Level
Your
Figure
Help
Who
Level
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
Dr. Seuss
You
Writing
Problem
Way
Out
Rate
Attack
Throw
Main
Mortality
New
Come
Terrific
Got
Line
Lines
Verse
New Way
Your
Figure
Whole
Away
Right
Four
Fourth
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
Edward Norton
Motivational
You
Reality
Confused
Try
Thought
Sympathy
Out
Inside
About
More
Emotional
Empathy
Exercise
Always
Get
Trying
Represent
Which
Certain
Acting
Figure
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
Practice
Enjoy
Consider
Pleasure
Out
Find
Adult
Also
Very
Quickly
Child
Deceiving
Children
Deception
Themselves
Then
Figure
Necessary
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
Elizabeth Warren
Today
Change
People
Financial
Better
Stress
Job
Lost
Thanks
Research
Local
Out
Kinds
Physicist
Major
Terms
How
Heard
Tests
Waitress
Georgia
Heartfelt
Get
Trying
Bank
Wants
Explain
Figure
Theory
Who
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Her
University
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Success
Memory
Grace
Hide
Face
Must
She
Venus
Brains
Rhinoceros
Figure
Actress
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
Life
Woman
Women
Destroys
Must
Taking
Between
Wit
Witty
Prisoners
Tragic
American
Lovers
American Life
Choose
Figure
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.
Frank Sinatra
Religion
Me
History
You
Peace
Christ
Other
Hundred
Has-Been
About
More
Step
Step Forward
Name
Prince
Shed
Revered
Been
His
Blood
Than
Any
Which
Show
Organized
Organized Religion
Figure
Forward
Resent
Things
If you behind me, I'm not going to look back and try and figure out what you're doing behind me.
Future
Me
You
Try
Back
Out
Look
Doing
Going
Behind
Figure
Batman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, know forensic science, and are both a bit introverted. In 'Flashpoint,' Thomas Wayne thinks Barry is crazy, but Barry thinks Thomas is crazy. It'll be really fun seeing those two trying to figure things out.
Geoff Johns
Crazy
Science
Mask
Thomas
Batman
Bit
Wayne
Those
Out
Introverted
Seeing
Both
Know
Loss
Forensic
Lot
Trying
Behind
Common
Flash
Experienced
Really
Figure
Fun
Barry
Whole
Things
Thinks
Two
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.
Graeme Murphy
Fruit
Drop
Flower
Tree
Too
Some
Pick
Ready
Always
Off
Blossoms
Green
Figure
When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.' More than 40 years later, I figure it's finally time to write about this crazy journey that's taken me around the world and back.
Gregg Allman
Time
Journey
Me
Crazy
World
School
Thought
Year
Back
Later
Finally
System
Out
High
High School
About
More
Write
Take
Taken
Around
Got
Go
Years
Off
Than
Get
Clubs
Then
Figure
Play
Two
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Harrison Ford
Light
Rejection
Out
Constant
See
Some
Withstand
How
End
End Of The Tunnel
Tunnel
Figure
Actor
Every time I watch CNN, it feels like you're assigning me homework. Is Trump a Russian spy? I don't know. You tell me - I'm watching the news. It feels like I'm watching CNN watch the news. Just take an hour, figure out what you want to say, then go on the air.
Hasan Minhaj
Time
News
Me
You
Homework
Every
Every Time
Air
Say
Out
Tell
Russian
Take
Feels
Hour
Like
Know
Go
Trump
Spy
Just
Want
Then
Figure
Watch
Watching
My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.
Hayley Kiyoko
Love
Journey
People
Own
Out
My Motto
Sooner
How
Motto
Them
Themselves
Teach
Figure
Help
Help People
If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out.
Itzhak Perlman
You
Out
Piano
Put
Hand
Maybe
Tune
Note
Your
Figure
Play
Violin
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
Jackson Katz
Injustice
Creative
Women
World
Men
Playwright
Someone
Give
Voice
Voiceless
She
Around
Women And Men
Artist
Politically
Represents
Engaged
Epitome
Figure
Who
Uses
Eve
Illuminate
Her
Brilliance
Millions
Beloved
I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
Me
Try
Fighter
Says
Adjust
Out
Someone
Hear
Yes
Figure
Need
I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.
James Van Der Beek
Life
Myself
You
My Life
Personal Life
Dig
Everyone
Once
Further
About
Open
Invitation
Talk
Private
Private Life
Personal
Just
Romantic
Then
Your
Figure
Even
Keep
Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.
Jocko Willink
Time
Leadership
Angry
You
Better
Will
Pressure
First
Out
Solutions
See
Scenarios
Put
Leaders
Demand
Over
Make
Get
Frustrated
Decisive
Them
Then
Your
Figure
Challenged
Stressful
I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.
Jonas Mekas
Life
My Life
Out
Able
All-Out
About
Never
Been
Begins
Ends
Where
Really
Means
Figure
When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than when I'm making music for me. I'm trying to get into his head and figure out what he wants because it's his vision. That's what I expect from people when they're playing on my records.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Me
People
Vision
Damn
Mindset
Out
Records
He
Head
Because
Making
His
Expect
Than
Get
Trying
Different
Wants
Really
Working
Figure
Butterfly
Playing
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
Karen DeCrow
Age
Fight
Mind
Face
Painting
Sullivan
Out
Run
Gilbert
More
Look
Cheeks
Around
Comic
Smooth
Leaves
October
Green
Hands
Irony
Gold
Place
Figure
Paint
Shows
Suddenly
Ear
Brings
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
Art
Sport
Mixture
Skating
Figure
Figure Skating
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.
Kevin DeYoung
Debate
Offended
Try
Argument
Country
Sorry
Our
Out
Moral
About
Shared
Ideas
Most
Annoying
Discuss
Currency
Just
Really
Figure
Who
Last
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