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Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
Tina Fey
Myself
Me
People
Somewhere
Seventh
Laugh
Out
Could
Part
Like
Identity
Make
Became
Around
Making
Trying
Grade
Essentially
Just
After
While
Them
Fifth
Figured
We are at our best when we are at our proudest. Canadians need to harness that confidence in every arena, not just the ice rink. The Maple Leaf stands for quality, thoughtfulness, and innovation, so let's brand it proudly on the things that we've invented, created, and figured out.
Tobias Lutke
Best
Confidence
Quality
Innovation
Every
Harness
Our
Out
Rink
Invented
Arena
Leaf
Proudest
Proudly
Brand
Canadians
Just
Ice
Created
Figured
Stands
Maple
Things
Need
When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!
Todd Phillips
You
Director
People
Old
Made
Beginning
Organic
Believe
Thinking
Something
Knew
Like
Know
Looks
Does
Years
Up
Get
Did
Want
Loved
Movies
Younger
Then
Really
Paid
Figured
Actor
Start
You make certain assumptions as a parent. And you kind of think, at a certain point, you've figured things out. And then all of a sudden, that person that you raised and nurtured and thought that you knew is someone else completely.
Tony Shalhoub
You
Thought
Think
Assumptions
Else
Nurtured
Out
Kind
Someone
Parent
Point
Knew
Make
Person
Then
Certain
Certain Point
Figured
Sudden
Things
Raised
People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds as being something.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
People
Few
Minds
Out
Something
Countries
Genuine
Being
Estonia
Figured
Actually
Image
I was a bouncer for, like, three months in Boston until everybody figured out that I should never be a bouncer. I'm so soft. I just have no aggression in me.
Ty Burrell
Me
Three
Everybody
Months
Out
Boston
Never
Like
Until
Just
Should
Aggression
Figured
Soft
I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'
Ty Warner
People
Looking
Think
Would
Indiana
Eccentric
Case
He
Look
His
Selling
Figured
We've done that whole spectrum of different varieties of shows, and we've figured out the best way of capturing the audience and taking them to a place where they will have an experience that they will never forget, whether they don't like it, or they actually resonate with what we're trying to do.
Tyler Joseph
Best
Experience
Resonate
Will
Way
Out
Best Way
Never
Never Forget
Taking
Like
Audience
Forget
Trying
Done
Where
Different
Whether
Place
Them
Figured
Whole
Shows
Capturing
Actually
Spectrum
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor LaValle
Remember
Halloween
Impossible
Long
First
Year
Timing
Every
Rang
Giant
Kids
Bad
Seemed
Guy
Could
Missed
Witch
Him
Answer
Pasted
Person
Same
Just
Whenever
Nose
Us
Decoration
Figured
Her
In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.
Walt Mossberg
Me
Thought
Few
Meeting
Later
String
Way
Months
Out
Jobs
TV
See
Weeks
Never
He
Invited
Come
Steve
Steve Jobs
Industries
Pass
Came
Traditional
August
Revolutionize
Died
Six
Just
Icon
Figured
Who
Tech
Apple
Disrupted
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.
Willie Nelson
Work
Hope
Book
Writing
Guitar
Somewhere
Before
Think
Melodies
Those
Out
Finds
Finest
Poems
No-One
Songs
Put
Them
Figured
Ever
Play
Early
Started
Have I always agreed with my Southern, military, Mormon family? Absolutely not. Have we always figured out how to get along? Yes! At the point at which politics supersedes the family and community, we've got a real problem.
Dustin Lance Black
Politics
Family
Problem
Community
Military
Out
Point
Mormon
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Along
Always
Got
How
Real
Yes
Southern
Get
Real Problem
Which
Figured
Agreed
I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.
Martha Nussbaum
Thought
Think
Dramas
Broader
Out
Would
Would-Be
Able
About
Emotional
Emotional Experiences
Tragic
Quickly
Experiences
Wanted
Them
Then
Act
Figured
Actress
We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
Nancy O'Dell
Time
Day
Quality
Every Day
Every
Spend
Ways
Kids
Out
Some
Tag
Almost
Almost Every Day
Quality Time
Exercise
How
Getting
While
Figured
Fun
Play
I started playing soccer when I was 4 because my sister was doing it. It was my first organized sport, and my parents thought this was a great way to get coordinated and be part of a team. I had an array of options but eventually figured out soccer was best for me.
Kelley O'Hara
Best
Great
Me
Thought
Parents
First
Sister
Way
Out
Had
Part
Sport
Great Way
Because
Array
Doing
Options
Get
Soccer
Organized
Team
Figured
Coordinated
Eventually
Started
Playing
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.
Frances Arnold
Nature
Out
Bacteria
See
Could
Factories
Like
Chemical
Replace
Then
Really
Teach
Figured
Actually
Things
Fraction
Like Netflix, Looker started as nothing more than an idea. Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield were two brilliant engineers who had figured out a better way for businesses to see and analyze their data, and they asked me to join them to help out with the ABCs - that's short for Anything But Coding.
Marc Randolph
Me
Better
Brilliant
Nothing
Analyze
Way
Out
See
Netflix
Data
More
Join
Had
Better Way
Idea
Like
Were
Than
Short
Anything
Them
Asked
Engineers
Help
Figured
Who
Businesses
Coding
Started
Two
Ben
I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of the 1940s, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey. But then along came Chuck Berry, Les Paul, Fats Domino and I figured out how to make their music as well.
Jose Feliciano
Music
Time
Big
Band
Changing
Chuck
Fats
Chuck Berry
1940s
Out
Berry
Had
Glenn
Along
Well
Make
Learned
Big Band
How
Sounds
Came
Up
Domino
Paul
Then
Les
Figured
Growing
Growing Up
Fast
Tommy
Miller
Most people haven't figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.
Malik Yoba
Service
You
Yourself
People
Opportunity
Other
Way
Out
Outside
Come
Most
Blessings
Very
Just
Different
Doorway
Figured
Different Way
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
Michael Moore
Work
Business
World
Money
Out
Entire
Buckets
Make
Without
How
Hiring
Huge
Them
Us
Figured
Business World
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Quincy Jones
You
Crime
Trouble
Own
Our
Ran
Everything
Charge
Brother
Could
Had
Territory
Boy
Got
Were
Chicago
Stores
Figured
Gangsters
Now
Ever
Imagine
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.
Rush Limbaugh
Politics
Insanity
Long
Radical
Extremist
Network
Partisan
Partisan Politics
Content
Genuine
Any
Refused
Depraved
Mean
Them
Figured
Reasons
Why
Play
One thing I have figured out: People don't like different. People don't like to see anything different. When you see something different, you are either scared or afraid or you feel threatened. And I feel that the way I play the game, it feels like I should have played 50 years ago. But it's what I do.
Peyton Hillis
You
Game
People
Way
Out
One Thing
I Feel
Scared
See
Threatened
Something
Feel
Feels
Like
Years
Years Ago
Afraid
Different
Anything
Either
Should
Different People
Figured
Play
Thing
Played
I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.
Hank Williams III
Myself
Saw
Drummer
Always
End
Up
Figured
We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
People
Ocean
Think
Out
All-Out
Know
Very
Little
Really
Explored
Figured
Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.
Lil Tjay
Success
Music
Money
Once
Find
Could
Through
Off
Getting
Realized
Working
Figured
Shows
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