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I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
Christian Louboutin
Art
Shoes
Design
Saw
Sign
High
High Heels
Could
Forbidding
Well
African
Wanted
After
Decided
Heels
Who
Resist
Museum
I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
Harold Pinter
Else
Moods
Some
Taciturn
Like
Forbidding
Well
Quarters
Been
Deny
Being
Anyone
Anyone Else
Explosive
Aware
Enigmatic
People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
Ric Ocasek
Time
Me
People
Think
Guess
Distant
Okay
Tell
Bother
Aloof
Look
Forbidding
Withdrawn
Fairly
Am
Private
Um
Much
We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
Valerie Plame
Love
Hate
National
Sit
Live
Twitter
Enormous
Our
Rules
Security
Would
Able
Global
Forbidding
Force
Undermine
His
Trump
Hand
Encouraging
Up
National Security
While
Explicitly
Uses
Platform
Actually
Violence
Speech
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
Mark Gatiss
Unkind
He
Mainly
Forbidding
Because
Quite
Realise
Worked
Hard
Figure
Dad
Now
Presence
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan
God
Day
Me
Man
Example
Fire
Wearing
Silk
Something
Had
For Example
Forbidding
Box
Form
Burning
While
Holiness
Cap
Connected
Appealed
Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.
Stellan Skarsgard
You
Words
Society
Starts
About
Forbidding
Any
Whether
Social
Social Consensus
Certain
Should
Wary
Expressions
Consensus
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.
Frank Borman
Work
Clouds
Lonely
Nothing
Live
Rather
Vast
Inviting
Like
Forbidding
Does
Very
Expanse
Stone
Place
Certainly
Appear
By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.
Meir Soloveichik
Bible
Youth
Song
Will
Hair
Young
Jews
Fathers
Those
Destroy
Must
Seeking
Reminds
Come
Forbidding
Encouraging
Siren
Forever
Did
Just
After
Eternal
Eternal Youth
Them
Ground
Who
Prepare
Grow
Away