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Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
Wes Bentley
Family
Religion
History
Church
Spirituality
Bit
Priests
Preachers
Quite
Quite A Bit
Former
Then
Evangelist
Extended
Extended Family
When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'
Wil Wheaton
You
Say
Failed
Well
Child
May
Former
Star
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.
Wilhelm Ostwald
Work
Me
Tired
Rest
Long
Lost
Once
Immediately
Worst
Out
Carrying
Physically
Long Period
Had
Until
Period
Exhaustion
Were
Cured
Experimental
Former
Capacity
Successfully
Apparent
As a former undercover CIA officer, I've worked with my colleagues in the 114th Congress to approach the growing terrorist threat from a number of angles, including addressing the issue of terrorists' ease of travel, combating terrorist recruitment strategies, and improving our own counterterrorism capabilities.
Will Hurd
Travel
CIA
Own
Congress
Approach
Our
Addressing
Ease
Colleagues
Threat
Angles
Recruitment
Counterterrorism
Undercover
Terrorist
Terrorists
Issue
Officer
Improving
Former
Capabilities
Worked
Strategies
Including
Growing
Number
My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.
William Godwin
World
Active
Otherwise
Books
Recluse
Entered
Temper
Some
Cast
Writer
Had
Merely
Contemplative
Perhaps
Concerns
Occasions
Been
Former
Should
Connected
When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.
William J. Clinton
History
Old
Country
Think
Two-Year
Back
Months
Only
Had
Terms
Became
Chelsea
Reagan
Overnight
Governor
The History Of
Former
Then
Youngest
Landslide
Defeated
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
William Shenstone
You
Simplicity
Beauty
Increase
Other
Diminish
Latter
Variety
Most
Opposite
Very
Often
Former
Grandeur
The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
Yotam Ottolenghi
White
Outer
Brown
Between
Intact
Germ
Difference
Former
Rice
Therefore
The IMF played crucial roles in the 1980s debt crisis and in the transformation of former communist economies. Radical change, many might argue, is neither necessary nor desirable.
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Change
Transformation
Radical
IMF
Crisis
Neither
Argue
Crucial
Economies
Nor
Debt
Roles
Former
Might
Communist
Radical Change
Many
Played
Necessary
Desirable
The former West Germany was a semi-sovereign political pygmy, protected by America's military might and with barely any foreign policy of its own. As a result, the country has no machinery or tradition of strategic thinking, and most Germans are loth to see their government take the lead.
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Government
Result
Political
Country
Own
Military
Thinking
Machinery
See
Take
Lead
Most
Protected
Policy
Foreign
Tradition
Foreign Policy
West
Germans
Germany
America
Any
Former
Might
Barely
Strategic
The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
War
Reality
Victory
Defeat
Cold
Other
Cold War
Side
Despite
Some
Leaders
Understandable
Conclusion
West
Denied
End
Did
Cannot
Former
Among
Defeated
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Zebulon Pike
You
Fathers
Further
Over
Authority
Former
Your
Now
The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real New Deal Democrats' forever.
Ross Douthat
Liberals
Nixon
Instead
New
Calling
New Deal
Became
Accepted
Democrats
Deal
Reagan
Real
Forever
Former
Themselves
Who
Description
Eventually
As a former F.B.I. special agent who conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that foreign intelligence services do not operate on the basis of explicit agreements or even actions that, standing alone, constitute criminal activity.
Asha Rangappa
Alone
Intelligence
Criminal
I Can
Constitute
Investigations
Counterintelligence
Attest
Operate
Foreign
Former
Explicit
Agent
Special
Standing
Standing Alone
Who
Actions
Even
Agreements
Activity
Services
Basis
We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.
Harvey Weinstein
Relationship
Our
Able
Advantages
Partners
Access
Deals
Were
Been
Just
Tax
Former
Disney
Strategic
I think the first thing that my sons will tell you, that I never tried to be their coach. And I didn't give them as much advice as some people might think, being a former player myself and a former quarterback. If they asked, I gave them my opinion.
Archie Manning
Myself
You
People
Will
Some People
First
Advice
Think
Gave
I Think
Tell
Tried
Some
Give
Never
Sons
First Thing
Opinion
Quarterback
The First Thing
Being
Former
Them
Might
Asked
Much
Coach
Thing
Player
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
Robert Kiyosaki
Legal
Problems
Conspiracy
Enron
Way
Fraud
Charges
Lay
He
His
Escape
Died
Being
After
Former
Convicted
Chairman
Found
Ken
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins
Life
Me
Woman
Age
Creativity
People
Judge
Some People
Met
Past
Own
OK
Destroy
Married
Would
Marrying
Some
My Own
Also
Want
Anything
Former
Might
Her
As a former FBI counterintelligence agent who investigated foreign propaganda cases, I’ve seen firsthand how foreign intelligence services leverage American freedoms - and the constitutional limitations on the FBI’s investigative power - to their advantage.
Asha Rangappa
Intelligence
Seen
Power
Constitutional
Propaganda
Cases
FBI
Investigative
Counterintelligence
Advantage
Freedoms
Limitations
Firsthand
How
Foreign
American
Former
Agent
Who
Services
Leverage
Jens Pulver was a former UFC champion. He's a guy who I followed and looked up to. It was my first big fight in the Sacramento arena.
Urijah Faber
Fight
Champion
First
Big
Followed
Guy
Arena
UFC
Sacramento
He
Looked
Up
Former
Who
Generally on a Saturday I come home wreathed in media glamour having interviewed a former Krankie or someone, and suddenly I am back in the world of orange blossom and bells.
Richard Coles
Home
World
I Am
Back
Someone
Having
Generally
Glamour
Come
Am
Blossom
Orange
Former
Suddenly
Media
Saturday
Bells
I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and she was actually very much in-tune with her Blackness.
Mathew Knowles
Wife
Thought
Met
White
Later
Out
Blackness
She
Very
Tina
Former
Much
Found
Her
Actually
I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Music
Parents
City
Table
Brother
NFL
Hall
Friends
Close
Close Friends
Green
Former
Room
Agent
Coaches
Radio
Sat
Draft
The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.
Michael Moore
Needs
Justice
Employees
Administration
Able
Steer
Through
Investigate
Disappeared
How
Left
End
Department
Goldman Sachs
In The End
Former
Justice Department
Bush
Bush Administration
Manner
Standing
Things
Competitors
I am not a terrorist, I am a former chief minister.
Arvind Kejriwal
I Am
Minister
Terrorist
Am
Chief
Former
I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.
Martin O'Malley
Mistake
Think
President
President Clinton
I Think
Gingrich
Glass
Said
Repeal
Clinton
Former
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Even
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