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When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.
James E. Faust
God
Time
Me
Remember
Father
Priesthood
First
Older
Other
President
Took
Meeting
Tabernacle
Brother
General
Thrilled
Prophet
Prophets
Deacon
First Time
How
Apostles
Grant
Older Brother
Presence
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
James Ellroy
Mother
Crime
Thought
Black
Other
About
General
Throughout
Obsession
Well
Years
Shore
Transferred
Much
Dad
Her
Things
Elizabeth
I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.
James Ellroy
Life
Down
Approach
Locked
General
Which
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
James Fenimore Cooper
Systems
General
Exceptions
Particular
Effects
Appreciated
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
James Franco
You
Television
See
General
Normally
Graduate
Going
Maybe
Soap
Soaps
Then
View
Film
Actor
Start
In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.
James Gleick
People
Internet
Think
Tool
General
Mirrors
Unreliable
Hall
Because
Reference
Skeptical
Much
Should
Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.
James Gleick
Politics
Myself
Technology
People
Think
See
About
General
More
Writer
Categories
Like
Most
Non-Fiction
Than
Interested
Really
Granted
Less
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
James Gunn
Beautiful
Art
Me
Ugly
Big
Think
Telling
One Of The Things
Finding
General
Drives
Mass
Stories
Things
I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing more children coming out of families which simply don't give them adequate resources for their development.
James Heckman
Problem
Face
Important
Think
Resources
Adequate
Out
Seeing
Give
General
More
Generally
Simply
Development
Coming
Very
Families
Children
Which
Race
Them
Speaking
I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.
James L. Dolan
Think
Other
Unacceptable
General
General Manager
Manager
Communicating
Coach
Regular
Regular Basis
Requirement
Each
Basis
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
James Lind
Weakness
General
Had
Knees
Spots
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
James Longstreet
Broken
Battle
Enemy
Finding
General
Troops
Pickett
Still
Off
While
I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.
James May
Fashion
Morning
Man
Problems
Tyranny
One Morning
One Of The Problems
General
Woke
Up
Being
Being A Man
Middle-Aged
Middle-Aged Man
Realised
I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'
James Rosenquist
Good
Man
Good Man
Painting
Minneapolis
Outdoor
General
Could
Advertising
Around
Said
Always
Yeah
Oh
Oh Yeah
Use
Billboard
Here
Started
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
James Surowiecki
Future
Time
Spending
Tossing
Net
General
General Motors
Investors
Instead
Taking
Sure
Making
Motors
Getting
Capital
Should
Cyberspace
Billions
Need
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
James Surowiecki
Government
Good
Others
Otherwise
Way
Jobs
Kinds
Some
Similar
General
Over
Principle
Effectively
Same
Taxation
Taxed
Should
Compensation
I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
James Turrell
Met
Say
High
Would
High Expectations
General
Audience
Expectations
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
James Wolfe
Life
Me
Men
Long
Country
Situation
Believe
Resolved
Would
No Difference
General
Could
He
Bought
Retreat
Most
Cheerfully
Devoted
Makes
His
Impossibility
Blood
Friends
Die
Difference
Which
Your
Conquer
Conquest
Resign
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
James Wolfe
Old
Sickness
Few
France
Soldiers
Hunger
Unable
Weakened
General
Troops
Withstand
Fresh
Were
Chief
Dependence
Regular
Who
British
The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.
James Wolfensohn
Me
Corruption
Word
Our
Out
Immune
General
Pointed
Counsel
Never
Had
Shareholders
Until
Got
Were
Governments
Quite
Bank
Used
Reason
Number
I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.
James Wolfensohn
Will
Country
Enough
India
About
General
Remark
Know
Concerns
Makes
Issues
Very
Anybody
Different
Who
Villages
Travelled
If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.
James Woods
Business
Run
General
General Motors
Like
Go
Motors
Survive
Them
I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.
Jamie Clayton
Love
Television
TV
General
Always
Huge
Fan
Movies
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.
Jamie Cullum
Great
Musicians
Creativity
Reading
Believe
Think
Out
Plus
General
Davis
Roach
Dizzy
Hours
Also
Been
Max
Worked
Miles
Miles Davis
Cooks
Why
Biographies
Monk
For four years, I worked as one of the general shop crew on movies like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Arachnophobia.' I made lots of bugs.
Jamie Hyneman
Made
Naked
Lunch
Crew
General
Like
Bugs
Years
Lots
Shop
Movies
Worked
Four
I think a lot of people, in general, have whatever mechanisms they have in order to go through the day. For me, I do just literally have post-it notes and other little messages to strengthen me on hard days, or just on regular days, to remind me - to remind ourselves - of our dopeness.
Jamila Woods
Day
Me
People
Whatever
Think
Other
Our
Ourselves
General
Through
Remind
Days
Messages
Go
Lot
Just
Order
Literally
Little
Notes
Regular
Hard
Mechanisms
Strengthen
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