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I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'
Stephanie Zimbalist
Women
Wife
Will
Somebody
Else
Those
Married
General
Superstar
General Motors
Never
Head
Motors
Get
Get Married
Lives
When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe's and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.
Stephen A. Smith
Sports
First
Nine
Backup
Joe
Promoted
Temple
General
Writer
Beats
Columnist
Columns
Years
Ultimately
Times
NBA
Assignment
Philadelphia
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Stephen Covey
Education
Good
School
Jobs
Degrees
General
Fail
Tests
Get
Grades
Cram
Want
Procrastinate
Then
Us
Successfully
Many
Even
Need
With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?'
Stephen Daldry
You
Man
Women
Three
Own
Films
Rule
Statement
States
Some
About
General
General Rule
Journalism
Talk
Always
How
Coming
Question
Up
Personal
Your
Resist
Kept
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
Stephen Hawking
Work
Science
Predict
Universe
Early Work
Relativity
Correct
Must
Would
Indicate
Seemed
General
Could
Disaster
How
Years
Singularity
Begin
Roger
Begun
Einstein
Theory
Appeared
Early
I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.
Stephen Jay Gould
Me
Dreamed
Scared
General
Since
Particular
Becoming
Scientist
Skeleton
Ever
Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.
Stephen Marley
Positive
Life
Music
Me
You
Light
Medium
Everyone
See
General
Outlook
Individual
How
Effect
Depends
Influence
Different
Forth
Really
Use
Things
Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
Stephen Root
Best
You
People
Think
Else
Caricature
Guy
General
Terms
Real
Doing
Impression
Than
Real People
Just
The Hardest Thing
Want
Anything
Anything Else
Them
Views
Researching
Harder
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Presenting
The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.
Stephen Wolfram
Work
Think
Programming
Those
Kinds
Pretty
Something
General
Fact
Idea
Math
Same
Being
Really
Things
Symbolic
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
Steve Albini
Music
Accident
Band
Design
Other
Our
General
Rather
Investigation
Thrust
Conceptual
Make
Discovered
Than
Trying
Interest
Novel
Keeps
Things
When I work with artists, I give them a general guideline of what my vision is. Then they're going to speak their minds on how they view it, too. The song that defines 'Neon Future' the best is the title track. I wrote that with Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun. It's through his words. We had an amazing songwriting session together, connecting.
Steve Aoki
Work
Future
Best
Together
Song
Words
Speak
Vision
Amazing
Too
Minds
Defines
Sun
Give
General
Through
Had
Songwriting
Empire
Wrote
Track
How
His
Going
Artists
Title
Them
Then
View
Connecting
Luke
Session
I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.
Steve Blake
Love
Family
Sports
Son
Have Fun
Wife
Own
Pretty
General
My Own
Like
Goofy
Around
Times
Quiet
Act
Fun
Play
Playing
I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.
Steve Buyer
Work
Together
Criminal
General
Inspector
Allowed
Leak
Identify
Expect
Closely
Any
Flaws
Acts
VA
Eliminate
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.
Steve Chabot
Law
Police
Safety
City
City Council
Law Enforcement
General
Council
Support
Insufficient
Enforcement
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.
Steve Jurvetson
Life
Wealth
Safety
Diminishing
Net
General
More
More And More
Beyond
Returns
Safety Net
Up
Very
Goes
While
Radically
Satisfaction
Brings
The general reactions were that the video was either not going to load, or be painfully slow to load, or would require a plug-in users didn't have. YouTube changed that, because it just works.
Steve Krug
Slow
YouTube
Changed
Would
General
Reactions
Because
Were
Going
Just
Either
Video
Require
Painfully
Users
Works
Load
There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.
Steve Scalise
You
People
Fault
Country
Understanding
Think
General
Most
Policy
Healthcare
Condition
Discriminated
Whether
Against
Preexisting
Your
Amongst
I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
Steve Wozniak
News
Google
General
Read
Up
Use
Keep
Tech
I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.
Steve Yzerman
Work
Organization
General
General Manager
Knew
Another
Leave
Manager
Going
Wanted
I seem to get a general reaction at just, like, 'Oh! A mustache!' but mostly people are fine with it. But I don't actually do it for the ladies. It's more a guy thing, an appreciation. All the dudes want to do it, but they don't have the balls to do it, so they just give me the nod.
Steven Adams
Me
Appreciation
People
Mustache
Fine
Seem
Give
Give Me
Guy
General
More
Nod
Like
Reaction
Mostly
Dudes
Balls
Get
Oh
Just
Ladies
Want
Actually
Thing
What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.
Steven Burd
Health
Food
You
Benefits
Care
Pay
Other
Market
Our
Statement
Rate
General
Structure
More
Higher
Retail
Look
Health Care
Wages
Lot
Than
Whether
Forms
Basic
In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.
Steven Seagal
Good
Law
Police
Situation
Pay
Spirit
Case
General
Rather
Attention
Like
Look
Police Officers
Always
Least
Close
Close Attention
Than
Officers
Each
Letter
The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.
Steven Stucky
Me
Every
Seems
General
Direction
Small
Clear
Adventure
New
Piece
Fairly
Becoming
Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.
Steven Van Zandt
Politics
You
Change
World
Better
Matter
Big
Change The World
Way
Kind
General
Small
How
Trying
Any
Inches
And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.
Stewart Copeland
Better
Stage
General
Studio
Opinion
Than
Much
The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.
Sunny Hostin
Acceptance
Difficulty
General
Both
Lack
Being
Communities
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