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In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Carroll O'Connor
Society
Given
Like
Michael
Rewards
Staggering
Capital
Persons
Create
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Who
In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
Jeff Bridges
Time
Me
You
Strong
Confuse
Too
Pleasantly
Out
Given
Develop
Audience
Role
Persona
Any
Wanted
Really
Hard
Who
Hard Time
Career
Set
Imagining
As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.
David Gauke
Great
Responsibility
Employees
Sense
Out
Carrying
Given
Great Sense
Provides
Duties
Us
Specific
Hendrick definitely realises that we're young and trying to learn - and wrecking cars is part of how you learn. Jeff Gordon went through 20 something clips in his first season, but Rick Hendrick realised he had to take a chance on Jeff Gordon. They wrecked a lot of cars, but Jeff Gordon has given him four championships.
Kyle Busch
You
Car
First
Young
Definitely
Wrecked
Something
Given
Through
Take
Take A Chance
Had
He
Part
Gordon
Him
Learn
How
His
Lot
Trying
Realised
Rick
Jeff
Season
Four
Championships
Chance
I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
Kevin O'Leary
School
Path
Gone
Down
Second Chance
Easily
Out
Given
Could
Wrong
Dropped
Second
Chance
We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.
Frances Arnold
Women
Stream
Chemistry
Predict
Out
See
Steady
Given
Nobel
Coming
Prizes
Going
I've been building classrooms for children. Computer labs for kids. It's such a huge problem and so many children just aren't given a chance in life.
apl.de.ap
Life
Problem
Building
Kids
Given
Classrooms
Computer
Been
Huge
Labs
Just
Children
Many
Chance
I've certainly enjoyed doing clinic tours for larger audiences, but the most valuable teaching experience has been the hundreds of lessons that I've given where I can hear the students play.
Paul Gilbert
Experience
Valuable
Hundreds
I Can
Has-Been
Given
Students
Tours
Most
Audiences
Doing
Clinic
Hear
Been
Where
Certainly
Teaching
Lessons
Larger
Play
Enjoyed
My dad always said you have to value and respect the responsibility you've been given. When I coach, I take that responsibility seriously because I know people have trusted in me, and there are thousands of supporters whose emotions are bound up in what we do.
Unai Emery
Me
You
Respect
People
Emotions
Seriously
Value
Responsibility
Thousands
Given
Take
Bound
Supporters
Know
Because
Said
Always
Been
Trusted
Up
Coach
Dad
Whose
Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.
Douglas Coupland
Few
Universe
State
Given
Could
Exists
Very
Infinite
Happen
Ever
Actually
Number
Coincidences
In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. In another year, there literally may be zero.
Paul DePodesta
College
Three
Year
College Level
Given
Another
Quarterback
May
Literally
Zero
Level
Two
God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
God
Punish
Given
Limit
Commandments
Us
Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.
Martin Cooper
Freedom
People
Communicate
Will
Given
Wire
Demand
Infamous
Unfettered
Wherever
Choice
Copper
All these years, I have never forgotten what my parents have given me, and that is why I take special pride in composing music based on ragas and used folk music in films like 'Apne Paraye.'
Bappi Lahiri
Music
Me
Pride
Parents
Films
Folk
Folk Music
Composing
Given
Take
Never
Like
Years
Forgotten
Used
Special
Based
Why
The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.
James Gosling
Thought
Given
Computers
Knew
Concept
Were
Anybody
Whole
Even
Hardly
Career
A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
Patrick O'Brian
Mind
Understanding
Situation
Virtually
Later
Those
Out
Given
Picks
Tension
Conceive
Perhaps
Beyond
Deal
How
Infinite
May
Just
Stores
Far
Used
Number
For the British working class, the restrictions of conflict actually improved their diet. Under Lord Woolton, the minister for food, a programme of free school meals was introduced. Priority supplies of milk were provided for pregnant women and nursing mothers, while orange juice, milk and cod liver oil were given to the under-fives.
Kwasi Kwarteng
Food
Class
Women
Conflict
School
Free
Nursing
Minister
Introduced
Given
Restrictions
Supplies
Lord
Mothers
Priority
Were
Juice
Provided
Improved
Orange
Diet
Oil
While
Meals
Pregnant
Working
Working-Class
Liver
Milk
Actually
British
Programme
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
M. S. Swaminathan
Food
Inflation
Country
Half
Recommendation
Kinds
Eat
Constitute
Given
Price
Implementing
Like
Excuses
Also
Been
Question
Governments
Working
Farmers
Who
Population
Nearly
Need
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.
Max Boot
Free
Free Speech
Given
Fact
Countless
Devotion
Precisely
In Fact
Patriots
Full
Measure
Right
Last
Defend
Speech
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
Flann O'Brien
Politicians
Sense
Otherwise
Minding
Members
Jobs
Would
Crossroads
Given
Parliament
Majority
Irish
Mice
Professional
The crowd is everything in my life. I just love the fans, and I also have a lot of respect for them. They've given me everything I have in my life.
Terry Funk
Life
Love
Me
Respect
Fans
My Life
Everything
Given
Crowd
Also
Lot
Just
Them
No nation helps more people around the globe. Our deep generosity is given so freely that it is simply expected, by others and by ourselves. From Ethiopia to Haiti to Japan where there is tragedy, famine or disaster, we lead the way with private and public help.
Martha MacCallum
People
Nation
Others
Our
Way
Ourselves
Given
More
More People
Lead
Simply
Generosity
Freely
Haiti
Disaster
Globe
Around
Private
Tragedy
Expected
Famine
Where
Public
Japan
Ethiopia
Help
Deep
Helps
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
Ulrich Beck
Good
Injustice
Hate
Words
World
Overcome
Feeling
Few
Easily
Rise
Given
Good Words
Clear
Also
Became
Felt
Inequality
Conditions
Historical
Cannot
Deeply
I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.
Melita Norwood
Education
Service
Health
Good
Food
Great
People
Money
Defeat
System
Cost
Given
Prevent
Could
Had
New
Make
Afford
Did
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary People
Help
Good Education
Some people say that given the government's firm stance against genuine universal suffrage, our demands are impossible to achieve. But I believe activism is about making the impossible possible.
Joshua Wong
Government
People
Impossible
Achieve
Some People
Believe
Our
I Believe
Say
Possible
People Say
Some
About
Given
Firm
Demands
Genuine
Making
Against
Stance
Activism
Suffrage
Universal
Universal Suffrage
Few professions are given as much power as we entrust to those who wear the uniform of a police officer. These individuals dedicate themselves to a calling in which threats that can materialize in an instant are part of the job description.
Lee Zeldin
Police
Job
Power
Few
Those
Job Description
Wear
Threats
Given
Entrust
Instant
Part
Individuals
Police Officer
Calling
Materialize
Officer
Which
Uniform
Themselves
Much
Dedicate
Who
Description
Professions
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