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I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.
Ishmael Beah
Life
Morning
You
Happy
Water
Simple
School
Made
My Life
Happy Life
Bathing
Small
River
Had
Small Town
Town
Know
Tap
Up
Very
Fetch
Going
Grew
Afterwards
Soccer
Then
Electricity
Playing
I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
Itzhak Perlman
Before
No Reason
Had
Polio
Wanted
Afterwards
Then
Reason
Play
Actually
Violin
No man can lose what he never had.
Izaak Walton
Man
Lose
Never
Had
He
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
J. Cole
Man
Science
Computer Science
Whatever
Stay
Computer
Had
He
Knew
Saddest
Known
Because
Off
Did
Going
Want
After
Communications
Who
Switched
Away
Ever
Professor
Actually
Right
Right Away
Started
Programmer
I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
J. D. Souther
School
College
Big
Band
Jazz
Symphony
Back
High
Carry
Pretty
Trio
High School
Had
Drummer
Drums
Instrument
Well
Rock
Am
Rock-N-Roll
Junior
Bands
Junior High
Roll
Just
Your
Hard
Play
Actually
Played
A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.
J. J. Watt
Life
Work
Funny
You
Build
Reputation
Ruin
Press
Mood
Mad
Entire
Entire Life
Had
Put
Takes
Because
Were
Years
Years And Years
Effort
Done
Wanted
Happen
Much
Your
Moment
Button
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
Jack Nicklaus
Me
Rival
Had
Well
Biggest
Career
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
Jack White
Family
Me
People
School
Parents
Looking
White
Way
Those
High
Bizarre
High School
Something
Had
Stuff
Like
Liked
Were
Surrounded
Grade
Grade School
Same
Same Stuff
Different
Places
Us
Many
Different Way
Things
I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can't keep saying I've been injured a lot.
Jack Wilshere
Saying
Bad Luck
Luck
Bad
Had
Been
Lot
Keep
Injured
Injuries
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy
Sad
Work
History
Generation
Women
Down
Pane
Window
My Generation
Had
Supposed
Coming
Were
Families
Going
Children
Grown
Watch
I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.
Jada Pinkett Smith
Best
Day
You
Experience
End Of The Day
Try
Will
Down
Enough
Had
Had Enough
Know
Because
Around
Deal
How
End
Goes
Going
Situations
Confront
When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Work
You
Opportunities
Blessed
Same Thing
Busy
Habit
Had
Attention
Terms
Am
Lot
Get
Same
Anything
Which
Certain
Paying
Thing
I had such a crazy life. How I got away with it, I don't know.
Jake LaMotta
Life
Crazy
Had
Know
Got
How
Crazy Life
Away
It's the sad thing about entertainment: it's not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn't need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn't ruin their marketing.
Jake Roberts
Sad
Politics
Time
Best
Me
Entertainment
People
Snake
Ruin
Marketing
Tried
Horrible
About
Never
Had
Put
Sad Thing
Always
End
Against
Who
Twice
Thing
Playing
Need
Belt
It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.
James Bovard
Freedom
People
Passion
Few
Nowadays
Our
Rulers
Given
Had
Towards
Docile
Know
Forefathers
How
How Many People
Very
American
Hard
Show
Many
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
James Brown
Love
Thankful
Respect
Christ
Appreciative
Had
Like
Learned
Another
Said
Thee
I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
James Carville
Life
Anger
People
Enough
TV
Ability
Only
Cable
Cable TV
Had
Had Enough
Am
Dial
Self-Righteous
Hear
Accomplishment
Turn
Radio
Whose
The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't, it would take me 20 minutes to walk to school. If I did, it took me 15. That's the reason I loved it. I just had more of a kick in my step, more of a bounce, so I'd walk quicker.
James Corden
Truth
Me
School
Walk
Took
Kick
Would
Minutes
More
Take
Had
Step
Bounce
Development
Because
Arrested
Arrested Development
Quicker
Did
Listen
Just
Loved
Used
Reason
Why
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
James Dyson
Machine
Only
Drill
Had
House
Shed
Off
Behind
Working
Electric
Started
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
James E. Faust
Challenges
Sum
Sum Total
Our
Virtues
Way
Ancestors
Ways
Total
Could
Had
Were
May
Us
Many
Each
Strengths
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
James Hetfield
Life
Music
My Life
Alive
Possible
Rather
Had
Dead
Quite
Much
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
James Levine
Relationship
Honeymoon
Dating
Had
Going
Just
Phenomenal
Kept
Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.
James Packer
Good
Good Night
Saw
Some
Had
He
Him
Times
Happiest
Dad
Ever
Night
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Jan Koum
You
Trouble
Society
Everything
Kids
Telling
Anecdotes
About
Recorded
Had
Leaders
Were
Up
Friends
Did
Getting
Where
Grew
Communist
It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
Jane Kaczmarek
Big
Vice Versa
Thirties
Babies
Took
Having
Had
Wished
Odd
Versa
Been
Off
Bump
Decade
Same
Often
Different
Vice
Forties
Career
Coincidence
I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.
Jane Wiedlin
Me
Relationship
You
Focus
Single
Young
Every
Dramatic
Lyrics
Melody
Easy
Someone
Had
Songwriter
Come
Well
Because
Overly
Very
Person
Lady
Romantic
Biggest
Story
Which
Short-Term
Young Lady
Turn
Who
Ever
Served
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