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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman
Doctor
Mad
Ate
Never
Had
Surgery
Demonstrating
Were
His
Chicken
Conferences
Die
Where
Again
Meat
Dad
Medical
Laser
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
Natalie Wood
Home
Pool
Swimming
Stars
Saw
Maid
Never
Had
Cook
Swimming Pool
Film
Film Stars
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Me
Moon
Big
Honestly
Say
Dream
About
Never
Had
Surprise
Being
Big Surprise
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
Neil Gaiman
Cause
Books
Bookshelf
Possession
Would
Had
Proudest
Been
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
Neil Strauss
Freedom
Creativity
Innovation
World
Passion
Internet
First
Ambition
Greed
Ruled
Liberation
Brought
Seemed
Had
Hijacked
Like
Advertising
Came
Line
Been
Commerce
Human
Information
Conformity
Public
Then
Use
Fully
Floating
Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there's an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There's an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Day
Me
Every Day
People
Wake Up
Every
Twitter
Say
Bit
Out
Tells
Freaky
Geek
Followers
Had
Like
Underserved
How
Been
Discovering
Wake
End
Up
Curiosity
Did
Us
Appetite
Why
Million
Inner
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.
Nelson Mandela
Travel
Glasses
Car
Master
Would
Wear
Pretext
Could
Chauffeur
Had
Driving
Overalls
Known
Because
Blue
Often
Convenient
Cap
Wore
Round
Pose
I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.
Nicolas Cage
Christmas
Morning
Photography
Face
Party
Think
Tree
Ghost
Wrapped
Spirit
Only
Mentally
Had
Invitation
Vengeance
Because
Go
Romania
After
Taxing
Rider
Ornament
Two
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Work
Me
Fear
Carefully
Considered
Abandon
Had
Absurdity
Induced
Contempt
Because
Begun
Which
View
Apparent
Therefore
Novelty
Nearly
Utterly
Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before.
Nigel Hamilton
War
Surrender
Three
Before
Down
President
Our
April
Franklin
Stroke
Only
Allied
Weeks
Unconditional
Had
He
Implacable
Armed
Armed Forces
Massive
Policy
Forces
Commander
Years
German
Chief
Died
Laid
Roosevelt
Cerebral
Who
Two
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
Norman Schwarzkopf
People
Problems
Garbage
Resource
One Of The Problems
Obliged
Throw
Had
Catch
Feel
Renewable
Limit
Fish
Then
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Country
Our
Destroy
Could
Take
Had
Been
Overrun
Iraq
Done
Intention
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
Norman Thomas
War
Good
People
First
Says
Would
Would-Be
Only
Had
Hour
Likes
Said
Who
Businessman
Nuclear
Million
Kennedy
Million People
Nuclear War
Save
He was a king that had everything, and he lost it all but still had faith. So God blessed him with 10 times more. When I was in jail, like Solomon, I didn't understand why I was going through what I was going through. I was on the right path. Wasn't riding dirty. Then I got trapped in this hole. So I reached to the Word.
Offset
God
Faith
Path
Word
King
Blessed
Lost
Trapped
Right Path
Everything
Solomon
More
Dirty
Through
Had
He
Like
Reached
Him
Understand
Got
Still
Times
Going
Jail
Hole
Then
Riding
Why
Right
You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
Oliver Tambo
Best
You
Animal
Guard
Distance
Station
City
Constantly
Park
Beasts
Prey
Had
Like
Within
Were
Five
Jungle
Short
Experienced
Wanted
Your
Full
Miles
Tolerated
Peter
Gates
I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'
Olivia Colman
Alone
Day
Lie
Feeling
Thinking
Other
Bit
Kids
Minutes
About
Had
Dizzy
Like
She
Leave
Did
Roll
Six
Flat
Afterwards
Breeze
Forward
Mummy
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons
Death
Living
Unlocked
Silent
Silver
Throat
Had
Swan
Note
Who
Her
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
Orson Pratt
Beautiful
Wisdom
God
Man
World
King
Power
Must
Admit
Construct
Had
He
Qualified
Greater
His
Than
Then
Reign
Hence
Sufficient
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
Orson Welles
Man
Cause
Word
Otherwise
Lawless
Something
Could
Never
Had
Developed
Idea
Opened
Protestant
Been
Cultures
America
Common
Frontier
Mean
Your
Bond
Jewish
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
Otis Redding
Success
Good
Me
Sunday
Whatever
Nights
Good Lord
More
Through
Had
Talent
Lord
Go
Lot
Up
Won
Did
Any
Straight
Fifteen
Help
Series
Shows
Growing
Growing Up
Night
I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?
Otto Dix
Me
Experience
Beside
Someone
Directly
Had
Over
Dead
Him
How
Am
Bullet
Falls
Hit
Squarely
Quite
Wanted
Pacifist
Therefore
Suddenly
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
Pat Travers
Marriage
Too Much
Too
Drank
Had
Lousy
Much
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith
Car
Accident
Only
Recover
Weeks
Had
Takes
Know
Been
Car Accident
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
Patti Smith
Beautiful
Mother
Father
Out
Only
Drink
Had
She
Cup
Very
Wanted
China
Grandmother
English
Liverpool
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
Patti Smith
Beautiful
Great
Respect
Creative
People
Humor
Parents
Our
Both
Remarkable
Great Respect
Had
Open-Minded
Beautiful Things
Got
Were
Times
Senses
Mean
Them
Who
Rough
Rough Times
Hard-Working
Things
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Paul Auster
Me
You
Circle
Job
Difficult
Unless
Way
Extremely
Paper
Papers
Jobs
Through
Had
He
Because
Arranged
Ship
Get
Break
Seaman
Who
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