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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Best
Single
Year
Back
Had
Track
Around
Been
Years
Lot
Want
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan
God
Day
Me
Man
Example
Fire
Wearing
Silk
Something
Had
For Example
Forbidding
Box
Form
Burning
While
Holiness
Cap
Connected
Appealed
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
Abraham Verghese
Time
People
Burden
Thought
Physician
Lost
Young
Suicide
Secrecy
Caring
Virus
Having
Shame
Had
Always
Metaphor
Doing
Been
Contracted
Very
Disease
Patients
Little
Them
Who
Two
Associated
Harm
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
Abraham Verghese
Art
Science
Healing
Physician
Sense
Medicine
Ministry
Had
Also
Calling
Lot
Just
Even
Desire
So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
Abraham Verghese
Myself
Dog
Parents
Consider
Kid
Kind
Would
Dreamed
Having
Never
Had
House
Dogs
Person
Them
I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
Ace Frehley
Work
Music
Feeling
Enjoy
Out
Willing
Wear
Guys
Only
Had
Make
Because
Makeup
Rock
Off
Hit
Did
Anything
Theatrical
Gonna
Work Out
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
Ace Frehley
Finished
Power
First
Way
Destined
Solo
Exactly
Exactly The Way
Had
Knew
Feel
New
Like
Felt
Rock
Always
Rock Star
Mixing
Foresight
York
Just
New York
After
Groove
Star
Now
Right
Album
I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
Action Bronson
Song
Pressure
Other
Hook
Per
Never
Had
Catchy
Stuff
Because
Making
Hit
Closest
Closest Thing
Your
Ever
Thing
Unfortunately, like, homework and school wasn't the thing that I was obsessing over. It was, you know, music and making music and how to like - and drum machines. And we met Rick Rubin, and Rick Rubin had a drum machine. So I would just cut school and go to his house - his dorm room.
Ad-Rock
Music
You
School
Met
Homework
Machine
Machines
Would
Had
Over
Over It
Like
Drum
Know
House
How
Making
Go
His
Just
Unfortunately
Dorm
Room
Cut
Rick
Thing
Mike is the craziest person. He's scattered; he's all over the place. When you hold him down and tell him, 'This is what you're doing,' he's fantastic. But you have to hold him down. Like, when he had to write his verse for 'Hello Nasty,' we had to take his phone away to get him to do it.
Ad-Rock
You
Phone
Down
Tell
Scattered
Write
Take
Had
He
Over
Like
Him
Doing
Nasty
His
Verse
Person
Get
Hold
Place
Craziest
Fantastic
Mike
Hello
Away
My sister plays for PSG. My brother played, too, but not professionally. So I had no choice!
Ada Hegerberg
Sister
Too
No Choice
Brother
Had
Choice
Professionally
Played
Plays
I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.
Ada Hegerberg
Dreams
Me
Remember
Young
Back
Give
Inspired
Had
Remember When
Idols
Go
Same
Just
Want
Who
When I was 15, and I just stepped on the A-team, I believed in myself, but I wasn't cocky in any way. I just wanted something so badly that I could tell people around me that were ten years older that they had to play and perform. I would still say that I had respect.
Ada Hegerberg
Myself
Me
Respect
People
Older
Way
Say
Tell
Would
Something
Ten
Ten Years
Could
Had
Badly
Stepped
Perform
Around
Still
Were
Years
Any
Just
Wanted
Cocky
Believed
Play
During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
Ada Yonath
Time
Competition
Men
Difficult
Some
My Time
Had
Years
Very
From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
Ada Yonath
Life
Game
Struggle
Survival
Cleaning
Science
Age
Too Much
Think
Too
About
Had
Name
Making
Conditions
Up
Being
Dishes
Much
Sandwiches
Hard
Standards
Washing
Keep
Floors
The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
Ada Yonath
Me
World
Joke
Those
Laughed
Could
Had
Supportive
Look
Until
Became
Prove
Years
Then
Competitors
I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
Adam Arkin
Every
Think
Honored
Those
Pretty
Date
Fact
Had
Major
Along
Come
Always
Impressive
Offer
Going
Happen
Them
Film
Actually
Start
I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
Adam Arkin
Stupid
Once
Kind
Would
Miramax
Had
Also
Read
Doing
Been
Done
Legitimacy
Happening
Script
Mean
Really
Film
Actually
What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
Adam Arkin
Say
Kind
General
Had
Genre
Any
Fan
Really
Film
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
Adam Beach
Time
Good
Me
Man
Culture
Abandonment
Parents
Good Time
Feelings
Young
Medicine
Indian
Embrace
Had
He
Also
Because
Vulnerable
Caught
Tradition
Loss
Sixteen
After
Really
Acting
Interpret
Started
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
Adam Braun
Journey
Me
You
Words
World
My Journey
Single
Took
Defining
Pencil
Dream
Would
India
Born
Pocket
Give
Could
Through
Had
He
Him
Boy
Answered
Began
Begging
Want
Anything
While
Asked
Luckily
Traveling
Streets
Second
Two
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Adam Braun
Life
Education
Family
Parents
Enjoy
Incredibly
Virtue
Our
Valued
Could
Pursued
Attainment
Had
Always
Educational
Grandparents
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
Adam Brody
Fight
Phone
Smoking
Lost
Hundred
Phone Calls
Dream
Had
Smith
Calls
Were
Roles
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
Adam Carolla
Book
Enjoy
Other
Had
Comedian
Comedians
Read
Reader
Any
Just
I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.
Adam Carolla
Love
Women
Daughter
Never
Had
Issue
Hire
Very
Worked
Much
Who
Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
Adam Cohen
Black
White
Strategy
Unlikely
Districts
Record
Some
Blacks
More
Alliance
Remaining
Had
Voters
Concentrating
Likely
Around
Were
Max
After
Census
Republicans
Elect
Elected
Number
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