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As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.
Teresa Heinz
Work
Mom
Valuable
Has-Been
Someone
Both
Shape
Know
Force
Been
Experiences
Full-Time
Who
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
Terri Windling
Long
Latin
Latin American
Has-Been
Magic
New
Around
Been
Label
American
Modern
Form
Literature
Realism
Popularity
Specific
I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.
Terry Crews
Comedy
Action
Films
Has-Been
Been
Up
Forever
Ended
Forte
Action Films
Thing
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
Terry Eagleton
Sometimes
Political
Crimes
Secure
Has-Been
Brought
Invasion
Only
Thrust
Unconscious
Feel
Safely
Occupation
Been
Denying
Sovereignty
Nations
Being
Them
Original
Usurpation
Flourish
Extermination
It has been almost three years since U.S. President Barack Obama pipsqueaked on his chemical-weapons 'red line' in Syria and joined with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in the pantomime that resulted in the Sept. 27, 2013 U.N. Security Council Resolution 2118, which called on Assad to surrender his chemical weapons stockpile.
Terry Glavin
Surrender
Three
President
President Barack Obama
Pantomime
Syria
Has-Been
Security
Obama
Security Council
Weapons
Russian
Resulted
Joined
Council
Putin
Almost
Red
Since
Red Line
Chemical
Line
Been
His
Years
Which
Barack
Barack Obama
Sept
Resolution
A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria.
Terry Glavin
Algeria
Sight
Out
Has-Been
Plotting
Carrying
District
Network
Brussels
Since
Concentrated
Missions
Operating
Been
Afghanistan
Elaborate
Plain
Planning
Notorious
Dozens
Violent
Armed drones have become Barack Obama's way to engage in terrorist-infested hellholes without putting 'boots on the ground.' For years, the CIA has been running a secrecy-shrouded program of targeted killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, and more recently in Somalia, Syria and Iraq.
Terry Glavin
CIA
Become
Way
Syria
Has-Been
Boots
Obama
Running
Somalia
More
Drones
Putting
Armed
Without
Been
Years
Iraq
Yemen
Targeted
Afghanistan
Barack
Engage
Ground
Pakistan
Program
Recently
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has been resorting to the 'It's racism' dodge for years now in order to shut down scrutiny of his determined inattention to the catastrophe of Vancouver's housing crisis.
Terry Glavin
Racism
Down
Crisis
Has-Been
Vancouver
Determined
Catastrophe
Robertson
Dodge
Housing
Been
His
Years
Mayor
Order
Scrutiny
Now
Shut
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
Terry Pratchett
Buy
Time
Me
Avenue
Nothing
Every
Possible
Has-Been
Wrong
Involved
House
Industry
Continent
Go
Been
Covered
Years
Taught
Eight
Then
Next
Nuclear
Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.
Terry Sanford
Members
Has-Been
Individual
Maintaining
Thwarted
Been
Vested
Reform
Vested Interests
Maze
Procedures
Interests
Needed
Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.
Terry Teachout
Government
AI
Side
Has-Been
Bad
Admired
Fearless
Both
Conceptual
Been
Years
Artist
Chinese
Chinese Government
Who
Activist
Widely
The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.
Terry Wogan
Beginning
Has-Been
Never
Knew
Unconventional
Sure
Does
Still
Were
Been
Just
Successful
Works
Why
Early
My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.
Terry Wogan
Life
Work
Hard Work
Happy
My Life
Accident
Stars
Has-Been
Count
Talent
Because
Been
Anybody
Anything
Biggest
Succeeds
Should
Hard
Who
Lucky
Element
Necessarily
No matter whether someone has been in the business longer than you or for less time, you can learn something from any of them.
Tessa Blanchard
Time
You
Business
Matter
Has-Been
Someone
Something
Longer
Learn
Been
Than
Any
Whether
Them
Less
Less Time
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
Thabo Mbeki
Today
Struggle
Together
Oppression
Long
Has-Been
Colonial
Long Road
Road
Been
Where
Against
Apartheid
Travelled
Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past.
Thad Cochran
Saying
Problem
Better
Job
Past
Every
Ought
Has-Been
Solving
Better Job
Well
Arrested
Arresting
Doing
Been
Than
Person
Done
In The Past
I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.
The Great Khali
Good
Me
Looking
Gone
Luck
Films
Good Luck
Has-Been
Never
Around
Been
Roles
Done
Filmmakers
Training has been really good to me over the years. It's bettered the quality of my life.
The Ultimate Warrior
Life
Good
Me
Quality
Training
My Life
Has-Been
Over
Been
Years
Really
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor W. Adorno
Thought
Nothing
Once
Has-Been
Absolute
Remains
Emotion
Trace
Eradicated
Been
Last
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.
Theodore Zeldin
History
People
Care
Thought
Laughter
Made
National
Sense
Damn
Humour
Virtue
Considered
Has-Been
About
Something
Through
Cheap
Aristocrat
Acceptable
Because
Odd
Been
Orders
Them
Turned
Much
Lower
British
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Theophile Gautier
You
Poet
Become
Own
Critic
Has-Been
Until
Been
Established
Cannot
Your
Satisfaction
The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
Theresa May
Time
Changing
Benefit
Rules
Has-Been
Some
Something
Concept
Around
Doing
Been
Discussed
Child
Being
As a freedom-lover and avid outdoorsman, I understand the importance of protecting the Second Amendment, which has been under attack by liberal special interest groups funded by elitist billionaires.
Thom Tillis
Liberal
Has-Been
Attack
Importance
Protecting
Understand
Been
Amendment
Which
Interest
Avid
Special
Billionaires
Special Interest
Special Interest Groups
Groups
Second
Second Amendment
Elitist
Since I became a senator in 2015, my office has been inundated by countless letters, emails, and calls from North Carolinians telling us how Obamacare has been a nightmare for them and their families.
Thom Tillis
Emails
Has-Been
Telling
Obamacare
Inundated
Countless
Since
Calls
Became
How
Been
Families
North
Office
Senator
Them
Us
Letters
Nightmare
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas
Has-Been
Spirit
True
Said
Been
Origin
President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is 'all in.'
Thomas E. Donilon
Future
President
President Obama
States
Has-Been
Obama
Seeks
About
Clear
Been
United
United States
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