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Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
John Shelton Reed
Music
People
Country
Has-Been
Country Music
Sort
Been
Historically
Middle-Aged
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
John Spratt
Education
Health
Care
Big
Year
Spending
Says
Has-Been
Spike
Percent
He
Environment
Budget
Category
Health Care
Been
Domestic
Discretionary
Ignores
Growing
Rein
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck
Syntax
Has-Been
Restored
Highest
Been
Lad
Place
Republic
You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.
John Sununu
You
Virtually
Focusing
Has-Been
Distracted
Obama
Percent
Remind
Putting
Economy
Real
Issue
Been
Opposition
Years
Real Issue
Unemployment
America
Forget
Get
Want
Forth
Growth
Four
Last
My way towards God has been to write music.
John Tavener
Music
God
Way
Has-Been
Write
Towards
Been
I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.
John Thaw
Sorry
Own
Think
Has-Been
Able
Only
Never
He
Morse
Feel
Sadly
Him
Been
His
Exist
End
Really
Thinks
That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.
John Tyler Bonner
Life
Property
Lie
Simplicity
Matter
Degree
Living
Biology
Neglected
Has-Been
Some
Seems
Remarkable
Makes
Been
Affects
Up
Role
May
Size
Which
Aspect
Aspects
Compared
Plays
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.
John Updike
Saying
Age
Long
Own
Think
Books
Mine
Has-Been
Temperament
John
My Own
Rather
Somewhat
Writer
He
Spokesman
Academic
Although
Understand
Been
His
Ambitious
Very
Different
Far
Really
Novel
And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.
John W. Snow
Work
You
People
Progress
Opportunities
Path
Will
Made
Big
Market
Our
Further
Has-Been
Indian
Indian People
Clearly
Openings
Occurred
Continuing
Been
Urge
Theme
Produce
Much
Growth
I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
John Waters
Love
Buy
Out
Has-Been
Willing
Nobody
Been
Sell
Just
The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people's expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of 'coming of age,' many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses.
John Zimmer
Freedom
Age
Waiting
Phones
People
Car
Independence
Cell Phones
Once
Has-Been
Networks
Drivers
Longer
Access
Forefront
Coming
Coming Of Age
Been
Replaced
Get
Cell
Which
Social
Social Networks
Many
Expression
Now
Symbol
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.
John Zorn
Musicians
Naked
Group
Say
Has-Been
City
Songs
Stuff
Concentrate
Like
Well
Got
Been
Lot
Repertoire
Just
Sixty
Japan
Worked
Working
Hardcore
Now
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John le Carre
Think
Dread
Has-Been
Wrong
Because
Go
Been
Committee
Where
Movie
Interfering
Watched
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
John le Carre
War
Reality
Perception
Every
Complex
Crisis
Has-Been
More
Allowed
Know
Issues
Been
Than
Being
War Zone
Public
Far
Then
Fought
Why
Zone
Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time.
Johnny Marr
Time
Guitar
Long
Long Time
Favorite
Has-Been
Guitar Players
Been
Nick
Players
My aspirations were never anything other than I really, really admired certain singers over the years, and I just wanted to do the best I could. And that has been kind of like the way I've been fortunate enough to be able to have a career, have some success, and yet continue to learn my craft.
Johnny Mathis
Success
Best
Other
Enough
Way
Has-Been
Kind
Admired
Able
Some
Could
Never
Over
Like
Singers
Learn
Were
Continue
Been
Years
Than
Craft
Just
Wanted
Anything
Really
Certain
Aspirations
Fortunate
Career
Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.
Johnny Van Zant
You
Country
Big
Past
Nice
Has-Been
Hat
Some
Guy
Stuff
Polished
Were
Been
In The Past
Jeans
Pair
Belt
If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.
Jojo Moyes
Death
Clever
Sick
Everything
Once
Marketing
Bit
Has-Been
Taking
Putting
Feel
Device
Readers
Because
Makes
Been
Covering
Pink
Commercial
Done
May
Title
Chocolate
Really
Now
Suggest
I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.
Jon Fishman
Life
Good
Great
Band
Think
Complain
Everybody
Good Life
Phish
Has-Been
Great Life
About
Had
None
Got
Been
Up
Anything
Us
Really
Growing
Growing Up
I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he's an amazing human being.
Jon Jones
Time
Man
Champion
Human Being
Amazing
Father
Husband
Leader
Daniel
Has-Been
More
No Reason
Absolutely
Rival
Take
He
Head
Like
Because
Been
His
Motivator
Lot
Model
Thank
Hang
Human
Being
Want
Biggest
Aspire
Reason
Teammate
Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
Jon Oringer
Success
Needs
Business
Key
Single
Past
Types
Evolution
Has-Been
Diversified
Over
Globally
Content
Been
Years
Subscription
Sizes
Transformed
Businesses
Company
Portfolio
Image
Servicing
The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.
Jon Porter
Earthquake
Has-Been
Hurricane
Hurricane Katrina
Outpouring
Support
Generosity
Toward
Been
Reflected
American
Victims
Public
American Public
Katrina
Pakistani
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.
Jon Scieszka
Best
Science
Humor
Reading
Books
Ways
Definition
Has-Been
Reluctant
Reach
Readers
Comic
Nonfiction
Comic Books
Audio
Motivate
Been
Expand
Them
Interests
Graphic
Connect
Graphic Novels
Include
Platform
Novels
Found
My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
Jon Secada
Great
Me
Degree
College
Recording
Musician
Has-Been
General
Recording Artist
Industry
Got
Came
Been
Lot
Artist
Intention
Just
Which
Reason
Helped
Necessarily
Career
The first time I've actually filmed in London, the locations we've all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you've got everything on your doorstep, so when you've got time off, you can go into town, so I've really enjoyed it.
Jonas Armstrong
Time
Great
You
First
Everything
Locations
Has-Been
City
London
Had
Town
First Time
Got
Real
Go
Been
Off
Doorstep
Which
Places
Urban
Really
Your
Actually
Enjoyed
Inner
Here
Inner City
Filming
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.
Jonas Mekas
Life
Words
Cinema
Walk
Own
Think
Films
Other
Has-Been
About
My Own
Through
Never
Occasionally
Making
Material
Camera
Been
Form
In Other Words
Scripts
Working
Film
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