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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Dave Barry
Believe
We Cannot
Out
Inside
Wires
Because
How
Exists
Sending
Cannot
Us
Electric
Figure
Electricity
Bills
Company
Travels
Keeps
Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.
Dave Chappelle
Life
Me
You
People
Money
Personal Life
Meetings
Say
Find
About
Could
Know
Most
Involved
Talk
Make
Around
Without
How
How Much
How Much Money
Vested
Celebrity
Vested Interest
Personal
Where
Either
Interest
Mean
Them
Themselves
Much
Professional
Professional Life
Position
You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.
Dave Davies
You
Responsibility
Everyone
Take
How
Fix
Act
My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.
Dave Ramsey
Work
Hard Work
Age
Money
Allowance
Since
House
Learned
Around
Got
How
Were
Been
Get
Commission
Taught
Children
Little
Worked
Paid
Hard
Works
Early
Early Age
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
David Crystal
Best
You
People
Language
Research
Spell
Evidence
Those
Kids
Rather
More
Badly
Know
Most
Likely
Likewise
Because
Frequently
How
Text
Texting
Literate
Manipulate
Teaches
Who
Shows
When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.
David Roberts
You
Ungrateful
Back
Outdoor
Wear
Seems
Struck
Having
Dirt
Pounds
He
Saddle
Along
Tickle
Another
Makes
How
Versatile
Trail
Scratch
Just
Eight
After
Wool
Miles
Coarse
Why
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
David Souter
People
Independence
Understanding
Judiciary
Danger
Constitutional
Scheme
Judicial
How
Fits
By nature, I'm a person who always says that whatever I've done, I could've done better. But I don't dwell on it because I'm waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones.
David Stern
Future
Time
Nature
Me
Waiting
Experience
Better
Try
Will
Past
Whatever
Believe
Says
Something
Terms
Because
Deal
Always
How
Educate
Person
Done
Dwell
Happens
Next
Next Time
Who
Helped
Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Work
Heart
Women
Cancer
Live
Others
Our
Strikes
Ourselves
Perceive
How
Very
Disease
Just
Whether
Breast Cancer
Us
Who
Things
Raise
I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.
Debi Mazar
Thoughtful
Dress
Daughters
House
Polite
How
Leave
Ladies
Them
Teaching
Showing
Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.
Deborah Tannen
Time
Words
Joke
Our
Everything
Statement
Say
Tell
Goodwill
Annoyance
Most
Because
Without
Does
How
As Far As
Anyone
Meaning
Far
Notice
Speaker
Show
Agree
Serious
Interpreted
I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.
Deborah Tannen
You
Older
Tell
Bossy
Judgmental
How
How Many Times
Were
Heard
Times
Sisters
Younger
Many
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Dee Hock
Thoughts
Problem
Old
Mind
Innovative
Out
Never
New
How
Get
Old Ones
Your
With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.
Dee Rees
Friendship
You
People
Sometimes
Other
Relationships
Ways
Okay
Outgrow
Outside
How
Cultivate
Question
Friends
Different
Your
Hard
Different Ways
A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.
Deepika Padukone
Character
Will
Own
Table
My Own
Instinct
Like
Look
React
Narration
Audience
How
Role
After
Script
Film
Challenging
Bring
Watching
I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.
Demetrious Johnson
Life
Me
People
My Life
Live
Outlook
Allow
How
Dictate
I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?
Denis Leary
Saying
You
Together
Tools
Carpenter
Definitely
Tables
Put
Like
Comedian
Know
Make
Learn
How
Surgery
Brain
Brain Surgery
Being
Chairs
Right
Thing
'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
Denis Villeneuve
Communication
Language
Intuition
About
More
Talks
How
Foreign
Foreign Language
Arrival
Very
Precisely
Little
Film
Dissect
I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.
Dennis Lehane
Me
Struggle
World
Father
Rage
Society
Way
Immigrant
Seeing
About
Through
Make
Him
Tied
How
His
His Way
Lot
Up
Modeled
Happen
Place
Working-Class
Keep
Things
Watching
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
Denzel Washington
Good
You
Opportunity
Matter
Black
White
Good Opportunity
Good Parts
Black Or White
Come
Parts
Without
How
Good Actor
Shot
Hard
Actor
Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.
Diana Lopez
Positive
Mom
Me
Woman
Yourself
Independent Woman
Strong
Made
Girl
Three
Tough
Older
Positive Way
Way
Independent
Carry
Brothers
Only
Over
She
Always
How
Years
Up
Taught
Being
Anything
Youngest
Older Brothers
Growing
Growing Up
It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny.
Diane Lane
Funny
Through
Course
How
Overlap
Trail
Curious
Wander
Stories
Confusing
Actor
Careers
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
Dick Gregory
You
Bottled
Limit
How
How Much
Up
Information
Much
Keep
No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Love
God
Will
Become
Think
Seek
Determines
Him
Does
How
Oh
To Love
Us
Who
Need
I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.
Dilip Kumar
Politics
You
People
Personality
Men
Seen
Become
Own
Egotistical
Politicians
Think
Correction
Eye
Must
Ministers
Oblivion
Prime
Prime Ministers
Like
Look
Became
Pass
How
Chief
Pathetic
Essential
Then
Successful
Should
Who
Businessmen
Keep
Necessary
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.
Dolores Huerta
Work
Pride
Jobs
See
Take
Picking
Demeaning
Know
How
Doing
Lot
Pruning
Crafting
Different
Whether
Themselves
Who
Professional
Professionals
Number
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