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The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.
David Berman
Work
Live
Consider
Mine
Boring
Songs
Instance
Fail
Because
Integrate
Playing
You have to decide what's important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road.
David Draiman
Myself
You
Important
Lifestyle
Lead
Instance
Road
Sort
Very
Decide
Mean
What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'
David R. Brower
People
Hide
Plant
Too Much
Depend
Too
Way
Say
Strip
Out
Miracle
More
Instance
Unsettling
Doing
Off
Ship
Labels
Wheat
Public
Much
Even
Watch
You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like 'Toy Story 3,' which isn't realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called 'Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP' for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving.
David S. Goyer
You
Game
School
Old
Realistic
Tell
Kind
Would
Totally
Argue
Emotional
Instance
Like
Toy
Involving
iPad
Very
Going
Just
Depends
Movie
Decide
Story
Which
Moving
Really
Old School
Found
Sword
Played
Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.
David Talbot
News
Money
Word
Year
Mouth
Other
Virtually
Our
Way
Marketing
Circulation
Has-Been
About
Had
Instance
Since
Budget
Been
Cautious
Salon
Very
Than
Just
Stories
Breaking
Word-Of-Mouth
Grow
Last
Last Year
My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
Denis Leary
Day
Family
Business
Charity
Money
Way
Members
Distribute
Firefighters
Instance
Were
Surviving
Died
Family Members
Any
After
Who
Helping
Raise
Widows
For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.
Devon Sawa
See
Instance
Wrong
Stuff
Like
Reaction
Audience
Doing
Go
Tuesday
Just
Different
Premiere
Moments
Film
Right
Watch
Watching
People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
Diana Ross
Nature
Me
Thoughts
People
World
Care
Animals
Cares
Fur
Wear
Wearing
Wrapped
About
Instance
Part
Feel
Know
Because
Real
Up
Human
Want
Anymore
Worked
Really
Hard
Coat
Deep
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
Diane Watson
Government
Signs
Before
Our
Striking
Parallels
Attack
Instance
Failed
Between
Were
Dots
Warning
Warning Signs
Harbor
Connect
Each
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
Douglas Leone
Entrepreneur
Before
Think
Say
Instance
Venture
Venture Capital
Years
Sell
Wanted
Which
Capital
Company
Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.
Dudley North
You
Nothing
Else
Mine
Give
Somewhat
Instance
Trade
Want
Which
Spare
Yours
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
Dwight Schultz
Three
Myth
Own
Military
Hundred
Some
Had
Instance
Over
Witnesses
Were
Perpetuating
Craft
Procedures
Bodies
Incident
Describing
Lives
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - like prejudice and desegregation, for instance - that we face in our everyday lives.
Ed Asner
Me
Problems
Face
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Our
Way
Seemed
Only
Could
Instance
Like
Sci-Fi
Up
Westerns
Afford
Get
Movies
Prejudice
Working
Star
Away
Lives
Presenting
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
Edith Head
Beautiful
Better
Most Beautiful
Marlene
Instance
Look
Most
Covered
Legs
Even
Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
Edith Head
Director
Language
Girl
Every
Unless
Says
Dress
Color
Instance
Red
Like
Another
Does
Hitchcock
Goes
Any
Different
Story
Bright
Ever
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
Edmund Hillary
Finance
Change
People
Money
Better
Remember
First
Important
Become
Local
Back
Way
Area
Instance
Remember When
Maybe
Just
Them
Us
Now
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
Edmund White
Character
Me
Gay
History
You
Class
Youth
Generation
Men
Own
Think
Other
My Generation
More
Instance
Like
Make
Reader
Boy
Contract
Representative
Wanted
Story
Social
Social Class
Moment
Novel
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.
Elaine Pagels
You
Insist
Believe
Think
Christianity
Birth
Approaches
Complexity
Out
Kinds
Some
Throw
Open
Instance
Doctrine
Gospels
Literally
Story
Mean
Whole
Multiplicity
Thing
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage
Path
Black
Think
President
Complete
Easier
Unmarried
Would
Would-Be
Only
Instance
Female
Exists
Than
America
American
Legitimacy
Unfortunate
Social
Far
Elect
I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'
Ellsworth Kelly
God
Sometimes
Wait
Try
Invent
Say
Kind
Some
Angle
Something
Direction
Instance
Get
Oh
Just
Oh My God
Happens
Appears
I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.
Emmanuelle Seigner
Good
Me
Class
People
First
Airport
Guy
Instance
Put
First Class
Economy
Always
Arrive
Been
Very
Convince
Convincing
Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down' and 'The Island', and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then 'Young Adam' cropped up in a pile of scripts I was sent.
Ewan McGregor
Sometimes
Black
Young
Down
Intimate
Out
Something
Small
Hawk
Instance
Smaller
Feel
Stuff
Budget
Come
Like
Pile
Island
Doing
Up
Did
Wanted
Again
Scripts
Sent
Then
Really
Film
Film Set
Adam
Set
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
F. Sionil Jose
Differences
Instance
Industry
Real
Very
Explains
Land
Ethnic
Among
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
Ferdinand Lassalle
First
Constitutional
Instance
Questions
Might
Right
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria
Though
Instance
Like
Fresh
Fish
Cultural
Regional
Prejudices
Many
Even
Staple
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Motorcycle
You
Change
Incredible
Way
Plot
Recognizing
Embracing
About
Instance
Know
Diaries
Stories
Sudden
Play
Twists
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