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When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.
Melissa McCarthy
School
College
Wild
Took
Back
Finishing
Instead
New
Until
Doing
Fit
Left
Did
York
Going
Moved
New York
Clothing
Turn
Really
Acting
Second
Started
Night
Well, I think one of the problems with 'Birds of Prey' was there were too many cooks in that kitchen. The studio, the producers, the network, all had very different visions of what that should be. They should have just let Laeta Kalogridis control that. Instead they decided to try to get their hands in the mix.
Melissa Rosenberg
Try
Problems
Control
Think
Too
Birds
Visions
One Of The Problems
Network
Kitchen
Prey
Had
Studio
Instead
Well
Mix
Were
Very
Get
Hands
Just
Different
Decided
Producers
Should
Cooks
Many
The government and politicians should listen to the people instead of preaching from their secular pulpits on how the rest of us should live our lives.
Mercedes Schlapp
Government
People
Secular
Rest
Preaching
Politicians
Live
Our
Our Lives
Instead
How
Listen
Us
Should
Lives
I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
Merle Haggard
Nature
Me
You
Heart
Old
Will
Before
Some
Give
Purposes
Lead
Instead
Talked
Surgery
Anybody
Things
Medicinal
I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my house?' So my catering partner and I - we were both struggling actresses at the time - thought, instead of getting a waitressing job, let's do what we love. We always said if things pick up, our acting careers come first.
Meta Golding
Love
Time
You
Job
Thought
Dinner
First
Partner
Party
Our
Would
Would-Be
Dinner Party
Someone
Both
Struggling
Pick
Instead
Come
Like
Catering
House
Said
Always
Were
Waitressing
Up
Getting
Acting
Cook
Actress
Things
Careers
Before the Internet, all most people cared about was Office. And Office was really the only reason anyone wanted Windows machines instead of Macs.
Michael Arrington
People
Internet
Before
Machines
Windows
About
Only
Instead
Most
Office
Wanted
Anyone
Really
Reason
Cared
When I left West Ham in 2004 there was a chance of them signing me instead of Spurs, but it isn't something I think about too often. I've been spoilt during my career.
Michael Carrick
Me
Think
Too
Signing
About
Something
Instead
Spoilt
Ham
Been
West
Spurs
Left
Often
Them
Career
Chance
When we acquired Secureworks, if we had taken it and made all the salespeople into Dell salespeople, we would have totally destroyed Secureworks. Instead, it remained Secureworks but with capital from Dell and access to Dell's customers. And now, it's a great business.
Michael Dell
Great
Business
Made
Great Business
Destroyed
Would
Totally
Remained
Had
Dell
Taken
Instead
Access
Salespeople
Customers
Acquired
Capital
Now
I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.
Michael Emerson
Life
Out
City
Magazine
Had
Instead
New
How
Been
York
New York
New York City
Figure
Actor
Grown-Up
Illustrator
Started
Opening a business is going to be hard work, no matter what choices you make. If you decide to fall on your sword and just slog through all the work as an operator instead of an owner, then you take responsibility for the entire operation and the actions of the business.
Michael Gerber
Work
Hard Work
You
Business
Matter
Responsibility
Fall
Entire
Through
Take
Instead
Opening
Make
Operation
Operator
Owner
Going
Just
Decide
Then
Choices
Your
Hard
Actions
Sword
I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.
Michael Giles
People
Think
Other
Those
Ourselves
Out
Had
Instead
Boundaries
Operating
Within
Coming
Were
Just
Being
Decided
Created
Away
I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
Michael Gove
Think
Appropriate
Once
Once More
Clarify
Clarity
More
Invested
Simplify
Instead
Authority
Teachers
Strengthen
Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.
Michael Graves
Architecture
Machine
Instead
Know
Metaphor
Did
Human
Want
Human Body
Public
Them
Body
Use
Using
Designing
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
Michael J. Saylor
Teacher
Good
Technology
Algebra
Software
Hundred
Destroys
Jobs
Thousand
Computer
Instead
Hallmark
Answer
iPad
Questions
Five
Any
Average
Themselves
Create
Videotape
Teach
Your
Teachers
Need
When are boots in the ground no longer going to have to even be people, and is that right? When does it become 'Star Wars?' When is enough enough? When do we put this time and energy into eliminating war or reasons for war instead of creating new technology to make war easier for us?
Michael Kelly
War
Time
Technology
People
Become
Energy
Enough
Easier
Boots
Put
Instead
Longer
New
Make
Does
New Technology
Going
Us
Creating
Ground
Wars
Reasons
Even
Star
Star Wars
Right
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.
Michael Leunig
God
Joy
Words
Feeling
Sense
Babies
Complete
Everything
Benign
Say
Having
More
Poetic
No Words
Primal
Instead
Perhaps
Call
Blissfully
Infancy
Just
Sensation
Established
Being
Might
Held
Moments
Assimilate
Need
Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.
Michael Moss
Health
You
People
Problems
Sugar
Diminish
Some
Instead
Come
Most
Because
Health Problems
Replacing
Want
Experimenting
Products
Companies
Works
Amount
Fat
Sodium
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.
Michael Patrick King
You
Age
Women
Heroes
Sex
Made
Myth
Single
Shoes
Correct
Sex And The City
Characters
Run
City
Instead
New
Around
Were
Lot
York
New York
Fancy
Certain
Certain Age
Leper
Four
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
Michael Shermer
Best
Blindly
Control
Our
Moral
Follow
Instead
Concede
How
Provided
Authorities
Behave
Just
Communities
Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain to politics- and policy-addicted people that language is the basis of all ideas - if you can't say it, you can't think it), instead of a refuge for lawyers and apparatchiks.
Michael Wolff
Politics
Art
You
People
Logical
Language
Think
Ought
Say
About
Lawyers
Writers
Instead
Ideas
Very
Refuge
Which
Explain
Really
Hard
Profession
Expression
Basis
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.
Michele Bachmann
Government
History
You
Money
Seen
Country
Our
Please
Unlike
Spending
Saw
Spending Money
Unprecedented
Instead
Over
Budget
Bailout
Massive
Stimulus
Government Spending
Debt
Stop
The History Of
After
Anything
Cutting
Bill
Explosion
Billion
Many
Washington
Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.
Michelle Malkin
Work
Construction
Down
Busy
Projects
Members
Indiana
Shake
Instead
Putting
New
Employers
California
Idling
Been
Off
American
York
New York
Order
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle Obama
Health
Quality
Culture
Commitment
Vegetables
Healthy
Every
Our
Kids
Promote
Menu
Part
Smaller
Instead
Emphasize
Over
Make
Quantity
Options
Where
Sizes
Grains
Fruits
Them
Ask
Create
Help
Whole
Portion
Resisting
Imagine
Anyone can wear glitter, even a woman in her 60s. It's all about techniques. Instead of applying glitter all over the face, you can just add a little to the inner corner of your eyes or on your brow bone, or even on your Cupid's bow. It just adds this magical element to your makeup.
Michelle Phan
You
Woman
Eyes
Face
Bone
Add
Corner
Adds
Wear
Brow
About
Magical
Instead
Over
Glitter
Bow
Makeup
Just
Anyone
Little
Your
Even
Element
Her
Techniques
Inner
Applying
Even though 'SmackDown' has been kind of like the Internet darling, I believe that if they had three hours instead of two, they would find out that it's tough to be a darling when you've got that massive three-hour anchor around your neck.
Mick Foley
You
Internet
Three
Tough
Believe
Anchor
Though
Out
Has-Been
Kind
Would
Find
Darling
Had
Instead
Like
Hours
Massive
Around
Got
Been
Your
Even
Neck
Two
I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
Mika
Time
People
Wish
Running
Running Away
Guts
Faces
More
Had
Instead
Because
Said
Just
Younger
Then
Away
Things
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