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The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.
Mike Barnicle
Ladder
Too
Higher
Simply
Instead
Longer
Climb
Exist
Trying
Hang
Places
Many
Chore
The second guy always gets caught, and that's why you have to initiate it instead of retaliating.
Mike Daniels
You
Guy
Instead
Always
Caught
Gets
Initiate
Why
Second
What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore.
Mike Flanagan
Character
You
Important
Become
Focused
Structure
More
Only
Empathetic
Instead
Cheer
Reaction
Gore
Makes
Audience
Were
Lot
Than
Any
Human
Want
Human Beings
Eighties
Story
Which
Movies
Them
Beings
Slasher
Violence
It's awfully hard to get into the head of a liberal. Instead of logic and reason, they are drawn to emotions and feelings.
Mike Gallagher
Emotions
Feelings
Liberal
Drawn
Logic
Head
Instead
Get
Hard
Reason
The fans are very, very important in the team's success. Instead of acting up, you're cheering for the team.
Mike Holmgren
Success
You
Fans
Important
Instead
Cheering
Up
Very
Acting
Team
If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.
Mike Huckabee
Pay
Congress
Changing
Security
Obamacare
About
Instead
Retirement
Robbed
Mess
Talking
Dollars
Getting
Wants
Social
Them
Rid
Billion
Billion Dollars
Social Security
Why
Start
Medicare
Program
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
Mike Krzyzewski
Time
Great
Envy
Wife
Sit
Down
Think
Bit
Bad
Bad Habit
Something
My Time
Habit
Daughters
Take
Instead
Reader
Got
Still
Trying
Little
Little Bit
Them
There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.
Mike Krzyzewski
Time
Looking
Stupid
Peers
Kids
Something
Instead
Protecting
Make
Sure
Because
Always
Trying
Afraid
Want
Themselves
Extend
Extending
Start
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
Mike McCready
You
Focus
Band
Design
Focused
See
Could
Instead
Pictures
Mostly
Going
Theme
Really
Used
Necessarily
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
Mike Mills
You
Pretending
Lying
Guise
Finding
Inside
Instead
Putting
Experienced
Themselves
Actor
Things
I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.
Mike Nichols
Me
Think
Honorable
Alive
Something
Instead
Make
Task
Page
Turns
Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians' bizarre tantrums and illogical arguments.
Mike Pompeo
Giving
Argument
Bizarre
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Instead
Tantrums
Iran
Iranians
Up
Unfortunately
Standing
Standing Up
Illogical
In 2012, President Obama was faced with a new Egyptian leader, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Instead of applying pressure to root him out, President Obama waived U.S. law and provided taxpayer aid to prop up the most radical elements within Egypt.
Mike Pompeo
Law
Pressure
Leader
Taxpayer
Radical
Aid
President
President Obama
Out
Muslim
Obama
Brotherhood
Prop
Faced
Instead
New
Most
Him
Within
Provided
Up
Egypt
Egyptian
Root
Elements
Applying
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.
Mike Rowe
Work
Humor
Few
Way
Jobs
Dirty
Instead
Highlight
Highlights
Drudgery
Makes
Different
Shows
Thing
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.
Mikhail Sholokhov
Life
Ego
Own
Universe
Tremendous
Say
Insight
Instead
Putting
Most
Genre
Around
Tiny
Centre
Might
Us
Forward
Novel
Profound
When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.
Milo Yiannopoulos
Great
Culture
Old
Hair
Minor
He
Head
Instead
Days
Like
Sort
Witty
Dude
Been
Celebrity
Handsome
Olden
Hillary Clinton was rejected soundly by America, but instead of changing course, the Democrats and their media allies are intent on telling Americans just how terrible they are for embracing Donald Trump.
Milo Yiannopoulos
Changing
Telling
Embracing
Allies
Instead
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Terrible
Course
Democrats
How
Clinton
Trump
America
American
Donald
Donald Trump
Intent
Just
Media
Rejected
Progressives make money and spend money on businesses that meet needs instead of kill people! The future is in meeting needs - unto the bourgeois business of cleaning the drapes! - not spewing death and destruction with kickbacks.
Mimi Kennedy
Death
Future
Needs
Business
Cleaning
People
Money
Destruction
Meet
Progressives
Meeting
Spend
Instead
Bourgeois
Unto
Make
Businesses
When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.
Miranda July
Everything
Laura
More
Instead
Got
Bedroom
Normal
Very
Wanted
Ashley
Little
I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.
Miranda Lambert
Crazy
Woman
Girl
More
Instead
Feel
Like
Up
Grow
Grow Up
Started
Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
Miranda Lambert
Time
Learning
Better
College
Spent
Musician
Out
My Time
Road
Instead
How
Going
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
Miriam Toews
Life
Degree
My Life
Master
Point
Instead
Up
Irish
Ended
Getting
Wanted
Literature
Pregnant
Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?
Missy Elliott
Life
You
Three
Else
Topics
About
Something
Something Else
Write
Instead
Like
How
How Many Times
Times
Same
Happen
Clubs
Then
Your
Many
Things
Things Happen
We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
Mitch McConnell
Job
Weather
Three
Living
President
Obama
Would
Would-Be
Obama Economy
Folks
Record
Blames
He
Instead
Like
Economy
Years
America
Shop
Managers
Any
Door
After
CEO
Shown
Floor
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously.
Mitski
Time
Me
Seriously
Doors
Every
Everything
Once
Say
Seem
Take
Taken
Instead
Feel
Longer
Knock
Like
Times
Privileges
Different
Turn
Much
Things
Resistance
Two
On one hand, I think it's very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it's not talked about, then we won't progress. What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
Mitski
Me
Problem
Progress
Gender
Important
Think
About
Instead
Talk
Talked
Another
Because
Female
Becomes
Hand
Very
Artist
Form
Race
Asian
Then
Shrinking
Symbol
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