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I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.
Rei Kawakubo
Work
Instead
Demand
Within
Built
Clothing
Satisfying
Ostentatious
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.
Reince Priebus
Hope
Change
Political
Closed
Doors
Secrecy
Negligence
Way
Promise
Hope And Change
Obama
Favors
Embraced
Exceptionally
He
Instead
Naive
Vowed
Very
Closed Doors
Candidate
Either
Disingenuous
Rooted
Works
Washington
Rejecting
Instead of being like the other kids going to soccer or football practice, I was wrestling every day.
Rey Mysterio
Day
Every Day
Practice
Every
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Wrestling
Football
Instead
Like
Going
Being
Soccer
To be honest, I struggle with words. I often forget them, you know, the official ones. Instead, I make words up. I use home-made words that sound similar to the real thing. Usually, they're some sort of confused hybrid of two existing words.
Rhys Darby
You
Struggle
Words
Confused
To Be Honest
Some
Similar
Hybrid
Instead
Know
Make
Sort
Sound
Real
Existing
Up
Forget
Official
Often
Real Thing
Them
Use
Thing
Two
Honest
Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
Richard Avedon
Time
You
Lie
Ugly
Word
Made
Lying
Say
Photographers
Lies
About
Something
Write
Instead
Picks
Because
Does
Camera
Same
Any
Artist
Want
Mean
Choice
Choose
Chooses
Moment
Paint
Larger
A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved.
Richard Corliss
Time
Problem
Words
King
Relic
Solved
Advanced
Instead
Reminder
Like
Well
How
How Far
American
Movie
Clue
Heeded
Far
Should
'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.
Richard Corliss
Seriously
Style
Few
Young
Visual
Admirable
Some
Silliness
Steady
Instead
Taking
Employing
Attractive
Genre
Smooth
Hand
Young Actors
Who
Elements
Actor
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
Richard Dawkins
Good
You
Science
Criticism
Thrive
Medicine
Possible
Rather
Instead
Stifling
Encouraging
Than
Intend
Even
Actively
Why
Harm
If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.
Richard DeVos
Work
Plants
Sit
Say
Would
Table
Detroit
Instead
Make
Around
Gotta
Auto
Just
Want
Might
Thing
Our goal is to put news where it earns attention, where readers can access it on every device and interact with it. We're meeting our clients' audiences where they are instead of asking them to come to us. Increasingly, that means hosting the content on social blogging sites like Medium.
Richard Edelman
News
Every
Medium
Increasingly
Meeting
Our
Put
Hosting
Instead
Attention
Device
Come
Like
Readers
Content
Access
Clients
Audiences
Blogging
Goal
Sites
Interact
Where
Social
Them
Us
Asking
Means
Instead of worrying about potential disruption, brands can be creative societal disruptors - because their consumers will be right there by their side as committed partners in a better life.
Richard Edelman
Life
Creative
Better
Will
Side
Worrying
About
Potential
Better Life
Consumers
Instead
Partners
Because
Brands
Committed
Right
Societal
Disruption
I think the best thing we can do is sell that idea of smaller government - of fiscal responsibility vs. the Obama record. Obama made promises, and on every promise in which he's actually delivered, things have gotten worse instead of better. He said if we get ObamaCare it'll help, but health care prices went up.
Richard Mourdock
Government
Best
Health
Better
Care
Responsibility
Made
Promises
Every
Think
Worse
Promise
Obama
Obamacare
Record
Prices
Delivered
He
Smaller
Smaller Government
Instead
Idea
Health Care
Said
Fiscal
Fiscal Responsibility
Gotten
Sell
Up
Get
Which
Help
Actually
Thing
Things
In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant.
Richard Stallman
You
Rights
Legal
Police
Lose
Own
Machines
Give
Data
Instead
Without
Legal Rights
Get
May
Store
Stored
Anything
Your
Warrant
Showing
Company
Search
Even
Server
Present
Need
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
Richard Stallman
Success
Freedom
You
Free
Other
Our
System
Some
Purpose
Computers
Developing
Instead
Development
Thus
Said
Goal
Explicitly
Then
Use
Popularity
Code
I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.
Richie Sambora
Life
Good
Great
Me
Together
Too Much
My Life
Drinking
Rehab
Too
Fine
Instead
Feel
Heading
Check
Stuff
Like
Still
Get
Just
Place
Much
Therapy
Needed
It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You'll stay fresh.
Rickie Fowler
You
Waiting
Slow
Become
Exhausted
Stay
Minute
About
More
Mentally
Tendency
Chat
Instead
Concentrate
Well
Partners
Fresh
Score
Than
Anything
Golf
While
Shot
Shots
Your
Each
Round
Harder
Playing
I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.
Ricky Jay
Age
Seven
TV
TV Show
Magic
Instead
Like
Armor
Doing
Covered
Up
Grew
Show
Cards
Playing
If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
Ricky Martin
Time
Spent
Gifted
Would
Would-Be
Sexuality
Piano
Lifetime
Piano Player
Had
Instead
Most
Quarter
Front
Manipulating
Player
I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.
Rico Love
Music
Day
Sometimes
Sit
Musical
Kid
All Day
Kind
Would
Nerd
Outside
Instead
Like
Up
Going
Behind
Heavy
Want
Really
Watch
Why still be pretty and all that when there's so many girly female rappers already? You can be a rock star instead.
Rico Nasty
You
Rappers
Pretty
Girly
Instead
Female
Rock
Still
Rock Star
Many
Star
Why
I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.
Rila Fukushima
Job
First
Become
Interview
Guess
Instead
Fell
Sort
Becoming
Up
Model
Ended
Wanted
Agency
Agent
Actually
Suggesting
I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.
Rip Taylor
Broke
Instead
Supposed
Shoulder
Show
Tonight
Tonight Show
Be it 'Jhalak,' 'Dance India Dance' or 'Nach Baliye,' I give all the credit to Ekta Kapoor as, just because of her, I am here. She has an eye to identify the real talent. Instead, I would say she knows how to make things work for her. She is not simply called the queen of Indian Television: she is the tigress of TV, I would say.
Rithvik Dhanjani
Work
Queen
Dance
Say
Television
Eye
TV
Would
India
Indian
Give
Simply
Instead
Talent
Identify
She
Make
Knows
Because
How
Am
Real
Just
Just Because
Credit
Her
Things
Here
If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.
Rob Dyrdek
Crazy
School
Parents
Dancing
Pants
Kid
Could
Never
Instead
Learn
Learned
Around
Proud
How
Understood
Still
How Much
His
Very
Much
Really
Laptop
It's your human right to push back against something you disagree with. You do that by voting for that guy instead of that guy, or that lady instead of that lady.
Rob Halford
You
Disagree
Voting
Back
Something
Guy
Push
Instead
Human
Lady
Against
Your
Human Right
Right
Bacon. Let's talk about bacon. There's no meat more glorious than bacon. You can add it to pasta instead of cheese. You can stick it in a sandwich, er... instead of cheese.
Rob Manuel
You
Cheese
Glorious
Add
Bacon
About
More
Instead
Talk
Stick
Pasta
Than
Sandwich
Meat
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