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I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.
Sandi Toksvig
Politics
Jokes
About
Take
Part
Instead
Participate
Make
Making
Decided
Therefore
Need
I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.
Sandra Bullock
Great
Man
Woman
Think
Out
Sexes
Some
Both
Point
Instead
Great Story
Like
Go
Get
Same
Just
Being
Story
Film
Enjoyment
Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Life
Time
Custody
My Life
Before
Guilty
Parent
Perfect
Schedule
Divorced
Instead
Feel
Days
Like
Although
Felt
Still
Oddly
Off
Irony
Far
Ragged
Now
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
Sara Gilbert
Wait
Projects
Find
Pretty
Only
Write
Writer
Instead
Make
Because
Trying
Want
Them
Create
Much
Really
Certain
Default
I try and avoid cardio because it makes me lose a lot of weight. Instead, I do resistance training, model fit workouts, and ballet.
Sara Sampaio
Me
Training
Try
Lose
Weight
Instead
Because
Makes
Ballet
Lot
Fit
Model
Avoid
Workouts
Cardio
Resistance
I'm very lazy when it comes to taking care of my underwear. I should hand wash it all, but I can't be bothered. So instead, I keep ruining stuff by putting it in the washing machine.
Sara Sampaio
Care
Ruining
Machine
Bothered
Lazy
Instead
Taking
Putting
Stuff
Underwear
Hand
Very
Should
Wash
Washing
Washing Machine
Keep
When I eat out, I tend to go for the things I like instead of the things I need.
Sara Sampaio
Out
Eat
Tend
Instead
Like
Go
Things
Need
I'm not a stand-up comedian by any means, but I do think it's tougher for a woman to go to that territory because it does make people go, 'Aww,' instead of laughing.
Sarah Baker
Woman
People
Think
Laughing
Tougher
Instead
Comedian
Make
Because
Territory
Does
Go
Any
Means
My dad influenced my musical taste. I grew up listening to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones and a bunch of rock music from the '60s. Now, instead of watching TV, I'll play a record from start to finish.
Sarah Hay
Music
Listening
Musical
TV
Record
Finish
Instead
Rock
Rock Music
Up
Bunch
Taste
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
Influenced
Grew
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Dad
Now
Play
Start
Watching
Watching Tv
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Sarah Palin
War
Enemy
Word
Worldview
Face
Our
Way
Out
Spin
Threat
Touch
Instead
New
Like
Terms
Operation
Contingency
Overseas
Reflects
Used
We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?
Sarah Palin
Job
Our
OK
Distort
Independents
Records
Allies
Beat
Instead
Know
Issues
Left
Republicans
Them
Far
Us
Media
Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.
Sarah Zettel
People
Enjoy
Restaurant
Favourite
One-Night
Something
Something New
Instead
New
Like
Also
Trying
Going
Sample
Fortunately
Special
Many
Usual
Night
When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing essays. I think they were at least happy I was excited about school.
Sasha Velour
Me
Happy
Writing
School
Think
Films
High
High School
About
Excited
Instead
Least
Were
Beg
Essays
Create
Used
Teachers
Plays
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
Satyajit Ray
Day
Light
Dreadful
Following
Shadows
Direct
Scenes
Studio
Instead
Mainly
Method
Cameraman
Five
Where
Which
Shot
Used
Using
Agreed
Film
Actor
Thing
Four
Second
Started
Freestyling helps me portray the emotion that I'm feeling right there instead of writing it at home and having to add to it.
Saweetie
Home
Me
Writing
Feeling
Add
Having
Emotion
Instead
Helps
Right
Portray
At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.
Scott Aukerman
Thought
Everyone
Monty
Monty Python
Kind
Something
Instead
Python
Like
Another
Doing
Go
End
Just
Different
Movie
Wanted
Show
Compared
Now
Season
Right
Four
I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.
Scott Aukerman
You
Better
Think
Kind
Instead
Like
Comedian
Reacting
Real
Doing
Person
Real Person
Happening
Moment
Rote
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
Scott Cook
Generation
Prosperity
Will
Poverty
Simply
Instead
Retire
Retirement
Because
American
Whole
Preparing
Now
New Jersey residents deserve to have their tax dollars spent on transportation and infrastructure projects right here in the Garden State instead of being wasted in Washington.
Scott Garrett
Garden
State
Projects
Spent
Instead
New
New Jersey
Dollars
Being
Tax
Tax Dollars
Infrastructure
Transportation
Washington
Deserve
Jersey
Residents
Wasted
Right
Here
Unfortunately, since its passage in 1973, the War Powers Resolution has been stripped of its original purpose and has instead served as a temporary, de facto authorization for the executive branch to use military force whenever it deems it necessary.
Scott Garrett
War
Military
Stripped
Has-Been
Temporary
Purpose
Facto
Instead
Since
Powers
Executive
Executive Branch
Force
Passage
Been
Branch
Authorization
Whenever
Unfortunately
Use
Military Force
Original
Served
Necessary
Resolution
I don't really like sweets, so that's never been a problem. Instead I'll have Kettle potato chips, which are gluten-free.
Scott Michael Foster
Problem
Potato
Never
Instead
Like
Been
Which
Chips
Really
Sweets
Kettle
Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our right as a state to control our own destiny and resist attempts by the administration to ramrod a wish list of regulations through agency heads instead of garnering approval from Congress.
Scott Pruitt
Wish
Own
Control
Congress
Other
State
Our
Air
Approval
Destiny
Battles
Administration
About
Through
Federal
Attempts
Instead
Wish List
Heads
Rogue
List
Against
EPA
Agencies
Agency
Regulation
Regulations
Zero
Right
Resist
Desire
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
Scott Stapp
Life
God
Relationship
Rebellion
Christ
My Life
Stubborn
Instead
Make
Him
Always
Making
Fit
Trying
Believed
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
Scott Walker
Government
Big
Taxpayer
Promised
Bosses
Instead
Empower
Big Government
Handful
Union
For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.
Sean Duffy
Needs
You
Will
Community
Unions
Local
Spend
Hundreds
Rules
Those
Focusing
Compliance
Some
Small
Wisconsin
Instead
New
Like
Hours
Dealing
Labor
Bureaucrat
Northern
Bank
Just
Banks
Estimated
Central
Customers
Require
Your
Union
Washington
Credit
Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential. Time might instead emerge to play an important role in the macroscopic world of our experience, even if it is nowhere to be found in the final Theory of Everything.
Sean M. Carroll
Time
Experience
Physics
World
Important
Final
Our
Everything
Emerge
Someday
Laws
Instead
Important Role
Ultimate
Discover
Role
Essential
May
Might
Notion
Theory
Grasp
Even
Found
Nowhere
Play
Actually
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