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I support my team-mates wherever they need it, and if someone else plays instead of me, I'm fully behind him.
Vincent Janssen
Me
Else
Someone
Instead
Support
Him
Behind
Wherever
Fully
Need
Plays
After a performance, I met the man who would later be my acting coach who helped me get into my acting conservatory. It was apparent to me that there were many others who were in support of me becoming an actor and making a name for myself. I am forever grateful to those teachers and mentors who instead of saying, 'Why you?' said, 'Why not you?'
Vincent Rodriguez III
Saying
Myself
Me
You
Man
Grateful
Met
Others
Conservatory
Later
Those
Would
Mentors
Instead
Support
Performance
Name
Said
Becoming
Making
Am
Were
Forever
Get
After
Coach
Acting
Teachers
Apparent
Who
Helped
Many
Actor
Why
Why Not
I don't ever have any bass in my monitors at all; I instead like to lock in with the guitar. I know the bass player has got to be locked in with the drummer, but to me, metal music is about the guitar and drums locking in and operating like a machine together. I played with my brother forever, and we were magically locked in together.
Vinnie Paul
Music
Me
Together
Guitar
Bass
Bass Player
Machine
Lock
Locked
Locking
Brother
About
Instead
Like
Know
Drummer
Drums
Operating
Metal
Got
Were
Forever
Any
Ever
Played
Player
So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.
Virginia Foxx
World
Would
Embryonic
Embryonic Stem Cells
Stem
Adult
Adult Stem Cells
Stem Cells
Instead
Support
Failed
Know
Because
Unethical
Cells
Difference
Anyone
Ethical
Successful
Use
Why
You can write anything that you would be able to write on a server and put it onto the blockchain. Instead of Javascript making calls to the server, you would be making calls to the blockchain.
Vitalik Buterin
You
Blockchain
Would
Would-Be
Able
Onto
Write
Put
Instead
Calls
Making
Anything
Server
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
Vitruvius
Able
Shadow
Architect
Adopt
He
Instead
Mere
Fails
Also
Practical
Substance
Wherefore
Forms
Reasons
Grasping
Assign
Sufficient
I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.
Vivek Wadhwa
Health
Journey
You
Destination
Building
Focused
About
Instead
Obsession
Caution
Same
Forgot
Used
Businesses
Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.
Vivica A. Fox
Women
Rage
Out
Embracing
Glad
Instead
Putting
Pasture
America
Get
Hollywood
Us
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire
Angel
Controlling
Destroy
Seeks
Instead
Passions
Trying
Anyone
Them
Who
Play
I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
Vonda Shepard
Become
Mime
Could
Instead
Singer-Songwriter
Became
Juggler
Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.
W. Bruce Cameron
Dog
Problem
Worms
Would
Fine
Seem
Small
Throw
Instead
Like
Perhaps
Look
Without
Yarn
Pillows
Just
Little
Function
St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Three
Calm
Cloud
Meet
Broad
Valleys
High
City
Lies
Atmosphere
Rivers
Instead
Over
Louis
St. Louis
Where
Stories
Mighty
Illinois
Wide
Streets
Wider
Two
Philadelphia
In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our communities from the criminal element.
W. Kamau Bell
Police
White
Community
Criminal
Our
Color
Instead
Feels
Like
Protecting
Ferguson
Often
Us
Communities
Element
I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce.
W. Kamau Bell
Happy
People
Better
Joke
Carlin
Way
Easy
Bruce
Onstage
Write
Instead
Well
Make
Although
Makes
Reparations
Go
George
George Carlin
Very
Than
Just
Want
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Paid
Pays
Fun
Jeff
Ever
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
Wadah Khanfar
Spring
Radical
Satisfied
State
Top
Arab
Arab Spring
Out
Entrenched
Instead
Leaders
Pyramid
French
Inexperienced
Iranian
Replace
Did
Revolutions
Newly
Elected
Roots
Deeply
Pull
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
Wallace Shawn
Time
Sometimes
Free
More
Write
Free Time
Instead
Individuals
Talking
Lot
Than
Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
Walter Gropius
Nature
Relationship
Man
Change
Blessing
Power
Become
Tremendously
Earth
Evolved
Mutual
Instead
Surface
His
May
Curse
Grown
It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
Wanda Sykes
Myself
Jokes
First
Out
More
Put
Instead
Until
Became
Confident
Behind
Just
Forward
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
Wayne Coyne
Change
Song
Thought
Sex
Longing
Met
Pleased
Machine
Would
Instead
She
Cover
Were
Covering
Loving
Turned
Her
I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
Wayne Rogers
People
Nice
Hidden
Trick
Environment
Instead
Like
Reveal
Surprise
Question
Trying
Them
Themselves
Create
Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.
Wendy Davis
Together
Fight
People
Power
Forcing
Sit
Corners
State
Back
Instead
Leaders
Coming
Opposite
Texans
Austin
Get
Done
Want
Turn
Prepare
Washington
Keep
Things
Watch
New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It's going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world.
Wendy Long
Change
World
Financial
Think
Hong Kong
Jobs
City
London
Instead
New
Geneva
Dodd-Frank
Kong
York
Send
Going
New York
New York City
Center
Capital
Act
Keeping
Sydney
I believe in taking people away from their desks and making them feel collaborative and inspire one another instead of being siloed.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
People
Inspire
Believe
Collaborative
Instead
Taking
Feel
Another
Making
Being
Them
Away
After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Future
People
Word
Digital
Job
Down
International Relations
Relations
Incubator
Corporate
Apps
Risk
Take
Had
Knew
Investors
Instead
Safe
Accepted
Offers
Graduating
After
Turned
Create
Team
Who
International
Tech
Position
There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Alone
Relationship
You
Yourself
Pool
Nothing
Society
Back
Say
Those
OK
Out
Married
Date
Dating
Take
Step
Wrong
Instead
Taking
Over
Days
Because
Expects
Grandmother
Certain
Your
Thinks
Need
I don't know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that's a dangerous thing.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Dangerous
Behavior
Social Media
Vice Versa
Dangerous Thing
Rules
More
Networks
Instead
Leaders
Idea
Know
Becoming
Overlooked
Versa
Reflective
Vice
Social
Social Networks
Media
Why
Thing
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