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I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis
First
Before
Gone
Hundred
Hundred Times
Would
Split
Had
Knew
Perhaps
Look
Without
Rock
Hammering
Times
Crack
Did
Blow
Much
Showing
Away
Two
Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.
Jacob Weisberg
Congress
Too
Secret
Unlike
Objection
About
Knew
Policy
Cheney
Up
America
Just
Ordered
Happening
Informed
Public
Japanese
Served
Internment
Raised
I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.
Jacob Whitesides
Good
Me
Creativity
Guitar
School
Fans
Social Media
Focus
Parents
Draining
Gave
Both
Both My Parents
Knew
Supported
Doing
Any
Getting
Being
Place
Public
Social
Really
Public School
Media
Thing
Started
Chance
When all these huge offers start coming in, people see dollar signs. People see fame. I just knew that it was a lie. Unless you really hit it off in radio right away - a lot of my friends didn't, and they were getting put in so many horrible positions where they were getting stuck. They weren't even allowed to release music.
Jacob Whitesides
Music
You
Lie
People
Signs
Positions
Unless
Release
See
Horrible
Stuck
Allowed
Put
Knew
Coming
Were
Dollar
Lot
Off
Huge
Fame
Friends
Hit
Offers
Getting
Just
Where
Really
Radio
Many
Even
Away
Right
Right Away
Start
I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.
Jacqueline Emerson
Though
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Wanted
Hard
Professional
I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.
Jacqueline Emerson
Opportunity
Believe
Background
Hunger
Hunger Games
Would
Dreamed
Give
Only
Previous
Had
Knew
Sure
Always
Audition
Itself
Screen
Theater
Mean
Acting
Games
Ever
Present
My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.
Jacqueline Woodson
Home
Mom
Strict
Wrong Thing
Run
Religious
Could
Had
Allowed
Knew
Wrong
Were
Very
Thing
I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.
Jake Arrieta
You
Trust
Black
Kind
Ability
Throw
Knew
Ball
How
How Much
Doing
Were
Off
End
Up
Pitches
Where
Moves
Far
Much
Next
Next Level
Plate
Even
Level
My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.'
Jake Johnson
Me
You
Heart
Girl
Big
Saw
Paper
Strings
Easier
Attached
Knew
New
Liked
She
Because
Big Break
Said
Gotta
Audition
Get
Max
Want
Movie
Break
Then
Really
Ceremony
Her
Liz
I've probably spent a good year and half of my life watching movies. I love it. It was something I knew I'd be happy doing.
Jake McLaughlin
Life
Love
Good
Be Happy
Happy
My Life
Half
Year
Spent
Something
Knew
Doing
Movies
Watching
I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A.
Jake Paul
Good
Parents
Live
Hesitate
Way
Right Way
Kids
Able
Knew
Because
Am
Caught
Go
Up
Get
To Live By
Themselves
Us
Really
Lucky
Let Us
Right
Raised
I started on Vine because it was such an engaging platform that was the most popular at the time. It came natural to me, and I understood the type of content I needed to make on it so that people could enjoy it. I knew it was a great start, but I had to spread my wings and create something that would last forever - a career.
Jake Paul
Time
Great
Me
Natural
People
Enjoy
Type
Would
Something
Wings
Could
Had
Knew
Most
Make
Content
Because
Spread
Understood
Came
Forever
Create
Engaging
Popular
Platform
Vine
Start
Started
Last
Career
Needed
I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.
Jake Paul
Future
Social Media
Will
Believe
Stars
Percent
Both
Knew
Because
Always
Traditional
Wanted
Social
Media
Need
I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience.
Jake Peavy
Life
Family
Experience
Remember
Old
Church
My Life
Awesome
Think
Saved
Enough
Seven
All My Friends
About
Road
Knew
Understand
Lord
Years
Up
Friends
Friends And Family
Where
Wanted
Grew
Baptist
Nearly
Jesus
I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.
Jalen Rose
Me
Game
Perspective
Analyst
Would
See
Allow
Knew
New
Becoming
New Perspective
Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want to impose their fundamentalist vision. Neither cared for the core values of the Arab Spring - representative, accountable governance.
Jamal Khashoggi
Marriage
Vision
Values
Spring
Everyone
Arab
Arab Spring
Neither
He
Knew
Ideologues
Governance
Impose
Were
Accountable
Dictator
Representative
Convenience
Want
Who
Fundamentalist
Cared
Core
Core Values
I knew Saleh well, having interviewed and met with him several times. He was a professional Machiavelli, fluent in all forms for political maneuvering.
Jamal Khashoggi
Political
Met
Fluent
Machiavelli
Several
Having
He
Knew
Well
Him
Times
Forms
Professional
I suffered a lot of setbacks when I started; I didn't have any work experience and no real confidence to go after the career that I knew in the back of my mind I really wanted. It affected my confidence as knock-back after knock-back left me feeling like I might never succeed.
Jameela Jamil
Work
Me
Confidence
Experience
Mind
Feeling
Back
Never
Knew
Like
Real
Go
Affected
Lot
Left
Any
Wanted
After
Succeed
Might
Really
Suffered
Started
Career
Setbacks
When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.
James Belushi
Smile
Beautiful
Great
Spiritual
You
Sadness
Collective
Face
Somewhere
Power
Drop
Our
Gifted
Would
Inside
About
Small
Higher
Higher Power
Head
Knew
Sing
Course
Felt
Houston
Tilt
Loss
Up
Died
Listened
Across
Body
Your
Your Body
Whitney
Whitney Houston
Chair
Creep
I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something.
James Charles
Love
Business
Seriously
Accident
Once
Bit
Something
More
Could
Knew
Taking
Fell
Makeup
Always
Huge
Little
Little Bit
Turn
Realized
Found
Actually
Started
In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'
James Comey
You
Law
School
Year
White
Teammates
Guess
Focused
Law School
Only
Park
Winning
He
Knew
True
League
Sure
Became
Tall
Were
Integrated
Integration
Jump
Which
Height
Much
Teach
Player
Second
Basketball
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.
James D. Watson
Character
Will
Superior
Young
Sense
Assume
Honestly
Ways
Promise
Tells
Would
Find
Give
Seizing
Could
Knew
Couples
How
Scientists
Greatly
Improve
Offspring
Human
Common
Stopping
Common Sense
Happily
Public
Capabilities
Them
Decline
Us
Should
Why
And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.
James Denton
Funny
Made
Hilarious
Something
Could
Onto
He
Knew
Course
Makes
Cherry
Up
Did
Thankfully
Heightens
Themes
Show
Many
Keep
Marc
Universal
My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
James Denton
Business
Together
People
Amazing
Parents
No Business
Had
Knew
Were
Amazing People
Being
Who
Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
James Donald
Myself
Remember
Otherwise
Back
Claim
Though
Something
Knew
Most
Wrote
Terrible
Left
Happening
Them
Then
Vietnam
Now
Among
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
James Fenton
Age
Poet
Knew
Nobody
Knows
Whether
Interested
Really
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