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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Relationship
You
People
Matter
King
Country
Broke
Respond
Cited
Out
Response
Riots
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Fact
Inspiration
Between
Know
Housing
Nonviolence
After
Interesting
Act
Large
Actual
Dr
Violence
Luther
I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Struggle
People
Black
Country
White
Distance
Kind
Allies
Ally
Know
Sure
Understand
Am
Ultimately
Exists
America
Any
Much
Large
Need
There are lots of people building the next TransferWise, not in a sense of competing with us but in a sense of building large, successful companies that are doing something important. I just enjoy helping these founders navigate the journey.
Taavet Hinrikus
Journey
People
Important
Building
Sense
Enjoy
Something
Doing
Lots
Just
Us
Successful
Next
Companies
Large
Navigate
Helping
Founders
Competing
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
Talcott Parsons
Knowledge
Matter
Other
Changes
Reciprocal
System
Has-Been
Insights
Investigation
Factual
Part
Hypothesis
Put
Development
New
Tested
Been
Hand
Subsequent
May
Interaction
Theoretical
Forward
Large
Large Part
What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.
Talib Kweli
You
People
Money
Care
Corny
Corporate
Telling
About
Someone
More
Part
How
Hip-Hop
How Much
Hear
Condescending
Than
dont Care
Which
Poor
Poor People
Much
Radio
Large
Large Part
Basically
It's nice to be part of a film that will be watched by a large audience.
Tamannaah
Will
Nice
Part
Audience
Large
Large Audience
Film
Watched
I love any type of cheese, preferably on a large board with a glass of Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Tamzin Outhwaite
Love
Cheese
Type
Glass
Any
Board
Large
! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
Tan Le
Mathematics
Science
Creativity
Computer Science
Biology
Medicine
Statistics
Mining
Data
Computer
Want
Public
Across
Researchers
Large
Leverage
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
Taye Diggs
Positive
Best
Me
Man
Strong
Ensemble
Best Man
Cast
Fact
Combined
New
Concerned
Lot
American
York
New York
African
Being
African Americans
As Far As
Far
Turned
Shot
Really
Large
Images
The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
Taylor Dayne
Time
Good
Family
You
Men
Good Time
See
Deterioration
Guy
Point
Development
Were
Going
Just
Them
Show
Large
Whole
Each
Film
Career
I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
Taylor Hanson
Me
People
Anxiety
Before
Think
Say
Bit
Would
Rises
Small
Claustrophobic
Crowds
Never
Know
Huge
Irrational
Spaces
Little
Mean
Little Bit
Large
Groups
Large Groups
California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
Ted Danson
World
Responsible
Shark
Over
Come
California
Trading
Selling
Large
Large Amounts
Amount
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
Ted Stevens
Women
Men
Gender
National
Think
Defense
Defense Budget
Support
Budget
Force
National Defense
Expenditures
Modernize
Really
Who
Large
Many
Gap
Now
Necessary
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
Ted Turner
Work
Future
Best
You
Humanity
Money
Thought
Made
Earned
Back
Spend
Sums
Television
Some
Could
Cable
Investment
Put
Making
Lot
Really
Large
Satellite
Large Sums
Thing
Things
Buying
I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.
Terence Winter
Long
Sit
Down
Films
Television
Out
Percent
More
Feature
Feature Films
Long Shot
Come
Look
Years
Happening
Interesting
Storytelling
Them
Shot
Large
Million
Things
Watch
Million Years
Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
Time
Country
Chunks
Spent
Though
Neil
Andrew
John
Maine
Over
Since
Likes
Call
Edward
Itself
Office
America
Artists
Century
Large
Many
Painters
Including
Porter
Alex
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.
Theodor Herzl
Law
First
Assured
Our
Object
Over
Obtaining
Globe
Sovereignty
Just
Requirements
International
Large
International Law
Satisfy
Portion
Sufficiently
Since young people would much rather play fast-action, rapidly advancing video games, and gambling laws for slot machines and roulette tables haven't changed much since the 1950s, look for casinos to build large video game tournament centers and allow people to bet on the action, similar to betting on college basketball.
Thomas Frey
Video Games
Game
People
College
Build
Young
Action
Changed
Machines
Rapidly
Would
Slot
Tables
Bet
Similar
Laws
Rather
Allow
Tournament
Advancing
Betting
Since
Look
Centers
Young People
Video
Video Game
Much
Gambling
Games
Large
Roulette
Play
Basketball
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
Thomas Heatherwick
Work
People
Build
Down
Finally
Scale
Structures
Always
Am
Getting
Preconceptions
Human
Just
Break
Sculptures
Large
Designs
Chance
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.
Thomas Pogge
Problem
World
Year
Every
Tremendously
One-Third
About
Trivial
Attention
Nobody
Namely
Stunning
Causes
Deaths
Diseases
Human
Really
Paying
Large
Thing
Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.
Thomas Woods
Oppression
Free
Exploitation
Free Trade
Prosperous
Globalization
Instruments
Protests
Trade
Occur
West
Mobility
Denounce
Against
Public
Capital
Large
I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.
Tim Rice
Sunk
Religious
Enthusiastic
Schools
Large
I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
Tim Robbins
Dangerous
Society
Consider
Kids
Potentially
Detrimental
Used
Large
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
Timothy Geithner
Today
Achievement
Challenges
Quality
Nation
Savings
Our
Resources
High
Favorites
About
Rising
Economic
Facing
Pick
Economic Policy
Between
Major
Household
Concerns
Policy
Inequality
Insurance
Educational
Commitments
Suspects
Public
Social
Low
Your
Large
Usual
Income
Income Inequality
Monetary
Among
Monetary Policy
With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.
Timothy Hutton
Day
Every Day
Speak
Fighting
Every
Everything
Guiding
Kidnapped
About
Seem
Seemed
Had
Sure
Hand
Committee
Show
Large
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.
Timothy Noah
Time
Long
Joke
Long Time
Become
Politicians
Inordinately
Takes
Pathetic
Egos
Them
Large
Grasp
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