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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
Jerry Spinelli
War
Battle
Writing
College
Civil
Civil War
Major
Liked
Offer
Famous
Gettysburg
Where
English
Fought
I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
Jerry Spinelli
Me
Age
Women
Old
Reading
Think
Months
Pretty
Seems
Writer
Writers
League
Major
Major League
Major League Baseball
Most
Goofy
Read
Readers
Were
Lot
Wanted
Little
Much
Baseball
Baseball Player
Profile
Player
White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.
Jess Row
Daily
People
White
Think
About
Having
Color
Factor
Major
Histories
Families
Option
American
Deciding
Race
Daily Basis
Lives
Basis
I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.
Jesse Eisenberg
Time
Nature
Me
Losing
Before
Every
Think
Every Time
City
Critics
About
Had
Major
Nomination
Because
Makes
How
How Much
Hear
Been
Realize
Much
Award
Awards
Aware
With athletics, you put all that training in for only two major championships a year and the Olympics every four years. So when you get on top of the podium, it is relief and excitement and... Oh! it has all been worthwhile... the hard work, the sacrifices.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Work
Hard Work
You
Training
Year
Every
Top
Relief
Worthwhile
Athletics
Podium
Only
Sacrifices
Put
Excitement
Major
Been
Years
Get
Oh
Hard
Four
Championships
Two
Olympics
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
Jessica Livingston
Me
Difficult
Would
Finding
Computer
Major
Know
Been
Any
English
English Major
Technical
Programmers
I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.
Jessica Williams
Daily
School
Never
Major
Particular
Got
Semester
Officially
Wanted
Screenwriting
Show
Away
Daily Show
Started
Starting
I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
Jidenna
Art
Engineering
Ritual
Studies
Major
Sound
Ultimately
Began
Created
Electrical
Program
India is special, and its beauty absolutely humbled us. When we toured there as Major Lazer, it was mind-blowing to see our fan-base.
Jillionaire
Beauty
Mind-Blowing
Our
India
See
Absolutely
Toured
Major
Us
Special
Humbled
Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.
Jillionaire
Future
History
Culture
Kind
India
Some
Foot
Firmly
Feels
Major
Like
Always
Been
Us
Special
Creature
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
Jim Evans
Best
Great
You
Training
Spring
Pay
State
Back
Considered
Top
Cities
Some
Parks
Throughout
League
Major
Major League
Spring Training
Then
Teams
Traveled
Florida
Played
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson
Art
Theatre
First
Year
Stage
Design
Television
Maryland
Major
Because
Off
Interested
Planning
Started
University
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson
Remember
Black
Black And White
White
Sets
Programming
Local
Though
Color
Major
Know
Although
Sale
Encourage
Trying
Did
Difference
Convert
Working
Barely
NBC
Away
Right
Right Away
In order to build anything from factories to schools to hospitals, one must jump through a series of regulatory hoops, giving EPA veto power over any major projects.
Jim Inhofe
Giving
Power
Build
Projects
Hoops
Must
Through
Factories
Hospitals
Over
Major
Schools
Jump
Veto
Any
Order
Anything
EPA
Regulatory
Series
Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
Jim Lee
Video Games
People
Everyone
Superheroes
Major
Know
Most
Majority
Although
Reads
Comics
Video
Games
Play
How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.
Jim McKay
You
Yourself
People
Young
Define
Alike
Adult
Major
How
Issue
Young People
At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.
Jim McKelvey
Money
Three
Partner
Else
Took
Relationships
Our
Everything
Everything Else
Months
Running
Able
Weeks
Had
Major
Got
Up
Square
Get
Move
Banking
Us
Companies
Tech
Needed
I am not a major jet-setter; I am a simple man who likes to be on a good beach, have a little swim, and play beach football.
Jim Sarbh
Good
Man
Simple
Beach
Football
Major
Likes
Am
Little
Who
Swim
Play
Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.
Jim Webb
Culture
Events
Military
About
Attack
Seized
Major
Feminists
Been
Used
Bring
At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
Jimmy Smits
First
Side
Took
Minor
Major
Became
Courses
Theater
Then
Winning a major, that's what everybody wants to do, and I worked my whole life to do it. And to realize that, it's incredible.
Jimmy Walker
Life
Everybody
Incredible
Winning
Major
Wants
Realize
Worked
Whole
I was actually a communications major and had never done design.
Joanna Gaines
Design
Never
Had
Major
Done
Communications
Actually
Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.
Jocko Willink
Day
Every Day
Every
Out
Major
Balancing
Act
Figure
Coordinate
One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he'd say, 'Boss, we've got this, and that, and the other thing.' And I'd look at him and I'd say, 'Good.'
Jocko Willink
Good
Me
Problem
Other
Say
Would
Some
Direct
Boss
Guys
He
Major
Look
Major Problem
Call
Him
Got
Issue
Up
Going
Aside
Worked
Thing
Pull
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe Biden
History
Science
Political
Delaware
Major
Political Science
Graduated
Double
University
I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.
Joe Biden
World
First
Every
Leaders
Major
Names
Know
Known
Access
Continue
Them
World Leaders
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