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I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the 'In Crowd.' I was one of the cooler kids.
Didi Conn
Me
Think
Kids
Crowd
Pink
Being
Lady
Meant
Cooler
I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be in that world. But I also understood that being a touring musician meant that you'd be gone a lot and that was going to make other things a lot harder, like having a family.
Domino Kirke
Family
You
Age
World
Young
Gone
Other
Musician
Having
Touring
Knew
Like
Also
Make
Understood
Lot
Very
Going
Young Age
Being
Wanted
Meant
Harder
Things
I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.
Don Ameche
Picture
Ensemble
Recognition
More
Only
Lifetime
Vein
Nominated
Because
Accepted
Surprised
Certain
Meant
Standpoint
Award
Cocoon
Now
Oscar
When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.
Don Drysdale
World
Something
Checks
Screw
Taxes
Meant
Your
Series
Now
Played
World Series
When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.
Don McCullin
You
Please
Out
Shame
Take
Particularly
Talk
Message
Scream
Meant
Portrait
Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.
Donna Rice
People
World
Opportunity
Job
Carolina
Marrying
Glamour
Town
Returning
South
Normal
South Carolina
Normal People
Normal Person
Person
Getting
Wanted
Meant
As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.
Doug Ducey
Better
Cold
Ways
Would
Something
Better Ways
Concept
Doing
Stone
Which
CEO
Then
Meant
Used
Search
Found
I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Doug Harvey
God
Best
Home
Me
People
White
Other
Earth
Way
Between
Like
Lines
Umpire
Any
Done
Just
Any Other Way
Where
Want
Ask
Working
Meant
Fortunate
Home Plate
Plate
Found
Belong
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
Dwight Yoakam
Music
Validity
Minimalist
Classic
Clean
Reaffirm
Meant
Honest
I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
Eddie Huang
Law
School
Law School
Attorney
Go
Meant
Meant To Be
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
Eddie Van Halen
You
Boom
Exactly
Exactly What
Recorder
Had
He
Instead
Know
Knows
Tape
Beethoven
Tape Recorder
Maybe
Then
Meant
Who
Imagine
When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
Edmund Morgan
You
Equality
Independence
Country
Virginia
Out
Must
Carter
Ringing
Steal
He
Freed
Support
Days
Read
His
Diary
Affirmation
Wondered
Send
Confided
Owner
After
Whether
Declaration
Them
Meant
Plantation
Slaves
Two
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
Edward Hirsch
Great
Me
Great Deal
Come
Deal
Always
Chicago
Midwest
Landscape
Meant
Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.
Edwin Starr
Time
Cause
Made
Enough
Enough Time
Only
Had
Had Enough
Volunteered
Missiles
Cuban
Years
Canal
Done
Which
Meant
Who
Extended
Extension
Kennedy
Draft
Two
I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.
Elana Meyers
Time
Sports
Age
Care
Thought
Softball
Nine
Summer
Variety
Like
Know
Sport
Track
Up
Going
Just
Wanted
Grew
Decided
Soccer
Warm
Might
Really
Meant
Growing
Growing Up
Played
Olympian
Playing
Basketball
Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Property
Our
Emancipation
Shall
Take
Simply
Feet
Cease
Off
Human
Human Beings
Held
Should
Meant
Beings
Henceforth
Treated
Necks
Slaves
With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.
Elizabeth Berg
Army
Compassion
Emerged
About
Only
Write
Goods
Brat
Durable
Being
Story
Meant
Expression
Need
I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.
Elizabeth Smart
Rain
Grateful
Kidnapped
Something
Drink
Had
Because
Meant
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers.
Elizabeth Warren
Broken
Single
Market
Consolidating
Voice
Could
Consumer
Consumers
Had
Ineffective
Sure
Making
Bloated
Effectively
Information
Agencies
Agency
Act
Meant
Use
Regulations
Credit
Right
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Before
Goddess
Every
Destined
Prom
Collecting
Date
Sacrifices
Football
Football Team
Town
Excursion
Like
Accepting
Boy
Going
Romantic
Meant
Team
Captain
Saturday
Saturday Night
Competing
Night
My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too loaded. When I first read the term, it meant natural, unprocessed. Now it doesn't mean that at all. It means diet. It means fad.
Ella Woodward
Natural
Problem
Complicated
Word
First
Become
Too
Clean
Fad
Term
Read
Diet
Mean
Means
Meant
Now
Loaded
One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small 'under-five' role I did on 'The Young and the Restless.' I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.
Emayatzy Corinealdi
Mom
Me
Heart
Young
Think
Favorite
Restless
All-Time
About
Small
Simply
Because
Close
Role
Roles
Did
Hold
Soap
Much
Really
Episodes
Meant
Four
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
Emilia Fox
Great
Teenage
Teenage Years
Fred
Only
Only Child
Had
Along
Around
Came
Years
Child
Lovely
Little
Then
Meant
Present
When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.
Emily V. Gordon
Happiness
Needs
Wise
Thought
Young
Else
Independent
Relying
Sacrificing
Well
Well-Being
Feminist
Being
Anyone
Anyone Else
Meant
Your
Less
Even
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
Emma Donoghue
You
Happy
Unhappy
Writer
Said
Lot
Very
Get
Childhood
Just
Happy Childhood
Meant
Lets
But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.
Emma Watson
Sometimes
Constrained
Idea
Felt
Little
Meant
Meant To Be
Who
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