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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
Margaret Atwood
Good
Writing
Every
Genre
Within
Mediocre
There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
Mario Batali
Food
Great
Croatia
Pockets
Morocco
Also
Very
Austria
Germany
Same
Spain
Mediocre
Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.
Martin Gore
Technology
People
Wonderful
Tool
Bit
Easier
Out
Ideas
Makes
Lot
Get
Crappy
Unfortunately
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Really
Used
Sword
Right
Mediocre
My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
Michael Arndt
God
Out
Screenplays
Many
Mediocre
That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.
Michael Arrington
World
Money
Job
Black
Made
Black And White
First
Nothing
White
Consider
Varied
No Point
Point
Between
Failures
Like
Venture
Felt
Real
Lot
Real Job
Did
Getting
Wanted
After
Successes
Next
Capitalists
White World
Companies
Company
Ever
Founders
Nearly
Million
Started
Mediocre
Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.
Michael Wolff
Politics
Complicated
Distinguish
Ultimately
Where
Themselves
Profession
Mediocre
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
Moby
Best
Made
Everyone
Hated
Records
Loved
Deemed
Mediocre
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.
Moby
Work
People
Musician
Part
Know
Most
Self-Indulgent
Making
Going
Interested
Body
Mediocre
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
Nancy Sinatra
Time
Good
People
Recording
Voice
Liked
Because
Material
Really
Successful
Mediocre
I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all - I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship.
Nick Hanauer
Future
Me
You
Word
Will
Met
Tolerance
Think
Sets
Intuition
Seeing
About
Guy
Risk
Entrepreneurship
Write
Student
Headed
Smartest
Essence
Where
Happen
Apart
Code
Technical
Ever
Things
Mediocre
I didn't want to come back and be mediocre; I wanted to hang in with the girls, and I wanted to prove myself every week.
Nikki Bella
Myself
Girl
Every
Back
Week
Come
Prove
Hang
Want
Wanted
Mediocre
As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
P. Sathasivam
Work
Government
Judge
Law
Lawyer
Other
Side
State
State Government
Only
Maintained
Concentrated
Practising
Becoming
Judicial
Private
Officer
After
Low
Worked
Hard
Activities
Profile
Mediocre
Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.
Pamela Druckerman
Sports
Age
Worth
Win
Will
College
Back
Worth It
He
Scholarship
League
Him
Still
Bedroom
Been
His
Debt
Ivy
Ivy League
Child
Get
Childhood
After
Happens
Might
Your
Your Child
Raise
Career
Mediocre
Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
Patricia Arquette
Business
Vision
Just Be
Financiers
Properly
Cast
Casting
Directors
Support
Making
Making Movies
Very
Artist
Just
Movie
Movie Business
Movies
Should
Used
Now
Mediocre
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Peter Greenaway
Good
Valuable
Lodged
Critics
Haughty
Ten
More
Writer
Like
Maternity
Than
Ward
Barren
Mediocre
Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.
Peter Lynch
Time
You
People
Result
Will
Some People
Big
Think
Secret
Okay
Promise
Fabulous
Some
Well
Go
Lot
Up
Stocks
Big Time
Produce
Two
Mediocre
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.
Philipp Meyer
Will
Job
Thought
Publish
Out
Would
Through
Never
Like
Halfway
Because
Coming
Huge
Very
Quit
Banking
Literary
Novel
Second
Mediocre
Carmelo Anthony should do what makes him happy - either stay with the Knicks and be mediocre, or get with a contender and help them get over the hump.
Reggie Miller
Happy
Hump
Stay
Knicks
Over
Him
Contender
Makes
Get
Either
Them
Should
Help
Mediocre
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
Robert Gottlieb
Love
Art
Long
Dancers
Run
Bad
Temporarily
Only
Long Run
Audience
Ballets
Art Form
Yes
Form
Lowering
Useful
Standards
Fun
Mediocre
It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
Samuel Goldwyn
More
Magnificent
Than
Mediocre
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Scott Caan
Good
Me
Director
Whatever
Bad
Compliment
Take
His
Movie
Wants
Mediocre
I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.
Scott Weiss
Work
Time
Best
You
Too Much
Will
Too
Settle
Too Much Time
Interview
Definitely
See
Networks
Cheap
Talent
Cultural
Ultimately
Fit
Trying
Candidates
Available
Much
Hard
Many
Waste
Founders
Mediocre
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil
Great
Human Being
Matter
Too
On The Contrary
Destroyed
Find
Seems
Misfortune
He
Taken
Individually
Sorrow
Him
Because
Always
Contrary
Precious
Human
Being
Anything
Either
Reasons
Mediocre
Suit
There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.
Stephen A. Smith
Nothing
Worse
Bunch
Than
Being
Different
Whole
Different Things
Things
Mediocre
Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.
Stephen Collins
Bit
TV
TV Shows
Develop
Parts
Acting
Your
Chops
Shows
Mediocre
Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.
Susan Decker
Properties
Sort
Yahoo
Became
Because
Does
Breadth
Unfortunately
Many
Mediocre
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