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There was no professional basketball for me in the United States when I was in grade school and middle school. I could look to the Olympics and college basketball, but that was only on TV for the Final Four.
Sue Bird
Me
School
College
Final
States
TV
Only
Could
Look
Grade
Grade School
Middle
Middle School
Professional
United
United States
Four
Basketball
Olympics
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
Sufjan Stevens
Religion
Parents
Islam
Kind
Eastern
Born
Spiritualism
Indonesia
Sort
Ties
Came
Cult
Were
Middle
Middle Eastern
I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Seen
Beginning
End
Middle
Want
Fights
Plays
I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.
Suresh Raina
Family
Class
Will
Class Family
Able
Gel
Date
Never
Accept
Model
Middle
Middle Class
Us
Actor
Actress
Her
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.
Susan Bysiewicz
Class
Frustration
Sense
Sympathy
Has-Been
Brought
Economic
Absolutely
No-One
Calamity
Ideas
Occupy
Been
Lot
Accountable
Wall
Wall Street
Middle
Movement
Middle Class
Held
Agree
Street
I want to help the middle class.
Susan Collins
Class
Middle
Want
Middle Class
Help
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
Susan George
Class
Rich
Between
Over
Opening
Always
Accompanied
Erosion
Middle
Middle Class
Happening
Process
Place
Poor
Gap
Wider
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
Susan George
Time
Waiting
Wait
Will
Job
Long
Long Time
Other
Something
Developed
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Got
Australia
Very
Very Long Time
Middle
Europe
I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it.
Susanna Fogel
Love
People
Writing
Comedy
Action
Too
Find
Silly
Something
Joking
Generally
Feel
Genre
Because
Least
Just
Currently
Middle
Movies
Low
Stakes
Action Movies
Compelled
Slapstick
In the middle of the 20th century, aspirations to sound 'proper' were passionately pursued. Dictionaries as late as the Seventies include many pronunciations that could cut the proverbial glass.
Susie Dent
Late
Seventies
Proper
Could
Pursued
Glass
Sound
Passionately
Proverbial
Were
Dictionaries
Middle
Century
Cut
Aspirations
Many
Include
Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.
Suzan-Lori Parks
You
Difficult
Playwright
Further
Kind
Magic
More
Road
Know
Knows
Lord
Get
Gets
Any
Middle
Being
Race
Working
Mojo
You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook.
Suzanne Fields
You
East
Find
Israel
Still
Middle
Middle East
Map
Palestinian
From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise.
Suzanne Somers
Health
Age
Training
Building
Control
Nothing
Way
Vital
More
Only
Weight
Mass
Lean
Exercise
Than
Middle
Middle Age
Happens
Your
Muscle
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
Sylvia Earle
Long
Before
Fishing
End
Commercial
Middle
Predicted
Century
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
Sylvia Earle
Time
History
Ocean
Lost
Has-Been
About
More
Since
Learnt
Been
Than
Same
Human
Same Time
Middle
Century
Human History
I never saw my career as a journey with a beginning, middle, and end, with high points and low points. It is just a whole, big mass of experience, and I take each experience as it comes. I don't strategise.
Tabu
Journey
Experience
Big
Beginning
Saw
High
Take
Points
Never
Mass
End
Just
Middle
Low
Whole
Each
Career
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
Tadashi Yanai
Class
People
Opportunity
Will
Half
Big
Become
One-Third
Only
Least
Big Opportunity
Maybe
Middle
Middle Class
Japan
Asia
Japanese
Businessmen
Nearly
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
Tahl Raz
Management
World
Suited
Wild
Wild West
More
Entrepreneurial
West
Than
Middle
Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
Tananarive Due
History
Rights
Age
Strong
Free
Sense
Civil
Strong Sense
Civil Rights
Inspired
Make
Passage
Began
Very
Middle
Story
Racial
Us
Roots
Activists
Consciousness
Raised
Alex
No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
Ted Deutch
East
No-One
Iran
Role
American
Middle
Influence
Middle East
Disputes
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Ted Nugent
Life
Attitude
Guitar
My Life
Fire
Every
Gibson
Classic
Classic Rock
Spirit
Finger
Parks
Because
Rock
Am
Waking
Revisit
Middle
Rosa
Rosa Parks
Moment
The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
Ted Strickland
Today
Class
Strong
Industry
America
Auto
Auto Industry
Middle
Ohio
Middle Class
Standing
I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
Ted Yoho
Money
Country
Willing
Eastern
Troops
Another
American
Commit
Middle
Anymore
Middle Eastern
Taxpayers
American Taxpayers
Ground
American Troops
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.
Teena Marie
Beautiful
Music
Passion
Wake Up
Melody
Out
Run
Dream
Piano
Head
Beautiful Thing
Still
Wake
Up
Middle
Which
Thing
Night
I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.
Terry Hayes
Character
Father
Made
Way
East
Would
Horrific
Shape
He
Stuff
Read
Boy
Built
His
Lot
Accounts
Die
Middle
Middle East
Which
Traveled
Beliefs
Watched
Nightmares
Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.
Terry Teachout
Life
Good
Age
Generation
Culture
Parents
Few
Own
Everything
Boomers
Easier
Embraced
Struck
Point
Could
Point Of View
Adult
Make
How
Cultural
Surprisingly
Wonder
Did
Any
Middle
Middle Age
Children
Us
View
Certainly
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