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Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.
Al Jourgensen
People
Water
Matter
Drinking
Building
Brazil
Live
President
System
Obama
Pretty
Something
Structures
Clean
Drinking Water
Absolutely
Roads
Well
Make
Does
Where
While
Barbados
Turkey
Flawed
Might
Olympic
Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.
Alain de Botton
Needs
Will
Our
Alive
Advertising
Real
Offer
Quite
Often
Just
Them
Might
Us
Products
Help
Satisfy
Things
The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'
Alain de Botton
Art
You
Heart
Some
Something
More
Tends
Empathetic
Idea
Perform
Cheer
Instrumental
Make
Contend
Pill
Cultural
Off
Up
Person
Egocentric
Might
Asked
Use
Who
Reasons
Function
Specific
Alarm
Bells
Elite
Set
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
Alan Alda
Life
Love
You
Age
Dinner
Long
Picture
Half
Think
Everybody
Our
Possible
Dinner Table
Table
About
More
Life Span
Half Years
Read
How
Am
Years
Any
Span
Might
Average
Ask
Us
Species
Million
Million Years
Last
Two
I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.
Alan Alda
People
Better
Become
Think
Our
Once
Easier
Like
Most
Understand
Interested
Might
Origins
Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
Alan Cheuse
Life
Reading
Live
Other
Books
Those
Part
Picked
Up
Itself
Any
Might
Us
Much
Lived
Lives
I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make them more comfortable to watch.
Alan Colmes
Judge
Words
Black
Black And White
Conviction
White
Think
Conservatives
Air
Liberals
Say
See
More
Gives
Tend
Make
Comfortable
How
Effectiveness
Often
Them
Might
Certainty
Many
Nuances
Things
Watch
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
Alan Dundes
Believe
Unless
Neither
Folklore
Something
Come
Piece
Audience
Nor
Articulate
Might
Meaning
Means
Transmitted
Speaker
Even
The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.
Alan Furst
Funny
Time
People
Live
Months
No Time
Knew
Attracted
Another
Were
Time People
Six
Might
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
Alan J. Pakula
Work
Nature
Communication
Will
Important
Own
Think
Finally
Those
Give
My Own
Oblique
Take
Simplistic
Like
Well
Terribly
Because
Audience
Does
Am
Lot
Texture
Get
Trying
Just
Which
Might
Many
Many Levels
Film
Things
Levels
I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.
Alan Lewis
Sometimes
Mind
Own
Every
Penalties
Penalty
Give
Potential
Could
Crucial
Importance
Match
Material
Question
Wanted
Might
Your
Choosing
Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.
Alan Moore
You
Impossible
Fly
Example
Believe
Project
Flying
Would
Able
Magic
Vivid
Could
Simulation
For Example
Around
How
Yeah
Yes
Very
Get
Done
Might
Using
Works
Consciousness
Gravity
I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure I could leave them out. I know how it feels.
Alan Smith
Love
You
Too
Out
Could
Emotional
Feels
Know
Sure
How
Leave
Manager
Them
Might
Your
Players
One week you may be an actor, and the next week you had to be nimble enough to be a TV host. And the week after that, you might have to do some stand-up or be in an improv company or write and sing a song somewhere.
Alan Thicke
You
Song
Somewhere
Enough
Nimble
TV
Some
Week
Write
Host
Had
Sing
Improv
May
After
Might
Next
Company
Actor
I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.
Alanis Morissette
Field
About
Shame
Feel
Continue
Going
Human
Just
Being
Being Human
Might
Really
Transparent
Keep
Keep Going
Compelled
Levels
Playing
Playing Field
If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.
Alastair Cook
You
Will
Criticism
Lost
Way
Say
Critics
See
Potential
Take
Come
Like
Sport
Matches
Hear
Which
Might
Your
Professional
Media
Things
Played
Like everyone else, I read newspapers and 'New Scientist' and try to put my finger on the trends which we can just see emerging now that are accelerating and might take off.
Alastair Reynolds
Try
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Trends
See
Finger
Emerging
Take
Put
New
Like
Accelerate
Read
Scientist
Off
Just
Which
Might
Newspapers
Now
What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or theme in mind, but just because you never know what might be useful or interesting in the long run. I much prefer to just absorb a lot of stuff and let the old unconscious chew down on it over time.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
You
Old
Mind
Long
Year
Down
Run
Throughout
Long Run
Never
Unconscious
Absorb
Simply
Stuff
Over
Particular
Know
Read
Because
Chew
Lot
Just
Just Because
Story
Interesting
Prefer
Might
Theme
Much
Useful
Works
No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Try
Degree
Think
Find
Spin
No Idea
Something
No Reason
Take
Idea
New
Discarded
Does
Got
Story
Might
Ingenuity
Should
Reason
Chops
Eve
Adam
Adam And Eve
Imagine
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
Albert Claude
Failure
Relative
Destroyed
Constituents
Brutality
Attempt
Had
Employed
Isolate
Been
Did
Cell
Happen
Might
Technique
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
Albert Claude
Work
Death
Me
Appreciation
Mother
Long
Physician
Medicine
Respected
Tormented
Case
Study
His
Tragedy
Familiarity
Experienced
Influenced
Wanting
Might
Agony
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
Albert J. Nock
Nature
Spiritual
Man
Soul
Thought
Before
Assuming
Appropriate
Distinct
Unnatural
Knowing
Without
Does
His
Conditions
Die
Might
Should
Body
Why
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
Albert J. Nock
Life
Failure
Parents
Saw
Indeed
Somehow
Seemed
Never
Over
Supposed
Trace
Cheerfulness
Discontent
Were
Lot
Quite
Lack
Anything
Poor
Might
Needed
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.
Albert Oehlen
Beautiful
Good
You
Word
Seen
Say
Says
Wow
Someone
Never
Like
Mess
Makes
Front
Just
Anything
Might
Stands
Paintings
Why
Why Not
Right
I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.
Alec Baldwin
Home
You
Stay
Dart
Could
Throw
Take
Well
Make
Always
Where
Wanted
Movies
Might
Show
Map
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.
Aleqa Hammond
Environmental
Will
Summer
High
Risk
Arctic
Put
Pole
Come
Disasters
Years
Itself
Very
North
North Pole
Might
Sea
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