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On this flight, my fourth spaceflight, I also became the record holder for total days in space and single longest mission.
Scott Kelly
Space
Single
Total
Record
Longest
Days
Mission
Also
Became
Holder
Flight
Fourth
Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me, and that I'm not seeing enough of, on groups of people and subcultures that are often not seen.
Sean Baker
Me
People
Focus
Seen
Enough
Statement
Seeing
Some
Like
Mission
Said
Often
Just
Stories
Interest
Communities
Groups
Marginalized
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
Sean Penn
Confidence
Somebody
Single
Intimate
Niro
Out
Had
He
Come
Like
Mission
Robert
Robert De Niro
De Niro
Because
Cultural
Up
Movie
Growing
Event
Growing Up
If I have to tell you what was and is my mission, I think UBS can be the Apple or IBM of the banking industry: companies that went from being admired to severe difficulties and to being back stronger than before.
Sergio Ermotti
You
Stronger
Before
Think
Difficulties
Back
Severe
Tell
Admired
Mission
Industry
Than
Banking
Being
Companies
Apple
I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.
Shakira
Hope
Differences
Those
Dream
Feel
Adventure
Between
Like
Mission
Talk
Cultures
Different
Different Cultures
Us
Bridge
Gaps
Now
A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
Shane Leslie
Government
Great
Fight
People
Care
Live
President
Considerable
Out
Boston
Week
Propose
Mission
Welcoming
His
German
Very
German People
America
Meaning
Worked
Body
Last
Speech
Chinmaya Mission has been a very strong part of my life since childhood. I have been associated with Chinmaya Mission since primary school days, where I was part of group singing and bhajans in the Bal Vihar classes.
Shankar Mahadevan
Life
School Days
Strong
School
My Life
Singing
Group
Has-Been
Classes
Part
Primary
Primary School
Since
Days
Mission
Been
Very
Childhood
Where
Associated
I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.
Shari Arison
Crazy
People
Words
Financial
Ensuring
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Would
Soon
Pictures
Mission
Message
Messages
Understood
Go
Existence
Role
Get
Human
Human Existence
Start
Received
Sleep
Being raised as an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Mormons, I became an Eagle scout, and after graduating high school, I went on a full-time church mission to the West Indies for 2 years.
Shay Carl
Day
School
Christ
Church
Active
Latter
Member
High
High School
Indies
Mormons
Mission
Became
Saints
West
Years
Scout
Graduating
Being
After
Full-Time
Eagle
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Raised
My new mission is, and I've said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I want the Buy America to be by small businesses, African American businesses, Latino and Asian, but in particular our African American businesses who heretofore couldn't even find the front door of government contracts.
Sheila Jackson Lee
Buy
Government
White
White House
Our
Latino
Find
Be Real
Small
Small Businesses
New
Particular
Mission
House
Said
Real
Contracts
America
American
American Businesses
Front
Front Door
African
Want
African-American
Door
Asian
Who
Businesses
Even
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
Sheldon Jackson
Teacher
Good
Be True
Prominence
Moral
Must
Would
Would-Be
Give
True
Mission
Most
Instruction
Well
His
Accomplish
Intellectual
Who
The vision is to restore Avon to an iconic beauty brand and to our leadership position in global direct selling, as well as continuing to ensure that we live up to our mission of empowering women.
Sheri McCoy
Leadership
Women
Vision
Beauty
Live
Our
Ensure
Restore
Direct
Global
Mission
Well
Empowering
Continuing
Up
Selling
Brand
Iconic
Avon
Position
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
Sherrod Brown
Finance
War
Matter
Building
Nation
Promised
Would
Would-Be
Able
Weeks
Over
Mission
Were
Nation-Building
Sales
Iraqis
Oil
Having spent almost two decades setting up and running Fortis, our mission of saving and enriching lives is an integral part of my being. Over time, this has inspired me to do more direct service and give back to society a little of what I have received in abundance.
Shivinder Mohan Singh
Service
Time
Me
Society
Setting
Saving
Back
Enriching
Our
Spent
Running
Direct
Give
Having
More
Inspired
Part
Almost
Abundance
Over
Mission
Integral
Integral Part
Up
Decades
Being
Little
Lives
Received
Two
I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in my mind when I work. There are few people who do not agree with me, but truly, I don't care. I call myself an actress with a mission.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Work
Love
Myself
Me
Love Me
People
Care
Mind
Few
Say
Mission
Most
Call
Always
Proud
Truly
Iranians
Few People
Them
Who
Agree
Actress
I can never resist Ruritanian intrigue: I was once charged with the task of offering the Estonian throne to Prince Edward. Feeling like a Dumas Musketeer on a mission, I did so, but he turned it down.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Feeling
Down
Once
Intrigue
Charged
Throne
Never
He
Like
Prince
Mission
Edward
Offering
Task
Did
Turned
Resist
'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally. Yet he embraced the imperial mission of the Russian people.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Son
People
Become
Once
Embraced
Russian
Russian People
Remained
Imperial
He
Mission
Said
Truly
Georgian
Dictator
Stalin
Used
Daddy
Actually
Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.
Stacy Schiff
Love
Politics
Remember
Political
Matter
Power
Country
About
Cleopatra
Mission
Which
Her
Two
Save
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Stephen Covey
Family
You
Statement
Criterion
Purpose
Mission
Make
Which
Decisions
Then
Use
Your
Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and have zero name recognition.
Stephen Karam
Leadership
Sole
Recognition
Out
Writers
Name
Mission
House
Just
Theater
Todd
Created
Who
Whose
Zero
Starting
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
Stephen Malkmus
Desperate
Chart
Write
Stuff
Mission
Compatible
I'm very much looking forward to relentlessly focusing on ensuring an excellent guest experience, removing unnecessary complexity from our operations, championing innovation, and pursuing our mission of making better food accessible to more people.
Steve Ells
Food
Experience
Innovation
People
Better
Looking
Our
Guest
Ensuring
Relentlessly
Complexity
Focusing
Unnecessary
More
More People
Excellent
Pursuing
Mission
Removing
Looking Forward
Operations
Accessible
Making
Very
Much
Forward
Championing
Mission Control in Houston receives our e-mails through a satellite and then sends them out to our family and friends. Likewise, any e-mails written to us go through the Mission Control, and then they send them up to us via a satellite.
Sunita Williams
Family
Control
Our
Out
Through
Written
Mission
Likewise
Houston
Go
Up
Friends
Family And Friends
Send
Sends
Via
Any
Them
Then
Us
Satellite
Receives
When you are thinking about going away for a long duration mission, it has to be part of your mindset that you're leaving your family, but it's for the right reasons, for good reasons, and hopefully helping humanity.
Sunita Williams
Good
Family
You
Humanity
Long
Thinking
Right Reasons
Mindset
Hopefully
About
Part
Mission
Leaving
Duration
Going
Going Away
Your
Reasons
Helping
Away
Right
My first mission was six and a half months. We weren't exactly sure how long it was going to be because I went up and back on the space shuttle, which was dependent on weather for launch and landing.
Sunita Williams
Space
Weather
Long
First
Half
Back
Months
Launch
Exactly
Mission
Sure
Because
How
Were
Up
Going
Six
Dependent
Space Shuttle
Which
Landing
Shuttle
Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.
Sunita Williams
You
Once
Way
Focused
Exciting
Mission
Got
Get
Spacecraft
Really
Your
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