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I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me. Kiki Dee
Music Great Me History Secondary Never Failed Academic Most Particularly Surprise Were Subjects Did Modern Which Interested English Right Consequently
Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western. Kim Jee-woon
Good Saw Bad Would Would-Be Classified Could Weird Felt Korean Western Modern Which Stand Film Right Last
With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up. Kim Shaw
Relationship Man Woman Own Assume Everyone Hook Between Up Friends Modern Any Going Including
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. Kiran Desai
Living Think India Writers Does Modern Who Belong
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized. Ko Wen-je
Degree Society Civilization Civilized Higher Contact Longer Modern Modern Civilization Which Region
Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector. Kurt Busiek
Freedom People Care Took Saw Corporations See Could Had He Like Protector Least His Very Modern Little Them Much Dracula
I really feel like my story in modern day times is very similar to a biblical story: you know, somebody that nobody expected, that everybody said couldn't, and by God's grace and power, I was able to accomplish a lot. Kurt Warner
God Day You Bible Grace Somebody Power Everybody Able Similar Feel Nobody Like Know Said Accomplish Lot Very Times Expected Modern Story Modern-Day Really
Bullets are fast - even a 9-millimeter handgun launches lead at Mach 1. And the bigger the bullet gets, the more grains of gunpowder it carries, the faster it goes. Modern rifles can fling the small pieces of metal at half the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Moon. Kyle Hill
Moon Half Faster Carries Gunpowder More Small Lead Velocity Pieces Metal Bullet Bullets Handgun Escape Goes Gets Modern Grains Bigger Fling Even Fast Rifles Gravitational Needed Pull
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman. Lady Gregory
Winter School Parents Beginning Baby Drama Back Punch Tell Feast Hyde Delighted Had Put Miss Policeman Judy Irish Modern Children Curses Hold Grand Acted Show Douglas
All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience. Laeta Kalogridis
World Social Media Our Constructing Through Identities Audience Modern Modern World Social Us Media Largely Larger
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. Lafcadio Hearn
Indeed East More Poetry True Cultivated Been Than Modern Quite Short Anything Literature Forms Japanese Far Far East Europe European Found
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. Lafcadio Hearn
Respect Every Other Has-Been Rapidly Morality More Observed Wisely Greatest Been Than Modern Mankind Thinkers
I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way. Lapo Elkann
Buy Me Made Sleeves Mine Way Fold Something More Tailor Like Annoys Make Go Imposed Up Jacket Modern Often Things Need Sicilian Suit
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese. Larry Ellison
Art French Got Impressionism Modern Going Modern Art Converted Japanese Century European Homes Start Basically Museums
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. Larry Wall
Science Age Computer Science Think Computer Stuck Still Modern Modern Age Large
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. Larry Wall
Art Myself Good Engineering Think Some Cultural Modern Artist Good Art Necessary
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. Laurence Housman
Politics Great Me Satire Scale High Had Also Material Up Begun Modern Form Little Social Appeal Lives Things
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. Laurie Colwin
Life Time Great Luxury Fact Modern Modern Life Deprived Us
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it. Lawrence M. Krauss
Time Science Design Our Definition Students Scientist Subject Intelligent Modern Any Them Waste
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative. Lea Salonga
Book Song Beginning Everything Out Sung Miss Nobody Operas Dialogue End Modern Conventional Breaks Les Including
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. Leland Stanford
Class Intelligence Benefits Organization Men Own Enjoy Relation Possess Entire Indispensable Employer Industries Because Labor Modern Themselves Co-Operative Organize Less Sufficient
In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound. Leon Bridges
Music Old Beginning Exactly Classic Something Inspired Had Like Make Sound Option Modern Wanted In The Beginning
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll. Leon Russell
Music Me Old Country Style Seems Country Music Like Rock Rock-N-Roll Lot Roll Modern
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. Leonard Maltin
Thought Made Sentiment Took Kind Allen Clause Layered Delightful Onto Tim Modern Sensibility Santa Film
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. Lester B. Pearson
Change Peace Mistake People World Political Made National Our Scale Would Would-Be Economic Ideals Most Underestimating Cherish Tragic Than Anxious Modern Pace Modern World Who Cooperation Wider
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance. Lewis B. Smedes
Fear Behavior Judgment Considered Intolerance Fellow Fellow Human Beings Judging Passing American Modern Human Human Beings Act Beings Suffer Medieval
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