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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
George Stigler
Work
People
Language
Unless
Citizens
Thousands
Abroad
Physicist
He
Economist
Instructions
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Opinions
His
Discuss
Get
Goes
Native
Fifty
Swedish
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
Gerald McRaney
State
Sold
About
He
New
Town
Know
Houses
Built
Were
Lot
Moved
Moved On
Native
Dad
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
Gloria Estefan
Me
First
Because
Won
Very
Close
Done
Native
Hold
Grammy
Album
Tongue
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
Gloria Steinem
Balance
Women
Some
About
Most
Continent
Were
Cultures
Chiefs
American
Native
Native American
Them
Societies
At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry: having appropriated the land and wealth of America's vanquished peoples, settler culture then appropriates the supposed values and spirit of the vanquished as well.
Greg Grandin
Sports
Culture
People
Problem
Wealth
Values
Vanquished
Spirit
Having
Take
Name
Supposed
Well
Issue
America
American
Native
Native Americans
Land
Then
Professional
Teams
Professional Sports
I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.
Grover Norquist
Time
You
Try
Gone
Thinking
Other
Eye
Something
Hot
Check
Come
Know
Make
Sort
Sure
Deal
End
Up
Tub
Getting
Native
Want
Really
Used
Cesspool
Each
Washington
Activists
Keep
Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown Heights, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick.
Gza
People
Heights
Brooklyn
Born
Crown
Most
Island
Native
Actually
Raised
Associate
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
H. P. Lovecraft
Me
Nothing
Other
Worlds
Local
Tale
Passions
Conditions
Human
Native
Depicted
Form
Which
Human Form
Standards
Universes
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
Hannah Storm
First
Carolina
Charlotte
Guy
Jordan
Town
Michael
Michael Jordan
Roll
Native
Team
NBA
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
Hans Rosling
Together
Racism
Others
Civilization
Taken
Still
Cultures
Western
Western Europe
African
Native
Them
Asian
Europe
Americas
Lumped
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
Hari Kondabolu
You
College
White
Heritage
Say
Give
Well
Equation
Welsh
Math
Cultural
Friends
German
Irish
American
Just
Native
Native American
Ask
Your
Applications
Fourth
Third
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
Howard Jacobson
Out
Writer
Allow
Never
Himself
His
Native
Should
Vigilance
Profession
Lulled
Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.
Howard Rheingold
Day
Technology
Online
Hours
Six
Native
Tongue
I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.
Hugh Masekela
History
People
Group
Heritage
Restoration
Performance
Academy
Encourage
Very
Crafts
Arts
African
Native
Spaces
Interested
Create
Working
Explore
Number
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
Isabel Wilkerson
People
Made
Else
Someplace
Someplace Else
Over
Because
Came
Up
America
American
Native
Native Americans
Strait
Who
Even
Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.
Jacob Weisberg
You
Writing
Reading
Enough
Ways
Web
Crucial
Miss
Conceive
Printed
Audience
Native
Different
Subtle
Them
Product
Your
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.
Jan C. Ting
Respect
Somewhere
Else
Ancestors
All Americans
Immigrants
Admire
Somewhere Else
Came
American
Native
Native Americans
Either
Should
Who
Descendants
Including
My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.
Janet Mock
Mom
Birthday
Three
Parents
Before
Split
Moved
Native
Fifth
Her
Sibling
Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.
Jason Aaron
Organization
Seen
Before
Nothing
Reservation
Starts
Setting
Criminal
Plenty
About
Something
Guy
Head
Undercover
Particularly
Always
Off
Times
American
Native
Native American
Story
Modern-Day
Agent
Twist
I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.
Jay Ryan
Beautiful
Character
Director
Hair
Half
Top
New
Like
Looked
Shaved
Off
Very
Role
Shooting
Intense
Famous
Native
Lake
Jane
Shot
Film
Playing
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Vegetables
Soil
Action
Living
Increase
Scale
Fed
Select
Subjects
Native
Different
Which
Them
Roots
Lowest
Nourish
Different Subjects
Mechanism
Serve
Things
Peculiar
For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Natural
World
Year
Field
State
Later
Bay
Poking
Year Later
Arrived
Blocks
Discovered
Began
North
North America
America
Native
Oil
Holes
Fuel
Centuries
Cut
Use
Explorers
Largest
If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Me
Rest
Books
Distinction
Immigrant
Puritan
Termed
Call
Native
Fiction
Certain
Agree
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison
Best
State
About
Write
Know
Forced
Because
Michigan
Native
Place
Actually
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.
JoJo
Black
Hair
Side
Colin
Freckles
Fact
Inspired
He
French
Polish
Tap
Irish
Bunch
American
Did
Native
Different
Native American
Wanted
Different Things
Things
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
Joan D. Vinge
Moon
Girl
Sets
Out
Naive
Also
She
Native
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