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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
Damian Marley
Saying
You
Space
Somebody
Live
Find
Rapping
Beat
Beats
Over
Parties
Call
Came
However
Off
Just
Rhymes
Playing
Basically
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
Damien Hirst
Work
Art
Hard Work
Good
You
Struggle
Happy
Better
Feeling
Good Ideas
About
Inspiration
Ideas
Make
Always
Making
Off
Sweat
Good Art
Hard
Pull
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Damien Rice
Time
Myself
Me
Other
See
More
Divert
Onto
Take
Allow
Like
Off
Paths
Place
While
Little
Iceland
Creatively
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
Damon Albarn
You
Business
Defeat
Setting
Way
Sign
Would
London
Object
Ripped
Someone
Like
Because
Deal
Sahara
Doing
Off
Label
End
Up
Very
Southern
Than
Getting
Different
Which
Them
Usual
Different Way
When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're pretending you're writing things off that you don't.
Damon Dash
You
Man
Business
Writing
Money
Pretending
Think
Lot
Off
Times
Businesses
Things
I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
Damon Hill
Time
Good
You
Anxiety
Mind
Think
Interviews
TV
Relief
Podium
Had
Taken
Lot
Off
Exorcism
Celebration
Get
Procedure
After
Happened
Which
Race
Much
Your
Each
Actually
The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
Damon Hill
Today
People
Sunday
Living
Air
Would
Rate
Drivers
Taken
Sport
Were
Been
Off
Survive
Being
Children
Afternoon
Rooms
Watching
I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.
Dan Amboyer
Christmas
Nature
Teenage
Teenage Years
Carol
Through
Had
Became
Always
Sound
Dialect
Years
Off
Did
Which
Helpful
Ear
Second
Second Nature
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
Dan Buettner
Way
Only
Proven
Off
Walking
Decline
Works
Cognitive
It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
Dan Gelber
Own
Control
Difficult
Run
More
Firm
Trade
Trade-Off
Off
Fewer
Conflicts
Your
I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'
Dan Gilroy
Good
People
Words
Too Many People
Too
Those
Says
TV
Announcer
Know
Advised
Sound
Off
Up
Discretion
Turn
Gonna
Then
Really
Viewer
Who
Many
Code
When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
Dan Hawkins
Nervous
Energy
Everything
Off
Now
Twice
Fast
Played
Started
The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.
Dan Hill
Work
Best
You
People
Collective
Consider
Tricky
Tossed
Best Work
About
Something
More
Songwriting
Simply
Over
Bowls
Off
Than
Often
Your
Thing
So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
Dan Hill
Living
Songwriters
Because
Passions
Off
Many
Peak
Early
Early 20s
Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
Dan Hill
You
People
Faster
Incredible
Way
Toronto
More
More And More
More People
Driving
Because
Around
Off
Efficient
Get
Getting
Being
Wanting
Exploding
Turned
Biking
Much
Congestion
Cycle
Cyclists
The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
Dan Jenkins
You
Broadway
Out
Finding
Cab
Cab Driver
Driver
Dropped
Like
Tiger
Masters
Tiger Woods
His
Off
Anticipated
Greatly
Replacement
Sir
Hit
Going
Woods
Theater
Who
Star
Night
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
Dan Quisenberry
Me
Way
Angeles
Still
Los
Los Angeles
Off
Hit
Jackson
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
Dan Savage
Alone
Gay
People
Equality
Lesbian
Our
Way
Civil
Only
Leave
Issues
Off
Canadian
Get
Front
Newspapers
Pages
Full
Grant
I spent the first 18 years of my career at AT&T, and it was a wonderful place that kept me moving all the time. I mean, I started off as entry level a position as you can get at AT&T.
Dan Schulman
Time
Me
You
Wonderful
First
Spent
Entry
Years
Off
Get
Wonderful Place
Place
Moving
Mean
Level
Started
Career
Kept
Position
It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.
Dan Smith
Day
Every Day
World
Nice
Every
Wild
Having
Finishing
Studio
Off
Going
Quite
Routine
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
Dana Carvey
Me
Parents
Recording
Television
Recorder
Voices
Winters
Jonathan
Stuff
Like
Got
Years
Tape
Tape Recorder
Off
Begging
Get
Craig
After
Little
Then
Started
The difference between Koppell and Olberman types is that one gives editorializing in all its editorial frankness so there are no mistakes as to bias, and the other passes off a subtler bias as objectivity.
Dana Loesch
Mistakes
Other
Types
Frankness
Objectivity
Gives
Between
Bias
Editorial
Passes
Off
Difference
But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
Dana Rohrabacher
People
Job
Every
Other
Guest
Kind
Run
Could
Weeks
Part
Come
Also
Misused
Covered
Off
Quite
Often
After
Fields
Meaning
Workers
Two
Program
Two Weeks
I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.
Dane Cook
Work
People
Try
About
More
Feel
Particular
Like
Well
Off
Very
Improvisational
List
Going
Where
Happening
Information
Region
Them
Might
Show
Moment
Keep
Set
I ended up getting kicked out of my house when I was 16, and I went off to college. When they actually saw that I was getting some kind of stability as far as having a career in this business is when they started coming around.
Dania Ramirez
Business
College
Saw
Kicked
Out
Kind
Some
Having
House
Around
Coming
Off
Up
Ended
Stability
Getting
As Far As
Far
Actually
Started
Career
I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.
Danica Patrick
Me
People
Girl
Stupid
Young
Only
Purple
Write
Colors
Because
Got
Were
Pink
Off
Very
Want
Decided
Against
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