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Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
James Dobson
Gay
Vote
Rights
Marriage
Champion
School
Unions
Gay Marriage
Gay Rights
Favor
City
Borders
Civil
Never
Open
He
New
Least
Opposed
York
New York
New York City
Cannot
Choice
Why
Here
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
Janet Reno
Death
People
Think
States
Penalty
More
Most
Opposed
Death Penalty
Than
Personally
Asked
United
United States
I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
Jason Bateman
Fruit
Three
Year
Every
Would
Some
Above
Rather
Small
Name
Parts
Opposed
Get
Title
Might
Four
Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the movie as opposed to selling them. People are more relaxed.
Jason Blum
Experience
People
Focus
Positioning
Relaxed
Sundance
Distribution
More
Opposed
Selling
Movie
Movies
Them
Many
I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.
Jason Blum
You
Creative
Hurt
Creative Process
Think
Thinking
Focusing
About
Generally
Day-To-Day
Opposed
End
Process
Decisions
Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the book as opposed to hypothetical situations, or as opposed to opening up about themselves, unless they really want to.
Jay Asher
You
Book
Think
Unless
Way
Characters
Easy
Easy Way
About
Students
Hypothetical
Feels
Opening
Talk
Opposed
Issues
Up
Discuss
Situations
Want
Fiction
Themselves
Really
Less
I do own a unicycle, which I use for workout purposes as opposed to doing tricks.
Jay Duplass
Own
Tricks
Purposes
Doing
Opposed
Which
Use
Workout
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
Jay Griffiths
Time
Measurement
Synonym
Fact
Could
Argue
Opposed
Opposite
Clock
Itself
In Fact
My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
Mother
Father
Scenarios
Know
Comedies
Wrote
Opposed
Were
Being
Wanted
Anyway
Really
Meant
Actor
Actress
To be clear, I'm not opposed to apps; I just want them to be geared to my lifestyle. I don't need a virtual NASCAR racing app, but I'd certainly appreciate one that stopped my husband from plowing into the lawnmower every time he pulls into the garage.
Jen Lancaster
Time
Husband
Every
Every Time
Virtual
Apps
Plowing
Geared
Lifestyle
He
Clear
NASCAR
Opposed
Just
Stopped
Want
Them
Racing
App
Certainly
Garage
Need
Appreciate
I guess my comfort zone as a writer is diametrically opposed to my comfort zone as a human being.
Jennifer Egan
Human Being
Guess
Writer
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Opposed
Diametrically
Human
Being
Zone
As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we're thinking about ourselves more broadly - about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.
Jennifer Hyman
Fashion
You
Thinking
Ourselves
Dressed
About
More
Industry
How
Opposed
Get
Closet
Fashion Industry
Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.
Jens Lekman
You
Somewhere
Band
Nirvana
Opposed
Led
Began
Bands
Ended
Themselves
Grunge
Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.
Jerry Moran
Life
My Life
Would
Never
Opposed
Expected
Farmers
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
Jesse Schell
Our
Pleasurable
Tend
Allowed
Make
Opposed
Efficient
Affluence
Move
Where
Place
Us
Things
Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'
Jillionaire
Music
Somebody
Same Thing
Else
Months
Out
Evolve
Exact
Towards
Name
Like
Always
How
Making
Opposed
Continue
Hits
Same
Going
Move
Oh
Just
Stop
Being
Different
Gonna
Then
Really
Next
Next Thing
Figure
Cool
Thing
Last
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
Jim Garrison
Conviction
Defense
Side
State
More
Tend
Individual
Attorney
Obtaining
Client
Always
Opposed
Than
Much
Interests
Satisfaction
Ever
Received
Sympathies
This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because they opposed Obamacare - and they started the targeting the very month, March 2010, that Obamacare came into law - expects us to believe it is the work of two rogue agents in Cincinnati.
Jim Jordan
Work
Law
Believe
This Administration
Cincinnati
Month
Systematically
Charged
Administration
Obamacare
Because
Opposed
Came
Existence
Targeted
Very
Targeting
Rogue
Expects
Agency
Us
Agents
Enforcing
Groups
March
Started
Two
My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.
Jim Moran
War
Faith
Political
Achieve
Party
Community
Sphere
Objective
Point
Remains
Attempt
Make
Within
Opposed
Political Party
Same
Influence
Anyone
Whether
Explanation
Working
Who
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton
War
Time
Dissent
Interviewing
Sides
Air
Spent
Those
Segment
Voices
Throughout
Had
Protests
Opposed
Were
Covering
Iraq
Antiwar
Story
Which
Worked
Regular
Hard
Who
I have ruled out Coalitions with Brexiteers because it's so fundamentally opposed to our values.
Jo Swinson
Values
Our
Ruled
Out
Because
Opposed
Coalition
Fundamentally
If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.
Joe Barton
You
Rights
Try
Will
Worry
Mine
About
Give
Individual
Protect
Access
Making
Opposed
Wall
Breach
Break
Happens
Information
Available
Less
Premise
Who
Even
Start
It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.
Joe Morton
Love
You
World
Detail
Part
Opposed
Very
Just
Problem-Solving
Different
Creating
Working
Different Thing
Actor
Thing
Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.
John Barrasso
November
Increase
Syria
Distrust
Russia
Only
Attempts
Putin
Moscow
Opposed
Iran
Against
Sanctions
Reasons
Actions
Nuclear
Program
I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.
John Corbett
Future
Father
Immediate
Would
Adoption
More
Like
Because
Opposed
Were
Lot
Going
Move
Grounded
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
John Corigliano
Good
Respect
Find
Composer
He
Because
Opposed
American
Automatically
Really
England
Ridiculous
British
Mediocre
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