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There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.
Mike Gordon
Song
Country
Band
Way
Latin
Ourselves
Could
Never
Never Expect
Like
Know
Well
How
Sound
Doing
Expect
Just
Keep
Play
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
Mike Johanns
Good
Science
World
Leader
Believe
Our
States
Ourselves
Delivering
Message
Partners
Trading
Decisions
Asked
Really
International
Base
United
United States
One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.
Mike Johanns
Great
Great Things
State
State Level
Say
Ourselves
One Of The Things
Folks
About
Federal
Federal Level
Since
Industry
Always
Private
Done
Whether
Many
Level
Things
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
Mike Lowry
Saying
Democracy
Say
Mad
Ourselves
Going
Need
As the leaders of this great country, I urge my fellow colleagues in the House, governors, and presidential candidates alike to hold ourselves up to a higher standard.
Mike Quigley
Great
Country
Great Country
Presidential
Alike
Ourselves
Colleagues
Higher
Higher Standard
Leaders
House
Fellow
Up
Governors
Candidates
Hold
Urge
Standard
We are always focused on how can we differentiate ourselves. In today's world, where people are gravitating toward experiences, it is even more important.
Mindy Grossman
Today
People
World
Important
Focused
Ourselves
More
Toward
Always
How
Where
Experiences
Even
Differentiate
I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.
Minnie Driver
Women
World
Hide
Ourselves
How
How Much
Subjugate
Get
Order
Much
Fascinated
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.
Mira Nair
Politics
Humanity
People
Human Being
Mirror
Big
Situation
Ourselves
Between
Look
Within
However
Oppressive
May
Human
Being
Want
Human Beings
Hold
Whether
Us
Help
Beings
Two
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
Miriam Makeba
Work
Together
Women
Passion
President
Our
Ourselves
Up
Very
Get
Trying
Africa
African
Theme
Work Together
Us
Much
Whose
Things
Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.
Miriam Makeba
Work
Musicians
Culture
Better
Will
Older
Changing
Our
Embarked
Ourselves
Ministry
Well
Lot
Getting
Just
Artists
Younger
Then
Much
Really
Organize
Now
Things
Here
I think that, as women, we're often asked to apologize for our own power, or we're asked to undercut ourselves, and it's deemed unattractive to have faith in our abilities.
Miriam Shor
Faith
Women
Power
Own
Think
Our
Ourselves
Unattractive
Ability
Undercut
Often
Asked
Apologize
Deemed
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.
Miroslav Volf
Eyes
Victim
Difficult
Our
Ourselves
See
Through
Most
Particularly
Offender
Salutary
American
Any
Us
Thing
Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
Mitch Daniels
Health
Light
School
Our
Unless
Kids
Ourselves
Pick
Light Bulb
Wrong
Mortgage
Health Insurance
Insurance
Bulb
Left
Stop
Might
Us
Why
Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.
Mitch Daniels
Treat
Job
Energy
Every
Enormous
Unleash
Resources
Finally
Way
Job Creator
Ourselves
Jobs
License
Drill
Potential
Economic
Lease
Been
Domestic
Denying
Energy Production
Production
Creator
Necessity
We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.
Moby
Myself
People
Met
Fall
Politicians
Those
Ourselves
High
Pretty
High Standards
Tend
Never
Judging
Always
Very
Short
Hold
Public
Low
Public Figures
Held
Standards
Figures
Included
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Mohsin Hamid
Ourselves
Transcend
Literature
Us
Helps
Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world.
Mona Simpson
Love
Good
World
Our
Those
Ourselves
More
Vulnerable
Than
Hearts
Send
Children
Want
Even
Satellites
'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.
Monica Johnson
God
Day
Every Day
Will
Mercy
Before
Own
Christian
Every
Our
Ourselves
More
Like
Make
Him
Lord
Doing
His
Thanking
Done
Being
Oxymoron
Us
Asking
Your
Thing
Christians
Need
Presenting
We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.
Monica Johnson
God
Remember
Impossible
Will
Our
Unless
Our Lives
Ourselves
About
Seemingly
Never
Excuses
Making
Accomplish
Get
Situations
Stop
Wants
Us
Flesh
Lives
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
Montesquieu
Gratitude
Men
Power
Else
We Cannot
Ourselves
One Thing
Someone
Give
Only
Only One Thing
Between
Over
Greater
Than
Form
Cannot
Us
Thing
Bond
We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.
Morten Tyldum
Take For Granted
Ourselves
Take
Remind
Granted
Now
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
Mortimer Adler
Good
Selfish
Others
Ourselves
Concerned
Altruistic
Many of us use God's love like the manna in the desert. We take what we need for particular situations and then go our own way - thinking we can handle other situations ourselves.
Mother Angelica
Love
God
Own
Thinking
Other
Our
Way
Ourselves
Take
Particular
Like
Go
Handle
Situations
Then
Us
Use
Many
Desert
Need
The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep, is real simple, and sometimes we think or we're trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it's the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy.
Mya
Beautiful
Me
You
Happy
People
Simple
Sometimes
Simplicity
Circle
Believe
Think
Other
Way
Ourselves
Sexy
More
Feel
Make
Around
Always
Real
Trained
Keep
Associate
In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how we accomplish that.
Nahnatchka Khan
Try
Challenge
Ways
Ourselves
Tell
Writers
Never
Limit
Always
How
Accomplish
Unexpected
Stories
Interesting
Room
Interesting Stories
We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.
Nancy Wilson
Try
Think
Ourselves
Would
Would-Be
Like
Sound
Intentionally
Really
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