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The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.
Stanley Hauerwas
Life
Me
My Life
Pain
Spent
Fact
Longer
Identification
Close
Manner
Universities
There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain.
Stephanie Coontz
Truth
Good
Memories
Happy
Good Things
Cause
Past
Nothing
Pain
Our
Those
Recognizing
Tell
Wrong
Like
Well
Make
Accepting
Witnesses
Always
Proud
Celebrating
Them
Us
Whole
Gaps
Things
Need
September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Me
People
Writing
Better
Tomorrow
Matters
Whatever
Pain
September
About
Something
New
Know
Because
York
Going
New York
Happen
Stories
Really
Reinforced
I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant to do that kind of effort... like approving time off or submitting time-off requests? We want to really encourage developers to create cool things for Slack.
Stewart Butterfield
Time
Experience
Pain
Virtual
Everyone
Approving
Kind
Had
Developers
Longer
Like
Encourage
Off
Effort
What If
Reports
Expense
Want
Create
Requests
Really
Cool
File
Slack
Things
Assistant
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Sue Monk Kidd
Compassion
Become
Pain
Others
Entering
Ourselves
Willing
Find
Risk
More
Take
Vulnerable
Wakes
Up
Us
I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I'd always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, 'I can't be a candidate for this.' Eventually, the pain became something I couldn't ignore.
Summer Sanders
People
Thought
First
Pain
Older
Something
Lifestyle
Veins
Looked
Became
Always
Affected
Child
Candidate
Pregnant
Noticed
Ignore
Eventually
Second
When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
Summer Sanders
Life
Me
You
Problem
Single
Just Be
Pain
Every
Competitor
Kind
Running
No Problem
Push
Had
Pushing
Beyond
Off
Very
Familiar
Just
Social
Turn
Really
Your
Hard
Workout
Barrier
Whole
Belief
Started
Programmed
We have to pick up people's issues within and outside Parliament and give a voice to their pain and problems and come across as a party which understands this.
Sushma Swaraj
People
Problems
Party
Pain
Give
Voice
Parliament
Outside
Pick
Come
Within
Understands
Issues
Up
Which
Across
I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Sylvia Kristel
Life
Too Much
My Life
Nothing
Pain
Think
Too
More
Could
Mainly
Know
Well
End
Very
Expect
Done
Afterlife
Much
Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.
Sylvie Guillem
Morning
You
Free
Pain
Back
Dancers
Everywhere
Never
Knees
Ankles
Know
Ribs
Neck
Muscles
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
Taiye Selasi
Me
Pain
Excruciating
Most
Retreats
Frequently
Hips
Yoga
Thing
I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
Takeshi Kitano
Game
Will
Pain
Action
Kind
Some
Never
Feel
Make
Audience
Real
Real Pain
Shoot
Intentionally
Video
Video Game
Violence
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
Tariq Ali
Atheist
Pain
Believe
Every
Religious
Cast
Know
Felt
Insulted
Am
Meaning
Meaning Of
Believers
I think it's a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain.
Taya Kyle
You
Mistake
Joy
Pain
Think
Out
Miss
Because
Just
Just Because
I can't run anymore. That's the one thing I loved doing. And I can't play golf hardly at all because of wrist and back pain.
Terry Bradshaw
Pain
Back
Run
One Thing
Wrist
Because
Doing
The One Thing
Anymore
Loved
Golf
Play
Thing
Hardly
Play Golf
I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.
Tierra Whack
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Own
Sense
Pain
Sick
Laughing
My Own
Like
Always
Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.
Tig Notaro
Life
Joy
Pain
Out
Perfectly
Pile
Genuinely
Dole
Heartache
Very
Realistically
Things
It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
Tim Bishop
Me
Try
Will
Made
Few
Pain
Society
Increased
Benefit
Possible
Some
Cost
Morally
Seems
Alleviate
Bearing
Take
Decent
Use
Who
It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting.
Tim Harford
Failure
Fear
School
Too Much
College
Pain
Research
Older
Difficult
Think
Too
Worse
Bit
Emerges
Tend
Because
Leave
Quickly
Than
Get
Going
Stop
After
Experimenting
Psychology
Much
Really
I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones.
Tim Minchin
Death
Myself
Fear
Comedy
Pain
Despair
Despairing
Wax
Out
About
Comedians
Very
Role
Person
Personal
Loved
Loved Ones
Many
We need a president who doesn't just visit our forgotten communities for rallies but one who lives in them - one who knows the pain and suffering that comes with being unseen and unheard.
Tim Ryan
Suffering
Pain
President
Our
Visit
Unseen
Knows
Just
Forgotten
Being
Unheard
Them
Communities
Who
Lives
Need
Rallies
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.
Timothy Noah
Animal
Cause
Animals
Experiment
Pain
Every
Everyone
Unnecessary
Neither
Anesthesia
Scientists
Might
Should
Requirement
Use
Agree
Exposed
Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.
Tina Brown
You
Pain
About
Could
Feel
Powerful
Talk
She
Empower
Trade
Always
Been
Oprah
Stock
Your
Connection
Her
So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.
Tina Turner
You
Heart
Emotions
Girl
Farm
Pain
Think
Presidents
Those
Kind
Dreaming
About
Could
Had
Wishing
Looked
Sing
She
Talking
Course
Because
Wives
Came
Been
Years
Years Ago
Role
Person
Role Models
Models
Stood
Fields
Your
Who
Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.
Tionne Watkins
Pain
Tolerance
High
Because
Disease
I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.
Tobias Forge
Life
My Life
Pain
Been
Lots
Situations
Where
Turn
Pains
Growing
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