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One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
Madeleine Albright
Woman
Just Be
State
Secretary
One Of The Things
Particular
Issue
Did
Just
Want
Wanted
Really
Reason
Who
Chosen
Things
You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
Magnus Magnusson
Life
You
Enjoy
Say
Immersed
Particular
Pass
Subject
Encouraged
Get
Get A Life
Should
Who
Professor
University
You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
Majel Barrett
Funny
You
People
Funny People
About
Gene
Only
Costumes
Could
Put
Particular
Talk
Genre
Because
Green
The Only Thing
Wanted
Anything
Them
Paint
Fascinated
Thing
'Roots' focuses on a particular group of people who defy the odds and win, eventually, even if it isn't in their lifetimes. This is, for me, a very positive story and a very empowering one, if only we have that perspective on it.
Malachi Kirby
Positive
Me
People
Win
Perspective
Odds
Group
Defy
Only
Lifetimes
Particular
Empowering
Very
Story
Roots
Who
Even
Eventually
Mum used to say that when I went out of the house, I represented her. I took that seriously. So I didn't get involved with a lot of things. I held myself in a particular way.
Malachi Kirby
Myself
Seriously
Took
Way
Say
Out
Particular
Particular Way
Involved
House
Lot
Get
Held
Used
Mum
Her
Things
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
Malcolm Boyd
Nature
Wish
Differences
Society
Our
Those
Both
Particular
Without
Integrated
Reference
Norm
Huge
Offensive
Quietly
Essential
Us
Who
Among
Deeply
So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
Malcolm Turnbull
Parents
Statement
Circumstances
Generality
Proposition
Ideal
Particular
Another
Does
Child
Any
Which
Reason
Many
Agree
Biological
Apply
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
Malcolm Wallop
Government
People
Independence
Nation
National
Extraordinary
Local
Statement
Lies
Particular
Concept
Ultimate
Ultimate End
End
Skeptical
Declaration
Designed
Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.
Marc Jacobs
Day
Me
You
Business
Every Day
White
Every
Out
Would
Wear
About
Weird
Picky
Particular
Know
Make
Scope
Lot
Very
Shirt
Really
Even
Basically
Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French.
Margaret MacMillan
World
Unjust
Had
Particular
Vengeful
French
Reparations
Came
George
Were
Versailles
Germans
Many
Agree
English-Speaking
Treaty
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
Marian Keyes
You
Woman
Men
Clever
Please
Way
Division
Idea
Particular
Like
Particular Way
Because
Got
Themselves
Then
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
Marian Keyes
Personality
Despair
Prone
Born
Particular
House
Am
Leave
Get
Afraid
Want
Then
Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.
Mariella Frostrup
Three
Somebody
Else
Television
Station
Minutes
Something
Only
Longer
Particular
Concentrate
Well
Executives
Another
Audience
Doing
Item
Than
Commission
Expecting
Commissioned
Any
Afraid
In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.
Marillyn Hewson
You
Learning
Listening
Challenge
Leader
Employees
Others
Once
Must
Clarity
Outline
Uncertainty
Open
No-One
Particular
Understand
Always
Making
Answers
Optimistic
Times
Options
Expects
Confident
Crave
Decisions
Bold
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker
You
Together
Words
Syntax
Phrases
Triple
Obliged
Poetry
Writer
Puts
Tension
Between
Particular
Look
How
Line
Verse
Sentence
Sentences
Translate
Working
Whom
I see particular commonalities in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
Marine Le Pen
Bernie Sanders
See
Rise
Particular
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Me
Generation
Lost
Few
Young
Faulkner
He
Particular
Read
Reader
Still
Passionate
Lot
Fitzgerald
American
Authors
Means
Who
Sartre
Hemingway
Novelists
In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.
Mario Vazquez
Life
Honesty
Care
My Life
Nothing
Able
About
Take
Take Care
Particular
Talk
Idol
Contracts
American
Just
American Idol
Really
Things
Need
Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?
Marjorie Liu
Women
Heroes
Entitled
Particular
Well
Male
Privileges
Why
Why Not
We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Me
Everything
Okay
Part
Recycle
Feel
Particular
House
Makes
Doing
Any
Organizations
One of the key challenges the military has faced - and the Army, in particular - is defining our requirements and keeping them stable.
Mark Esper
Challenges
Army
Key
Military
Our
Defining
Faced
Particular
Stable
Them
Requirements
Keeping
I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.
Mark Helprin
Work
Buy
Change
Control
Lately
Pen
Prolonged
Find
Pens
Fine
Write
Had
Particular
Until
Periods
Although
Because
Boxes
Hand
Them
Then
Use
Used
Harder
Right
Fountain
Fountain Pen
Start
Drag
Muscles
Right Hand
Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
Mark Kassen
Myself
Good
Day
World
End Of The Day
Whatever
Other
Appropriate
Project
Out
See
Good Stories
Put
Support
Particular
Knows
Maker
Makers
How
Am
End
Role
Committed
Just
Stories
Who
Helping
Things
Basically
Needed
I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics ... which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.
Mark Kirk
You
Age
Conservative
Country
National
Thinking
President
Mark
Topics
Security
Steady
Kirk
Direction
Particular
Like
Know
Most
Advising
Been
Years
Trump
Hand
Person
Senate
National Security
Where
After
Expertise
Which
Navy
Need
It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.
Mark Rylance
Work
Corruption
People
Own
Think
System
Telling
Economic
Economic System
Bound
Particular
Masters
Doing
Lot
Really
Your
Who
Companies
Aware
Serve
Awful
Thing
Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
Mark Teixeira
Cake
Eat
Cakes
Particular
Baltimore
Very
Snob
Crab
Being
Where
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