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On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.
Robert Peel
Day
Opportunity
Submit
Saw
Those
Ministers
Wednesday
Point
Proposed
Had
Majesty
Particular
Evening
Whom
Her
If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.
Robert Pinsky
Live
Dancer
Pleasure
Neighborhood
Clarinet
Some
Someplace
More
Take
Feel
Particular
Come
Little
Painter
Near
Player
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
Robert Plant
Music
Dark
Thirties
Kid
Kinds
Touched
Absolute
Never
Had
Delta
Obsession
Since
Particular
Mississippi
West
West Coast
Chicago
American
Blues
American Music
Fifties
Really
Coast
Americana
People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.
Robert Redford
Business
People
Own
Heritage
More
More And More
Development
Particular
Altering
Becoming
How
Dominance
Aware
Lives
During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful.
Robert Shapiro
Finance
Mutual Funds
Training
Law
High
Securities
Would
Would-Be
Mutual
Some
Knew
Studying
Particular
Undergraduate
Doing
Were
Get
Wanting
Interest
Useful
Companies
Funds
Position
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
Robert Wagner
Big
Gave
Would
Stay
Insisted
Studios
Days
Particular
Contract
Roles
Us
Play
Image
But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.
Robert Walpole
Crime
Made
Remove
Think
Address
Must
Alleging
Crown
Majesty
Particular
Him
Without
Greatest
His
Any
Against
Much
Ever
Servants
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
Robert Walpole
Words
Dangers
Charged
Particular
Court
Affected
Nor
Account
Tranquillity
Wanting
Which
Public
View
Show
Many
Whole
Each
Sufficient
I'm happy to fight anyone. There's no particular person I want to fight next.
Robert Whittaker
Happy
Fight
Particular
Person
Want
Anyone
Next
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
Roberto Benigni
History
Humanity
World
Country
Everybody
Relation
Born
Point
Part
Particular
Italy
Where
Holocaust
Turning
Turning Point
Fascism
Belongs
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.
Robin DiAngelo
People
School
Black
Example
White
Jim
Jim Crow
Classic
Classic Example
Crow
Segregation
Color
Particular
Always
South
North
Bodies
Flight
Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.
Roger Ebert
Fans
Films
Analysis
Analyze
Critic
Detail
Archetypal
Similar
Horror
Reminded
Particular
Am
Canadian
Literary
Expertise
Literature
Breed
Who
I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years.
Roger Zelazny
Good
Great
Nature
People
Writing
Good Nature
Admire
Studying
Particular
Like
Robert
Genre
Read
Quantities
Been
Years
Fan
Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.
Rollo May
History
Problem
Sense
Our
Significance
Point
Individual
Particular
Particular Problem
Inwardly
Loss
Impotence
America
Sensed
Which
Widespread
My process is walking down to the locker room, laying everything out to how I like it. I'm very particular about setting up my bags and my dressing situation. I love to pull out that portable speaker and blare music even if nobody else likes it. To me, its just keeping everything the same every single night.
Roman Reigns
Love
Music
Me
Single
Situation
Down
Every
Setting
Else
Everything
Locker
Locker Room
Out
Dressing
About
Laying
Bags
Nobody
Nobody Else
Particular
Like
Likes
Single Night
How
Up
Very
Walking
Same
Just
Process
Room
Speaker
Even
Portable
Keeping
Night
Pull
Every Single Night
A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.
Romesh Gunesekera
You
Back
Way
New
Particular
Particular Way
Make
Because
Doing
Go
Bunch
New Way
Just
Story
Organised
Means
Novel
Letters
Origins
Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to jazz, it's a connecting city from New Orleans that goes all the way up to Buffalo through New York.
Ron Cephas Jones
Music
History
You
Jazz
Way
City
Through
New
Particular
Know
Buffalo
New Orleans
Up
Very
America
American
York
Goes
New York
The History Of
Blues
Famous
American Music
Connecting
Orleans
Street
I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
Ron Howard
Myself
Think
Lust
Particular
Roles
Any
Just
After
Much
Actor
Too many people are afraid to talk about the issue of race. We should be willing to address it, and more importantly, when it rears its ugly head, we should be willing to take a stand and try to stomp it out, whatever the action may be at a particular time.
Ron Stallworth
Time
People
Ugly
Try
Too Many People
Whatever
Action
Too
Address
Out
Willing
About
More
Take
Head
Particular
Talk
Importantly
Issue
Stomp
May
Afraid
Race
Should
Stand
Many
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.
Ronald Frame
Great
Knowledge
Reading
Become
Own
Books
Characters
Some
Case
My Own
More
Attached
Attaching
Mystery
Writers
Supply
Miss
Particular
Re-Read
Know
Mostly
Because
Making
Still
Making Up
Left
Up
Option
Expectations
Wanting
Them
Certain
Luckily
Novels
Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.
Ronald Kessler
Morning
Style
Whatever
Others
Criminals
Distinct
Paper
Pen
Ways
Some
Variations
Structure
Voice
Write
Writer
Writers
Computers
Instance
Particular
Grammar
Sentence
Act
Use
Each
Night
Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.
Ronda Rousey
You
Personality
Try
Skin
Every
Think
Intimidate
Way
Would
About
Particular
Most
Chick
Person
Get
Different
Different Way
I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.
Rory Kennedy
Love
Humanity
Think
Films
Way
Complexities
Statistics
Able
Highlight
Feel
Powerful
Particular
Reach
Beyond
Making
Issue
Article
Story
Newspaper
Might
Really
Reasons
Numbers
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Rosa Luxemburg
Alone
Democracy
Struggle
Way
Ways
Slogans
Finds
Seeks
Only
Directions
Through
Development
Particular
Course
Gains
Social
Social Democracy
Workers
Forward
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Physics
World
College
Field
Late
Exciting
Particular
Most
Nuclear
Nuclear Physics
I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.
Rowan Atkinson
Own
Enjoy
Think
Back
Particular
Qualities
Inferior
Did
Any
Mean
Forth
Much
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