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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams
Religion
Better
Nothing
Unlikely
Defines
Willingness
Dating
Pursuit
Principle
Than
Irrational
Behind
Things
Humans
Phenomenally
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
Steven Spielberg
Me
Ego
Challenge
Made
Before
Down
Harry
Harry Potter
Spider-Man
Would
Would-Be
Potter
Had
Knew
Reminded
Like
Because
Offered
Movies
Turned
Successful
Phenomenally
Two
Need
I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
Penn Jillette
You
People
Country
Big
Think
Please
Big Fan
Huge
Fan
Successful
Even
Million
Million People
Phenomenally
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
Alan Rickman
History
Everything
Musically
Exciting
Said
England
Phenomenally
I truly think a long career is to keep the audience guessing and not being able to be boxed, and for me, I'm not hell-bent on playing the lead in things as long its an interesting character with phenomenally talented people, and it's a script that I feel is genuinely innovative, creative, and potentially interesting for an audience.
David Oyelowo
Character
Me
Creative
People
Long
Think
Guessing
Innovative
Able
Long Career
Potentially
Lead
Feel
Talented
Talented People
Boxed
Audience
Genuinely
Truly
Being
Script
Interesting
Interesting Character
Keep
Things
Playing
Career
Phenomenally
We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.
Drew Bledsoe
Great
Soil
Blessed
Valley
Complex
Fairly
Phenomenally
'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing!
Alex Pareene
Good
Editing
TV
Bad
Direction
Emily
Terrific
Sam
Newsroom
Production
Jeff
Even
Phenomenally
The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
Chris Squire
Time
Me
Beatles
Long
Long Time
Seemed
Had
Like
Which
Early
Early 20s
Career
Phenomenally
People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.
Ken Cuccinelli
People
Evil
Country
Own
Other
Tyrannical
Way
Intolerant
Bad
Must
Some
How
Label
Left
Than
Any
Them
Realize
Views
Phenomenally
I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.
Rose Leslie
Love
Good
You
Comedy
Think
Would
Sure
Got
Go
Quite
Just
So Much Fun
Being
Gall
Much
Fun
Phenomenally
Imagine
Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.
Alison Sweeney
Age
Amazing
Mind
Field
General
Never
Had
Talented
She
Looks
Sally
Decades
Many
Actress
Her
Career
Phenomenally
PC Internet advertising and mobile advertising - there are some key differences. One, the ability to target is phenomenally high in the mobile space because the information... that one has about the kinds of things that you're doing on the phone is better.
Naveen Tewari
You
Key
Phone
Better
Space
Internet
Differences
High
Ability
Kinds
Some
About
Advertising
Because
Doing
Mobile
Target
Information
Things
Phenomenally
People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.
Isaiah Mustafa
Love
People
Kick
Out
Excited
New
Coming
Get
Movies
Them
Really
Successful
Successful People
Phenomenally
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
Peter Agre
Education
College
Important
Chemistry
Active
Society
Member
Minnesota
Had
He
Chemical
Saint
Textbook
Very
American
Committee
Oxford
Where
Then
Who
Sat
Dad
Professor
Phenomenally
I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
Damian Woetzel
Time
You
Natural
Suited
Guess
Dancing
Introduced
Must
Would
Would-Be
Ability
Something
Never
Had
Weird
Because
Discovered
Very
Happen
Natural Ability
Lucky
Phenomenally