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The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.
Asa Hutchinson
Become
Phrase
Toxic
Private
Itself
Option
Politically
For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
Athol Fugard
You
Man
Soul
Men
South Africa
Draw
Out
Phrase
Miracle
Bottom
Equal
Does
Rock
Yawn
Hear
West
South
Africa
Us
Created
Starting
My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.
Ayanna Pressley
Politics
Government
Me
You
Change
Mother
First
Defense
Way
Phrase
However
Line
Want
Informed
Agent
Create
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.
Ben Affleck
Before
Phrase
Never
She
Well
Yes
Used
My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.
Ben Gibbard
Memorable
Phrase
Some
Write
Songwriter
Simply
Goal
Turns
Now
In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'
Bill Gross
Phrase
Economic
Economic Growth
New
Terms
Normal
Famous
Originated
Growth
I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes - they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. 'This is the way you must look; this is this season's must-have.' I really resent the phrase 'must-have.' I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Beautiful
Myself
Fashion
You
Problem
Sometimes
Think
Way
Must
Phrase
Magazines
Seem
Look
Decide
Prefer
Uniforms
Really
Resent
Season
Fashionable
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Brian Eno
Dreams
Song
Luck
Phrase
Had
Head
Lot
Quite
Often
Quite A Lot
Whole
Even
Night
People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
People
Three
Jazz
Strictly
Musical
Way
Musical Theater
Definitely
Comply
Phrase
Tends
Comment
Very
Theater
Realized
Four
Two
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
Charles D. Broad
Word
Long
Philosophy
Say
Tries
Phrase
Some
Clear
Simply
Concepts
Concerned
Up
Familiar
Substitute
Mean
Meanings
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'
Charles Duhigg
Generation
Marketers
Corporations
Phrase
Adolescence
Vast
Consultants
Consumers
Between
Advertising
Always
Began
Difference
Happily
Explaining
Exploded
Eager
Coin
When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.
Chris Morris
Love
Hate
People
Say
Hated
Phrase
People Say
Never
Catch
Catch Phrase
Repeat
Truly
Mean
Them
Appalled
Actually
I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
Christine Quinn
Me
You
Think
Society
Definition
Phrase
Seems
Having
Like
Supposed
Particularly
Imposed
List
Want
Need
The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.
Christine and the Queens
Time
You
People
First
Relating
Tell
Phrase
Having
Like
Listen
Hard
Hard Time
Socially
Album
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
Cynthia Ozick
Woman
Poet
Back
Phrase
About
Absolutely
Write
Writer
Wrote
Am
Essay
Essays
Movement
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Height
Far
Reject
I live by honor. I live by integrity. I live by 'never quit.' It's not a cool T-shirt phrase for me.
Dakota Meyer
Me
Integrity
Honor
Live
Phrase
Never
Never Quit
Quit
Cool
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle
You
Word
Gone
Every
Back
Once
Out
Phrase
Catch
Forever
Want
While
Bring
I can only appreciate the kind of work that goes into being a top drag queen. Ru Paul looks just astonishing as a woman. And he's got this fantastic turn of phrase. I find him hilarious.
David Harewood
Work
Woman
Queen
Hilarious
Top
Astonishing
Kind
Find
Phrase
Only
He
Looks
Him
Got
Goes
Just
Being
Paul
Fantastic
Turn
Drag
Appreciate
We've had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.
David Oyelowo
Think
Phrase
Had
Almost
New
Faith-Based
Want
Movies
Them
Many
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
David Sanborn
Jazz
Guess
Phrase
Well
Always
Smooth
Opposed
Unease
Uneasy
Little
I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.
David Shields
You
Together
Think
Way
Collage
Thousand
Phrase
Fond
Disabled
Put
Powerful
Powerful Way
Pieces
Very
Bloom
Refuge
Really
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
Derek Walcott
Memory
Mind
Fog
Every
Imagination
Frames
Sunlight
Phrase
Through
Pieces
Island
Bamboo
Effort
Labour
Gods
Racial
Sudden
Rebuilding
Amnesia
Rainbows
Biography
The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.
Dick Cavett
Hope
Myself
Good
Failure
Jokes
Strong
Joke
Own
Films
Pulse
Honored
Once
One Thing
Phrase
About
Dating
Had
Delivery
He
New
Accelerate
Always
His
Very
Again
Bob
Bob Hope
Meant
Used
Thing
Oscar
Night
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.
Don Hewitt
Thread
Phrase
He
Needle
I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.
Donovan
Song
Guitar
Once
Immediately
Out
Phrase
Finish
Pick
Almost
Highly
Am
Up
Form
Then
Skilled
Start
The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
Fabrizio Moreira
Time
Great
Plants
Long
Setting
Humming
Peer
Plentiful
Jobs
Kind
Phrase
Some
Restore
Superiority
Economic
Previous
Factories
Since
Implies
Mission
Make
Without
Passed
Were
Very
America
American
Where
Wanted
Anyone
Again
Manufacturing
Who
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