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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith
Time
Joy
Confused
Everybody
Pleasure
Distinguish
Easily
Only
Between
Does
Am
Very
Maybe
Might
Useful
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
Zadie Smith
You
Experience
People
Joy
Down
Further
Pleasure
Seem
Only
Road
Simply
Feel
Most
Track
Go
Arrived
Been
Lot
Version
Intense
Same
Little
I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it.
Zoe Kazan
Back
Pleasure
Put
Want
Planet
Derive
Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a special pleasure, particularly because I'd played baseball in high school.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
School
Back
Pleasure
High
ABC
High School
Look
Particularly
Mississippi
Because
Movie
Story
Which
Working
Special
Baseball
Played
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Business
Pleasure
Only
Pursuit
Highest
He
Him
Makes
His
Affords
Sustain
Which
Successful
Who
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
P. J. O'Rourke
Car
Pleasure
Most
Until
Became
Began
Cup
Up
Ends
Loved
Urban
Turned
Then
Many
Things
Appliances
Necessity
I don't discriminate when it comes to dumplings. Give me a generous plate of pretty much anything wrapped in a starchy, doughy casing and I will dive in with pleasure. But one star in the dumpling universe shines brighter than the others: the humble pierogi.
Claire Saffitz
Me
Humble
Will
Universe
Others
Pleasure
Wrapped
Pretty
Dive
Pretty Much Anything
Give
Give Me
Generous
Shines
Discriminate
Than
Anything
Much
Plate
Star
Brighter
If one day God gives me the opportunity to coach Cameroon, it would be a great pleasure.
Samuel Eto'o
God
Day
Great
Me
Opportunity
Pleasure
One Day
Would
Would-Be
Gives
Great Pleasure
Cameroon
Coach
We already know what Leo is capable of and it's a pleasure to see him on a daily basis. The level of effectiveness he has in training and matches is tremendous. He is fundamental in free-kicks, in open play, that's why he's the best player in the world.
Sergio Busquets
Best
Daily
Training
World
Tremendous
Pleasure
See
Open
He
Know
Him
Matches
Effectiveness
Capable
Leo
Daily Basis
Fundamental
Why
Play
Level
Player
Basis
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Art
Integrity
Will
Master
Pleasure
Characterization
Record
Classics
Never
Studied
Never Forget
True
Instruction
Robinson
Surely
His
Versatility
Edward
Forget
Modern
Artistic
Working
Derived
These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
People
Meet
Pleasure
Studies
Like
Just
Chinese
Meals
Mean
Them
Your
Who
Saturated
Fat
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Me
Justice
Woman
Joy
Pleasure
Particularly
Court
Very
Her
Second
Competent
I enjoy smaller projects, especially by newcomers, where there is more energy than on bigger productions. And there's the pleasure of seeing the final result.
Ulrich Thomsen
Result
Energy
Enjoy
Final
Projects
Pleasure
Seeing
More
Smaller
Than
Where
Bigger
Newcomers
Productions
I feel privileged to be able to do what I enjoy doing and that I also get paid to do it. That gives me great pleasure.
Samuel Eto'o
Great
Me
Enjoy
Pleasure
I Feel
Able
Gives
Great Pleasure
Feel
Also
Doing
Privileged
Get
Paid
It was a pleasure to play in Houston.
Gerrit Cole
Pleasure
Houston
Play
I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you're trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That's one theory of pleasure.
Marvin Minsky
You
Memories
Memory
Pleasure
Mainly
Learn
Protects
Parts
Fresh
Brain
Off
Trying
Suspect
Short-Term
Turn
Turn-Off
Used
Theory
Keep
Things
It's going to be an immense pleasure to work with Jose Mourinho, listen to him and learn from him.
Willian
Work
Pleasure
Immense
Him
Learn
Going
Listen
When you like something, it's not work, it's a pleasure.
Royce Gracie
Work
You
Pleasure
Something
Like
I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me.
Steve Miller
Me
Important
Pleasure
Audience
Expect
Them
Play
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
Stewart O'Nan
Risks
Other
Pleasure
Take
Writers
Since
Reader
Sure
Any
Different
Serve
It would be a pleasure to play against England. They are one of the top teams.
Dejan Lovren
Top
Pleasure
Would
Would-Be
Against
England
Teams
Play
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