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The Chinese government promised Hong Kong '50 years, and change.' And 50 years later, after 1997, will be 2046; I think, 'Well, that's a very interesting promise.' So I want to make a film about promise.
Wong Kar-wai
Government
Change
Will
Think
Hong Kong
Later
Promise
Promised
About
Well
Make
Kong
Years
Very
Want
After
Chinese
Interesting
Chinese Government
Film
When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
Martin O'Malley
School
Election
Stage
Homework
President
High
Promised
Would
Abolish
High School
Entire
Gymnasium
Student
Student Body
He
Him
Grade
Candidates
Elected
Us
Body
Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.
Zephyr Teachout
Mom
People
Fall
Jobs
Promised
Seem
Town
Come
Likely
Got
Amazon
Shops
Just
While
Taxes
Pop
Paying
Less
Billions
Right
Numbers
President Trump promised to negotiate trade agreements to get better deals for America and protect American jobs. Bottom line: He delivered.
Mark Meadows
Better
President
President Trump
Negotiate
Jobs
Promised
Delivered
Bottom
He
Bottom Line
Protect
Trade
Trade Agreements
Deals
Line
Trump
America
Get
American
American Jobs
Agreements
The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
Rand Paul
Opportunity
Free
Unlimited
Markets
Promise
Promised
Outcomes
Seemed
Something
Free Markets
Through
Federal
Democrats
Tangible
Offered
While
Republicans
Less
Assistance
Hong Kong was promised democracy under the framework known as 'one country, two systems,' and China is ignoring this promise. The international community should be more attuned to this. It matters.
Joshua Wong
Democracy
Country
Matters
Community
Hong Kong
Framework
One Country
Systems
Promise
Promised
More
Known
Attuned
Kong
China
Should
Ignoring
International
International Community
Two
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah
Work
Mom
School
Year
Back
Back To School
Out
Promised
Would
Percent
Never
Putting
Go
Did
After
Work Out
Career
Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.
Joyce Meyer
Life
God
Peace
My Life
Miserable
Gifts
Promised
Know
Most
Because
His
Years
Precious
Children
Many
Peaceful
Back in 2014, my fellow Hong Kongers and I hoped to use nonviolent means to fight for our territory's democratic system - a simple right, promised by Beijing, to choose our own leader.
Joshua Wong
Fight
Simple
Leader
Own
Back
Our
System
Promised
Hoped
Democratic
Fellow
Territory
Nonviolent
Beijing
Means
Use
Choose
Right
Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.
Joyce Meyer
Life
Hope
God
Best
Myself
Me
My Life
Prison
Nothing
Lock
Promised
Ministry
He
Over
Knowing
Concerning
Learned
How
His
Years
Up
Planned
Things
People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot more difficult and complicated than was promised by those who won the referendum campaign in 2016.
Betty Boothroyd
War
People
World
Complicated
Challenge
Difficult
Those
Promised
More
Since
Talk
Referendum
Lot
Campaign
Proving
Won
Than
Often
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Brexit
Certainly
Who
Second
World War
Second World War
I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge and promised me a number one hit with it I'd still say no. That, for me, is not the kind of success I want.
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Success
Me
You
Song
Edge
Bono
Gave
Else
Say
Kind
Promised
One-Hit
Recorded
Never
Songs
Still
Hit
Want
Anyone
Not Interested
Interested
Number
As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule of law was observed and decency was embedded in the national fabric.
Gina Miller
Great
Culture
Law
National
Decency
Believe
Great Britain
Rule
Rule Of Law
Embedded
Promised
Promised Land
Fabric
Brought
Had
Observed
Been
Up
Child
Where
Commonwealth
Land
Britain
Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.
Bill O'Reilly
People
Unfair
Way
Jobs
Promised
Must
Hopes
Delivered
Never
Cannot
Raise
God never promised us a trouble-free life.
Joyce Meyer
Life
God
Promised
Never
Us
Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.
Joyce Meyer
God
Peace
Gifts
Promised
Most
His
Precious
Children
Regardless of the obstacle in your life, there is a wind from God that can bring you out. Let the wind of the Lord blow down every spirit of fear and heaviness that would cause you to give up on what God has promised you.
T. D. Jakes
God
Promised
Obstacle
Lord
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