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The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
David Knopfler
Creative
School
Expectation
Club
Punishments
Out
Folk
Logic
Prone
Followed
Fit
Same
Just
Anything
Much
Figured
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.
Debra Granik
Positive
Strength
Survival
People
Some People
Kind
Prone
Some
Small
Schemes
Attracted
Because
Am
Maybe
Blues
The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their employees.
Elise Stefanik
Needs
Employees
Too
Changing
Guest
Visa
Has-Been
Rigid
Prone
Delays
Excessive
Been
Fit
Farmers
Program
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney
Mind
Too
Dissipation
Pleasure
Easily
Prone
Yielded
Naturally
Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.
Gary Weiss
Financial
Prone
Above
Perennial
Casual
Investors
Headache
Abuse
Reader
Knows
Because
Been
Stock
Pages
Even
We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Selfish
Prone
Lazy
Little
It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Son
Vain
Carelessly
Mark
Way
Prone
Almighty
Name
His
Manhood
Use
Many
Beloved
What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.
Graydon Carter
You
Rage
Out
Constantly
Prone
Seems
Throwing
Call
Tantrums
Fits
Acting
Electorate
Full
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.
Helen Fisher
Women
Prone
Over
Mates
Women Are
Naturally
Compete
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
Jack Nicholson
Work
Director
Thought
Become
Whatever
Own
Control
Otherwise
Out
Prone
My Own
More
Come
Concept
Because
Go
Up
Than
Going
Maybe
Just
Want
Against
Them
Who
Fun
Agree
Actor
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki
Work
Fashion
Procrastination
Problems
College
Long
Own
Prone
College Students
Finishing
Vast
Vast Majority
Long Periods
Students
Putting
Piece
Academics
Majority
Periods
Off
Surveys
Articles
Author
May
Often
Literature
Procrastinate
Who
Things
Suggest
When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.
Jill Scott
Success
Diabetes
Become
Prone
More
Since
Fell
Became
Because
Got
Decadent
Moderate
While
Really
Hard
I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.
John Ortberg
Prone
Struck
How
Am
Quickly
I don't think actors are any more prone to depression than anyone else.
June Whitfield
Depression
Think
Else
Prone
More
Than
Any
Anyone
Anyone Else
Actor
People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.
Kevin Mitnick
People
Fear
Engineer
Shortcuts
Nice
Out
Security
Triggers
Prone
Perceived
Mental
Give
Taking
Know
Override
Person
Authority
May
Established
Being
Procedures
Information
Which
Social
Being Nice
Convince
Certain
Ignorant
Used
Figure
Appearing
'What About Bob' is my all-time favorite, and I think I've always been prone to comedy.
Lana
Comedy
Think
Favorite
Prone
All-Time
About
Always
Been
Bob
I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.
Marc Rich
Legal
People
Political
Country
System
Prone
Miss
New
Like
However
Legal System
York
New York
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.
Marco Rubio
Sad
Today
Politician
Think
President
Typical
Prone
Outrage
Hyperbole
False
Very
Decisiveness
Washington
Watch
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
Marian Keyes
Personality
Despair
Prone
Born
Particular
House
Am
Leave
Get
Afraid
Want
Then
Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.
Michelle Dean
People
Thought
Some People
Others
Market
Distinguishing
Prone
Some
Beach
Only
Thrillers
Mass
Mass Market
Genre
Read
Reads
Friends
Romances
Polling
Noticed
Standards
Many
Eligible
I guess many of us are just prone to see what the other side is up to, maybe to reinforce our own worldviews and feel confident that our ideology is right and theirs is wrong.
Mike Gallagher
Ideology
Own
Other
Side
Guess
Our
See
Prone
Wrong
Feel
Up
Confident
Maybe
Just
Us
Many
Reinforce
Right
The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.
Mikheil Saakashvili
You
Crises
Insecure
Prone
More
Create
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
Natasha Lyonne
Great
You
Jokes
People
Old
Think
Baby
Circus
Would
Entertaining
Entertaining People
Prone
Gypsy
Put
Know
Liked
Well
Industry
Making
Real
Been
Years
Child
Done
Six
Just
Them
Should
Working
Your
Your Child
Certainly
Street
Necessarily
Played
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
Nate Silver
Time
Good
You
Better
Will
Good Time
Think
Market
Markets
Would
Prone
Direction
More
Fact
Except
Invest
Toward
Well
Makes
How
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Up
Historically
Stock
Stock Market
Expect
Stocks
American
Goes
Going
Just
Poll
In Fact
Decline
Ask
Actually
I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
Think
Those
Claim
Prone
Somehow
Simply
Understand
How
Scientists
Did
Just
Clueless
Less
Who
Works
Assert
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
Pankaj Mishra
Rest
Think
Universe
Prone
More
Than
Us
Professors
University
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