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I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
Noam Chomsky
Christian
Think
State
States
Would
Object
Proper
Concept
Islamic
United
United States
Jewish
I actually went to Wimbledon, and David Attenborough was sat in the row in front of me, and I thought that was quite amazing. That's insane, isn't it? He's, like, a proper person.
Noel Fielding
Me
Amazing
Thought
Insane
Wimbledon
Proper
David
He
Like
Person
Front
Quite
Sat
Actually
Row
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz
Life
Feelings
Own
Our
Project
Guide
Way
See
Proper
Onto
Also
Attribute
Passions
Sensations
Them
Things
Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
Olivia Colman
Love
Proper
Potato
Feels
Supportive
Like
Comfortable
Jacket
Should
Utterly
I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
Olivia Colman
Nervous
Legend
Sweet
Meeting
About
Charlotte
Proper
She
Just
I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles and I've also sold over two and a half million albums. I shouldn't have to convince people that I'm credible, but I'm glad people are now taking me more seriously.
Olly Murs
Myself
Me
People
Seriously
Half
Sold
Proper
More
Glad
Had
Taking
Over
Also
Singles
Questions
Artist
Established
Anyone
Convince
Ridiculous
Now
Credibility
Credible
Million
Four
Albums
Number
Two
We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
Orville Wright
Better
Power
Satisfied
Once
Completion
Drawing
Adjustment
Proper
More
More Power
Could
Were
Motor
According
Expected
Little
Then
Therefore
The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.
Oscar Isaac
Guitar
School
First
Before
Musical
High
High School
About
Proper
Small
Small Part
Had
Noah
Part
Ark
School Play
Wrote
Very
Did
Grade
Sixth
Play
Played
We have not provided our frontline supervisors and managers and individuals with the proper procedures that would allow them to use their common sense.
Oscar Munoz
Sense
Our
Would
Proper
Allow
Individuals
Provided
Managers
Common
Procedures
Common Sense
Them
Use
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.
Padgett Powell
Time
Business
Long
Long Time
Addiction
Out
Seeking
Oneself
Proper
Potential
Had
Vehicle
Call
Options
Maximizing
Human
Choice
Choices
Whole
Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
Pam Grier
Today
Dark
Word
Black
Lost
Proper
Make
Concise
Does
Hispanics
Very
Person
American
African
African-American
Them
Meaning
Then
Use
Skinned
Even
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
Parker Posey
Experience
Digital
Girl
Party
Think
Independent
Proper
Smaller
Takes
Days
Budgets
House
Party Girl
Gotten
Camera
Yes
Shoot
Movie
Now
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
Patricia Highsmith
Mother
Humor
Proper
Fondness
Excellent
Had
He
Robert
His
Walker
Elegance
I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
Patrick deWitt
Time
Good
Home
Age
Negative
Young
Teenage
Teenage Years
Consider
Spend
Valley
Spent
All-Around
Pretty
Angeles
Proper
Through
Adulthood
Until
Around
Los
Los Angeles
Years
Ultimately
Up
Did
Anymore
Formative
Amount
One of the responsibilities of Congress is the power of the purse, but there is also oversight. In order to have proper oversight, you have to have agency administrators, directors, and secretaries of those agencies speak frankly and about the facts.
Paul Gosar
You
Speak
Power
Congress
Secretaries
Those
Frankly
Responsibilities
Administrators
About
Proper
Directors
Purse
Facts
Also
Oversight
Order
Agencies
Agency
I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.
Paul Watson
Education
People
Enough
Unless
License
Parent
Proper
Allowed
Feel
Nobody
How
Prove
Children
Should
Competent
Raise
Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.
Paul Weyrich
Judge
Understanding
Bench
Scandal
Constitutional
Proper
Absent
Federal
Federal Judge
Importance
Judges
Role
Decades
Who
Serve
I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.
Paula Poundstone
Great
You
Say
Some
Proper
Caesar
Like
Know
Also
Although
Making
Salad
Going
Places
Why
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
Paul von Hindenburg
Strength
People
Impossible
Our
Proper
Supply
Maintain
Obtaining
Succeed
Them
Working
Full
Working People
Sufficient
Fat
Basis
I have a huge fan following in Bellary, and when they met me, they told me about their problems. I have seen mining done without proper safety measures and not taking environmental protection into account.
Pawan Kalyan
Environmental
Me
Protection
Safety
Problems
Seen
Met
Mining
Following
About
Proper
Taking
Environmental Protection
Without
Huge
Account
Huge Fan
Done
Fan
Measures
I can't even count to five when I say my proper friends in football.
Per Mertesacker
Say
Proper
Count
Football
Friends
Five
Even
'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.
Pete Doherty
Word
Sense
Gin
Proper
True
Old-Fashioned
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness.
Peter Hitchens
Happiness
Day
World
Rest
Trees
Wilderness
Pleasure
We Cannot
Find
Seek
Proper
Like
Because
Without
Howling
Cannot
Which
Landmarks
Landscape
Incessantly
In three weeks, you can improve a lot. You can train a lot. You can come up with a proper plan.
Peter Schmeichel
You
Three
Proper
Weeks
Come
Lot
Up
Train
Improve
Plan
The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper.
Piet Mondrian
Spiritual
Scale
Degrees
Physical
Spirit
Proper
Only
Both
Thus
Towards
Term
Also
Used
Many
Away
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius
Win
Numerous
Those
Proper
More
Know
Make
How
Than
Victories
Much
Use
Who
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