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In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.
Tom Shales
Best
Comedy
Otherwise
Proper
Mischievous
Delight
Through
Comedies
Audiences
Traditions
Beginnings
American
Did
Leslie
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
Tom Vilsack
Food
Insecurity
Our
Nutrition
Hunger
Obesity
Proper
Only
Leading
Access
Lack
Children
Among
When I'm injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That's the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.
Tony McCoy
Myself
Treat
Everything
One Thing
Eat
About
Proper
Get
Junk
Being
The One Thing
Much
Injured
Thing
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
Tony Snow
Rule
Proper
Governing
Senate
Uses
Filibuster
Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.
Tony Vincent
Few
Every
Dressing
Dressing Room
Proper
Bottles
Room
Should
The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
Toussaint Louverture
Enemy
Liberty
Resolved
Our
Destroy
Brought
Proper
Only
Town
Force
Fallen
Were
Up
Hands
Blown
Intentions
After
Burnt
Ashes
Plain
Cape
Whites
Therefore
Found
Resistance
My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.
Trinny Woodall
Work
Buy
Good
Morning
Better
Job
Power
First
Nice
Every
Broker
Proper
Instead
Look
Make
Off
Than
Afford
Commodities
Actually
Buttons
Suit
You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.
Tyrese Gibson
You
Yourself
Mind
Master
Own
Live
Once
Out
Proper
Head
Environment
Make
Sure
Got
Want
Create
Your
Figure
Things
My first proper relationship was at 16 in college.
Varun Dhawan
Relationship
College
First
Proper
I have had my share of relationships and broken hearts, so there has been a proper balance in life.
Vikrant Massey
Life
Broken
Balance
Relationships
Has-Been
Proper
Had
Share
Been
Hearts
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
Vincent Tan
Life
Education
Family
Proper
Could
Afford
Poor
Even
Started
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
Viswanathan Anand
Life
Mathematics
Man
People
Financial
Believe
Increasingly
Markets
Complex
Financial Markets
Proper
More
Could
Like
Concepts
Deal
Mathematical
Familiar
Modern
Common
Modern Life
Common Man
Which
Help
Grounding
Things
Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
Watkin Tudor Jones
You
Culture
Conservative
Side
Right-Wing
Hidden
About
Proper
No-One
Knows
Very
Get
Which
The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
Will Self
Life
Job
My Life
Late
Ran
Corporate
Sierra
Proper
Only
Small
Had
Ford
Years
Company
Even
Publishing
Publishing Company
Two
It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
William Bartram
White
Settlements
Border
Proper
Had
Observe
Passed
May
Frontier
Now
Utmost
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
William Inge
Time
Character
Before
Hundred
Hundred Years
Born
About
Proper
He
Years
Child
Influence
Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.
William Reddington Hewlett
Good
Women
Good Job
Will
Job
Men
Men And Women
Proper
Environment
Provided
Want
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.
William Ruckelshaus
Fashion
Atmosphere
Proper
Putting
Policies
Reduce
Incentives
Carbon
Amount
Need
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
Love
Time
Patriotism
Country
Increasing
Our
Some
Proper
Bear
Foreign
Native
Means
Reside
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
William Vickrey
Welfare
Evil
Deficits
Proper
Terms
Greater
Greater Evil
Mitigate
Unemployment
Human
Far
Means
Larger
Necessary
Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
Yuri Lowenthal
Video Games
You
Fighting
Imitate
Punched
Kicked
Carried
Proper
Feel
Stuff
Over
Occasionally
Sound
Gotten
Doing
Lot
Mic
Get
Video
Games
Stands
Away
Things
I worked for a company called Population Services International, a social marketing company advocating healthy behaviors. We had a big branding campaign with celebrities to help educate about the proper use of mosquito nets, for example, to help prevent malaria.
Yvonne Orji
Mosquito
Example
Big
Healthy
Marketing
About
Proper
Nets
Prevent
Had
For Example
Advocating
Educate
Malaria
Campaign
Celebrities
Behaviors
Social
Worked
Use
Help
International
Company
Population
Services
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Zebulon Pike
Character
Army
States
Proper
Am
Officer
United
United States
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
bell hooks
Rage
Blacks
Proper
Merely
Lack
Victims
Who
The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I was in the 6th grade, so I had this style of writing that was definitely not proper for writing a book.
iJustine
Challenges
Book
Writing
Style
Definitely
Proper
Had
Since
Blog
Been
Very
Grade
Different
Tweets
I got fired from a job years ago. It was an accounting job. They were basically trying to cut corners, so they employed a bunch of temps to do proper accounting. And it just caused absolute bedlam and I did get fired.
Nish Kumar
Job
Corners
Proper
Absolute
Fired
Employed
Got
Caused
Were
Years
Years Ago
Bunch
Accounting
Get
Trying
Did
Just
Cut
Basically
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