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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Life
Politics
Writing
World
Try
Perspective
Furnished
Furniture
Constant
Vanishes
Purpose
Remains
Develop
Disappears
Pieces
Goal
Human
Just
Where
Just One
Human Life
Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
Taylor Sheridan
Failure
Water
Hell
Meditation
High
Someone
Purpose
Buddy
Also
Call
Loses
Rogue
Movie
Happens
Whether
Assimilation
Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.
Ted Deutch
Rights
Natural
Earning
Corporate
Spend
Corporations
Citizens
Outcome
Purpose
Protected
Dollars
Influence
Formed
Elections
Should
Profits
Treasury
I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
Ted Deutch
Group
Increase
Aid
Several
Purpose
Study
Became
Years
Years Ago
Germany
Survivors
Holocaust
Congressional
Helping
Expressed
I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.
Terri Blackstock
Buy
Future
God
Me
Back
Books
Finally
Way
Would
Some
Only
Purpose
Write
Writer
Wired
Had
Him
Glorified
Doing
Contracts
Squandering
Meant
Believed
Things
I am a fan of all genres. My big thing is to serve the purpose of the script and what the director wants. If it's a comedy, I want to be funny; if it's action, I want to bring the action. If it's drama, I want to be the catalyst for that drama. That's the fun part; it never gets boring being an actor.
Terry Crews
Funny
Director
Comedy
Big
Action
Drama
Boring
Purpose
Never
Part
Catalyst
Genres
Am
Gets
Being
Big Thing
Want
Fan
Wants
Script
Fun
Actor
Serve
Thing
Bring
My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.
The Weeknd
Life
Music
Pressure
Rest
My Life
No Pressure
Purpose
Exciting
Feel
Like
Make
Doing
For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.
Thomas Frank
Mind
Made
Other
Side
Aligned
Purpose
Higher
Institutions
GOP
Policy
Decades
Movements
Republicans
Base
Damage
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
Success
Good
Nothing
Aim
High
Something
Purpose
Does
Condition
Providence
Store
Eternal
Who
Resolutely
If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it's only a click away.
Tim Ferriss
You
Sold
Circulation
Magazine
Online
More
Only
Purpose
Take
Powerful
Print
Devout
Readership
Click
Because
Blog
Selling
Person
Infinitely
Anything
Away
Million
The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.
Tim Griffin
Nation
President
State
Address
Entire
Outline
Purpose
Where
Stand
Union
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
Tim Jackson
Happiness
Wisdom
People
Prosperity
Sense
Society
Our
Philosophical
About
Rising
More
Purpose
Point
Participation
Identification
Wellbeing
Affiliation
Just
Psychological
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Social
Based
Incomes
It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet.
Todd Rundgren
Great
Money
Internet
Free
Invent
Wikipedia
Marketplace
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Purpose
New
Ideals
Ideas
Making
Still
Making Money
Off
Essentially
Really
Aspects
Original
Originally
Specific
The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our national security priorities.
Todd Wilcox
Enemy
National
Military
Our
Destroy
Security
Purpose
Priorities
Close
Behalf
National Security
U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this core purpose.
Todd Young
Best
National
United Nations
Security
Purpose
Effectively
National Security
Nations
Interests
Fulfills
United
Served
Core
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
Tom Coburn
Country
Big
Approach
Danger
Thoughtful
Reconciliation
Purpose
Terms
Issues
Senate
American
Going
Happening
Public
American Public
Using
Now
Right
Defeated
Bring
Consensus
Buys
The theme of the Labor Department's centennial is 'Then, Now, Next.' So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we've yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.
Tom Perez
Future
Travel
Challenges
Women
Reality
Honesty
Equality
Face
Past
Before
Sense
Distance
Honoring
All Women
Purpose
Look
Still
Truly
Lingering
Labor
Department
Just
Acknowledging
Theme
Then
Next
Now
Lives
I cannot support keeping our brave service men and women away from their families without a clear need or purpose that would actively benefit the people of Wisconsin or our nation.
Tony Evers
Service
Women
People
Men
Men And Women
Nation
Benefit
Our
Would
Purpose
Wisconsin
Clear
Support
Without
Families
Brave
Cannot
Actively
Away
Keeping
Need
You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.
Tony Fadell
Work
You
People
Safety
Energy
Other
Nest
Purpose
Part
Come
Mission
Know
Look
Also
Motivated
Lot
Personally
Each
Why
Here
I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.
Tove Lo
Girl
Group
Think
Definitely
Purpose
Could
Outside
Feel
Feels
Polished
Surface
Up
Which
Pop
Keep
Right
I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
Toyin Odutola
Before
Whatever
Think
Mark
Drawing
About
Purpose
Make
How
Fit
Race
Fulfill
Start
Need
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
Tracey Emin
You
Own
Define
Purpose
Make
Being
Children
Your
Reason
Here
Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see, from the producer to the director to the writers to the actors. I think 'Pacific Rim' has been an example of something that illustrates what you get if everyone is driving towards a common purpose.
Travis Beacham
You
Director
People
Example
Half
Think
Everyone
Has-Been
Rim
See
Angles
Something
Purpose
Writers
Driving
Towards
Come
Been
Get
Common
Different
Wanting
Pacific
Producer
Different People
Views
Actor
Illustrate
Dozen
I think purpose is the most important thing because once you understand that, everything else becomes easy.
Trevor Jackson
You
Important
Think
Else
Everything
Once
Everything Else
Easy
Purpose
Most
Most Important Thing
Because
Understand
Becomes
Important Thing
The Most Important
Thing
I think college prepared me at a really high level. High school, you can take some plays off on the defensive end. Not on purpose, but if your man gets tired, you can rest a little bit. But once you get to college, and especially in the NBA, you can't do that. Even if my man gives the ball up, I'm on help side, helping my team out.
Trey Burke
Me
Tired
You
Man
School
Rest
College
Think
Defensive
Side
Once
Bit
Out
High
High Level
Some
High School
Gives
Purpose
Take
Ball
Off
End
Up
Get
Gets
Little
Little Bit
Really
Your
Team
Help
Helping
Even
NBA
Prepared
Level
Plays
I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.
Twyla Tharp
Morning
You
Wake Up
Tell
Dream
Something
Purpose
Students
Practical
Always
Got
Wake
Up
Need
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