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I used to say I didn't regret dropping out of school because it's what I had to do. But I do feel it. There are certain conversations I feel excluded from. When people talk about Greek history, I just have to sit there and listen. I excuse myself from games of Trivial Pursuit.
Neve Campbell
Myself
History
People
Regret
School
Sit
Say
Out
About
Trivial
Pursuit
Had
Dropping
Feel
Excluded
Excuse
Talk
Because
Greek
Listen
Just
Conversations
Certain
Used
Games
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nicolas Chamfort
Art
Wonderful
Aid
Pleasing
Bored
More
Pursuit
Supposed
Infinitely
Being
Commonly
Successful
Fortune
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye
Truth
Ego
Dangerous
Stronger
Goodness
Beauty
Temptation
More
Pursuit
Because
Nonsense
Than
Affords
Much
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
Olympia Snowe
Today
Service
Political
Too
Honorable
Pursuit
Most
Discourse
Overshadowed
Truths
Often
Public
Public Service
Two
Bipartisanship
As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.
Palmer Luckey
Time
Best
Experience
Money
Better
Three
Building
Past
Setup
Chunk
Spent
Out
Significant
Would
Would-Be
Enthusiast
Some
My Time
Absolute
Point
Pursuit
Take
Look
Always
Time And Money
Decided
Theoretical
Figure
Gaming
Rig
Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.
Paul Craig Roberts
Corporations
Given
Pursuit
Economy
Wall
Wall Street
Short-Term
Away
Street
Profits
I have been relentless in my pursuit to hold Eric Holder accountable for his actions and will not rest until the door officially hits him on his way out.
Paul Gosar
Will
Rest
Way
Relentless
Out
Pursuit
Until
Him
Been
Eric
His
His Way
Accountable
Hits
Officially
Door
Hold
Holder
Actions
I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting the gag right.
Paul Merton
Book
Vision
Dedication
Every
Chaplin
See
About
Pursuit
Perfection
Read
How
Getting
Gag
Tunnel
Tunnel Vision
Worked
Keaton
Buster
Right
I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
Paul Nurse
Good
Science
Problem
Important
Difficult
Strongly
Pursuit
Studied
Since
Felt
Effort
Essential
Being
Justify
While they believe the pursuit of profit is important to sustaining a business, millennials also say that pursuit must be accompanied by a sense of purpose, by efforts to create innovative products or services, and, above all, by consideration of individuals as employees and members of society.
Punit Renjen
Business
Employees
Important
Sense
Believe
Profit
Society
Innovative
Consideration
Say
Members
Must
Above
Purpose
Pursuit
Individuals
Also
Accompanied
Efforts
Sustaining
While
Create
Products
Millennials
Services
Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.
Rachel Simmons
Happiness
Future
Me
Benefit
Strikes
Must
Pursued
Pursuit
Powerful
Perhaps
Most
Most Powerful
Occupations
Motivate
Ultimate
Currency
Just
Happen
Succeed
Turn
Us
Skill
Choices
Choose
Helps
Present
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
Good
Loneliness
Winter
Marriage
People
Dark
Chapel
Proper
Wedding
Pursuit
Annual
Dead
Dead People
Go
Up
Hitched
Get
Shop
Reprieve
Afterlife
While
Night
Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
Ralph Gibson
Art
Day
Me
Long
All Day
Constantly
Above
Pursuit
Ideal
Concept
Because
Pragmatic
Discuss
Just
Inclined
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
Raymond Sokolov
Lunch
Pursuit
New
Devoted
Island
Narrow
New Jersey
Off
Manhattan
Coast
Jersey
I'm the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.
Reshma Saujani
Work
Never Give Up
Work Hard
Be Brave
Daughter
Immigrant
Dream
Give
Mentality
Pursuit
Never
Up
American
Brave
Refugees
American Dream
Achieving
Your
Hard
If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me.
Rick Santorum
Me
You
Entertainment
Problem
Big
Marketing
Entertainment Industry
Pursuit
Exchange
Bottom
Bottom Line
Look
Industry
Content
Audiences
Line
Inappropriate
Producing
Profits
A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.
Robert Dallek
Hope
Great
Will
Seen
Shifting
Presidential
Some
Insincere
Purpose
Higher
Pursuit
Pragmatic
Candidate
Mean
Utterly
Desire
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Herrick
Happiness
Great
Man
Be Happy
Happy
Energy
Alive
Must
Feat
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Open
Takes
Wit
Greatest
Accomplish
Interest
Activity
In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam Hussein's pursuit of unconventional weapons - until after he invaded Kuwait.
Ronen Bergman
Good
Intelligence
Late
States
Weapons
Invaded
Hussein
Pursuit
Had
He
Unconventional
Saddam
Missed
Until
Israel
Iraq
Kuwait
After
United
Believed
United States
Extent
I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!
Ruth Negga
Tough
Aggressive
More
Pursuit
Never
Had
Because
Been
Quite
Maybe
Being
Plan
Star
Need
I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.
Sarah Gadon
You
Films
Kinds
Pursuit
Like
Make
Fame
Trying
Famous
Working
Working Actor
Actor
A life in pursuit of position or power is not a life well-lived or in service to others.
Sarah McBride
Life
Service
Power
Others
Pursuit
Service To Others
Position
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sarah Vowell
Happiness
Life
God
Time
Liberty
Long
Long Time
Believe
Gave
Something
Habit
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Never
Long Time Ago
Up
Replaced
Shook
Wanting
While
Everlasting
Creed
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Stanley Hauerwas
Happiness
Life
God
Liberty
Believe
Enough
Everyone
Say
Kind
Atheism
Only
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Proposition
Thus
Counts
Most
Call
Question
Deny
America
American
Just
Interesting
Right
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Stephen Jay Gould
Creative
Science
Objective
More
Pursuit
Geniuses
Than
Heartless
Human
Artists
Human Activity
Information
Acting
Activity
I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
Heart
Sometimes
Separation
Believe
Preserving
Our
Inside
Pursuit
Misguided
Read
Greater
May
Impulse
Common
Want
While
Us
Search
Compels
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