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A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.
Leila Slimani
Food
Woman
Speak
Walk
Own
Gives
Nanny
She
How
Ambiguous
Very
Children
Place
Apartment
Them
Teaches
Who
Lives
Her
Raises
In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.
Lionel Shriver
Success
Dreams
Picture
Big
Few
Young
Live
Every
Nursed
Our
Fact
Merely
Always
Were
Accomplishment
Up
Big Picture
In Fact
Bar
Success Is
Nearly
Raises
Careers
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
Louis de Bernieres
Family
Law
Impossible
Otherwise
System
Unnecessarily
High
Responsible
Would
Reconciled
Directly
Adversarial
Concerned
Couples
Making
Antagonism
Stakes
Who
Raises
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
Mario Cuomo
Time
Every
Every Time
Mafia
Head
His
Italian
Question
Raises
Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies.
Michael Moss
Saying
Time
Good
Food
Result
Try
Pressure
Looking
Salt
Profit
Every
Sugar
Every Time
Back
Thou
Giants
Shalt
Calories
Revenue
Inevitably
Continuing
Loss
Sales
Hand
Huge
Wall
Wall Street
Any
Cut
Figures
Companies
Street
Fat
Raises
If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter. Eventually, the market will reward you. If it raises the value of our collection, we go for it.
Norman Braman
Best
You
Opportunity
Matter
Reward
Will
Value
Market
Our
Collection
Go
Go For It
Artist
Then
Eventually
Raises
Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
Paul J. Meyer
Enthusiasm
Yeast
Dough
Raises
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph G. Neas
Death
Justice
People
President
John
John Roberts
Nomination
Roberts
Court
Chief
Chief Justice
American
Stakes
American People
Exponentially
Raises
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
Richard Attias
Education
Knowledge
Big
Boom
Harvard
Rival
Develop
Economies
Sort
How
West
Questions
Big Questions
Africa
African
Infrastructure
Created
Businesses
Growth
Raises
University
Obviously, the Night's King is clearly a symbol of something very unpleasant in our psyche, and he even raises wights from the dead, which is probably everybody's worst fear, being actually used after we're dead.
Richard Brake
Fear
King
Everybody
Our
Worst
Unpleasant
Something
He
Clearly
Dead
Obviously
Very
Psyche
Being
After
Which
Used
Even
Actually
Symbol
Night
Raises
Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.
Robert Irwin
Time
Great
You
Become
Every
Every Time
Addict
Final
Way
Immediately
Something
Pursue
Make
Am
Question
Questions
Which
Raises
Need
Set
These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or more is daunting, I love it. It's my church and raises my spirit. It's good for my soul.
Roger Bart
Love
Good
Soul
Opportunities
Church
Year
Broadway
Spirit
Something
More
My Soul
Daunting
Idea
Most
Although
Doing
Go
Special
Thing
Raises
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
Roger Moore
Extremes
Range
Eyebrow
Something
Between
Always
Been
Left
Acting
Right
Raises
Two
It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.
Satya Nadella
Faith
You
Will
System
About
Give
Having
Along
Knowing
Go
Asking
Actually
Right
Raise
Raises
In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?
Scott Brown
Health
Good
Care
Will
Half
President
Tried
Trillion
More
Costs
Proposing
He
Implement
Health Care
How
Dollars
His
America
After
Plan
Taxes
Us
Convince
Raises
Speech
That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
Solomon Asch
Education
People
Matter
Values
Black
Young
White
Our
Guide
Ways
Willing
About
Concern
Call
Well-Meaning
Questions
Conduct
Intelligent
Young People
Reasonably
Raises
I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.
Sonoya Mizuno
Unfair
See
Feel
Stereotypes
Untrue
Because
Inequality
Just
Level
Raises
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Sophocles
Future
Man
Men
Both
Prophet
Badly
Mortal
Well
Up
Low
Fortune
Who
Brings
Raises
Charity only works when smart, innovative, compassionate people in the field are supported from home. The World of Children Award raises money and visibility for change makers, people doing the real work. We are a conduit for funding and resources only; all of our operating costs are covered by our generous board of governors.
Stephanie March
Work
Home
Change
Charity
People
World
Money
Smart
Field
Innovative
Our
Resources
Visibility
Only
Costs
Supported
Generous
Operating
Makers
Real
Doing
Covered
Governors
Conduit
Children
Real Work
Board
Works
Award
Compassionate
Funding
Raises
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
Stephen Harper
Work
Government
Strong
Long
First
Building
Think
Worst
Destroys
Case
Scenario
Invest
Unstable
Look
Obvious
First Of All
Very
Canada
Place
Taxes
Image
Raises
Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under.
Steven Weinberg
Risks
Science
Happy
Increase
Our
Possible
Would
Would-Be
Ability
Puts
Terrible
Because
Were
Fission
Very
Capacities
Us
Certainly
Nuclear
Things
Raises
The bar raises as you go.
William H. Macy
You
Go
Bar
Raises
Because God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority, it is God who raises up a king. It is God that sets one down.
Paula White
God
People
King
Down
Sets
Says
All People
He
Because
Up
Authority
Places
Who
Raises
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