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Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
Evan Davis
Engineering
Late
Projects
Rather
Given
Delivered
Over
Budget
Perhaps
Always
Been
Historically
Grand
Them
Many
Wary
British
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.
Evan Hunter
Character
Me
People
Crime
Single
Valid
Would
Seemed
Rather
Only
Lead
Lead Character
Like
Make
Deal
Single Person
Were
Squad
Than
Person
Cops
We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.
Evan Spiegel
Generation
World
Digital
Understanding
Believe
Analog
Other
Rather
Powerful
Affect
Mobile
Than
Where
Experiences
Unified
Next
Realm
Next Generation
Transporting
Companies
Deep
Whole
Each
I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'
Eve
Me
Try
Trouble
Experiment
Say
Follow
Rather
Gotten
Than
Person
Curious
Curious Person
Same
Formula
Why
Why Not
I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.
Evelyn Glennie
Love
Myself
Me
Memories
People
Try
Plant
Rugged
Nice
Embrace
About
Beach
Rather
Am
Than
Sitting
Front
Getting
Where
Experiences
Holidays
Places
Apple has an opening to say, 'The tools we are selling to you will enable you to do things rather than do things for you.' Google's vision is tools that will do things for you.
Evgeny Morozov
You
Vision
Will
Google
Tools
Say
Rather
Opening
Enable
Selling
Than
Apple
Things
I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.
Ezra Furman
Best
Sometimes
Down
Negativity
Way
Possibilities
Tries
Best Way
Spirit
Rather
Open
Crush
Force
Passionate
Close
Revive
Than
Human
Want
Them
Human Spirit
I was rather obsessed with angels.
Ezra Furman
Angels
Rather
Obsessed
My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.
Ezra Klein
You
Try
Job
Advice
Prestigious
Rather
More
Only
Talent
Like
Most
Always
Than
Get
Want
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
Ezra Taft Benson
God
Try
Our
Pleasing
Ourselves
Would
Outdo
Brother
Above
Rather
Well
Another
Motive
Than
Elevate
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
F. L. Lucas
People
Writing
Trouble
Impress
Clarity
Rather
Mainly
Taking
How
Than
Achieved
Them
Serve
I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
Farrah Fawcett
Time
You
Face
Three
Seven
Months
Would
Rather
More
Feature
Take
Days
Make
Because
Movie
Movies
Show
Four
I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.
Fawad Khan
Myself
Speak
Consider
Rather
Because
Very
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Person
Less
Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
Felicity Jones
Carpet
Rather
Hot
Red
Red Carpet
Cameras
Cup
Up
Front
Often
Want
Stand
Stand Up
Milk
Thing
Early
Last
Night
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
Felicity Kendal
God
Great
Director
Think
About
Rather
Trying
Different
Different Things
Play
Things
It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
Fidel Castro
Good
Son
Too
Say
Rather
Sound
Am
Us
Exploited
Grandson
Let Us
Peasants
I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.
Fiona Apple
Myself
Change
People
Better
Dance
Rest
Live
Think
Other
Way
Those
Though
Rather
More
Costume
Uncomfortable
Songs
Between
Know
Talk
Comfortable
Because
How
Than
Trying
Listen
Just
Use
Used
Moments
Even
Shows
Live Shows
Now
Playing
To be honest, I deliberately tend not to post things like 'I'm having a relationship' or where I live. I'm a bit reluctant to keep this kind of information up to date because people are inclined to see things like that as statements, and I rather keep a little bit of privacy, if possible at all.
Floor Jansen
Relationship
Privacy
People
Post
To Be Honest
Live
Statements
Bit
Possible
Kind
See
Rather
Having
Deliberately
Reluctant
Date
Tend
Like
Because
Up
Up-To-Date
Where
Information
Little
Little Bit
Inclined
Keep
Things
Honest
CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
Floyd Abrams
Work
People
Speak
Police
Journalist
Dan
Dan Rather
Rather
He
Principle
Because
Understand
Very
Stake
Agent
Hard
Fought
Believed
Believes
Here
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
Floyd Abrams
Good
Battle
Law
Think
Dan
Dan Rather
State
About
Ongoing
Rather
Winning
Mary
Had
Clear
Principle
Issue
Were
Texas
Very
Where
Us
Good Chance
Chance
Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
Foster Friess
Family
Every
Rather
Without
Least
Up
Than
Child
Should
Grow
Grow Up
Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.
Frances Hesselbein
You
Responsibility
Defines
Rather
Particular
How
Than
Get
Intend
Want
Place
Planning
Technique
I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
Francesca Annis
Work
Home
Before
Everyone
Rather
Arena
Maintain
Know
Coming
Happened
Public
View
Old-Fashioned
Here
I don't want to tell anybody who to vote for; I'd rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.
Franchesca Ramsey
Best
Vote
People
Country
Homework
Our
Tell
Run
Rather
Feel
Like
Make
Sure
Person
Just
Anybody
Want
Who
The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
Francis Crick
Balance
Random
Evidence
System
Mutation
Triplets
Similar
Rather
Both
Study
Well
Does
Occur
Same
May
Acid
Amino
Amino Acid
Coding
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
Francis Crick
Nature
Other
Our
Secure
Would
Triplets
About
General
Rather
Only
Since
Genetic
Come
Occasionally
Conclusion
Nonsense
However
Than
Low
Them
Across
Less
Deduction
Appear
Code
Number
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