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Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.
Michael Hayden
Intelligence
Free
Otherwise
Guilty
Collection
Would
About
Rather
Adversaries
Safe
American
Confined
Information
Gaining
Communications
Help
Keep
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.
Michael Hirst
Culture
People
Christian
Later
About
Rather
Recordings
Write
Had
Written
Occasional
Traded
Were
Get
Anything
Literate
Themselves
Pagan
Certainly
Who
Monks
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
Michael Hutchence
You
Ego
To Be Honest
Draining
Our
Muster
Find
Pretty
Rather
Tour
Terrified
Go
Lot
Get
Which
Really
Honest
The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.
Michael Irvin
Day
Great
Family
Me
Great Deal
Will
Hurts
One Day
Hopefully
Would
Rather
More
Deal
Friends
Little
Mean
Them
Means
Helping
Whole
Even
Thing
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
Michael Leunig
Desperate
Frantic
Kind
About
Something
Rather
Something Kind
Pursuit
Itself
Act
Notion
I do get cast in the same role a lot, but the truth is, I just want longevity. The thing is, I'd rather be stuck in a stereotype than be nowhere. The whole typecasting thing started because of 'Reservoir Dogs.' And I did a bunch of other films like 'Wyatt Earp' and 'Free Willy,' but no one seems to remember those.
Michael Madsen
Truth
Truth Is
Remember
Free
Films
Other
Those
Seems
Rather
Cast
Stuck
No-One
Stereotype
Longevity
Like
Because
Dogs
Lot
Bunch
Than
Role
Get
Did
Same
Just
Want
Whole
Reservoir
Nowhere
Thing
Started
I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better.
Michael Mina
Food
Better
Country
Our
Daniel
Restaurants
Some
Rather
Make
Than
Going
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.
Michael Morpurgo
Truth
Great
Happy
Truth Is
Training
Achieve
Too
Enough
Gazing
Way
Easily
Out
Distracted
Fine
Detention
Windows
Rather
Classroom
More
Student
Writer
Along
Great Way
Lot
Bumble
Did
Poor
Much
Avoid
Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.
Michael N. Castle
You
Will
First
State
Meeting
State University
Dream
Signing
Classes
Delaware
Delaware State
Delaware State University
Rather
Students
Step
Attendance
First Step
Arriving
Goal
Began
Up
Achieved
Being
Realize
Teachers
University
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Michael Pollan
Leadership
Political
Pay
Pay Attention
Rather
Attention
Journalists
Supposed
Antagonism
Issues
Than
Should
Agree
Things
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
Michael Porter
Technology
Wonderful
Opportunity
Energy
Fighting
Rather
Given
Costs
Seize
Over
Over It
Debating
Than
Discussing
Energy Costs
Low
Us
Keep
President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.
Michael Ramirez
Politics
Political
Goals
Other
President
President Obama
Obama
Determined
Rather
Withdraw
Withdrawal
Deadline
His
Iraq
Than
Timetable
Artificial
Decided
Prematurely
Reason
Strategic
Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
Michael Schudson
Trends
Rather
Consumer
Generally
Advertising
Than
Them
Works
Initiate
Reinforce
In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
Michael Shermer
World
Better
Long
Way
Run
Would
Rather
Long Run
Like
Understand
How
Than
Really
I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.
Michael Vartan
Easier
Would
Rather
Lazy
Hours
Because
Very
Movies
Much
Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you are likeable, or at least not disagreeable, if you can strike a personal bond with the electorate, if you reassure rather than disrupt, it doesn't really matter what you stand for.
Michael Wolff
Politics
You
Personality
Matter
Ideology
Separation
Strike
Defining
Possibly
Postmodern
Rather
Disagreeable
Development
Likeable
Least
Than
American
Personal
Really
Stand
Electorate
Naturally
Reassure
Bond
Disrupt
Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You're looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you're looking to cull your particular following.
Michael Wolff
You
Entrepreneur
Looking
Politician
Independent
Running
Following
About
Rather
Longer
Particular
Identify
Majority
Opinion
Audience
Than
Office
Trying
Being
Sensibility
Might
Convince
Your
Electorate
Suggesting
Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.
Michael York
Young
Nice
Every
Starts
Airport
Rather
Disconcerting
Doing
Lines
Up
Role
Child
Young Child
Happened
Happens
Your
Played
Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.
Michel Temer
Today
Future
Government
Tomorrow
Living
Preserves
Our
Everything
About
Rather
Concerned
Conditions
Living Conditions
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.
Michelle Alexander
People
Sense
Other
Side
Jim
Jim Crow
Extreme
Locked
Physical
Emerged
Rather
More
Crow
Segregation
Color
Merely
Mass
Town
Masse
Than
Literal
Form
Far
Incarceration
Residential
If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison.
Michelle Alexander
Hope
Day
History
Justice
Genocide
Oppression
Pride
Overcome
Prison
Own
Our
One Day
System
About
Rather
Shame
Tour
Source
Truly
Discrimination
Than
America
Suspect
Any
May
Norwegian
Might
Us
Create
Much
Required
Teach
International
Slavery
When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.
Michelle Alexander
Needs
You
Hurt
People
Fault
Compassion
Mind
Understanding
Lose
About
Rather
Given
No-One
Over
Make
How
Been
Lectures
Than
Amends
Really
Your
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
Michelle Alexander
Justice
People
Criminal
Our
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Criminals
System
Rather
Rely
Color
Longer
Exclusion
Supposedly
Contempt
Practices
Permissible
Label
Left
Discrimination
Than
Behind
Justification
Race
Social
Explicitly
Then
Engage
Use
Socially
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process - the characters, the costumes - rather than worrying about the finished product.
Michelle Dockery
Journey
Destination
Finished
Matters
Worrying
Collaborative
Pleasure
Characters
Find
Rushing
About
Rather
Costumes
Finished Product
Than
Stopped
Process
Much
Product
Engaging
Moment
Now
Set
If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.
Michelle Forbes
You
People
Ugly
Unhappy
Miserable
Cynical
Group
Find
Boring
See
Boring People
Some
Pretty
Rather
Factory
Feel
Look
Sort
Behind
Them
Production
Show
Uninteresting
Shows
Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.
Michelle Paver
Character
Me
You
Experience
Field
Trips
Online
Rather
Point
Point Of View
Main
Main Character
Simply
Doing
Than
Get
Sitting
Story
View
Researching
Desk
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