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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
Barton Gellman
Digital
Citizen
Eavesdropping
National
Security
Through
Investigators
Trace
Read
Contents
Revealing
Does
Permit
Affairs
Private
National Security
Modern
Paths
Cannot
Used
Letter
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
Barton Gellman
Good
Me
Software
Computer
Read
Click
Without
Nose
Hold
Much
Aggravate
Product
Agree
Need
Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
Barton Seaver
People
Stress
First
Restaurants
Menu
Read
Protein
Left
Items
Descriptions
Right
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
Bayard Taylor
Me
Emotions
Assume
Strike
Several
Must
Cases
Feel
Since
Indulge
Forced
Devotional
Read
Reverence
Affected
Accounts
Being
Cannot
Which
Many
Describe
Found
Travellers
Awe
Jerusalem
Here
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
Bayard Taylor
Book
Language
See
Ardent
Could
Never
Written
Most
Read
Without
Foreign
Foreign Language
Desire
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
Beatrice Dalle
You
Trust
Never
Advance
Read
Artist
Screenplay
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
Becki Newton
Time
Fashion
Seriously
Magazines
Take
Read
Very
Fun
When I read, I don't need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don't need to have my heart broken. I don't need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don't need to swoon.
Becky Albertalli
Character
Me
Broken
Heart
Think
Like
Look
Read
Surprised
Heart Broken
Act
Challenged
Amused
Need
I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
Becky Lynch
Thought
Cold
About
Potatoes
Wrestlers
He
Part
Raw
Like
Read
How
Stone
Going
Lived
Biography
If I could play a game and not have to tackle, I know that I did everything right. I organized everyone the right way, read every play the right way.
Becky Sauerbrunn
Game
Every
Everyone
Everything
Way
Right Way
Tackle
Could
Know
Read
Did
If I Could
Organized
Play
Right
During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
Beeban Kidron
Difficult
Worlds
Teens
About
Mysterious
Read
Were
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.
Ben Brantley
Conversation
Mind
Criticism
Own
Enjoy
Think
Others
My Own
Writers
Like
Read
Least
Stimulate
Personally
Function
Serve
When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the death of a parent - without writing an entirely sad book.
Ben Dolnick
Sad
Death
Book
Writing
First
Own
About
Parent
Entirely
My Own
Struggling
Write
Particularly
Read
Without
How
Subject
I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
Ben Elliot
Big
Thomas
Mainly
Also
Read
Big Fan
Histories
Graham
Fan
Swift
Biographies
Hardy
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
Ben Elton
Advice
Adapting
Once
Must
Throw
Never
Look
Read
Understand
Learnt
Anyone
Again
Then
Novel
Away
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
Ben Fountain
Work
Education
Say
Embarrassed
David
Read
Huge
Very
Wallace
Ashamed
Little
Many
Foster
Gap
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
Ben Fountain
Depression
Confusion
State
Please
Way
Say
Systematically
Out
More
Writers
Re-Elected
Read
Around
Question
Walking
America
After
Note
Bush
Elected
Fundamental
Why
Set
I read 'On The Road' in college. I was 18 or 19, and I had a particular quarter where I was taking biology, calculus, and physics. Those were my three classes. It wasn't a well-rounded schedule at all. It was hard, hard work, all the time - hours and hours and hours of homework.
Ben Gibbard
Work
Hard Work
Time
Physics
College
Three
Homework
Biology
Those
Classes
Schedule
Had
Road
Taking
Particular
Hours
Calculus
Hours And Hours
Read
Well-Rounded
Quarter
Were
Where
Hard
When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
Ben Horowitz
You
Management
Job
First
Few
Books
Months
Give
Directions
Read
How
Were
Up
Very
After
Screw
CEO
Much
Your
Help
Company
Designed
The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Love
School
Lost
Books
Kid
About
Football
Read
Became
Boy
Got
Cover
Just
Stories
Soccer
Mean
To Love
Them
Then
Used
Who
Captain
Play
Play Football
Started
There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
Ben Lovett
Music
Closed
Just Be
Doors
Music Scene
Way
Cities
About
Scene
Hyped
Main
Touring
Well
Read
Doing
Closed Doors
Behind
Just
Artists
Should
Old-Fashioned
Old-Fashioned Way
Unique
Platform
Acts
Thing
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
Ben Marcus
Grief
Big
Thomas
Like
Read
Doses
Richard
I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.
Ben Silbermann
Work
Future
Good
You
People
Water
About
Something
Something Good
Through
Entrepreneurs
Like
Know
Read
Always
Been
End
Optimistic
Times
Survive
Stories
Really
Fortunate
Hard
Team
Who
Hard Times
Desert
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
Benjamin Clementine
Me
Remember
Way
Poetry
Write
Read
Lot
Younger
Helped
Lucky
I'm a really easy guy to read.
Benji Madden
Easy
Guy
Read
Really
I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'
Benji Madden
Remember
Tomorrow
First
Band
Gone
Our
About
Read
Came
Review
Reviews
Quicker
Than
Ever
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