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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
John Grisham
Myself
Great
Me
Book
Picture
Country
Big
Beneath
Marked
Say
Recognises
John
John Grisham
No-One
Clearly
Reads
Author
Big Picture
Quite
Often
Famous
Where
Paying
Standing
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.
Peter Singer
Government
Good
Book
People
Single
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Recognises
Adopted
Countries
New
Likely
Well
Read
Enabling
Reduce
Israel
Doing
Sales
Provides
Australia
Canada
Legislation
Where
New Zealand
Lending
Public
Public Good
Creates
European
European Countries
Many
Zealand
Right
Copy
The thing is, if one person recognises you and takes a picture, then four other people who don't even know you want to do the same.
Radhika Apte
You
People
Picture
Other
Recognises
Takes
Know
Person
Same
Want
Then
Who
Even
Thing
Four
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
John Berger
Hope
Capitalism
Culture
Power
Nothing
Society
Other
Pleasure
Recognises
Kind
Except
Longer
Envisaged
Industrial
Within
Any
Acquire
Satisfaction
I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.
Charlotte Dujardin
Life
Christmas
Me
Local
Everyone
Our
Recognises
Lights
Different
Turned
Different Life
Now
My sense is that General Kayani recognises that a stable and secure Afghanistan is in the best interests of Pakistan.
Joseph Dunford
Best
Sense
Recognises
Secure
Best Interests
General
Stable
Afghanistan
Interests
Pakistan
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
Sebastian Coe
Good
People
Giving
Young
Everybody
Recognises
Outlet
Through
Good Thing
Sport
Very
Young People
Thing
Competitive
I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
Jim Davis
Me
Everywhere
Recognises
No-One
Go
No one recognises me on the street, ever.
Julia Holter
Me
Recognises
No-One
Ever
Street
Here in the U.K., I want basketball to get better. I want the kids to have more playgrounds. I want the kids to have more attention. I want basketball to be on TV more often. But I really don't care if I walk down the street and somebody recognises me or not.
Luol Deng
Me
Better
Walk
Care
Somebody
Down
Recognises
Kids
TV
More
Attention
dont Care
Get
Often
Want
Really
Street
Here
Basketball
Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.
Enda Kenny
Education
Justice
Change
Rights
Strong
Gender
Building
Human Rights
Adapting
Considerable
Our
Recognises
Record
Area
Developing
Developing Countries
Supporting
Countries
Like
Track
Track Record
Vulnerable
Climate
Climate Change
Ireland
Very
Human
Communities
Including
Assistance
Need
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
David Blunkett
Health
Learning
People
Mental Health
Better
School
Parents
Important
National
Strategy
Recognises
Mental
Mental Illness
Recovering
Adult
Studies
Study
Likely
Return
Important Role
Offenders
Persist
Role
Children
Much
Less
Who
Illness
Whose
Play
The doctor part of me recognises the light and shade of medical life, but the writer in me is more attracted by the darkness, perhaps because it is the road less travelled.
Jed Mercurio
Life
Me
Doctor
Darkness
Light
Recognises
Shade
More
Writer
Part
Road
Perhaps
Attracted
Because
Less
Travelled
Medical
Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I'm always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.
Jessie Buckley
Me
Looking
Recognises
Hat
London
Nobody
Like
Sure
Around
Always
Person
Homeless
Ever
Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.
Mitchell Reiss
Better
Delay
Situation
Every
Think
Everyone
Later
Positively
Recognises
Respond
Some
Remain
Spoken
Sooner
Longer
Concern
Does
Said
Continue
IRA
Than
Same
Going
Far
Much
Need
When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.
Cesar Milstein
Animal
Remove
Other
Virus
Way
Destroy
Recognises
Invader
Foreign
Infected
Experimental
Either
Body
Naturally
Such A Way
Acts
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
Charles Glover Barkla
Me
Peace
Science
Feeling
National
Recognises
Seems
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Academy
Qualifying
Unworthy
Prize
May
Nationality
Prejudice
Swedish