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The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.
Meghan Daum
Work
Hair
First
Relate
Back
Voice
Writer
First-Person
Tradition
Been
Referred
Up
Historically
Person
Use
Stands
Neck
I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
Melissa McCarthy
Find
Super
Princess
Am
Referred
Want
Creepy
When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
Natasha Trethewey
Crime
Perception
Borders
Simply
Because
Within
Were
Referred
Up
North
Little
Vietnam
Congregation
Growing
Growing Up
Growing up, I had body confidence issues, not really so much because of size but my skin color. I had trouble recognizing that the depth of my skin tone is really beautiful because whenever people referred to a beautiful black-skinned woman, you'd see Beyonce and Rihanna.
Philomena Kwao
Beautiful
You
Confidence
Woman
People
Trouble
Skin
Recognizing
Rihanna
See
Color
Had
Beyonce
Because
Issues
Referred
Up
Whenever
Size
Depth
Much
Really
Body
Skin Color
Growing
Growing Up
Tone
John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.
Richard Flanagan
Home
History
Black
Sorry
Nationalism
Say
Willing
Would
John
Rates
Rising
He
Referred
Version
Condone
Owners
Refused
Interest
Interest Rates
Apologise
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.
Richard P. Feynman
Situation
Experiment
Directly
Idea
Concept
Sciences
Exist
Referred
May
Cannot
Which
Useful
Measured
Theory
Need
The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
Rick Smolan
Time
Challenges
Big
Before
Approach
Tools
Analyze
Our
Addressing
Our Planet
Collect
Lofty
Visualize
Ability
Some
Emerge
Something
Data
Facing
Vast
Never
Had
Term
New
New Approach
Real
Referred
Begun
Often
Human
Real Time
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Race
Planet
Human Race
Amount
Set
We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.
Ron Ben-Israel
Cake
Design
New
Institute
French
Known
Became
Culinary
Referred
York
New York
Legitimate
Then
Teach
Used
Profession
Now
Designers
There was a really long period of time when, if the newspapers ever referred to me, even if I was talking about, I don't know, cake making, they would put 'lesbian Sandi Toksvig.'
Sandi Toksvig
Time
Me
Cake
Long
Lesbian
Would
About
Long Period
Put
Know
Period
Talking
Making
Referred
Newspapers
Really
Even
Ever
It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Me
World
Comedy
Goodness
Humour
Though
Structure
Only
Around
Felt
Always
Were
Referred
Very
Gracious
Interested
Asian
Shown
Even
Here
British
In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed.
Satoru Iwata
Time
Thought
Before
Revolution
No-One
Period
Still
Referred
Time Period
Going
Succeed
I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety.
Scott Stossel
Age
Anxiety
Overcome
Fears
First
Phobias
Ways
Tried
About
Mental
Various
Neuroses
Hospital
Taken
Since
Been
Referred
Bundle
Psychiatrist
Then
Evaluation
Treatment
I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.
Sebastian Coe
Relationship
Father
Our
Able
Parent
Because
Always
Were
Referred
Roles
Coach
Separate
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
Sidney Altman
Life
World
Stage
Earth
Hypothetical
Referred
Origin
The administration will look at Glass-Steagall and what I referred to as the 21st-century Glass-Steagall as part of regulatory reform.
Steve Mnuchin
Will
Administration
Part
Look
Referred
Reform
Regulatory
One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.
Tobias Lutke
Business
Change
Will
Leader
Important
Startup
Lifetime
Pick
Over
Most
Likely
Track
Because
Metric
Referred
Tasks
Often
The Most Important
Note
Your
Compass
Growth
Right
Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.
Tom Vilsack
Job
Thought
Nation
Think
Changed
Our
Worried
Job Security
Secure
Security
Pensions
About
Concerned
Sort
Democrats
Always
Were
Referred
Questions
Historically
Families
Working
Working Families
Who
Now
They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.
Ward Churchill
People
Those
Were
Referred
Targeting
Targets
Legitimate
Little
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
Willard Boyle
Physics
Sometimes
First
Experiment
Introductory
Supervisor
He
Referred
Texts
Labs
Lester
Bell
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
Wim Wenders
Films
Fact
Generally
Studio
Referred
In Fact
Productions
I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.
Dolores O'Riordan
Myself
Alienated
Point
Self
Instead
Became
Because
Got
Real
Referred
Real Self
Where
Much
In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.
Dolores O'Riordan
Log
Log Cabin
City
Cottage
Cabin
Referred
Canada
Anything
Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.
Erin O'Connor
You
Pool
Once
Way
About
Someone
Gene
Winning
Put
Picks
Like
Industry
Odd
Referred
Lottery
Modeling
Modelling
Often
Being
Different
Things
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