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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley
Great
Sports
Important
Odds
Difficulty
Athletes
Obstacles
Overcoming
Overcoming Obstacles
Important Role
Metaphor
Times
Role
Role Models
Models
Achieving
Against
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
Bipasha Basu
Life
Work
You
People
Strong
Matter
Out
Hurting
More
Baggage
Come
Know
How
Am
Private
Private Life
Normal
Normal People
Than
Model
Role
Role Model
Get
Artists
Deep
Need
Fragile
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
Bryan Batt
Life
Gay
People
Thought
Lonely
Lonely Life
Know
Until
Doing
Began
Role
Role Models
Models
Any
Doomed
Theater
Really
We need role models who are going to break the mold.
Carly Simon
Role
Role Models
Models
Going
Break
Mold
Who
Need
I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
Charles Barkley
Parents
Model
Role
Role Model
Role Models
Models
Should
Paid
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
Charles Krauthammer
Government
You
Conservative
Thirties
Conservatives
Argued
Idea
New
New Deal
Deal
Opposed
Role
Might
Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.
Clare Balding
Teenagers
Healthier
Provide
Than
Role
Role Models
Models
Much
Swimmers
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
Clarence Thomas
God
Government
People
Live
Think
Telling
Minister
Moral
Another
Does
How
Role
Maybe
Your
Belief
Codes
Lives
Set
I've changed for the better. I'm much more selfless and humble and you're reminded about what life's really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.
Curtis Stone
Life
Love
You
Humble
Better
Brilliant
Changed
Bit
Kid
About
More
Reminded
Selfless
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Just
Want
Them
Much
Really
Act
Your
If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
Dalai Lama
Way
Carried
Would
Some
Remained
Had
Occupation
Without
Role
Chinese
Ceremonial
Even
Orthodox
My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds.
Dave McClure
Obligations
Focus
Partner
Our
Has-Been
General
Investors
Limited
Been
Role
Funds
Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.
David Blunkett
Positive
Politics
Hope
Future
Government
Worth
Pride
Sense
Believe
Progressive
Beneficial
Those
Solidarity
Rather
Detriment
Than
Role
Interdependence
Gains
Who
A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.
Deepika Padukone
Character
Will
Own
Table
My Own
Instinct
Like
Look
React
Narration
Audience
How
Role
After
Script
Film
Challenging
Bring
Watching
The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.
Dick Cheney
Government
Problem
Financial
Society
Only
Federal
Federal Reserve
Got
Fix
Role
Legitimate
Agencies
Regulator
Mechanism
Reserve
Treasury
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
E. O. Wilson
Music
Culture
Important
Stage
Dancing
Musical
Able
Join
Could
Ritual
Feel
Along
Important Role
Been
Very
Role
Human
Being
Activity
Necessary
Early
When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'
Elizabeth Holmes
Life
People
Thought
My Life
Lose
Enough
Impact
About
Having
Because
Greatest
Were
Times
Times People
Role
Diseases
Loved
Loved Ones
Play
Early
The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom.
Ellen Ullman
Freedom
People
Problem
Liberty
Thought
Big
Machines
Critical
Brother
Feared
About
Individual
Computer
Individual Freedom
Big Brother
Metaphors
Role
Stopped
Being
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Lives
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Gary Larson
Nature
Will
Worm
Worms
Earth
All Things
Message
Role
Much
Inherit
Lowly
Even
Play
Things
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
Gary Oldman
Time
You
Worth
Say
Find
Crossed
Because
Oceans
Line
Role
Just
Wanted
Play
Dracula
Playing
I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.
Gina Rodriguez
Life
Family
Real Life
Our
Members
Some
Maid
Devalue
Feed
Stereotypical
Nanny
Real
Families
Role
Roles
Done
Actually
As one of the leading troop-contributing countries, Ethiopia attaches great importance to strengthening the role of United Nations peacekeeping to address challenges to international peace and security.
Hailemariam Desalegn
Great
Peace
Challenges
United Nations
Address
Security
Leading
Countries
Importance
Role
Nations
Ethiopia
International
International Peace
Peacekeeping
United
Strengthening
What makes a movement work are thousands of parts that come together and express itself in favor of a given destination or objective. You have to find men and women who are willing to play the role that each of these things demand.
Harry Belafonte
Work
You
Together
Women
Destination
Men
Men And Women
Favor
Willing
Find
Thousands
Objective
Given
Demand
Come
Parts
Makes
Itself
Role
Movement
Who
Each
Express
Play
Things
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
Jenny Shipley
Women
Significant
Status
Alongside
Governments
Role
Improving
Play
Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'
Jessica Scorpio
Time
Me
Find
Primary
Exercise
Motivation
Huge
Role
Sane
Keeping
Plays
Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.
Jessica Valenti
Woman
Women
Mother
Men
Important
Bestowed
More
Idea
Most
Important Role
Lot
Than
Role
Roles
Children
Should
Inherent
Notion
Fun
Even
Based
Innate
There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.
Jim Mattis
People
Veterans
Military
Our
See
Prone
Relish
Countrymen
Role
Victims
Room
Themselves
Many
Even
Including
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