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This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.
Mick Cornett
People
World
Desperation
Long
Out
Seeking
Environment
Taking
Long-Term
Term
Around
Real
Very
Going
Place
Helpful
Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.
Morris Gleitzman
Life
You
Living
Consequences
Back
Seeking
Having
Most
Done
Going
Being
After
Reproduce
Either
Again
Puberty
Your
Start
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
Nancy Gibbs
Truth
Responders
First
Out
Wreckage
Seeking
Takes
Journalists
Modern
Wherever
Modern Warfare
Warfare
Them
Turmoil
Among
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
Naomi Wolf
Society
Administration
Would-Be
Details
Seeking
Argued
Take
Open
Had
Advancing
Open Society
Steps
Always
Been
End
Close
Dictators
America
Bush
Bush Administration
Each
Each One
I am not a big fan of investors asking for revenues upfront. Investors seeking numbers are being too myopic. However, I personally believe in creating a product with clarity in mind on how one thinks revenues can trickle in.
Naveen Tewari
Mind
Big
Believe
Too
Trickle
Clarity
Seeking
Myopic
Investors
How
Am
Revenues
However
Big Fan
Upfront
Being
Fan
Personally
Asking
Creating
Product
Thinks
Numbers
Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.
Nick Lampson
Will
Fall
Before
United Nations
Once
Diplomatic
Seeking
Case
Allies
Taiwan
Return
Nations
Republic
Again
China
Ask
Speaker
United
Present
The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.
Opal Tometi
Time
Immigration
Political
Long
First
Criminals
Asylum
Characterized
Immigrants
Thousands
Admitted
Seeking
Haitian
Cuban
Tradition
Began
Same
Officials
Refugees
Same Time
While
Boat
Rejected
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.
Padgett Powell
Time
Business
Long
Long Time
Addiction
Out
Seeking
Oneself
Proper
Potential
Had
Vehicle
Call
Options
Maximizing
Human
Choice
Choices
Whole
I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.
Paolo Nutini
State
Tell
Seeking
Opinion
Answers
Just
Want
Stories
My mother had sent my picture for a TV contest seeking anchors, and I won.
Parvathy
Mother
Picture
Anchors
TV
Seeking
Had
Contest
Won
Sent
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
Pat Roberts
Generation
World
Increasingly
Seeking
Throughout
Recruit
Terrorist
Terrorists
Targeting
Children
Next
Next Generation
Organizations
Actively
Seeking equal protection under our laws for the LGBT community is the right thing to do.
Patrick Leahy
Protection
Community
Our
Right Thing
Seeking
Laws
Equal
Equal Protection
The Right Thing
Right
Thing
It appears that the Obama Administration is attempting to silence public comments and once again pander to extremist mining opponents seeking to undermine a bipartisan jobs bill that is estimated to create approximately 3,700 new jobs and generate $60 billion dollars for our economy.
Paul Gosar
Silence
Our
Once
Approximately
Extremist
Jobs
Mining
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Seeking
Attempting
Generate
New
Economy
Undermine
Opponents
New Jobs
Dollars
Comments
Estimated
Again
Public
Create
Bill
Billion
Billion Dollars
Appears
Bipartisan
The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.
Paul Haggis
Love
You
People
Cause
Walk
Nice
Think
Sidewalk
Worst
Worst Thing
Out
Seeking
About
Argue
Audience
Go
Affect
His
Movie
Then
Film
Thing
Filmmaker
I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.
Paul Rudd
Seeking
Knock
Auditions
Go
Just
Wood
Actively
Stardom
The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.
Paul Sparks
Good
People
Bad Things
Characters
Kind
Bad
Seeking
Something
Something Good
Self-Awareness
Badly
Obstacles
Like
Most
Around
How
Lot
Tragic
Up
Going
Screwed
Them
Amidst
Aware
Things
Played
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Paul Watzlawick
Suicide
Right Place
Seeker
Seeking
He
Looked
Does
Conclusion
Exist
Place
Right
In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.
Peter Bergen
NATO
Air
Strikes
Out
Carry
Seeking
Forces
Without
Kosovo
Impose
Did
Zone
Resolution
I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
Peter Jennings
God
Strong
Gone
Seeking
Through
Period
Understand
How
Connections
I relate to that idea of not necessarily seeking out 'interesting female roles,' but 'this character, this role, who happens to be a woman, is interesting to me, and I relate to it in some way, so I'm just gonna go with my gut and see where it leads me.'
Phillipa Soo
Character
Me
Woman
Relate
Way
Out
See
Some
Seeking
Gut
Idea
Leads
Female
Go
Role
Roles
Just
Where
Happens
Interesting
Gonna
Who
Necessarily
There isn't really precedent for asylum seekers' being criminally prosecuted at the border before they've had a 'credible fear' hearing. You come seeking asylum. Seeking asylum is not illegal.
Pramila Jayapal
You
Fear
Before
Asylum
Border
Seekers
Seeking
Had
Prosecuted
Come
Hearing
Precedent
Being
Really
Illegal
Credible
I have realized that intensity is my unique point. I don't have to attempt it; it's innate. So, when every actor is seeking his individuality, I guess I have already found mine.
Randeep Hooda
Every
Guess
Mine
Seeking
Point
Attempt
Individuality
His
Intensity
Realized
Unique
Found
Actor
Innate
Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
Internet
Own
Elsewhere
Tools
Out
Solutions
Exactly
Seeking
Uncensored
Clear
Global
Access
Whether
China
Creating
Who
Users
Amount
Ad
Funds
The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.
Richard Cohen
Ignorance
Innocent
Matters
Way
Seeking
About
Something
More
He
Know
Proves
His
Fit
Intellectually
Campaigns
Scott
Walker
Office
Should
Apparent
Now
Russia may very well be front and center again in 2020 as they were in 2016 regarding interference in America's presidential election. But the Trump administration is seeking to use its power of diplomacy to bring other countries into the act as well.
Richard Painter
Election
Diplomacy
Power
Other
Other Countries
Presidential
Presidential Election
Administration
Seeking
Russia
Countries
Well
Were
Trump
Very
America
Front
May
Regarding
Center
Again
Act
Interference
Use
Bring
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
Richard Stallman
Work
Long
Nothing
Pay
Destructive
Seeking
Wrong
Does
Maximize
Wanting
Means
Use
Income
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