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Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
Robert Smithson
Hopelessly
About
Seem
Content
Questions
Form
Inadequate
There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really changed. Films like 'The Contender' and 'Bulworth' seem quaint compared with Trump!
Rod Lurie
History
Past
Films
Changed
Seem
Seems
Quaint
Like
Contender
Trump
The History Of
Whether
Interest
Asking
Really
Connecting
Compared
Things
Present
I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.
Rod Stewart
Song
Easily
Inside
Able
Seem
Make
Always
Been
Get
Really
Honest
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
Roddy Doyle
Sometimes
Though
Seem
Adult
Child
Being
Cut
Chord
We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.
Roger Andrew Taylor
People
Incredible
Trigger
Seem
Still
Intensity
Quite
Which
A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.
Roger Daltrey
Great
People
Fabulous
Seem
Voice
Lead
Never
Pick
Lead Singer
New
Like
Singer
Singers
Makes
Always
Got
Idol
Hear
Lot
New People
American
American Idol
Choose
Shows
Ever
Things
Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
Roger Michell
People
World
Films
About
Seem
Bewildered
Most
Around
Understand
Fit
Trying
Them
Who
It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.
Roger Rees
Religion
You
Seem
Shakespeare
Him
Turn
Works
I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.
Roger Ross Williams
Work
Me
Say
Recognize
Statistic
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
Seem
Troubling
Institution
Within
Does
Am
Been
Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.
Ron Chernow
Life
Family
Strange
Own
About
Seem
More
Contemporaries
Know
Him
Documented
George
Been
His
Friends
Than
Did
May
Far
Washington
Now
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.
Ron Fournier
Angry
Down
President
Negativity
President Obama
Obama
Lies
Seem
More
Rival
Democratic
Partisan
Policies
Years
Led
Trail
Romney
Certain
Electorate
Four
Guarantee
Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.
Ron Fournier
History
Problem
Skin
Extraordinarily
Relatively
Wealthy
Some
About
Seem
He
Part
Voters
Know
Him
Comfortable
Issues
His
Task
Just
Moves
Romney
Little
The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.
Ronald Coase
Relevant
Would
Cost
Seem
Through
Price
Prices
Main
Main Reason
Firm
Most
Obvious
Discovering
Establish
Production
Organizing
Reason
Using
Mechanism
Why
Profitable
Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.
Ronald Frame
Hope
Me
Matters
Too
Way
Say
Find
Direct
Seem
Something
More
Simpler
Self-Conscious
Like
Make
Readers
Real
Lot
American
Tastes
Current
Getting
Just
Want
Fiction
Happened
Story
Fancy
Descriptions
I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.
Ronnie Wood
Nature
Perspective
Joke
Resolve
Humour
Everyone
Bad
Find
See
Diplomat
Seem
Potentially
Quickly
Crack
Gets
Situations
Middle
Middle Ground
Vicious
Use
Ground
Help
Helps
Things
I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.
Ronny Cox
Funny
Time
Good
Song
Resonate
Made
Long
Long Time
Half
Funny Thing
Those
Out
Seem
Seems
Good Story
Could
Long Time Ago
Over
Most
Make
Audiences
Up
Just
Stories
Story
Show
Found
Now
Thing
I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.
Rory Stewart
Life
People
Think
Frank
One Thing
Paranoid
About
Seem
Outside
Wrong
Coming
Odd
Were
Did
Quite
Maybe
Which
Public
Then
Public Life
Initially
Thing
Things
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.
Rose George
Natural
World
Law
Practice
Ocean
Wildest
Danger
Slip
Out
Easy
Seem
Fearsome
Both
Civilization
Firm
Boundaries
Because
How
Place
Ashore
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.
Rudolf Steiner
Battle
Before
Earthly
Indeed
One Aspect
Characteristics
Entered
Must
Superficial
Admitted
Seem
Prevailing
He
Talents
Him
Himself
However
Existence
Person
Traits
Often
Order
Laid
Against
Them
Aspect
Fulfillment
Inherited
Rid
Views
Bring
Heredity
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
Rudolf Steiner
Needs
Nature
Own
Our
Gifts
Some
Born
Bestowed
Seem
More
Abundant
She
Still
Leaves
Endowed
Them
Us
Activity
Satisfy
Among
Desires
Dissatisfied
I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
Rufus Wainwright
Money
Earned
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Seem
Pounds
Get
Grips
Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.
Rumaan Alam
Burden
Other
Books
Seem
Blackness
Like
Sort
Context
Issues
Any
Difference
Which
Explicitly
Creates
Engage
Serious
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
Russell Baker
Home
Live
Trees
Would
Seem
Only
He
New
Like
Most
Couple
Also
Calls
American
Yorker
Closets
New Yorker
Premises
Cockroaches
Grow
Right
I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.
Ruth Negga
People
Think
Spine
Seem
Term
Self-Deprecating
Sort
Spotlight
Surface
Quiet
May
Use
Away
Shy
The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Life
Garden
Wonderful
Older
Think
Final
Everything
Books
Shadows
Seem
Light-Hearted
Most
Conclusion
Were
End
Quite
Closing
Note
Pessimism
Deep
Novels
Bright
I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
Ruth Rendell
Love
Me
Memory
Magic
Seem
Sticks
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