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Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.
James Langevin
Life
Law
Out
Dreamed
Exactly
Law Enforcement
Seldom
Had
Island
Does
Up
Rhode
Rhode Island
Worked
Enforcement
Planned
Growing
Growing Up
Career
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
Jasmine Guy
Family
Church
State
Approval
Heterosexual
Approve
Seldom
Model
Anything
Aspire
Nuclear
Need
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys
Age
More
Seldom
Smoothly
Quickly
Often
Succession
Jerks
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.
Jenny Holzer
Painting
Other
Otherwise
Unless
Worrying
See
Slowly
About
Detest
Seldom
Put
Stuff
Testing
Up
Quickly
Artists
Things
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
Jessica Savitch
Time
Quality
Women
Air
Adequate
Given
Seldom
Were
Assignments
I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
Joe Sacco
You
People
Will
Power
Damn
Interview
Seldom
New
Got
Surprised
Close
Get
Anything
Chance
The public seldom forgive twice.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Politics
Seldom
Forgive
Public
Twice
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.
John Burroughs
Love
Knowledge
Personality
Mind
Thinking
Analytic
Type
Complete
Synthetic
Independent
Emerges
Entity
Mentality
Seldom
Never
Faculty
Mere
Knowing
Operations
Because
Always
Itself
Human
Which
Whitman
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
John Foxe
Mercy
Christian
Secure
Seldom
Him
Protestant
Any
Being
Far
Turns
Who
Shown
Jew
I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
John Hughes
Myself
Country
Consider
Intrigue
About
Seldom
Qualified
Leave
Movie
International
Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.
John Norman
Strict
Will
Girl
Master
Added
Pleases
Though
Easy
Only
Seldom
Cruel
Perhaps
She
Him
Knows
Lot
Often
Should
Her
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
John Turner
Benefits
Law
Favored
Borrowers
Seldom
Over
Parties
Protects
Debtors
Substantive
Procedural
Poor
Landlords
Among
Creditors
I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.
John Wooden
Game
Bench
Seldom
Off
Ever
Seat
It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.
Jonathan Agnew
You
Earned
Side
One Thing
Wins
Seldom
Equally
Test
Caution
Err
Handed
Plate
Thing
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
Woman
Advice
Before
Clothes
Wedding
Seldom
Bought
She
Ask
Her
I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
Kariya Munda
Buy
Family
Vegetables
Enough
Market
Eats
Seldom
Grow
With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
Hope
People
Writing
Own
Think
Approval
Though
Characters
Marvel
Seldom
Through
Generally
Never
Know
Obviously
Without
Go
Been
Very
Maybe
Just
Anyway
While
Frustrating
Act
Reason
Lucky
Levels
Imagine
'Game of Thrones' has been a large part of my life for the last six years and for my family as well. It's very seldom that you come on a show and it's the perfect role for you.
Kristofer Hivju
Life
Family
You
Game
My Life
Has-Been
Perfect
Seldom
Part
Come
Well
Been
Years
Very
Role
Six
Game Of Thrones
Show
Large
Large Part
Last
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Extravagance
Something
Thrift
Seldom
Adventure
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Owe
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Lafcadio Hearn
Woman
Natural
Old
Type
Destiny
Poetry
Prevents
Maid
Seldom
Misfortune
Ideal
Sorrow
Very
Old Maid
Fulfilling
Whom
Her
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
Linus Torvalds
Best
Other
Worry
Systems
Pretty
About
Seldom
Concentrate
Making
Very
Linux
Just
Fully
Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.
Lionel Shriver
Beauty
Approach
Seldom
Attain
Mortals
Ideal
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics
Day
Think
More
Seldom
Hours
Than
Eighteen
I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.
Margaret Trudeau
Old
Seldom
Look
Hippie
Who
Forward
Now
Lives
Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.
Mark Skousen
Negative
Books
Classics
Seldom
Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.
Marsha Blackburn
Behavior
Party
Down
Member
Seldom
House
Does
Either
Inappropriate
Floor
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