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'Fun money' is another thing that makes no sense to traditional economists. Because there's just money; there's no 'fun money.' It's all supposed to be the same.
Richard Thaler
Money
Sense
No Fun
No Sense
Economists
Supposed
Another
Because
Makes
Traditional
Same
Just
Fun
Thing
It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral.
Richard Thaler
Problems
Become
Sense
Society
More
Most
Involved
Policy
Because
Makes
Scientists
Behavioral
Essence
Social
Many
Challenging
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
Richie Havens
Music
Father
Sense
Believe
Something
Could
Piano
Piano Player
He
Hear
Just
Inherited
Play
Ear
Player
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?
Rick Perlstein
Leadership
Me
People
Better
Sense
Guide
Kind
Angels
More
Absolution
He
Priestly
Leaders
Almost
Sin
Call
Calling
Contend
Reagan
Brand
Mature
Role
American
Want
Them
Liturgy
Who
Helping
Need
I nickname my cars. Most of the time, it doesn't make any sense. One of my Benzes I call Justin Bieber. My Maybach is Oprah.
Rick Ross
Time
Car
Sense
Most
Make
Call
Oprah
Any
Justin
Justin Bieber
Nickname
I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.
Rick Rubin
Work
Time
Me
People
Anxiety
Amazing
Made
First
Before
Young
Sense
Think
Meeting
Say
Neil
Neil Young
Would
Would-Be
Nervousness
Case
Someone
Point
Studio
Like
Because
First Time
Gotten
Amazing People
Get
Anxious
Maybe
Where
Productive
Who
In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.
Rick Santorum
Leadership
You
Conservative
Election
Year
National
Lost
Sense
President
Ranking
Run
Pennsylvania
Constant
Horrible
Someone
Had
Know
Because
Continue
Years
Campaign
Six
Just
Republican
Bush
Figure
Who
Last
Third
We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science - and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.
Rick Tumlinson
Government
Science
Value
Sense
Taxpayer
Others
Spend
Follow
More
Blaze
Missions
Return
Course
Robots
Makes
Trail
Yes
Stop
Expensive
Little
Much
Should
Use
Useful
Ridiculously
Nowhere
Wasting
Funds
I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.
Ridley Scott
Big
Sense
Idea
Return
Western
Want
Grand
Epic
Searchers
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Me
Girl
Sense
Babies
Adolescent
Small
Developed
Highly
Attract
Without
Altogether
Maternal
Did
Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.
Rita Moreno
Life
Myself
You
My Life
Seen
Sense
Every
Destroying
Maiden
Had
House
Because
Been
Being
Movies
Ethnic
Your
Ever
Play
I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.
Rivers Cuomo
Work
Me
People
Feedback
Listening
Sense
Way
Feel
Very
Get
Just
Much
Who
Deep
Works
Profound
Watching
As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.
Rob Halford
Music
You
Sense
See
Rating
Putting
Like
Common
As Far As
Common Sense
Movies
Far
The great thing about Priest, in all the years that we've been making heavy metal music, is that we've always kind of carried this metal flag, if you will - this beacon of hope that, no matter what you may be going through in life, there's always a sense of overcoming difficulties, a sense of winning, a sense of coming out on top.
Rob Halford
Life
Hope
Music
Great
Heavy Metal
You
Matter
Will
Sense
Difficulties
Top
Carried
Out
Kind
About
Beacon
Winning
Through
Priest
Great Thing
Overcoming
Metal
Always
Making
Coming
Been
Years
Flag
Going
May
Heavy
Thing
I grew up in the D.C. area, and I used to wear a Redskins jersey just walking around. I just had kind of a bowl haircut for a long time and no sense of style or personal hygiene. But the main thing was the haircut. You know, when you see a haircut of yourself from around 12 or 13, it's rough. I also had really bad acne.
Rob Huebel
Time
You
Yourself
Long
Long Time
Style
Sense
Kind
Bad
Wear
See
Area
Hygiene
No Sense
Main
Had
Main Thing
Haircut
Know
Also
Bowl
Around
Redskins
Up
Walking
Personal
Just
Grew
Just Walking
Acne
Really
Used
Rough
Jersey
Thing
A comedy scene can't really have two weirdoes in it. It doesn't make any sense that way, so you need someone to ground it and call out what's unusual about this person and this scene. Early on, I got pretty good at doing that, and I felt pretty comfortable doing that.
Rob Huebel
Good
You
Comedy
Sense
Way
Out
Pretty
Pretty Good
About
Someone
Scene
Make
Call
Unusual
Comfortable
Felt
Got
Doing
Person
Any
Really
Ground
Early
Two
Need
It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'
Rob Sheffield
People
Long
Sense
Enough
Out
Easy
See
Horror
David
David Lynch
Never
Like
Look
Terms
Make
Makes
American
Burn
Movie
Pause
Average
Notice
Your
Why
Coherence
I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.
Rob Thomas
Words
Comedy
Joke
Sense
Other
Drama
Dramas
Punch
Setup
Find
Scene
Write
Driving
Like
Makes
Dictates
Where
Want
In Other Words
Which
Rhythm
Moment
Actually
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.
Robert Baden-Powell
Life
Good
History
Game
Man
Risks
Natural
Dangerous
Big
Sense
Other
Neighbor
Secure
Collections
District
True
Sportsman
True Sense
His
Shooting
Order
Natural History
Rid
Who
Sometimes when you do a whole script, you hand it off, and it gets rewritten by a bunch of people, and people don't really get that much of a sense of how funny you can be.
Robert Ben Garant
Funny
You
People
Sometimes
Sense
How
Hand
Off
Bunch
Get
Gets
Rewritten
Script
Much
Really
Whole
The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.
Robert Crais
World
Smell
Sense
Primary
Around
Dogs
Doorway
Them
All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
Robert Creeley
Sense
OK
Proved
Contradict
Which
Then
Certainly
Things
Necessary
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley
Sense
Nothing
Thinking
Intimate
Statement
Thoughtful
Responsible
Perceptive
Prose
Like
Lot
Very
Just
Being
Anything
Quote
There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.
Robert Culp
Wonderful
Somebody
Sense
Direct
No Sense
Disaster
Because
Doing
Script
Who
Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and change with the requirements of the time. And he was a ruined President, because he was such a, I think, stiff-backed ideologue. And I think that speaks volumes about his character.
Robert Dallek
Time
Character
Man
Change
Political
Sense
Think
Bend
President
Ruined
Hoover
Fine
About
He
Volumes
Practical
Because
Genuine
Shift
His
Requirements
Speaks
Herbert
Herbert Hoover
What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.
Robert Duvall
Good
Women
People
Wife
Sense
Down
Rancher
City
City People
About
Like
She
Known
Understand
Texas
Common
Common Sense
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Vilified
Bright
Palin
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