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The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.
John Katzman
Work
Best
You
Moving Forward
People
Value
Princeton
Move On
Sense
Think
Add
Other
Adding
Best Work
Given
Feel
How
How Much
Review
Question
Than
Going
Move
Want
Public
Moving
Public Company
Might
CEO
Then
Much
Your
Less
Forward
Company
I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.
John Key
Strong
Sense
Help Others
Others
Claiming
Strong Sense
Sort
Genuine
Saint
Trying
Quite
Wanting
Help
Belief
Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.
John Lanchester
Time
Book
Finished
Before
Sense
Think
State
Once
Way
Spent
Definitely
Characters
Would
Would-Be
About
Properly
Never
Had
Ideal
Felt
Real
Leaving
Were
Loss
Very
Quite
Behind
Being
So Much Time
Again
Them
Capital
Much
During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany's sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the greatest danger to European stability is Germany's reluctance to accept its special destiny.
John Lanchester
Sense
Danger
Destiny
Reluctance
Accept
Greatest
Greatest Danger
Germany
Stability
Century
Special
European
The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
John Lasseter
Love
Me
You
Sense
Out
Find
About
Perfect
Point
Point Of View
Absolutely
Makes
Were
End
Influences
Movie
Really
View
Who
Villains
Specific
I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
John Legend
Love
Song
Sense
Sold
Way
Out
Never
Put
Like
Felt
Proud
Any
I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement.
John Lewis
Time
Great
Travel
People
Progress
Great Deal
Sense
Back
Complete
Has-Been
See
More
Feel
Come
Freer
Redeemed
Because
Deal
Real
Been
South
Real Sense
Movement
Happened
Whole
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.
John Lewis
Music
Eyes
Language
Somebody
Style
Sense
Say
Something
Almost
Like
Real
Comics
Denied
Behold
Cannot
Moving
Figure
They Say
Universal
Images
Universal Language
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.
John Lithgow
Myself
Character
Job
First
Sense
Character Actor
Kind
Willing
Able
Some
Totally
Ready
Different
Anything
Themselves
Actor
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
John Lithgow
Life
Problem
Mistakes
Before
Whatever
Own
Sense
Increasing
Spent
Churchill
Diminishing
Solve
Faced
Only
Could
Had
He
Wrong
Maintaining
Disasters
Overcoming
Him
Course
His
Very
Often
Capabilities
Then
Much
Appalling
Who
Rejections
To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.
John Lithgow
Life
Me
Father
Consistency
Made
Young
Sense
Insecure
Security
About
Feel
She
Because
Boy
Always
Very
Owe
Different
Places
Different Places
Lived
Mum
Career
Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.
John Lithgow
Great
Pride
National
Own
Sense
Embodiment
Great Sense
Like
Monarchy
Britain
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
John Lone
Art
Age
Innocent
Sense
Ten
No Sense
Identity
Up
Grew
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
John Lydon
Sense
Disposition
Proposition
Perfectly
Towards
French
Common
Common Sense
Ludicrous
The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.
John Mackey
Entrepreneur
Own
Sense
Destiny
Some
Parent
Purpose
Point
Wishes
Like
Off
May
Children
Might
Initial
Original
Initiate
Away
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
John McGahern
Sense
Society
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
About
Almost
Up
Ireland
Century
Then
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Peculiar
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.
John Mulaney
Funny
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Hilarious
Sense
Kid
Kind
Seemed
Had
Retrospect
Dry
Very
Which
Really
Dad
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
John Pilger
Service
Sense
Believe
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Classic
Imperialist
Simply
Days
Mission
Were
Pirates
Same
Literally
Public
Century
European
Public Service
Believed
It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.
John Podhoretz
Food
People
World
Will
Job
Made
Own
Sense
Arabs
Find
Tables
About
More
Argue
Never
Put
Sons
Day-To-Day
Know
Concerned
How
Than
Any
Going
Whether
Unique
Ever
Among
Basis
Treatment
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
John Polanyi
Responsibility
Sense
United Nations
Society
Unmistakable
Thousands
Civil
Civil Society
Voices
Shared
New
Nations
Agencies
International
United
My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.
John Prine
Life
Me
Sense Of Humor
Humor
My Life
Sense
Saved
More
Couple
Times
Than
In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.
John Ralston Saul
Great
People
Writing
Mind
Sense
Believe
Way
One-Way
Between
Like
Call
Non-Fiction
Person
Difference
Fiction
Actually
There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.
John Ridley
Great
People
Post
Internet
Sense
Way
Some
Pretty
Net
Someone
Cash
Sopranos
Great Way
Opponent
Getting
Elected
Root
Your
Useless
Connect
Moments
Play
Raise
I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd.
John Ridley
Love
Christmas
Hate
People
Dog
Animals
Lose
Sense
Crowd
Point
Computer
Cat
Like
Talking
Stocking
Wallpaper
Hang
Reason
Who
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin
Art
Best
Business
Word
Men
Sense
Wayside
Generally
Call
Opposed
May
Which
Grotesque
Lives
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
John Searle
Car
Will
Sense
Nothing
Adding
Machine
Exactly
Computer
Argue
Namely
Understand
Understands
Literal
Programmed
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