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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
John Sergeant Wise
Service
Needs
Mother
Faithful
Ownership
Duty
Sense
Negroes
Carried
Physical
Had
Supplying
Mere
Beyond
Render
Concerning
Qualms
Far
Requiring
Even
Conscience
Her
And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.
John Sexton
Natural
Organization
Looking
Sense
Think
Visual
Seemed
Rather
Steel
Shapes
Come
Traditional
Camera
Traditional Sense
Repeating
Up
Forest
Very
Than
Trying
Rhythm
Forms
Might
Sudden
Set
Position
I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
John Sexton
Love
Good
Word
Pure
Example
Sense
Think
Photographers
He
Consummate
Also
Arnold
Because
Greatest
Amateur
Newman
Who
Professional
Good Example
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.
John Shelby Spong
Life
Bible
Book
World
Value
My Life
Sense
Every
Spend
Some
About
Written
Studying
Longer
Reads
Been
Essence
Literally
Mean
Treats
I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.
John Shirley
Great
Doctor
Sometimes
Care
Sense
Make
dont Care
Stories
While
Barely
Who
Company
Dr
Watch
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
John Sladek
Science
World
Sense
Way
Out
Kind
One-Way
Like
Science Fiction
Making
Goes
Fiction
Senseless
Which
Explanation
Standard
Why
The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
John Tavener
Music
Myself
Rain
Three
Improvise
Sense
Imitate
Would
Inside
Something
Outside
Thunder
Like
Also
Another
Audience
Always
Maternal
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Grandfather
Act
Used
Even
Applaud
Things
Presence
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
John Thorn
Home
Family
Sense
Pain
Able
Return
Greek
Being
Literal
Nostalgia
My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
John Updike
Life
Writing
My Life
Sense
Only
Which
Trash
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.
John Updike
Me
Age
Mother
Parents
Sense
White
White House
Tree
Side
Exactly
Born
Throughout
House
Learned
Yard
Boyhood
Quite
Which
Planted
Large
Lived
Early
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
John Updike
Sense
Our
Books
Intrinsic
Some
Identity
Personal
Personal Identity
Us
Guys out there have no sense of how their clothes should fit.
John Varvatos
Clothes
Sense
Out
Guys
No Sense
How
Fit
Should
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
John Warner
Judgment
Sense
Last-Minute
Member
Tried
No Reason
Individual
Outraged
Through
House
Principles
Returns
Am
Traditional
Provision
American
Confidentiality
Common
Tax
Breach
Common Sense
Tax Returns
Act
Measure
Reason
Violates
When we see Rey, we want to hear Rey's theme, and when the Force is referred to or felt, we want to hear the Force theme, and so on. We hope that these references make sense to the fans and make the aural connections that we want them to have.
John Williams
Hope
Fans
Sense
See
Force
Make
Felt
Hear
References
Aural
Referred
Want
Them
Theme
Connections
It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.
John Wycliffe
Truth
Faith
Better
Church
Sense
Christian
Latin
Evident
More
Only
True
Contained
Doctrine
Also
Known
Becomes
True Sense
Itself
Common
Scriptures
Certain
Should
Therefore
Christian Faith
Tongue
I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.
John Yarmuth
Me
Memories
People
Young
Sense
Else
Colleagues
Never
He
Simply
Most
Baker
Equals
Decent
Decent People
Anything
Anything Else
Which
While
Worked
Whom
Reinforce
Treasure
Treated
Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
John Yoo
Death
Legal
Fight
Too Late
Important
Sense
Too
Late
Once
Ourselves
Detect
Prevent
Attacks
Learned
Makes
Terrorist
Occur
Still
Middle
While
Little
Deprive
Means
Sept
Al
Al-Qaeda
The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even some Lyft hugs after a tough break up.
John Zimmer
Me
Experience
Strong
Strict
Tough
Sense
Community
Jobs
Mustache
Strong Sense
Some
Main
New
New Friends
Discovered
Fist
Pink
Bump
Up
Friends
HUGS
Difference
Screening
Stories
After
Break
Break Up
Social
Many
Even
Fostered
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
John Zorn
Work
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Way
Wit
Irony
Any
Use
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre
Good
Sense
Live
Think
Immediately
Writers
Tension
Without
Got
Private
Private Lives
Very
Manage
Available
Them
Then
Manufacture
Who
Many
Lives
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.
Johnny Knoxville
Hurt
Parents
Wish
Sense
Kids
Would
Doing
Get
Common
Unfortunate
Common Sense
Really
Monitor
Watching
Nothing makes logical sense in this industry.
Jon Cryer
Logical
Sense
Nothing
Industry
Makes
We're not going to scramble to make Chinese movies that we don't believe in; we're not going to make co-productions that we don't believe in, and we're not going to try to jam product into China that doesn't make sense.
Jon Feltheimer
Try
Sense
Believe
Make
Scramble
Going
Jam
China
Chinese
Movies
Product
I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
Jon Fishman
Music
Good
Words
Free
Band
Situation
Sense
Living
Think
Humour
Pretty
Good Sense
Having
Stem
Like
Liking
Sake
Lot
Where
Want
Wanting
Much
Good Band
It doesn't make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds.
Jon Gruden
Sense
Seconds
Guy
Make
Ball
Blitz
Than
Gets
Much
Less
Rid
Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
Jon Hamm
Life
Time
Me
You
Age
Better
Losing
Long
Parents
Long Time
Control
Young
Sense
Live
Gave
See
Direction
Both
Push
Long Time Ago
Existence
Stopped
Young Age
While
Really
Believing
Here
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