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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Lloyd Alexander
Work
Family
Me
Find
Some
Something
Sort
Forget
Sensible
Literature
Useful
Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.
Maeve Binchy
Buy
People
Money
Millionaire
Thought
Looking
Enough
Once
Out
Would
Most
House
Got
Were
Getting
Bigger
Middle-Aged
Sensible
Sea
Started
Two
I have a big responsibility as a father. That helps me to be more sensible.
Marko Arnautovic
Me
Father
Responsibility
Big
More
Big Responsibility
Sensible
Helps
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
Martin Fleischmann
History
Age
Mind
Think
Way
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
Kingdom
Various
Bearing
Operation
Go
Been
Very
Times
Sensible
Should
Forward
United
United Kingdom
Medical
Start
Suggested
I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.
Martin McGuinness
Work
Hope
Peace
Political
Relation
Way
Colleagues
Over
Executive
Course
Passed
Continue
Years
Tests
Very
Intend
Process
Sensible
Forward
Many
Peace Process
Last
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin Scorsese
Me
Change
World
Change The World
Must
See
Temporarily
Seems
Only
Does
Person
Any
Sensible
Sensible Person
Then
Violence
You can't go do the Green New Deal. It's a set of aspirations that don't really bring us to sensible action.
Matt Gaetz
You
Action
New
New Deal
Deal
Go
Green
Sensible
Us
Really
Aspirations
Bring
Set
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
Matt Taibbi
Work
Government
Failure
Money
Impossible
Spend
Out
Instead
Long-Term
Term
Budgets
Make
Makes
Leaves
Government Agencies
Short
Sensible
Short-Term
Them
Agencies
Work Out
Plans
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
Michael Nutter
Government
Safety
Gun
About
Something
Could
Federal
Federal Government
Up
Sensible
Show
Measures
Need
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
Mireille Enos
Me
Station
Guy
Never
Feel
Beyond
Very
Anything
Sensible
Who
Dad
The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
Najib Razak
Home
Peace
People
National
Unity
Harmonious
Relations
Vast
Vast Majority
Look
Majority
Moderates
National Unity
Want
Sensible
Race
Race Relations
Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.
Nigel Farage
Walls
Building
Channel
Entirely
Got
Sensible
English
Need
Donald Trump believes in nation-state democracy; Hillary Clinton used the E.U. as a prototype for a larger global union. Donald Trump believes in sensible immigration controls.
Nigel Farage
Democracy
Immigration
Global
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Prototype
Clinton
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Controls
Sensible
Used
Union
Larger
Believes
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Nigel Farage
Wisdom
Will
Become
Indeed
Part
Idea
Accepted
Just
Sensible
Eventually
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here.
Nigel Lawson
God
Country
Own
Corporate
Corporation
System
Introduce
Would
Kingdom
Take
Lead
Perhaps
Forbid
Because
Sales
Sales Tax
Very
Tax
Where
Sensible
Which
Tax System
Low
Should
United
United Kingdom
Level
Profits
Here
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.
Nina Conti
Life
Creative
Waiting
People
Water
Phone
Hair
Way
Bit
Ring
Dreamer
Feels
Like
Ventriloquist
Auditions
Doing
Opposed
Just
Sensible
Who
Creative People
Many
Actor
Awful
Tread
I am not bothered about if my role in a film is small or big. Because if the character I am offered is sensible, I would do it even if it is small.
Nithya Menen
Character
Big
Would
About
Small
Bothered
Because
Am
Offered
Role
Sensible
Even
Film
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
Noam Chomsky
Experience
Think
Kissinger
Had
Policy
Attribute
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Lot
Very
Sensible
Convincing
Useful
Henry
I would like to be part of sensible cinema, irrespective of whether it is a commercial or niche film, but it doesn't always pan out like that.
Radhika Apte
Cinema
Out
Would
Part
Like
Always
Commercial
Irrespective
Sensible
Whether
Film
Niche
Pan
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair
Maturity
World
Progress
Whatever
Rational
Point
Throughout
Vegetable
Soon
Towards
Makes
Verge
Passed
Begins
Decay
Sensible
Whole
I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.
Robin Trower
Seriously
Think
Too
Mail
Take
Read
Fan
Fan Mail
Sensible
Your
Thing
That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.
Ron Chernow
Buy
Dangerous
Strategy
Market
Individual
Sound
Effects
Very
Hold
Sensible
Which
Perverse
Whole
America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.
Samantha Power
Needs
Shifting
Meet
Security
Eastern
Economic
Support
Policy
Withstand
Command
Iran
America
Middle
Sustainable
Middle Eastern
Sensible
Sands
Interests
International
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler
Man
First
Fighting
Once
Beaten
He
Know
Leave
Off
Sensible
Businesses
I've met Theresa May, and I think she's a good person. I'm not someone who goes, 'Ooooh, boooo, the Tories,' or 'Ooooh, boo' anyone, actually. You sit down and have a sensible conversation, and she is really, really capable of having a sensible conversation.
Sandi Toksvig
Good
You
Conversation
Good Person
Met
Sit
Down
Think
Boo
Tories
Someone
Having
She
Person
Goes
May
Anyone
Sensible
Capable
Really
Who
Theresa
Actually
My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs programmes including 'Panorama,' and I didn't think he'd find acting a sensible option. But as soon as I'd finished my A-levels, I got on a train to Edinburgh, and that was it.
Sarah Alexander
Director
Father
Finished
Think
Programmes
Panorama
Television
Find
He
Soon
Documentaries
Edinburgh
Got
Affairs
Train
Option
Current
Sensible
Producer
Working
Acting
Including
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