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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Armstrong Williams
Life
Beautiful
Eyes
Achieve
Live
Our
We Cannot
Possibilities
Neutral
Cleansed
Simply
Truly
Existence
Discovery
Authentic
Short
Cannot
Grow
I'm short. I'm so Asian.
Arnel Pineda
Short
Asian
Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
Arthur Hugh Clough
Only
Know
Well
Short
After
Juxtaposition
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
Arthur Machen
Great
News
World
Own
Months
Ancient
Introducing
About
Classics
Ten
My Own
Small
Masterpieces
Accepted
Am
Short
Story
Which
Appeared
Evening
Evening News
Things
Belong
Here
The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Alone
Business
Learning
Impossible
Word
Reading
Sense
Write
Know
Years
Any
Short
Literature
Reputable
Your
English
English Literature
Whole
Two
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
Arthur Smith
Funny
Relationship
History
Water
Comedy
Swimming
Indeed
About
Someone
Between
Course
Always
Falls
Short
The History Of
We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.
Arto Lindsay
You
Memory
Rather
Compression
Songs
Absorb
Were
Hearing
Lot
Than
Short
Interested
Them
Really
Notion
Actually
In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
Asa Gray
Animal
Above
Join
Vegetable
Loop
Lines
Short
Widely
Below
I see the game too slow from second base. That's why I like to play more short.
Asdrubal Cabrera
Game
Slow
Too
See
More
Like
Short
Base
Why
Play
Second
If you want me to play second, I need time to get ready to play second. If you want me to play short, I need time.
Asdrubal Cabrera
Time
Me
You
Ready
Get
Short
Want
Play
Second
Need
I think it's hard for someone to play short and then come back to second. It's not the same.
Asdrubal Cabrera
Think
Back
Someone
Come
Same
Short
Then
Hard
Play
Second
I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.
Asif Kapadia
Made
Films
Several
Possible
Heads
Talking
Talking Heads
Still
Dialogue
Very
Short
Short Films
Fan
Stories
Little
Much
Images
We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.
Aubrey de Grey
Inevitable
Few
Our
Minds
Spent
Out
Find
Some
Horrible
Had
Put
Nevertheless
Knowing
Get
Short
Mechanism
Aware
Lives
Millennia
Last
I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.
Austin Aries
Good
Goals
Realistic
Think
Lofty
Longer
Term
Always
Short
Short-Term
Then
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.
Ayobami Adebayo
Best
Writing
School
First
Year
Books
Several
Student
Had
Pile
Subjects
Won
Ended
Stack
Short
Just
Established
Being
Stories
Decided
Short Stories
Notebooks
Being The Best
Included
Fill
Routine
Number
People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.
Ayushmann Khurrana
You
Attention Span
People
Television
Attention
Nobody
Very
Forgets
Short
Short Attention Span
Movie
Span
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi
Music
World
Made
Long
Seen
Films
Tehran
Music World
Some
Minutes
About
More
Only
Had
Most
Documentaries
Underground
Always
Were
Wondered
Short
Flaw
Them
Really
Why
I have a really feminine voice, but I also feel quite powerful when I write. So my songs feel heavy, and that's how Banks sounds. It's a really short, powerful sound. It almost sounds masculine, and I like having that dichotomy.
Banks
Having
Voice
Write
Songs
Masculine
Almost
Feel
Powerful
Like
Also
How
Sound
Feminine
Sounds
Dichotomy
Quite
Short
Heavy
Banks
Really
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Barbara Kruger
Work
You
Language
Way
Attention
Attention Spans
Do You Know
Know
Because
Understand
Does
Itself
Short
Spans
Why
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
Barbara Kruger
Work
Me
People
Opportunity
Space
Relatively
Drawn
Window
Attention
Attention Spans
Like
Lot
Shoot
Short
Want
Spans
Outrage is something Donald Trump typically has in no short supply.
Bari Weiss
Something
Outrage
Supply
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Short
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
Me
Attention Span
Writing
Other
Books
Slightest
Distraction
Would
Could
Write
Take
Attention
Hand
Pat
Legislate
Short
Short Attention Span
Span
Away
I've always been a comedy nerd, and 'Partners in Crime' was probably more influential for me than anything else because it was not only standup, but Robert Townsend had those short films.
Baron Vaughn
Me
Comedy
Crime
Films
Else
Those
Nerd
More
Only
Had
Robert
Partners
Because
Always
Been
Than
Short
Short Films
Influential
Anything
Anything Else
Standup
Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
Barry Ritholtz
Despite
Say
Has-Been
High
Some
Excess
Glam
Investors
Performance
Long-Term
Fees
Well
Coverage
Been
Done
Short
Hedge
Poor
Media
Media Coverage
Funds
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
Barton Gellman
Good
You
About
Risk
Trivial
Heard
Endless
Short
Them
Warnings
Ignore
Good Chance
Now
Chance
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman
Today
Power
Year
Too
Complex
Easy
Computer
Because
Inexpensive
Getting
Short
Break
Chips
Even
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