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As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens - allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.
Jagmeet Singh
Freedom
Business
Rights
Equality
Political
Values
Gender
Human Rights
Our
Rightfully
Ourselves
High
Citizens
Religious
Minorities
Religious Freedom
High Standard
Abroad
Allowing
Leaders
Demand
Name
Equal
Proudly
Falls
Political Leaders
Canadians
Human
Short
Ignore
Standard
Who
Basic
Basic Human Rights
Set
Treatment
Nah, I don't feel overlooked, underappreciated, or none of that because it's a short list of artists, past and present, that I kind of have respect for. And in all of those situations, the admiration and respect is mutual.
Black Thought
Respect
Past
Those
Kind
Admiration
Mutual
Feel
Because
None
Overlooked
List
Situations
Short
Artists
Present
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
Uzodinma Iweala
Events
Sometimes
Valuable
Important
Advice
Living
Imagination
Ancestors
More
Directly
Both
Mythological
Dead
Always
Important Role
Offering
Role
Often
Short
African
Famous
Influence
Literary
Whether
Figures
Popular
Works
Novels
Played
Humans
My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'
Hillary Clinton
Alice
Favorite
Carried
Runaway
Collections
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Away
Her
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and when I began anchoring, I had short, stubbly pieces of hair. And trying to report in San Francisco with fog meant my hair swelled.
Soledad O'Brien
Fog
Hair
Fall
Francisco
Relaxing
Anchoring
Had
Pieces
Off
Began
Crack
Report
Trying
Short
San
San Francisco
Turned
Meant
I think it's a very old fashioned attitude, that you've got to wear short skirts and a lot of make up to get on in life. I think most women look at that and laugh. I think those are antiquated views from a bygone age that thankfully is no longer around.
Karren Brady
Life
Attitude
You
Age
Women
Old
Think
I Think
Those
Laugh
Wear
Longer
Look
Most
Make
Make Up
Around
Got
Lot
Up
Very
Antiquated
Get
Thankfully
Short
Views
Skirts
Old-Fashioned
I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
Dolly Parton
Big
Weight
Because
Very
Short
Just
Appetite
Watch
Because the high-intensity pulses are short, the laser only damages the area where it's applied. The result is precise, clean cuts that are ideal for transparent materials.
Donna Strickland
Result
Pulses
Only
Area
Clean
Ideal
Because
Materials
Precise
Short
Where
Cuts
Transparent
Laser
Applied
Damages
I knew Chelsea had made some offers while I was at Shakhtar so when I eventually arrived here, after a short spell with Anzhi Makhachkala, it was amazing. Having David Luiz, Oscar and Ramires here when I joined was very important for me because they helped me a lot with the language and inside the club, so it was very helpful.
Willian
Me
Amazing
Language
Made
Important
Club
Spell
Inside
Some
Having
Joined
David
Had
Knew
Because
Chelsea
Arrived
Lot
Very
Offers
Short
After
While
Helped
Helpful
Eventually
Here
Oscar
Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I’d scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.
Katie Piper
Life
Future
Family
Marriage
Goals
Thought
My Life
Before
TV
Would
Would-Be
About
Attacked
Write
Long-Term
Without
How
Modelling
Short
Just
Substance
Lists
Wanted
Whether
Scribble
Depth
Successful
Plans
Things
Career
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.
Uzodinma Iweala
Humanity
World
Dangerous
Vision
Rest
Fall
Other
Books
About
Casting
Write
Shared
Exotic
Authors
Often
Short
Far
Profess
European
Like Netflix, Looker started as nothing more than an idea. Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield were two brilliant engineers who had figured out a better way for businesses to see and analyze their data, and they asked me to join them to help out with the ABCs - that's short for Anything But Coding.
Marc Randolph
Me
Better
Brilliant
Nothing
Analyze
Way
Out
See
Netflix
Data
More
Join
Had
Better Way
Idea
Like
Were
Than
Short
Anything
Them
Asked
Engineers
Help
Figured
Who
Businesses
Coding
Started
Two
Ben
Jorge Masvidal is a star. That wasn't always the case. Hardcore fans always knew how good he was, but it always seemed like he would fall short in the big one.
Ariel Helwani
Good
Fans
Big
Fall
Would
Case
Seemed
He
Knew
Like
Always
How
Big One
Short
Star
Hardcore
I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.
P. J. O'Rourke
Gay
People
Black
Live
Frankly
Rural
Fact
New
Town
New Hampshire
Hispanic
Hampshire
Short
In Fact
Who
Population
Jewish
In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he's not short of technique. He would get in any team because there's room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.
Graeme Souness
You
Matter
Grass
Every
Type
System
Has-Been
Would
Blade
He
Almost
Because
Been
Covers
Times
Get
Any
Short
Room
Fantastic
Team
Play
Technique
Level
Player
Players
Two
Our role as producers is mainly limited to borrowing money from friends when we run short of cash.
Sreenivasan
Money
Our
Run
Borrowing
Cash
Mainly
Limited
Friends
Role
Short
Producers
I'm a brand type guy and we want to make sure that 'Gas Monkey' is out there in every arena that we can be. I'm also never short on ideas and I usually try to get them out there at all times.
Richard Rawlings
Try
Every
Monkey
Type
Out
Guy
Arena
Never
Ideas
Also
Make
Sure
Brand
Times
Get
Short
Want
Them
Gas
I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.
Ed Woodward
You
Dangerous
Calm
Cold
Distracted
Take
Long-Term
Term
Making
Short
Being
Want
Short-Term
Decisions
View
Things
As a professional, you pick up ideas from your colleagues and the orchestras you work with, while coming up with mutual interpretations in very short periods of time.
Hilary Hahn
Work
Time
You
Colleagues
Mutual
Pick
Ideas
Periods
Coming
Up
Very
Orchestra
Short
Short Periods
While
Your
Professional
Interpretations
I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.
Robert Kiyosaki
Life
Time
Job
My Life
Collected
Only
Had
Period
Real
Traditional
Years
Real Job
Very
Short
Short Period
Which
Means
Paycheck
Four
Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.
Chuck Palahniuk
Past
Every
Mark
Thom
Those
Collection
Collections
Stunning
Came
Heartbreaking
Decade
Get
Short
Hannah
Stories
Short Stories
In The Past
Dynamic
Richard
Barry
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
Chuck Palahniuk
You
Travel
Books
Favorite
Carry
Collections
Easy
Give
Because
Always
Get
Short
Short Story
Story
When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.
Ruben Fleischer
Music
Director
Videos
Become
Own
Films
Music Videos
My Own
Stuff
Budget
Making
Led
Commercials
Trying
Shooting
Short
Short Films
Low
Low-Budget
Eventually
Started
For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply isn’t working.
David Gauke
Financial
Prison
Society
Completing
Cost
Simply
Offenders
Short
Heavy
Which
Social
Sentences
Working
Whose
Lives
I enjoy trolls. They try to shake my confidence and bring me down with such remarks, but they never knew they helped me grow. They saw my curly hair, they saw my dark color, they saw my short stature and they started making memes. I know they can mock my appearance but they cannot claim I am corrupt or talk about my education or my eloquence.
Tamilisai Soundararajan
Education
Me
Confidence
I Am
Dark
Try
Hair
Down
Enjoy
Eloquence
Saw
Claim
Memes
Stature
Corrupt
About
Shake
Color
Remarks
Never
Knew
Know
Talk
Making
Am
Mock
Curly
Short
Cannot
Helped
Appearance
Grow
Bring
Started
I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Me
Together
Management
Group
Window
Recovery
Had
Put
Know
Well
Very
Walked
Short
Plan
Inherited
Credible
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