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I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
Mary Gaitskill
People
Project
Critics
Exaggerate
Simply
Feel
Because
Misunderstood
Subjective
Lot
Frightening
Often
Them
Fragility
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
Mary Oliver
Work
Distinguish
Simply
Between
Play
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
Marya Hornbacher
People
Think
Chronic
High
Would
High Maintenance
Simply
Maintenance
Because
Prefer
Many
Illness
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.
Maryanne Wolf
Fluency
Definition
Ability
Simply
Most
Read
Text
Quickly
Accurately
Basic
I have always enjoyed vampire stuff without ever having been a full vampire geek. I suppose I love the idea of blood thirst because it can say so much about us, not simply about addiction but about all those desires that can tear a family apart.
Matt Haig
Love
Family
Addiction
Say
Those
Vampire
Geek
About
Having
Simply
Idea
Stuff
Suppose
Because
Without
Always
Been
Blood
Apart
Us
Much
Full
Tear
Ever
Enjoyed
Desires
Thirst
I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
Matthew Fox
Life
Saying
Good
My Life
Control
Think
Too
Television
More
Simply
Over
Because
Want
Film
Career
The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact.
Matthew Walker
You
Age
Older
Think
Starts
Out
Total
Fact
Myths
Simply
True
Get
In Fact
Decrease
Less
Amount
Need
Sleep
It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.
Matthew Walker
Older
Able
Seem
Adult
Generate
Simply
Efficiently
Getting
Why
Sleep
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Maureen Dowd
Nature
Sense
Must
Rather
Attempt
Simply
Clearly
Justify
Them
Feed your brothers and sisters simply, graciously, with generous care, and you will secure a place in their heart.
Maximillian Degenerez
You
Heart
Care
Will
Secure
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Simply
Feed
Generous
Sisters
Place
Your
The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Women
Birth
Birth Certificate
States
Has-Been
Brother
Born
Hospital
Facts
Simply
Been
His
Sources
Women And Children
Children
Certificate
United
United States
Number
Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.
Meir Kahane
Important
Down
States
Punish
Those
Hunt
More
Allow
Never
Simply
Support
Arm
Deal
Territories
Terrorists
Impunity
Them
Used
Groups
Fund
Ever
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
Mel Torme
Money
Out
Purely
Purpose
Records
Simply
Putting
Obviously
Make
Because
Whole
I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
Melanie Laurent
Love
Me
Love Me
Fears
Parents
Perfect
Had
Simply
Confident
Childhood
Just
Really
Grandparents
There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
Melinda Gates
Love
Women
Perception
Babies
Way
Would
Somehow
Simply
True
Loss
False
Africa
Grieve
Britain is undoubtedly becoming more cultural. No question of it. People who say it is dumbing down simply don't look around enough. They don't know enough.
Melvyn Bragg
People
Down
Enough
Say
More
No Question
Simply
Know
Look
Around
Becoming
Cultural
Question
Undoubtedly
Who
Britain
Sometimes I play as simply as possible, in one or two touches. But I also make bad decisions, I make mistakes, and I try too-complicated things.
Memphis Depay
Sometimes
Try
Mistakes
Possible
Bad
One Or Two
Simply
Also
Make
Decisions
Play
Things
Two
I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.
Merce Cunningham
Other
Tool
Tools
Dances
Ways
Eye
Trick
Seeing
Computer
Open
Simply
Like
Making
Camera
Use
Used
Chance
Legal immigrants deserve respect for following the laws of our nation and completing the process. This is not an extreme concept. It is a matter of simply protecting our nation's sovereignty and knowing who is coming into our nation.
Mercedes Schlapp
Respect
Legal
Matter
Nation
Our
Extreme
Completing
Immigrants
Following
Laws
Simply
Concept
Knowing
Protecting
Coming
Sovereignty
Process
Who
Deserve
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Meryl Streep
Good
People
Compassion
Some People
Think
Some
Simply
Make
Make A Difference
Going
Difference
Anything
Filled
Desire
In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
Michael Behe
Machines
Components
Structures
Simply
Proteins
Molecular
Molecular Machines
Many
Larger
Biological
The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.
Michael Behe
Time
Light
First
Eye
Could
Simply
Answered
How
Question
Happens
Works
I'm a big fan of Tarantino's work, and I think I'm fascinated by his evident sense of entitlement to use black characters and black material that he feels not simply comfortable with, but that it's his right and privilege - the apparent ease with which he handles black characters, fully aware that he's been criticized for that, too.
Michael Chabon
Work
Entitlement
Black
Big
Sense
Think
Too
Ease
Evident
Characters
Criticized
He
Simply
Feels
Comfortable
Material
Been
Big Fan
His
Tarantino
Privilege
Fan
Which
Use
Apparent
Fascinated
Fully
Aware
Right
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
Michael Cunningham
Good
People
World
Feelings
Living
Think
Benign
Slightly
Entirely
Entity
Writer
Cruel
He
Part
Simply
Any
Package
Certain
Disregard
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.
Michael Dirda
Books
Pleasure
Insight
Some
Scholarly
Simply
Contain
Most
Return
Read
Author
Information
Company
With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.
Michael Dirda
Me
Follow
Written
Simply
Instructions
Operate
Concerted Effort
How
Effort
Ask
Grasp
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