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Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.
Viswanathan Anand
Work
Time
You
Sit
Approach
Immense
New
Like
Match
New One
Ponder
Each
I get the same lurching thrill now when I'm about to sit down to an egg mayonnaise sandwich and a packet of plain crisps as I used to get when I fancied someone.
Viv Albertine
Sit
Down
About
Someone
Thrill
Get
Egg
Same
Mayonnaise
Fancied
Plain
Packet
Sandwich
Used
Now
The problem we are trying to solve is that of drugs that would have never seen the light of day for reasons that have nothing to do with the inherent properties of drug candidates themselves and more to do with bureaucratic institutions within which they often sit.
Vivek Ramaswamy
Day
Problem
Light
Seen
Sit
Nothing
Would
Solve
Properties
More
Never
Institutions
Within
Trying
Bureaucratic
Often
Candidates
Which
Themselves
Inherent
Reasons
When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
W. Bruce Cameron
Time
School
Face
Long
Long Time
Lost
Sit
Whatever
Lesson
Would
About
Through
Come
Subject
Dumbest
Grade
Grade School
Listen
Just
Door
Decided
Them
Teachers
Expression
Thing
Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.
W. Bruce Cameron
Family
Man
Woman
Waiting
Women
Job
Men
Sit
Society
Else
Our
Everything
Everything Else
Hunt
Tells
Percent
Something
Split
Share
Sharp
Between
Stick
Wander
Woods
Us
Means
Used
Species
Raising
I told my wife once, 'I feel like I'm getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.' Some people are like, 'You're comparing David Milch to Aristotle,' and yeah, I am, but I'm not Plato.
W. Earl Brown
You
People
Wife
Some People
Sit
Once
Some
David
Aristotle
Feel
Feet
Like
Am
Yeah
Getting
Paid
Comparing
Plato
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
Walter Kirn
Success
Work
War
Hard Work
Win
Single
Big
Sit
Down
Lunch
Back
Back Up
Worship
Atom
Angle
Through
Invest
Split
Counter
Primarily
New
Sort
Big Break
Said
Issue
Accomplished
Up
American
Break
Soar
Ingenious
Stand
Hard
Star
Specific
Watch
In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
Wayne Grady
Buy
You
Property
Black
Sit
Windsor
Had
Most
Balcony
Were
Up
Sixties
Places
Fifties
Forties
Even
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
Wendie Malick
Life
Character
You
Somebody
My Life
Sit
Others
Else
About
Something
Join
Support
Know
Particularly
Talk
How
Context
How Many Times
Doing
Times
Experiences
Interesting
Persuade
Your
Many
Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.
Wendy Davis
Together
Fight
People
Power
Forcing
Sit
Corners
State
Back
Instead
Leaders
Coming
Opposite
Texans
Austin
Get
Done
Want
Turn
Prepare
Washington
Keep
Things
Watch
It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
Wendy Davis
Education
Time
Good
Great
Good Things
Financial
Better
Will
Job
Made
College
Sit
Enjoy
Aid
Our
Financial Aid
Our Time
Possible
Laurels
Able
About
Cost
Case
Better Job
Absolutely
Like
Talk
How
Issues
Itself
Expect
Tuition
Sustain
Low
Low-Cost
Now
Things
Receive
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
Wendy Kopp
Day
History
You
People
End Of The Day
Will
Haters
Sit
Sidelines
Find
Critique
More
Shape
Almost
Make
Make A Difference
Comfortable
Builders
Always
Afar
End
Difference
Who
To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?
Wentworth Miller
Home
You
People
Girl
Sit
To Be Honest
Intimidating
Those
Hooking
Out
Find
Pretty
Scary
Rather
Only
Purpose
Checking
Does
Got
Up
Get
Scrabble
Going
Quite
Dork
Play
Honest
I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.
Werner Herzog
Time
Sit
Films
Look
Very
Eager
There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.
Wesley Snipes
Game
Arrogance
Sit
Types
Bit
Developers
Well
Hollywood
I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.
Wilbur Smith
Work
Myself
Book
Writing
Sit
Sense
Enormous
Back
Bit
Pleasure
Out
Admire
See
Like
Proud
Still
His
Get
Fulfillment
Who
The biggest thing for me is to be accessible. When a high school coach comes on our campus, they can sit in every position meeting they want to sit in. They can come to every practice. And the comments I've gotten from our high school coaches is how accessible we are to them. That's what you need to do to build those relationships.
Will Muschamp
Me
You
School
Practice
Build
Sit
Every
Meeting
Relationships
Our
Those
High
High School
Come
Accessible
How
Gotten
Comments
Campus
Want
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Them
Coach
Coaches
Thing
Need
Position
Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety.
William Bratton
Best
Freedom
History
Fear
Police
Safety
Impossible
Freedom Of Speech
Sit
Enjoy
Worship
Would
Freedom From
Freedoms
Parts
Without
Been
America
Public
Public Safety
Many
Foundation
Speech
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
William Cobbett
You
Thought
Sit
Down
Think
About
Shall
Write
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.
William Gibson
You
Writing
Sit
Down
Out
Tell
Never
Generate
Course
Comfortable
Because
Doing
Been
Contract
Get
Going
Order
Screenplay
Screenplays
Happen
Story
Storyline
Them
Then
Reasons
Fill
Actually
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas
Wisdom
Sit
Weigh
Legislation
You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.
William Turner
You
World
Made
Atoms
Sit
Give
Data
Individual
Qualitative
Quantitative
Been
Heard
Up
May
Stories
Really
Molecules
Here
There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.
Willie Aames
Wife
Face
Sit
Other
Would
Rather
Talk
Than
Person
Planet
I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.
Willie Mays
Me
Game
People
Problem
Problems
Become
Sit
Down
Would
Someone
Guy
Could
Never
Had
Over
Like
Years
Very
So Many People
Explain
Help
Many
Lucky
Lucky Guy
Baseball
Baseball Game
You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
You
Struggle
World
Job
First
Become
Before
Sit
Living
Setting
Other
Back
Way
Out
Kings
Taken
First Job
Because
Makes
Becomes
Go
Queens
Been
Did
Just
Famous
Then
Your
Shown
African countries lose the most from tax dodging. African governments must, therefore, do more to push for a full reform of the global tax system and demand action from countries, such as the U.K., whose financial centres sit at the heart of the global network of tax havens.
Winnie Byanyima
Heart
Financial
Lose
Sit
Action
System
Must
Haven
More
Network
Push
Demand
Countries
Global
Most
Dodging
Governments
Reform
African
Tax
Tax System
Full
Therefore
Whose
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