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The football in Spain is more about skill and technique. Every team tries to play good football. The physical side, with plenty of running and hard tackling, plays more of a role in the Bundesliga.
Arjen Robben
Good
Every
Side
Plenty
Running
Tries
Physical
About
Tackling
More
Football
Role
Spain
Skill
Hard
Team
Play
Technique
Plays
The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.
Artur Davis
Me
You
Think
Record
More
Ads
Lead
He
Know
Sing
Knows
Democrats
How
His
Governor
Governor Romney
Which
Romney
Skill
Convince
Need
My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.
Ashley Bell
Life
You
Job
Monsters
Characters
Voiceover
Had
Also
Learn
Accents
Huge
Different
Skill
Cool
Whole
Dad
Actor
Bringing
We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.
Austan Goolsbee
People
Pool
Pressing
Jobs
Area
Know
Match
Got
Lot
Up
Unemployment
Going
Created
Skill
Keep
Set
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
Avery Brooks
Art
God
Me
You
Heart
Mind
Way
Carpenter
Find
Given
Voice
Highest
Highest Form
Empower
Were
Art Forms
Form
Forms
Much
Planet
Skill
Using
Expression
If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.
Baba Kalyani
Strength
Technology
Son
Financial
Skill
Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
Barry Ritholtz
Longer
Lean
Make
Tight
Article
Anyone
Skill
Keeping
While it may not have been the flashiest or the most creative, I brought a very unique skill set, and I executed in a fashion that very few have done before me and, I think, very few will do after me.
Ben Askren
Fashion
Me
Creative
Will
Before
Few
Think
Brought
Most
Executed
Been
Very
Done
May
After
While
Skill
Unique
Set
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
Ben Horowitz
Mind
Master
Own
Design
Difficult
Relatively
Ability
My Own
Firing
Check
Most
Learned
Were
Hiring
Manage
Process
Psychology
Far
Straightforward
Skill
Skills
Organizational
Compared
Keeping
You have to show up at 7 in the morning and be on like it's 9 at night. It's a skill. Some comics run from it, and they hate doing it, but the comics that are pros understand how important it is, and they get good at it.
Bill Burr
Good
Morning
You
Hate
Important
Run
Some
Pros
Like
Understand
How
Comics
Doing
Up
Get
Skill
Show
Night
One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
Bing Gordon
Good
Great
Complicated
Entrepreneur
Say
One Thing
Only
Entrepreneurs
Know
Discussion
Get
Managers
Going
The One Thing
Then
Skill
Whole
Thing
I always think of myself as a comedy feeder type person, and that feeder lets themselves get out of your comfort zone as opposed to straight stand up; that feels like honing one skill, like honing one point of view.
Bo Burnham
Myself
Comedy
Think
Type
Honing
Out
Point
Point Of View
Feels
Like
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Always
Opposed
Up
Person
Get
Straight
Themselves
Skill
Stand
View
Your
Stand Up
Lets
Zone
Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Me
Intelligence
Perception
Valued
Cruel
Takes
Annoys
Commerce
Shocking
Being
Really
Skill
Now
Actual
Thing
George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
Brad Sherman
Great
Incredibly
Weak
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
George
George Bush
Bush
Skill
Shown
I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.
Bradley Cooper
Me
Confidence
Sports
Easy
Physical
Never
Had
Along
Liked
Always
Came
Go
Really
Skill
Coordinated
It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
Cameron Russell
Day
Variation
Maintain
Knowing
How
Sound
Shooting
Going
Skill
Engagement
Ridiculous
Actually
Level
Pose
Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
Caroline Leavitt
Writing
Really
Skill
Hard
If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.
Carson Daly
Life
Matter
Rest
My Life
Build
Become
Enough
Only
Could
Know
Look
Operate
Call
Always
How
Off
Just
Boards
If I Could
Really
Skill
Successful
Radio
Lucky
Even
Base
Set
If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.
Charles Kennedy
Courage
Will
Nation
Doubt
Action
Troops
Support
Course
Committed
Them
Then
Skill
British
In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.
Charles Platt
Phone
Few
System
Restricted
Select
Had
Long-Distance
Boxes
Built
Were
Errors
Blue
Often
Manipulated
Skill
Riddled
Many
Using
Early
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
Charles Stross
You
Some
Born
Mystical
Develop
Generating
Talent
Ideas
Skill
I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?
Charlie Hunnam
You
Man
Fight
Every
Think
Ability
Oneself
Never
Know
Always
Endeavour
Skill
Should
Use
Every Man
Defend
I spend my days in an office in my house. There are things to be done that I don't have the skill set for. I'm able to learn on the fly, thank God, so I can function. But it's difficult.
Chris Bosh
God
Thank God
Fly
Difficult
Spend
Able
Days
House
Learn
Thank
Office
Done
Skill
Function
Things
Set
To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.
Chris Hadfield
World
Space
Top
Astronaut
Arm
Robotic
Much
Skill
Necessary
So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
Chris LeDoux
Luck
Percent
Eighty
Skill
Twenty
I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.
Christie Hefner
Myself
Business
World
Stay
Some
Had
Came
Years
Five
Expecting
After
Realized
Really
Skill
Business World
Found
Enjoying
Playboy
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