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We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes under all sorts of names - liberals, leftists, etc. These are the people who argue that they are not responsible for white racism and the country's 'inhumanity to the black man.'
Steven Biko
Man
Racism
People
Negative
Black
Country
White
Liberals
Responsible
Argue
Participation
Names
Terms
Concerned
Sort
Bunch
Curious
Goes
Etc
Explain
Who
Inhumanity
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Education
War
Simple
Confederate
Else
Civil
See
Civil War
Attempt
Empire
Sort
Understand
How
Flag
Any
Anybody
Anything
Anything Else
Really
Raise
Slavery
When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
Tom Petty
Work
Music
Money
Giving
Giving Up
Profit
Reckoned
Way
Musician
Out
Would
Taco
Had
Idea
Sort
Making
Still
Been
Lot
Up
Trying
Done
Going
Loved
Decided
Anyway
Less
Less Money
Play
Bell
Play Music
Night
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Tom Robbins
Freedom
People
Some
Taboos
Mischief
Gives
Sort
Stir
End
Up
Want
Break
In The End
Create
Really
Function
Things
It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
Adam Savage
Attitude
Creative
World
Looking
Thinking
Mindset
Way
Critical
Critical Thinking
About
Mental
Mental Attitude
Sort
Curiosity
Curious
Playful
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
Albert Brooks
You
Herd
Way
Harry
Say
Definition
My Friend
Someone
Lookout
Sort
Friend
Rode
Artist
Middle
Richest
Used
Who
Now
Right
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
Andre Agassi
Life
Time
Long
Long Time
Relationships
Distance
Everything
Respected
Admired
See
Could
Also
Looks
Sort
Got
Pillars
Yes
Interest
Loyalties
Her
An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.
Anthony Bourdain
Life
Time
Character
Me
Made
My Life
Big
Enough
Back
Mine
Tell
Kind
Take
Knew
Employer
Sort
Big Difference
Up
Patch
Person
Difference
After
Who
Rough
Basic
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Charles Darwin
Machine
Out
Facts
Observing
Sort
Conclusions
Am
Grinding
Turned
But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.
Cliff Richard
You
World
Sit
About
Feel
Terrace
Sort
Overlooking
Off
Cut
Peaceful
Vineyard
Thing
Portugal
Need
I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
Donna Summer
Sexuality
Physical
Sort
Am
Exists
Very
Sensual
Fantasy
Level
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Frank Crane
Time
You
Wise
Wonderful
Too Much
Reading
Too
Too Much Time
Spend
Stuff
Sort
Witty
Time Reading
Much
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells
Imagination
Crew
Must
See
Sort
Doing
Submarine
Confess
Any
Refuses
Anything
Sea
Suffocating
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken
Time
Good
Man
Woman
Every
Every Time
Bad
Bad Man
He
Sort
Speaks
Who
It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.
Hugh Grant
Life
Time
Good
You
Selfish
Binary
Life Is A
Bit
Complex
Bad
Bad Guy
Guy
More
Both
Fact
Tend
True
Towards
Like
Particularly
Sort
Selfless
Very
Than
Same
Quite
Same Time
Good Guy
Filmmaking
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.
Jeff Beck
Funny
You
Guitar
Try
Become
Distortion
Magic
Through
Abuse
Come
Singer
Sort
Genuine
Always
Sound
Been
Effects
Just
Whole
Units
I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
John Lewis
Life
Wind
Think
Has-Been
Daring
Instead
Sort
Sailing
Been
Going
Just
Against
Whole
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
John Muir
Love
God
Nature
Song
First
Creation
Every
Harmonious
Earthquakes
Sight
Seem
Lawless
Varied
Only
Mysterious
Sort
However
May
Storms
Etc
Notes
Expressions
The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them.
John Trudell
Human Being
Bone
Everybody
Bit
Carrying
Physical
Some
Through
Emotional
Days
Sort
Times
America
Going
Human
Being
Psychological
Them
Average
Hard
Hard Times
We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
Jordan Peele
Art
You
Perspective
Entertained
Some
Powerful
Piece
Sort
Go
Issues
Left
Movie
After
Theater
Social
Then
Really
Social Issues
Watch
I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
Judy Collins
People
Cancer
Think
Suicide
About
Like
Know
Talk
Sort
Understand
Issues
Years
Years Ago
Frightened
Want
Actually
Medically
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
Judy Collins
Time
Myself
People
Made
Group
Suicide
One Time
Tried
Attempt
Had
Sort
Friends
Times
Succeeded
Who
Many
Connection
Lives
I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.
Karyn Kusama
Life
Me
You
People
Life Is A
Control
Think
On And Off
Our
Way
Faucet
Hoped
Would
Entirely
Emotional
Self
Emotional Life
Never
Idea
Sort
Lot
Off
Times
Quite
Where
Turn
Turn-On
Really
Certainly
Appealing
Works
Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
Kevin Rudd
Life
Great
Me
Anger
Bitterness
Too
Carry
Something
Stuff
Sort
Around
Years
Years Ago
Years And Years
Short
Just
Taught
Resentment
Mum
Often, I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we're all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.
Liane Moriarty
Bullying
Day
You
End Of The Day
Feeling
Think
Statement
Horrible
Something
Bland
Adult
Cruel
Sort
Verbal
Till
End
Often
Just
Forms
Capable
Realize
Then
Actually
Thing
Things
Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.
Liane Moriarty
Bullying
Day
You
End Of The Day
Feeling
Think
Statement
Horrible
Something
Bland
Adult
Cruel
Sort
Verbal
Till
End
Often
Just
Forms
Capable
Realize
Then
Actually
Thing
Things
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