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I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.
Isaac Hayes
Cry
Mic
Front
Stand
Used
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
Itay Talgam
Music
Nature
You
Generation
Veteran
Example
Creation
Type
Music Industry
See
Composers
Never
Taken
Generations
Docile
Like
Academy
Industry
Provided
Expect
Subversive
Produced
Workers
Act
Stand
Who
Profession
Whole
I used to love sitting on the bathroom floor in my pajamas and watching my mother get ready for an event. She'd stand in front of her vanity and apply bright red and blue makeup - it was the '80s, you know.
Ivanka Trump
Love
You
Mother
Bathroom
Vanity
Red
Know
She
Makeup
Ready
Get
Sitting
Blue
Front
To Love
Stand
Used
Pajamas
Event
Bright
Floor
Her
Apply
Watching
I watch a ton of movies. Going way back, I like 'The Godfather.' 'The Matrix' was one of my favorites - the first one; they got a little carried away after the first one. Those are two that stand out.
J. B. Bickerstaff
First
Back
Way
Those
Carried
Out
Favorites
Like
First One
Got
Matrix
Godfather
Going
After
Little
Movies
Stand
Away
Ton
Watch
Two
It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.
J. B. Pritzker
Health
Care
Will
Tough
President
States
Diminish
Out
Having
More
Takes
Policies
Health Care
His
Trump
Governor
Up
Expand
Families
Than
Trying
While
Against
Stand
Stand Up
Speaking
Help
Illinois
United
United States
Actual
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Book
Gives
True
Glimpse
Mostly
Am
Impression
Stand
Night
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
J. Michael Straczynski
Future
You
Science
People
Society
Unknown
Analyze
Back
Plunging
Impact
Put
Headlong
Science Fiction
How
Context
Affects
Fiction
Stand
I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.
J. R. Smith
Home
Hate
People
Random
Back
Out
Signing
Someone
Online
Rather
Hotel
Over
Like
Mostly
Yelling
Just
Dwight
Dynasty
Against
Really
Stand
Games
Cool
Orlando
Play
Ear
Playing
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott
Respect
Try
Will
Long
Past
Other
Guards
Run
Because
Am
Line
Escape
Straight
Them
Straight Line
Stand
Dragged
If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
Jack L. Warner
You
Too
Say
Want
Anything
Stand
Studying my grandfather's life and legacy has shown me what it takes to be a good public servant. Curiosity. Compassion for others. Humility. Determination to stand tall for your beliefs in the face of opposition. No one believed these things more than my grandfather.
Jack Schlossberg
Life
Good
Me
Determination
Compassion
Face
Humility
Others
More
No-One
Takes
Studying
Tall
Opposition
Legacy
Than
Curiosity
Public
Grandfather
Stand
Your
Shown
Beliefs
Believed
Servant
Things
I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
Jackie Evancho
Mom
Me
Prayer
You
Practice
Stage
To Be Honest
Say
About
Songs
Sing
Make
Sure
Understand
Lord
Lot
Up
Warm
Ask
Really
Stand
Help
Using
Right
Technique
Honest
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
Jackie Robinson
Good
Me
Grateful
People
Out
Colonel
Take
He
Come
Always
Proved
Been
Authority
Stand
I can't stand people who have all the money but do not even bother to help innocent children in any small way they possibly can.
Jackie Shroff
People
Money
Innocent
Way
Possibly
Small
Bother
Any
Children
Stand
Help
Who
Even
When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.
Jake Tapper
Nature
You
People
Writing
Joe
Lies
About
Compromises
Write
Take
He
Put
Town
Come
Also
Make
Forced
Were
Experienced
Fiction
Wanted
McCarthy
Stand
Forward
Including
Washington
Things
Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.
James A. Moore
Me
Books
Those
Eye
Out
About
More
Consumer
Catch
Know
Make
Reader
Covers
Behind
Want
Stand
Designed
Certain celebs manage to worm their way out of the spotlight, and I won't stand for that.
James Acaster
Worm
Way
Out
Spotlight
Manage
Certain
Stand
The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
James Collins
Work
Time
You
Try
Will
Build
Our
Come
Ideas
Know
Answer
Test
Lot
Up
Stand
Things
Last
We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.
James E. Faust
World
Our
Strive
Possible
Destructive
Spirit
More
Over
Vulgar
Lord
Saints
Subjected
Encourage
Often
Wherever
Places
Unholy
Much
Holy
Stand
Profane
Many
I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.
James Ellroy
Myself
School
Kid
High
High School
Percent
Attention
Make
Because
Going
Wanted
Stand
Ignored
Wasp
Spectacle
Jewish
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
James Frey
Art
Me
Whatever
Painting
Thinking
Out
Telling
See
Seeing
Someone
Feel
Go
Front
Want
Gallery
Should
Stand
Figure
The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.
James Hawes
Words
Too
Ruled
One Thing
Someone
Anglo-Saxon
Talks
Often
The One Thing
Fancy
Stand
Who
Using
Thing
Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
James Hillman
Women
Speak
Remember
Old
Leader
Back
Would
Bottle
Put
Arising
Days
Spontaneously
Feminist
Feminists
Were
Up
Very
Just
Refused
Movement
Different
Stand
Stand Up
Early
Early Days
Careful
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
James Lovelock
Thought
Energy
Hopelessly
Unpleasant
Rushed
Price
Schemes
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Inefficient
Without
Any
Personally
Stand
Largely
I can't stand the need to be fashionable.
James May
Stand
Fashionable
Need
When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.
James McBride
Jazz
Coming
Lot
Up
Stand
Serious
Players
Funk
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