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I've always thought really good artists in general are overqualified. You're paid to stand there and do a line, but the guy has probably gone to drama school... but they have developed it to be just, like, one specific line.
Paul Guilfoyle
Good
You
School
Thought
Gone
Drama
Drama School
Guy
General
Developed
Like
Always
Line
Just
Artists
Really
Good Artists
Stand
Paid
Specific
The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.
Paul Kalanithi
Work
Death
Family
Old
Face
Physician
Own
Duty
Patient
Sense
Back
Our
Back Up
Take
Until
Make
Arms
Return
Existence
Off
Up
Patients
Disintegrated
Stand
Whose
Lives
All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.
Paul Merton
Talent
Disc
Without
Stand
I'm not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully's gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That's just not me. I wanna fight - let's go! I mean, I'm gonna stand up for myself. That's just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in.
Paul Pierce
Myself
Nature
Me
Fight
Neighborhood
Guy
Join
Beat
Come
Era
Go
Bully
Up
Goes
Gets
Just
Wanna
Where
Want
Grew
Mean
Gonna
Then
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Gang
Now
Competitive
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
Paul Rand
Life
Art
Allergic
Tea
Painting
Living
Sugar
Way
One-Way
Drink
Through
Like
Look
Well
Without
West
Lot
Same
Bread
Stand
Reason
Orient
Even
Butter
I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen.
Paul Rodgers
Experience
First
Club
Summer
Jimi Hendrix
Broke
London
Above
Park
Outside
Hot
Along
Ticket
Singer
Heard
Afford
Listen
Just
Blues
Flat
Pub
Stand
Professional
Evening
Hendrix
Playing
I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.
Pauley Perrette
Rights
Passion
Matter
Gender
Big
Whatever
Community
Think
Everyone
Sexual
Civil
Born
Civil Rights
About
Fair
Smashing
Discrimination
Being
Not Fair
Racial
Stand
Moment
Orientation
Whoever
Activist
Right
For me, that is what made Leonard-Hearns stand out, because they made adjustments on each other, and it went back and forth continually. One had the advantage, then the other, then back to the first one, and so on.
Paulie Malignaggi
Me
Made
First
Other
Back
Out
Adjustment
Had
Advantage
First One
Because
Continually
Forth
Then
Stand
Each
I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.
Paul von Hindenburg
Mind
Own
Too
Our
Crisis
Would
Only
Firm
Continue
Front
Public
Stand
Even
Serious
Keep
Believed
Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.
Paz de la Huerta
Alone
Energy
Magical
Up
Just
Stand
Stand Up
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Penn Jillette
Truth
Lying
Teller
Penn
Although
Order
Stand
Things
Necessarily
Two
I don't know if you've ever knit a sweater, but by the end of it, you're like, 'Ugh I can't wear this. I can't stand the color. I'm so tired of it.'
Perrey Reeves
Tired
You
Wear
Color
Knit
Like
Know
End
Sweater
Stand
Ever
I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
Pervez Musharraf
Politics
Election
Politician
Think
Out
Am
Going
Cut
Stand
Certainly
Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.
Pete Burns
Saying
Marriage
Made
Down
Anchor
Staying
Through
Throwing
Because
Surely
Still
Been
Up
Up And Down
Escalator
Expected
Revolving
Where
Want
Door
Choice
Stand
One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.
Pete Hamill
Time
Day
Punch
One Thing
Brooklyn
Like
Learned
Yard
Clock
Begins
Get
Just
Working
Stand
Navy
Thing
Early
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
Peter Benenson
Today
Freedom
Justice
Sense
Those
Something
Support
Feel
Still
Impotence
Up
Stand
Stand Up
Help
Who
International
Amnesty
With a lot of shows, what you'll see happen is they start off really well, and they're very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show... they become a cliche of the show they once were. That's the whole 'jumping the shark' thing.
Peter Dinklage
You
Become
Once
See
Outside
Shark
Well
Cliche
Sort
Were
Lot
Off
Version
Jumping
Very
Happen
Themselves
Really
Stand
Show
Original
Whole
Shows
Thing
Start
As far as our rulers in Brussels are concerned, Her Majesty can stand for the European Parliament and vote in the elections for it. She doesn't, but she could.
Peter Hitchens
Vote
Our
Rulers
Brussels
Could
Parliament
Majesty
She
Concerned
As Far As
Far
Elections
Stand
European
Her
In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.
Peter Levine
Buy
Time
Together
Old
Long
Long Time
Power
Took
Resources
Some
Computer
Instantaneously
Days
Go
Amazon
Up
Storage
Old Days
Stand
Stand Up
Company
Now
Nearly
Lash
Need
I watch drama on DVD because I can't stand ad breaks.
Peter Morgan
Drama
Because
Breaks
Stand
Ad
Watch
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
Peter Wright
Art
Seen
Picture
Own
Painting
Object
Something
Making
Stand
It's easy if you're Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks.
Phil Gingrey
You
Sometimes
Back
Easy
Gingrich
Rush
Rush Limbaugh
Throw
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Stand
Bricks
Sean
Even
You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?
Phil Lynott
Love
You
Yourself
Feeling
Think
Final
Finally
Dream
Mentally
Like
Know
Audience
Occurs
Coming
End
Up
Going
Really
Stand
Show
Prepare
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
Phil Spector
Music
Art
Change
World
Earth
Way
Sun
Obligated
Felt
Still
Proved
Did
Same
Galileo
Stand
Round
Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.
Philip Green
Down
Other
Lobby
Everyone
Say
Out
Lift
No-One
Head
Talking
Tapping
Get
Gets
Screen
Gadget
Stand
Hello
Who
Each
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
Philip Yancey
Parents
Stand
Awe
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