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'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.
Geoffrey Boycott
Me
People
Trouble
Power
Say
Those
Could
Unrest
Take
Make
Boycott
Nonsense
Caused
Were
Did
Committee
Decisions
Personally
If I Could
Stand
They Say
Started
When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.
Geoffrey Canada
Mother
Hero
Thought
Superman
First
Chaos
Danger
Out
About
He
Like
Crying
She
Talking
Real
Coming
Maybe
Eight
Us
Really
Rescue
Found
Started
Violence
Now that neural nets work, industry and government have started calling neural nets AI. And the people in AI who spent all their life mocking neural nets and saying they'd never do anything are now happy to call them AI and try and get some of the money.
Geoffrey Hinton
Life
Work
Government
Saying
Happy
People
Money
Try
AI
Spent
Some
Nets
Neural
Never
Call
Calling
Industry
Mocking
Get
Anything
Them
Who
Now
Started
This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.
Geoffrey Rush
You
Parents
Young
Group
Think
Side
More
Mentor
Could
Adult
Part
Wrong
Wrong Side
Am
Any
Oh
Young Adults
Children
Happens
Working
Your
Who
Now
Started
Playing
I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.
Geoffrey Rush
Me
Space
Moon
Adolescent
Onward
Mercury
Amateur
Scientist
Years
Very
Space Program
To The Moon
Landing
Started
Program
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
Geoffrey West
Change
Once
Ourselves
Put
Traded
Stability
Requires
Away
Growth
Treadmill
Started
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
George Ayittey
Virtually
Civil
Civil Wars
Excluded
Were
Politically
Africa
Wars
Groups
Marginalized
Started
My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
George Benson
Life
Guitar
My Life
First
Mind-Blowing
Considered
Has-Been
Guitar Player
Would
Singer
First Of All
Because
Been
Off
Whole
Ever
Player
Early
Started
Career
Imagine
Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
George Benson
Me
Guitar
Simple
Band
Few
Organ
Took
Everywhere
Out
Gigs
Could
Put
Stuff
Around
Were
Front
Working
Keep
Started
Playing
I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.
George Foreman
You
Anger
Youth
Human Being
World
Try
Kids
Would
About
Pursue
Beat
Instinct
Come
Sport
Learn
Read
Box
Boxing
Houston
Up
Human
Being
Want
Wanted
Center
Them
Show
Tear
Started
Need
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.
George Foreman
Champion
Gone
Everybody
Spend
Rumor
Would
Would-Be
Able
Some
Minutes
Week
Lift
Lifting
Weight
Weight Room
Weights
Longer
Couple
Boxer
Boxers
Said
Always
Lot
Sneak
Times
Hit
Jab
Did
After
Room
Realize
Sparring
Noticed
Now
Started
When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads' holidays, all that stuff.
George Groves
Myself
Smoking
Made
Drinking
Follow
Stuff
Friends
Lads
Holidays
Started
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.
George Lopez
Love
Myself
People
Writing
Comedy
Down
Carlin
Would
Admired
Write
Like
Look
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Well
Exercise
George
George Carlin
Years
Pryor
Quit
Afraid
Break
Richard
Richard Pryor
Why
Things
Murphy
Started
The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
George Murray
Me
Competition
First
Part
Whole
Thing
Started
I did a movie with Christopher Reeve when I first came to L.A. called 'Switching Channels.' I asked him if it was weird to be Superman. He said, 'You know, George, I've fought against this whole Superman thing, but one day I realized, 'Hey, I'm Superman.'' So, at some point, I just started saying, 'Good for me, I'm Bryan MacKenzie.'
George Newbern
Saying
Good
Day
Me
You
Superman
First
Christopher
Christopher Reeve
Channels
Hey
One Day
Some
Point
Bryan
He
Weird
Know
Him
Said
Came
George
Reeve
Did
Just
Movie
Against
Realized
Asked
Whole
Fought
Switching
Thing
Started
I first started going to Chelsea games in the mid-Nineties when I lived off the North End Road, ten minutes' walk from Stamford Bridge.
George Osborne
Walk
First
Minutes
Ten
Ten Minutes
Road
Chelsea
Off
End
North
Going
Games
Bridge
Lived
Started
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.
George Pelecanos
Life
Day
Every Day
My Life
Reading
Become
Every
Books
Once
Point
Could
Writer
Had
Idea
Reading Books
Got
Goal
Up
Maybe
Then
Really
Reason
Started
Started Reading
To clarify the facts to everyone, yes, I did have a heart attack. I was on a plane leaving from Los Angeles, CA, heading to Secaucus, NJ, for a comic convention when I started to feel some discomfort in my chest.
George Perez
Heart
Everyone
Clarify
Some
Angeles
Attack
Facts
Feel
Heading
Comic
Discomfort
Leaving
Los
Los Angeles
Chest
Yes
Did
Convention
Plane
Started
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
George Saunders
Life
Me
Strange
Engineer
My Life
Engineering
Think
Society
Our
Out
Has-Been
Jobs
About
More
Throughout
Make
Course
Been
Effect
Lot
Done
Little
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Started
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.
George Stevens
Work
Photography
People
Further
Pleasure
Would
Photographing
Some
Had
Pictures
Like
Liked
Qualified
Greatest
Got
Making
Greatest Pleasure
Westerns
Done
Anything
Them
Really
Working
Away
Ever
Hepburn
Thing
Started
Starting
As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.
George Takei
Justice
Equality
About
Diverse
More
Advocacy
Audience
Just
Grew
Social
Social Justice
Growing
Started
Kept
When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.
George Takei
Time
Me
First
Press
Out
Totally
More
Spoke
Blew
First Time
Came
Blossomed
Offers
Getting
After
Happened
Prepared
Away
Recede
Started
Career
Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
George Thorogood
Day
Confidence
Had
Day One
Got
Lot
Awful
Awful Lot
Extent
Started
I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.
Georgia Groome
Theatre
Better
Feeling
Stage
Out
Adrenaline
Than
Being
Started
I was out with my mum when a man started screaming at me: 'Georgia Groome. I love you.' Mum and I just looked at each other for a split second - and then ran away as fast as we could.
Georgia Groome
Love
Me
You
Man
Other
Ran
Out
Could
Split
Looked
Georgia
Just
Screaming
Love You
Then
Each
Mum
Away
Fast
Second
Started
My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I was about 5, and Daddy started me singing in clubs. Then I started singing on the radio in Oklahoma City when I was 7.
Georgia Holt
Me
Mother
Singing
Say
Oklahoma
Frantic
City
Born
Pretty
About
Least
Left
Childhood
Clubs
Then
Radio
Daddy
Started
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