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I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.
Jim Evans
Success
Game
Enjoy
Positioning
Approach
Rules
Mental
Mental Approach
Student
Studying
Attribute
Always
Been
Situations
Serious
I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
Jimmy Page
Guitar
Consider
Student
Learned
Lines
Any
Skills
Descending
Chords
Basic
I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir... I played the cello badly. I did plays.
Joan Allen
Good
Girl
Honour
Student
Part
Badly
Did
Roll
Cello
Straight
Choir
Good Girl
Played
Plays
I love school. I was a great student.
Joan Jett
Love
Great
School
Student
When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else know well, those being the Southside, Marchmont in particular, where I lived as a student, and the New Town/Stockbridge area where I live now and have done for the past 30 years.
Joan Lingard
Myself
Writing
Past
Live
Else
Those
Characters
City
About
Area
Student
New
Particular
Know
Well
Parts
Edinburgh
Years
Done
Being
Where
Place
Lived
Now
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
Joanne Harris
Home
School
Mother
Father
Met
France
Visited
Student
He
Spoke
Know
Until
French
Any
Placement
Teaching
English
Demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve... it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Success
Failure
Impossible
Responsibility
Difficult
Resolve
Final
Project
Supervisor
Student
Between
Always
Who
Disputes
Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.
Joe Lonsdale
Learning
Able
About
Network
Student
Environment
Learned
Access
Alumni
Lot
Huge
Being
While
Really
PayPal
Fun
Stanford
Actually
I was a student at Kent State University in May of 1970. I was also a musician in a regionally popular band called the James Gang. I was still going to class and stuff, but I was in and out because we were playing a lot.
Joe Walsh
Class
Band
State
State University
Musician
Out
Student
Stuff
Also
Because
Still
Were
Lot
Going
May
James
Gang
Popular
Kent
Playing
University
I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
John Corbett
Time
Class
School
Back
Kid
Pretty
Hyper
Student
Had
Attention
Call
Just
Then
Hard
Paying
Hard Time
Now
Disruptive
For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.
John Doar
Work
Black
Example
High-Risk
Student
Delta
For Example
Mississippi
Southwest
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.
John F. Tierney
Education
Time
Technology
Science
World
Degree
College
Leader
Engineering
Every
Ensure
Must
College Degree
Vital
Give
Area
Remains
Student
Access
Educated
Math
America
Same
Same Time
Order
Information
Information Technology
Create
Skilled
Workforce
World Leader
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
John Foster Dulles
History
Remember
Too Much
Too
Out
Riot
Riots
Paris
Attach
Student
Remember When
Importance
Occasionally
Go
Much
Used
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
John Grisham
Writing
Longing
Mine
Dream
Write
Student
Sure
How
Childhood
Childhood Dream
Recall
Start
As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
John Gurdon
Work
Try
Supervisor
Student
New
Make
October
Lecturer
South
South African
Brand
Brand New
Department
Cell
Frog
Graduate
Graduate Student
Oxford
African
Should
Nuclear
Suggested
Starting
Zoology
I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.
John Hickenlooper
Class
People
Universe
President
Ran
Those
Out
Council
Student
Never
Stuff
Hang
Any
Just
Different
Inhabited
Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.
John J. McLaughlin
Fear
College
Entered
Atmosphere
Colleges
Restraint
Student
Terms
Also
Empowering
Prior
Offending
Offense
Certain
Act
Communities
Speakers
Many
Describing
Elements
Speech
No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.
John Katzman
Path
Few
Every
Way
Those
Follow
Able
Student
Beyond
Make
Learn
Read
American
Same
Children
While
Might
Should
Reasons
Agree
Multiply
Every American
Basics
Two
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
John Lewis
Religion
You
People
Some People
Patient
Too
Philosophy
Say
Hopeful
People Say
Some
About
Student
Studied
Talked
Non-Violence
Optimistic
Just
Being
Keeping
In high school, I was a poor student.
John Prine
School
High
High School
Student
Poor
I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school.
John Ritter
Class
School
Clown
President
High
Class Clown
High School
Student
Student Body
Also
Body
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
John Searle
Active
Think
Liberal
Berkeley
General
Feature
Student
Student Body
Had
Intellectually
Quite
Places
Body
Who
Element
I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.
John Shelby Spong
Age
Youth
Church
Before
Group
Active
Married
Adolescent
Student
Priest
Deacon
Altar
Infant
Trained
Ordained
Confirmed
Baptized
University
I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.
John T. Chambers
Work
Finance
Time
Technology
Law
Degree
Long
Long Time
Earned
Bachelor
Corporation
Focusing
Student
Had
New
Always
Been
Chicago
York
New York
Wanted
Decided
Either
Interested
Large
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
John Wells
Design
Carnegie
Directing
Student
Became
Production
When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid.
Jon Hamm
Teacher
Kid
Student
Because
Did
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