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I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
Alfred Kastler
Time
Knowledge
State
Relaxation
Must
Slowness
Absolutely
Take
Had
Foreign
Wall
Confess
Place
Which
Processes
Molecules
Ground
Gas
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Alfred Russel Wallace
History
Natural
Organization
Animals
Consider
Has-Been
Structure
Point
Habits
Take
Writers
Generally
Instincts
Been
Accordance
Fixed
Natural History
Custom
Them
Adapted
When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.
Ali Babacan
Buy
Money
Country
Own
Pay
Back
Market
Our
Possible
Restrictions
Take
Withdraw
Due
However
Dollars
Iran
Iranian
Currency
Gold
Oil
Cannot
Turkey
Sanctions
Turkish
International
Therefore
Buys
I want to make sure that I fulfill the aspirations of the Gabonese people: to have access to a better life, job opportunities, and importantly, for the Gabonese people themselves to take into their own hands the development of their own country.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
Life
People
Better
Opportunities
Job
Country
Own
Better Life
Take
Development
Make
Sure
Access
Importantly
Hands
Want
Themselves
Fulfill
Aspirations
In Bollywood, we are told exactly what to do and how to do it and not to counter things by saying there's a better way. We make our actors feel important by paying them more. But the real deal is when you let the actors take some decisions on the sets.
Ali Fazal
Saying
You
Better
Important
Sets
Our
Way
Exactly
Exactly What
Some
More
Take
Counter
Better Way
Feel
Make
Deal
How
Real
Real Deal
Decisions
Them
Paying
Bollywood
Actor
Things
I was offered to play an Italian part in an Italian film. Although I could not take it up because I did not have the time, the kind of characters being offered to us are changing.
Ali Fazal
Time
Changing
Characters
Kind
Could
Take
Part
Although
Because
Italian
Italian Film
Up
Offered
Did
Being
Us
Film
Play
You never know when you're going to have to fight or take your clothes off.
Ali Larter
You
Fight
Clothes
Take
Never
Know
Off
Going
Your
That's the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Beautiful
You
Risks
Face
Fall
Enough
Secure
Hopefully
About
Take
Beautiful Thing
Artist
Going
Just
Being
Flat
Your
Keep
Keep Going
Thing
Chances
I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Saying
Good
Me
Challenge
Think
One Of The Things
Someone
Take
Absorb
Because
Makes
Comment
Very
Listen
Listener
Custom
Producer
Things
Necessarily
In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.
Ali Smith
Truth
God
Great
Matter
Will
Sacrifice
Relative
Way
Out
Finding
Shape
Take
Knows
Course
Does
End
Getting
Going
In The End
Again
Us
Why
In giving birth, I knew that I would have to take a break after I had a baby; I just didn't know that it would be, like, six weeks long. Taking a six-week break was a very big deal for me. I have never taken that long of a break from stand-up other than my honeymoon, which was 14 days long.
Ali Wong
Me
Long
Giving
Big
Baby
Other
Birth
Honeymoon
Would
Would-Be
Weeks
Take
Never
Had
Taken
Knew
Taking
Days
Like
Know
Deal
Big Deal
Very
Than
Six
Just
After
Break
Which
The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
Alice Dreger
Funny
Me
Change
Women
People
Dark
Men
Skin
Funny Thing
Response
Tell
Would
Magic
Rather
Features
Color
Take
Unusual
Pill
Erase
Get
Same
Ask
Thing
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
Alice Hoffman
Great
Me
World
Own
Way
My Own
Take
Another
Go
Escape
Going
Break
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
Alice Hoffman
Beautiful
You
Try
Job
Guilty
Something
Take
Feel
Sorrow
Make
Always
Get
Enduring
Meaningful
In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.
Alice Munro
Happy
Ending
Unhappy
Important
Heights
Changed
Heroines
Later
Those
Would
Take
Days
Like
Ideas
Read
Important Thing
Tragic
Began
Very
Did
Endings
Anyway
Place
Which
Happy Ending
Tolerate
Thing
Enjoyed
Things
Early
Early Days
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
Alice Oswald
Down
Something
Take
Making
Hear
Question
Dictation
Trying
I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.
Alice Smith
Music
Good
You
Simple
Cheese
Space
Focus
Somewhere
Feeling
Meal
Think
Imagination
Else
Macaroni
Delicious
Somewhere Else
Take
True
Contemplate
Like
Exercise
Making
Sound
Real
Very
Decadent
Where
While
Should
Your
Full
Lush
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
Alice Walker
Education
History
You
Women
Yourself
Will
Men
Cruelty
Own
Sense
Enough
Say
See
Seeing
Delight
Take
Understand
Get
Did
Which
Capable
Then
Convinced
Choose
Many
Chain
You have to take it upon yourself and preserve and can foods that you'll want for the winter.
Alice Waters
You
Winter
Yourself
Foods
Take
Want
Preserve
I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD's of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let's be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!
Alicia Coppola
Home
Try
Brilliant
Girl
Three
Think
Extreme
Boot
Boot Camp
Run
Laundry
Spin
Physical
Classes
Gym
Variety
Take
Also
Exercise
Around
Go
Camp
Itself
After
Which
Use
Workouts
Barry
Activities
Amount
Honest
What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?
Alicia Garza
Me
People
Live
Other
Systems
Able
Take
Well
Access
Going
Being
Dismantle
Many
Keep
Deserve
Things
Need
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
Alicia Keys
Learning
Song
Writing
First
Favorite
Backward
Take
Songs
Learn
Around
Experimenting
Them
Then
Chords
Play
Twist
I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.
Alison Doody
Work
Myself
Try
Seriously
Too
Take
It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.
Alison Goldfrapp
Job
Single
Whatever
Favorite
Record
Record Company
Take
Pick
Ideas
Always
Person
Often
Different
Want
Tune
Different Ideas
Hard
Radio
Company
Whose
If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It's easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are.
Alison Gopnik
You
Take For Granted
Thought
Single
Every
Baby
Incredibly
State
Took
Everything
Would
Easy
Minute
More
Casually
Take
Adult
Like
Know
Look
Learn
Arrive
Very
Than
Going
Just
Where
Much
Full
Granted
Novelty
Ever
I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.
Alison Moyet
Rubbish
Take
Glamorous
Never
Never Take
Invited
Invites
Parties
Talked
Go
Been
Years
Up
Very
Many
Socially
Things
Awkward
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