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Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Craig Thompson
Beautiful
You
Sometimes
Reading
Ruin
Books
Tell
More
Like
Said
Being
Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.
Craig Venter
You
Eyes
Simple
Think
Changes
Complex
Eye
Tell
One Or Two
Seemingly
Color
Simple Things
Driven
Naive
Genes
Genetic
Like
Behaviors
Blue
Blue Eyes
Human
Whether
Even
Code
Things
Two
People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.
Craig Venter
You
People
Father
Sets
Tell
Parent
Looked
Just
Really
Your
Who
Each
It is very, very important that people understand that you can tell different kinds of stories, and they do, related to gay and lesbian issues - especially when you know the people behind them.
Craig Zadan
Gay
You
People
Important
Different Kinds
Lesbian
Related
Tell
Kinds
Know
Understand
Issues
Very
Behind
Different
Stories
Them
As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.
Cristela Alonzo
You
People
Poverty
Own
Nothing
Gave
Kid
Possible
Tell
Kind
Dream
My Own
Up
Wanted
Really
Show
Grow
Grow Up
It's weird because I once lost a job because I had a chemistry read with the lead actor, and I could tell we had negative chemistry. He was very lovely, but you could tell. We had the chemistry of two chairs.
Cristin Milioti
You
Negative
Job
Chemistry
Lost
Once
Tell
Could
Lead
Had
He
Weird
Read
Because
Very
Lovely
Chairs
Actor
Two
I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.
Cullen Bunn
Pilot
Fighter
Back
Tell
Glamour
Well
Always
Least
Came
Off
Effects
Being
Wanted
Stories
Storytelling
Wore
Agent
Fighter Pilot
Notion
Special
Special Effects
Designer
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
Curt Schilling
You
Tell
Athletes
Could
Any
Pitchers
Ask
Player
Position
I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'
Curt Schilling
You
Seen
Lose
Other
Way
Tell
Destructive
One-Way
Guy
Guys
Fails
How
Them
Successful
Rope
Teams
Played
Pulling
Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
Cyndi Lauper
Me
Somebody
Clothes
Complain
Tell
Sing
Were
Hear
Loud
Did
We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Truth
Will
Unity
Other
Our
Tell
Telling
Telling Lies
Must
Lies
Factions
Movements
Acknowledge
Should
View
Each
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
D. L. Hughley
Funny
Me
People
Somebody
Sold
Marketing
Says
Laugh
Tell
Telling
Know
Tickets
Make
Got
How
Survey
Behind
Miles
Million
Need
Desk
I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.
DJ Khaled
Love
Myself
Day
Every Day
Every
Tell
High
Marble
Floors
Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.
DJ Khaled
Life
Day
Me
You
People
Before
Interview
Back
Tell
Knew
Day One
Go
Been
Years
Snapchat
Going
Whole
Even
Career
Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
Daisy Donovan
Working Together
Together
Mine
Say
Bit
Tell
About
He
Disaster
Ideas
Him
Were
His
Same
Working
And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.
Daisy Fuentes
Stronger
Clothes
Tell
About
Could
Weeks
Soon
Pilates
Felt
Tighter
Doing
Were
Fitting
Than
Away
Ever
Differently
Right
Right Away
Started
Core
I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
Dakota Blue Richards
Me
People
Other
Unless
Tell
Well
Mum
I will tell you, I don't miss me and Bristol fighting, but coming home to an empty house every other week, you walk in there, and it's a reminder of the failure of the marriage.
Dakota Meyer
Home
Me
Failure
You
Marriage
Walk
Will
Fighting
Every
Other
Tell
Week
Reminder
Miss
House
Empty
Coming
Coming Home
Bristol
It doesn't matter how big of a company you have: I always tell people that you are one job away from being broke. And if you don't live that way, you'll be broke.
Dakota Meyer
You
People
Matter
Job
Big
Live
Way
Broke
Tell
Always
How
Being
Being Broke
Company
Away
I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I'm going to tell you the truth, I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and we'll all move forward.
Damon Dash
Truth
Time
You
Money
Own
Address
Tell
About
Point
Emotion
Puts
Gotta
Hear
His
Up
Get
Going
Move
Move Forward
Room
Who
Forward
Businessman
Elephant
Right
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof
You
Matter
Way
Says
Tell
Find
Voice
Idea
Cliched
Sounds
Anybody
Story
Then
Original
Original Idea
In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn't tell anyone about it - maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I'd been in an accident.
Dan Abrams
Work
People
Cancer
Accident
Weak
Tell
Significant
About
Had
Over
Fairly
Surgery
Been
Five
Maybe
Anyone
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
Dan Ariely
Truth
Reality
Honesty
Matter
Values
Consequences
Everything
Tell
About
Talk
Always
Lots
Human
Human Values
Compatible
Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.
Dan Gelber
You
Yourself
Political
First
Party
States
Draw
Criteria
Tell
Critical
District
Gives
Clear
Sort
Very
Political Party
Legislators
Legislature
Really
Electoral
Helps
Maps
Seat
Florida
Basically
People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
Dan Gilbert
Love
People
Tell
Would
Boston
New
Go
Chicago
York
New York
Want
Us
Your
Company
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
Dan Harmon
Generation
Think
Possible
Tell
Telling
About
Writers
Without
Going
Stories
Next
Next Generation
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