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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember
Wrong Thing
Difficult
Right Place
Right Thing
Say
Tempting
More
Only
Unsaid
Wrong
Still
Leave
The Right Thing
Place
Far
Moment
Right
Thing
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
Aimee Bender
Day
Birthday
Happy
Complicated
Cake
Emblem
Something
Tempting
More
Like
Because
Than
Childhood
Just
Happy Birthday
Symbol
Symbolic
Load
It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
David Gilmour
You
People
Try
Older
Worry
About
Tempting
Relive
Days
Glory
Very
Get
Forgotten
Little
Your
Thing
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
Barbara Ehrenreich
You
Crime
Will
Thieves
Too
Month
Tempting
Scene
Individually
Containing
Obvious
Rent
Score
Get
Wallet
Banker
Janitor
Bus
Poor
Might
Flee
Fare
Mug
Reasons
Lucky
Away
That's your dream, to play professional baseball. When you get the opportunity like that, getting drafted - especially by Oakland, a California team, pretty close to home - it was tempting. At the time, I just didn't think I was ready or mature enough mentally or physically to start pro ball.
Aaron Judge
Time
Home
You
Opportunity
Think
Enough
Oakland
Dream
Pretty
Tempting
Physically
Mentally
Like
California
Ball
Ready
Close
Mature
Get
Pro
Getting
Just
Your
Your Dream
Team
Professional
Professional Baseball
Baseball
Play
Start
Drafted
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.
Alex Berenson
Management
Car
Value
Analyst
Market
Say
Weak
Steadily
Tempting
General
General Motors
Share
Investors
Motors
Target
North
Decades
North American
American
Auto
Declined
Company
Suffers
Two
One big power of an actor is knowing when to say no to something. It can be very tempting to say yes to something, because you're flattered that somebody would like to work with you, and your ego sort of takes over, but it's important to ask whether there could be something you could add to a project by being part of it.
Alex Lawther
Work
You
Ego
Somebody
Power
Important
Big
Add
Project
Say
Would
Something
Tempting
Could
Part
Takes
Over
Like
Knowing
Sort
Because
Yes
Very
Being
Whether
Flattered
Ask
Your
Actor
I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.
Andrew Yang
Phone
Try
Too
Tempting
Gym
Play
Bring
The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.
Ari Graynor
Life
Time
Pilot
My Life
Stupid
Signed
Willing
Horribly
Tempting
Only
Written
Almost
Sitcoms
The Only Thing
While
Realized
Really
Season
Away
Thing
Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.
Basil Hume
Life
Big
Nothing
Living
Think
Sight
City
About
Tempting
Feature
Almost
Big City
Affected
Expected
Done
Cannot
Little
Centre
Should
Working
Even
Homeless
Streets
The advice I give is that, tempting as it is, getting the training you can get from law firm experience is really invaluable. It teaches you not just what you know but what you don't.
Belinda Johnson
You
Experience
Training
Law
Advice
Law Firm
Invaluable
Give
Tempting
Firm
Know
Get
Getting
Just
Really
Teaches
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician's circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
Ben Domenech
Too Much
Circle
Giving
Politician
Too
Way
Promise
Tempting
Lead
Environment
Term
Access
Audience
Ultimately
Offers
Any
Short
Influence
Confining
Short-Term
Much
Your
Engaging
Ear
Lure
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Me
People
Skin
Down
Pressed
Ring
See
Finger
Tempting
Wedding
Wedding Ring
He
Missing
Look
Tan
Line
His
Hand
Off
Left
Hands
Maybe
Worked
Businessman
Fascinate
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
Beth Ditto
You
Hair
Those
High
Photos
High Maintenance
See
Magazine
Some
Tempting
Perched
Fooled
Colour
Head
Maintenance
Stylist
Up
Very
Same
Famous
Fancy
Fantastic
Cut
Ask
Your
It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.'
Cass Sunstein
Learning
People
Impossible
Mirror
Own
Other
Side
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Easy
Tempting
Only
Ideal
Because
Makes
Understand
Opinions
Campaign
Listen
Dismiss
Fortify
Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.
Chetan Bhagat
Time
Morning
Sometimes
To Be Honest
Tempting
Investment
Miss
Read
Years
Done
Quite
Banking
Trappings
Honest
We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
D. A. Pennebaker
You
Money
Moon
Farm
Thinking
Market
On-Line
Broadway
Kind
About
Tempting
Studio
Over
Since
Major
Like
Know
Make
Sort
Because
Go
Actually
Buyer
It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months.
Ethan Coen
You
People
Enjoy
Months
Out
Someone
Tempting
Cast
Always
Got
Hang
Being
Number
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
Evan Davis
Too Much
Too
Relation
Scale
Borrow
Borrowing
Tempting
Potential
No Wonder
Operations
Reducing
Effect
Up
Effectiveness
Wonder
Bank
Banks
Cushion
Lend
Lending
Capital
Much
Profitable
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong.
Gillian Flynn
You
Book
Writing
Try
Too
Rules
About
Tempting
Never
Allowed
Put
Because
Exercises
Just
Them
Your
Things
Belong
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
Jacob Weisberg
Rights
Conflict
Debate
National
Security
About
Tempting
Spying
American
National Security
Procedural
Agency
Dismiss
Technical
I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?
James Badge Dale
Me
You
Fate
Face
Big
Ladder
Think
Bit
Though
Out
About
Tempting
Superstitious
Throwing
Check
Like
Felt
Always
Walked
Walking
Big One
Going
Just
Hockey
Little
Little Bit
Avoid
Right
Playing
Number
Thirteen
When looking for an influencer to work with, it's tempting to go for those with huge amount of fans and followers. This is perfectly understandable, as you obviously want your business or product promoted to as many people as possible. However, numbers aren't everything.
John Rampton
Work
You
Business
People
Fans
Looking
Everything
Those
Possible
Promoted
Followers
Tempting
Perfectly
Obviously
Understandable
Go
However
Huge
Huge Amount
Want
Product
Your
Many
Amount
Numbers
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
John Updike
Day
Pay
Willing
Colleges
Tempting
Poke
Pinch
Author
American
Amount
Number
Two
My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.
Jordi Molla
Happy
Latin
Bad
City
Bad Guy
Bad Guys
Something
Tempting
Guy
Guys
Audience
Boy
Always
Label
Very
Than
American
Movies
Prefer
American Movies
Origin
Play
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Joseph Butler
Injustice
Made
About
Tempting
Purposes
Employed
Perjury
May
Deceiving
Vice
Serve
Tongue
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