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In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
Claire Messud
Day
Smoking
Wish
Books
Someone
Rather
Tendency
Could
Feel
Like
Terrible
Vice
Acquire
Packs
Two
There is a tendency for the New Gods to work best as guest stars.
Cliff Chiang
Work
Best
Stars
Guest
Tendency
New
Gods
Ironically, fashion trends, be it denim or polka dots, have a tendency to perpetuate the contrary.
Dan Levy
Fashion
Trends
Tendency
Perpetuate
Contrary
Ironically
Dots
Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
Dan Shechtman
World
Other
Cases
General
Tendency
Advances
Make
Learn
Because
Israel
Nations
Should
Teach
Many
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
Daniel Goldstein
Love
Future
Nice
Way
About
Tendency
Self
Economists
Talk
Becomes
Very
Selves
Different
Psychologists
Explain
Preference
Notion
Nice Way
Present
Two
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
Daniel Kahneman
Focus
Isolation
Securities
Risk
Tendency
Individual
Investments
Investors
Look
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
David Hare
Civilization
Tendency
Towards
Ultimate
Barbarism
I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.
David Lloyd
Vote
People
Conservative
Strong
Side
Bad
Point
Tendency
Point Of View
Bad Thing
Idealistic
Ticket
Because
Understand
Go
Governments
Really
View
Why
Thing
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
Dean Ornish
Love
Medicine
Intimacy
Having
Tendency
Because
Anything
Dismiss
Hard
Measure
I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'
Diane Paulus
Blame
Culture
People
Building
Think
Our
Say
Tendency
Industry
Audience
Been
Left
Want
Anymore
I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.
Dierks Bentley
Me
Holding
Thinking
Other
Boots
Guitars
About
Tendency
Had
Truck
Am
Still
Years
Same
Just
Hold
After
Holding On
Meaning
Jeans
Why
Things
Started
Starting
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
Donald Pleasence
People
Think
More
Tendency
Read
Than
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
Edgar Winter
People
King
Style
Jazz
Charles
More
Tendency
Bland
Ray
Ray Charles
Toward
Like
Sophisticated
Liked
Blue
Blues
Urban
Bobby
I love the tones of browns and grays - I love more neutral tones. That's why I like going to the desert and working in the desert. I find that green trees and things like that have a tendency to lock us into a certain way of seeing.
Edward Burtynsky
Love
Trees
Way
Lock
Find
Seeing
Browns
More
Tendency
Neutral
Like
Green
Going
Us
Certain
Working
Certain Way
Desert
Why
Things
Tones
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Honesty
Characters
See
Something
Tendency
Come
Female
Female Characters
Male
Than
Representative
Just
Larger
Things
Funniest
Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster.
Ellen Ullman
People
Depend
Everyone
Complex
Systems
Tendency
Toward
Disaster
Occasional
Dealing
Nasty
Been
Years
Muddled
Showing
Technical
It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.
Eric Maskin
Good
Me
Enthusiasm
Think
Harvard
Out
More
Deliberately
Tendency
Take
Had
Were
Than
Overwork
Trying
Things
I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.
Evan Osnos
Today
Needs
Reality
Strategy
Think
Out
Tendency
Most
Operating
Makes
Understandable
Domestic
Grand
China
Decisions
Based
Imagine
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.
Evgeny Morozov
Technology
Criticism
Think
About
Tendency
Very
Just
Being
Unhealthy
Reject
I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
Fiona Apple
Myself
Corruption
Minimal
Tried
Steadfast
Parent
Tendency
Development
Very
Person
Want
Keep
Monitor
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
Francis Arinze
Today
Culture
World
Virtue
TV
Tendency
Around
Always
Copy
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
Frei Otto
Future
Nature
Man
Architecture
Try
Too Much
Think
Too
Secret
Everything
Architects
Tendency
Know
Course
Understand
How
How Far
Doing
Go
Against
Far
Much
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
George Michael
Mother
To Be Honest
Tendency
Since
Self-Destructive
Know
Got
Very
Died
Honest
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana
Reflection
Free
Humane
Philosophers
Proper
Tendency
Scholastic
Does
Germany
Middle
Middle Ages
Ages
Breed
Belong
Universities
Gather
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Better
Achieve
Pressure
Statistical
Statistics
Lies
Tendency
Performance
Impose
Imposition
Improved
Behind
Which
Ask
Us
Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has been erected a mish-mash of means-tested, behaviour-tested social assistance, with a growing tendency to force young unemployed into workfare schemes, which are helping to depress real wages.
Guy Standing
Welfare
Old
Young
State
Has-Been
Tendency
Schemes
Welfare State
Force
Real
Wages
Been
Unemployed
Just
Place
Which
Depress
Social
Across
Europe
Helping
Growing
Assistance
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