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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.
Jo Brand
Saying
Great
You
Vote
People
Men
Other
Say
Ways
Tory
Some
Some Men
Someone
Great People
Tendency
Likable
Attitudes
Like
Votes
Does
Yes
Friends
Mean
Them
Dismiss
Should
Appalled
Who
Many
Deeply
Things
I think there's been a tendency to place me in what has been characterised as the 'moral centre' of the film. In films like 'The Ice Storm' and 'The Crucible' and 'Nixon,' that's the sort of the persona that emerged.
Joan Allen
Me
Think
Films
Nixon
Has-Been
Moral
Emerged
Tendency
Crucible
Like
Sort
Been
Persona
Storm
Place
Ice
Centre
Film
When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.
Joanna Coles
Positive
You
Communication
Before
Sense
Out
Someone
Online
Tendency
Blanks
Builds
Go
False
False Sense
Lot
Up
Person
Information
Who
Fill
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
Joanne Harris
Challenges
Try
Own
Difficult
Something
My Own
More
Tendency
Pick
Up
Want
I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the movies that I have a tendency to be most fond of.
Joe Morton
Dramas
Those
Arabia
Kind
Fond
Lawrence
Tendency
Suppose
Like
Know
Most
Oh
Movies
Prefer
Epic
Apocalypse
Now
If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.
Joe Nichols
Tough
Too
Other
Say
Tendency
Sells
Five
Artist
Maybe
Artists
Little
Should
Million
Resist
Albums
Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.
John Allison
Work
Women
Writing
Complicated
Better
Men
Pronounce
More
Tendency
Makes
Women Are
Than
Communicators
Who
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
John Bolton
War
Fight
Politicians
Tendency
Generals
Like
Last
He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.
John C. Calhoun
Strong
Signs
Indeed
Paper
States
System
Plunge
See
Tendency
He
Blind
Does
Subjugate
Debt
Times
Union
Who
Deep
Many
Whole
How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?
John C. Calhoun
Government
Constitution
People
Control
Despotic
Embodied
Brought
Steadily
Bear
Voice
Absolute
Perfect
Tendency
Majority
Supreme
How
Just
Full
Fatal
Numerical
I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
John Sharp Williams
Service
Dog
Sometimes
Moon
Long
Cynical
Think
Bay
Stay
Rather
Tendency
Like
Another
Years
Than
Senate
Listen
May
Six
Grown
I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.
Johnny Galecki
News
You
Become
Think
Thinking
Side
Papers
Killer
Tendency
Hours
Read
Another
Terrified
Lot
Either
Serial
Watch
There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.
Jose Manuel Barroso
Word
Become
Politicians
Sense
Defensive
Bad
More
Tendency
Nationalistic
Many
I have a tendency to drift toward action. Some of my favorite films are 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' 'The Dark Knight,' 'Inception,' 'The Fifth Element,' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' and 'The Avengers.'
Josephine Langford
Dark
Action
Films
Caribbean
Favorite
Favorite Films
Some
Drift
Tendency
Knight
Toward
Smith
Pirates
Avengers
Fifth
Inception
Element
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.
Josh Duhamel
You
Yourself
Long
Fall
Think
Too
Tell
Bad
Tried
Stay
Staying
Bad Habits
Tend
Tendency
Habits
Certain
Start
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
Josiah Strong
Will
Long
Before
States
Thousand
Tendency
Itself
Stock
Mighty
Inherent
Assert
United
United States
Strengthened
Here
Millions
I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
Juan Cole
Seriously
Think
Right-Wing
Recommendations
Wing
Tendency
Studies
Taken
Nevertheless
Policy
Tanks
Been
Very
Dominate
Shoddy
Discussions
Often
Unfortunate
Which
Produce
Right
Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.
Julia Roberts
You
Made
Mistakes
Judgment
High
Faced
Someone
More
Horse
Tendency
Errors
Than
Get
Whenever
Far
Your
Who
We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: 'I know.' But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing.
Julian Treasure
Good
Words
Simple
Listening
Nothing
Our
Everything
Way
Tendency
Absolutely
Simple Words
Absolutely Nothing
Like
Know
Look
Learn
However
Itself
Get
Often
Human
Speaking
Basic
Desire
Two
I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
Kara Walker
Work
Try
Think
Visual
Moralistic
Tendency
Like
Least
Up
Very
Grew
Avoid
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter
Man
Women
Hero
Manly
Weak
Some
Tendency
Writers
Like
Looks
Make
Male
Stories
Rescue
Among
Needing
We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.
Karl Iagnemma
Risks
Vivid
Rather
Tendency
Likelihood
Overestimate
Vulnerable
Than
Available
Less
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
Kate Burton
Characters
Outlandish
General
Tendency
Instinct
Doing
Ground
Even
Actress
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.
Katherine Helmond
Life
Age
Women
Think
Back
Admirable
Brought
Tendency
Major
Come
Major Role
Advisable
Accepting
Passive
Been
Revert
Up
Role
Forward
Play
Recede
Pull
I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.
Keith Hernandez
Natural
Tendency
Conformity
Natural Tendency
Resist
I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.
Kenneth Lonergan
Time
Me
Key
Remember
First
Nice
Back
Bit
Melodrama
Broke
Response
Girlfriend
Tendency
Take
Had
Remember When
Toward
She
First Time
Hand
Off
Up
Very
Person
Apartment
Little
Little Bit
Chain
Nice Person
Serious
Her
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