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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.
Maurice Strong
You
Way
Tendency
Doing
Done
Them
Keep
Things
We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
Mercedes Ruehl
Tendency
Understand
Condemn
I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.
Michael Giacchino
Music
Natural
Writing
Whatever
Think
Out
Tendency
Feel
Like
Another
Era
Lot
Up
Listened
Just
Influenced
Natural Tendency
Reason
Old-Fashioned
Growing
Growing Up
In the '70s, there was no shortage of people taking themselves too seriously, as 'artistes,' if you will. I think we all had a tendency to do that at some point in our career. So looking back on that, it's fun to laugh at it.
Michael McDonald
You
People
Seriously
Will
Looking
Looking Back
Think
Too
Back
Our
Laugh
Some
Point
Tendency
Had
Taking
Shortage
Themselves
Fun
Career
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
Michael Oren
Mirror
Type
Back
Say
States
East
Eastern
Would
Emerge
More
Colonial
Tendency
Could
Like
Look
George
Lot
George Washington
Times
American
Going
Middle
Middle East
Middle Eastern
Fantasy
Washington
United
United States
Fractured
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
Michael Scheuer
Leadership
CIA
Too Much
Honor
Criticism
Think
Too
Our
Kind
Clarke
Wear
Tendency
Had
Badge
Him
Senior
Much
Interfere
Activities
Level
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
Mike Gordon
Myself
Band
Jazz
Other
Imitate
Others
Way
Something
Tendency
Catch
Always
Am
Bands
Jamming
Much
Jazz Band
Each
Riffs
There's this tendency to be held in great esteem if you are judgmental. A sort of moral policing, being opinionated. What right has one to act like judges? What right has one to police another?
Mohanlal
Great
You
Police
Moral
Tendency
Like
Policing
Sort
Another
Judges
Judgmental
Opinionated
Being
Esteem
Held
Act
Right
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
N. K. Jemisin
Conservative
Job
Out
Restore
Perceived
Tendency
Whack
Epic
Fantasy
There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.
N. K. Jemisin
Best
Culture
Thought
Elsewhere
Though
Darwin
Darwinism
Tendency
Ideas
Know
His
American
Maybe
Social
Noted
Even
Default
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Time
Conservative
Sit
Telling
Willing
Tendency
Been
Listen
Anyone
Banks
While
Themselves
Convincing
Bombs
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
Natalie Imbruglia
Too
Melancholy
Tendency
Had
Towards
Since
Genetic
Lean
None
Always
Been
Sisters
Childhood
Maybe
Us
Suffer
Ever
Thing
Medication
A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
Natalie Massenet
Art
Business
Focus
Too
Critical
Tendency
Failed
Over
Most
Make
Acclaim
Meant
Many
Designers
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
Natasha Trethewey
Guard
Back
Circles
Way
Ways
Tell
Find
Tendency
Device
Like
Know
Always
Linear
Trying
Native
Story
Again
Subvert
Then
Much
Moment
Round
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Truth
Good
Truth Is
Past
Caricatures
Complex
Bad
See
More
Tendency
Always
Unfortunately
Either
Much
Figures
When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
Naveen Jain
Love
Best
You
Age
Love Is
Natural
Path
Decision
Parents
Young
Out
About
Tendency
He
He Or She
Simply
Support
She
Opinion
Least
Passionate
Child
Young Age
In My Opinion
Natural Tendency
Your
Your Child
Many
Necessarily
Resistance
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.
Nick Turse
Result
Remember
Will
Unforeseen
Consequences
Secret
Tendency
Support
New
Disastrous
Well
Forces
Islamic
Nasty
End
End Result
Soviet
Soviet Union
Afghanistan
New Yorkers
Against
Produce
Unintended
Union
Everyone in my family has some kind of artistic tendency. My great grandmother was a jewelry designer, and her daughter was a ceramic tile muralist.
Nikki Reed
Great
Family
Jewelry
Daughter
Everyone
Kind
Some
Tendency
Artistic
Grandmother
Her
Designer
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye
Service
Religion
Culture
Understanding
Approach
Worship
Destroy
Object
Tendency
Idolatry
Intellectual
Replace
Essential
Forms
Present
As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
Opal Tometi
History
Degree
Community
Action
Our
Purely
Tendency
Without
Understand
Material
However
Intellectual
Get
Often
Holds
Which
Us
Organizer
Who
Many
Fascination
Activity
Amount
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. Harvey
Life
People
Glasses
Country
See
Tendency
Through
I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.
Park Bo-young
Me
Arrogant
Think
Say
Characters
Tendency
Consumer
Sure
Female
Female Characters
Sound
Might
Should
View
Products
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
Paul D. Boyer
Tendency
Make
Limited
Information
Choices
Lucky
Based
Right
What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs attention and nurturing. If people are always running off and doing other projects, which has been the case, somebody has to be there for stability.
Paul Stanley
Needs
People
Nurturing
Somebody
Kiss
Beast
Down
Other
Wild
Projects
Has-Been
Run
Running
Case
Tendency
Attention
Always
Doing
Been
Off
Stability
Which
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
Peter Singer
Strong
Own
Too
Addictions
Our
Complex
Temptations
Rational
Tendency
Long-Term
Yield
May
Human
Short-Term
Decision-Making
Planning
Even
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nature
Our
Recognize
Tendency
Know
Always
Been
Discover
Deep
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