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When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job. Ben Chandler
Job Thought Finished Think Frankly Running About Term Comfortable Because Ready Governor Decided Then Prepared
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
My first visit to Haiti was in May 1991, four months into the initial term of Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At the time, it seemed that Haiti was on the cusp of a new era. Ben Fountain
Time First President Months Visit Seemed Term New Haiti New Era Era May Cusp Initial Four
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. Benjamin Tucker
Defensive Term Offensive Any Cannot Act Applied
Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain. Bennet Omalu
Long Chronic Bad Long-Term Term Brain Means Trauma Traumatic Associated
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually. Berkeley Breathed
Needs Me Mind Daughter Seconds Would Would-Be Mars Similarly Knew Term Also Calling Came Movie After Dork Title Moms Eventually Default
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Time Religion You People Some People First Ran Some Had Term Know Well First Time Were Any Whether Asking
President Zardari came to power just as the global recession hit. He had to cobble together an unruly coalition, put up with a constant assault from a conservative supreme court who sought to undermine him at every term. This does not include dealing with Pakistani's omnipotent establishment and the menace of terrorism. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Terrorism Together Conservative Power Every Recession President Omnipotent Constant Menace Unruly Had He Put Term Global Supreme Him Supreme Court Undermine Sought Court Dealing Does Came Up Hit Just Establishment Coalition Who Assault Include Pakistani
The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first. Bill Dedman
First Attention Term Normally Gets Deciding Means Who
If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice. Bill Maris
Entrepreneur Google Term Safe Ventures Sheet Brave Choice
I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion. Bill Nye
Work Time Good Comedy Made Enough Enough Time Several Good Material Point Write Never Term Opinion Material Years In My Opinion Clubs Worked Use
If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is. Bob Kerrey
You Commitment People Will Significant See Indicate Instability Never Part Clear Term Beyond Look Understand How Govern Iraqi Iraqi People Short Short-Term Themselves Activities Necessary Violence
My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term. Bob Menendez
Long First Long-Term Term Economy Priority Stimulating Short Short-Term Growing
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono
People Speak Language Live Think Would Would-Be Some Various Term Contemporary Learned Sure Lot Fervent Very Different Interface Languages Tongues Christians
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. Booth Tarkington
Life Time Waiting Made Living Through Weeks Longest Term Longest Time Like Boy Boyhood Decades Them Millennium Last
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature. Brent Scowcroft
Nature Changes President Mainly Term Been His Rhetorical Far Second Second Term
When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously. Bret Stephens
Experience World Those Rarely Putting Term Name Concept Mostly Us Use
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. Brian Ferneyhough
Negative Though Term Perplexed Your Application Imagery
I've always hated the term 'alternative'; I only use it because when I say it, people know what I'm talking about. I always thought it was weird when guys like myself or Patton Oswalt or Dana Gould, these older guys, were called 'alternative' comedy. Brian Posehn
Myself People Comedy Thought Older Say Hated About Guys Only Weird Term Like Know Alternative Talking Because Always Were Patton Use Older Guys
When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of. Brian Sandoval
You Business Broad Would Would-Be Pretty About Something Term Supportive Know Talk Tax Means
In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve. Brianna Wu
You Problems Job Become Engineering Software Correctly Solve Term Debt Technical Harder
What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things. Brie Larson
Me Confidence Healing People Power First Gave See Able Intuition More Sharing Term Healing Process Making Came Hand Did Short Movie Process Short-Term Movies Then Us Explore Teach Things
'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget. Brie Larson
Time Worth Emotional Term Budget Like Trying Same Short Short-Term Convey Depth Gambler Less Less Time Marathon
I made three or four different fonts during 'Short Term 12' -' it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes. I have graph paper and gel pens, and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'. Brie Larson
Mind Made Three Calm Paper Would Pens Gel Scenes Perfect Between Over Term Until Alphabet Got How Go Short Just Different Short-Term Again Then Graph Four
I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself. Brie Larson
Myself Character Pain Something Term Like Look Known How Lot Short Experienced Short-Term Portray
It is possible that Bitcoin will fork at some point. The question is whether or not it'll be a contentious fork. This process is a good thing in the long term, though potentially disruptive in the short term. Brock Pierce
Good Bitcoin Will Long Though Possible Some Potentially Point Good Thing Long-Term Term Question Short Fork Process Whether Short-Term Thing Disruptive
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