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Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!
Jon Taffer
Too
Market
Demands
Demographic
Built
Owners
Bar
Themselves
Should
Many
By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will be more likely to adapt to a situation and seize the moment in a sporting contest.
Jonathan Agnew
Hope
You
Game
Will
Men
Situation
Think
More
Seize
Outside
Likely
Empowering
Contest
Just
Themselves
Moment
Grown
Grown Men
Players
Adapt
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.
Jonathan Dee
Book
Will
Sorry
Book Tour
Ourselves
Easy
Writers
Tour
Sharing
Feel
Like
Terrible
Private
Often
Situations
Stories
Which
Social
Themselves
Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
Jonathan Evison
Work
People
Maybe
Theme
Themselves
Reinventing
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
Jonathan Kozol
Matter
Nation
Other
City
Districts
Record
Costs
Higher
Budget
New
Instruction
Schools
Within
Than
York
Any
New York
New York City
Themselves
Largest
Portion
Associated
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.
Jonathan Mayhew
People
Stupid
Complain
Apt
Must
Find
Fact
Thus
Abuse
Till
Oppressed
Governors
Greatly
Whenever
In Fact
Themselves
Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.
Jonathan Powell
Become
Politicians
Military
Enter
Lightly
Involved
Themselves
Who
Wars
Keener
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.
Jonathan Raban
Few
White
White House
Every
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Presidents
Wilson
John
John Adams
More
More Or Less
Had
House
Been
Intellectuals
Very
List
Stops
Woodrow
Woodrow Wilson
Themselves
Less
Jefferson
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Book
People
Books
Kind
About
Something
More
Write
Sort
Always
Want
Lend
Themselves
Ask
Description
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
Mistake
Will
Few
Own
Very
Themselves
On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.
Jonathan Tropper
You
Resolve
Individual
Through
Take
Any
Going
Order
Themselves
Show
Season
One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.
Jonathan Zittrain
Internet
Face
Become
State
Dilemma
Ways
Citizens
Fearlessly
Economic
Had
Advancement
Abundant
Empowered
Another
Repressive
Wanting
After
Which
While
Themselves
Express
Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.
Jonathan Zittrain
Country
Way
Citizens
Invasion
Something
Attack
Attacked
Feel
Like
Fellow
Identify
Does
Account
Than
Personal
Bank
Theft
Customer
Themselves
Larger
I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.
Jordan Gavaris
Character
Like
Learned
Lot
Did
Where
Themselves
Really
Acting
Moment
Actor
Bringing
Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.
Jordan Peterson
Baby
Ways
Kids
Members
Some
Percent
Both
Both Ways
League
Most
Still
Oppressed
Ivy
Ivy League
Want
Which
Themselves
Certainly
Portray
In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.
Jordin Sparks
Character
You
People
School
Saw
Broadway
See
Able
New
Know
Always
New Jersey
Lot
End
Just
Being
Different
Wanted
Loved
Themselves
Lived
Jersey
Play
Night
Plays
A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.
Jose Altuve
Me
Hurt
People
Doctor
School
Engineer
College
Whatever
Say
Embarrassed
Tell
High
Some
High School
College Student
About
Inspiration
Mention
Shame
Student
Feel
Because
Lot
Short
Themselves
Then
Skinny
Reason
Baseball
They Say
Now
Play
Play Baseball
Fat
I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
Jose Andres
Love
Me
Cooking
People
Understanding
Before
Feed
How
Sake
Families
Themselves
Used
Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens.
Jose Angel Gurria
Will
Must
Haven
Shared
Until
Protect
Principles
Revenues
Loss
Effective
Nations
Tax
Against
Co-Operation
Themselves
Transparency
Applied
Need
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
Jose Bergamin
Today
Man
Woman
Mistake
Women
Before
Make
Answer
Answers
Question
Questioned
Offer
Being
Themselves
Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
Daily
Girl
Valuing
Taught
Dependent
Little
Little Girls
Themselves
Incapable
Aspects
Many
Lives
Daily Lives
It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
Joseph Bruchac
Me
Amazing
Tears
About
Known
Still
Trail
Little
Themselves
Lives
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Joseph Butler
Happiness
Good
Rest
Seeks
Only
Never
Particular
Call
Principle
Self-Love
Sake
Affections
Anything
Themselves
Means
Thing
Things
External
External Things
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Joseph Butler
Nature
Human Nature
Other
Stated
Several
Objects
Part
Thus
Particular
Principles
Self-Love
Human
Ends
Themselves
Shown
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Joseph Butler
Love
People
Miserable
Affection
Extremely
Entire
Unbounded
Most
Might
Themselves
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert
People
Hide
Shadows
Part
Abstract
Most
Terms
Make
How
How Many People
Themselves
Create
Useful
Many
Appear
Profound
Vacuum
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