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Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He's a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.
Erik Larson
Hero
Young
Research
Humane
Crew
Increasingly
Thomas
William
Guy
He
Him
Doing
His
Submarine
Handsome
Young Guy
Forth
Turner
Captain
Villain
Growing
Found
Started
Sympathetic
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria
Life
Promises
Thomas
Once
Threats
Scholar
Fail
Very
Expensive
Succeed
Noted
International
Things
Two
I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed I had a contribution to make.
Fred Kaplan
Writing
First
Thomas
Out
Had
Talent
Wrote
Make
Contribution
Loved
Turned
Believed
Biographies
Biography
I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.
George Strait
Love
Made
Thomas
Gulf
Someday
Costa Rica
Bahamas
Over
Venezuela
Fish
Texas
Mexico
Australia
Offshore
Going
Them
Panama
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
George Will
Work
Freedom
World
Space
Mind
Lost
Sense
Live
Innocence
State
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Back
Melancholy
Minimal
Out
Something
Vast
Could
Suppose
Very
American
Which
Work Out
Jefferson
Tone
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.
Greg Graffin
Best
Me
Science
Song
Strong
Stupid
Enough
Thomas
About
Songs
Songwriters
Like
Know
Most
She
Blinded
Metaphor
Been
Heard
Offense
Anything
Dose
Who
Radio
Lucky
Widely
Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.
Greg Grandin
Health
History
Dark
Black
Think
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Harriet
System
Black Americans
Emerged
Colonial
Fact
Smallpox
Performed
Documents
His
Times
American
In Fact
Experimentation
Experiments
Apartheid
Public
Much
Public Health
Jefferson
Washington
Now
Medical
Present
Slave
Slaves
I loved working on 'Thomas & Friends.' That's an iconic show, and that thing is, like, a billion-dollar property. But content-wise, yep, if you're not into steam trains and preschool storytelling, it can get a little wearing after years of it.
Greg Tiernan
You
Property
Thomas
Wearing
Steam
Like
Years
Friends
Trains
Get
After
Loved
Little
Storytelling
Iconic
Working
Show
Preschool
Thing
I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore East' hit - that one removed all doubt!
Gregg Allman
Doubt
Doubting
Think
Thomas
East
Brothers
About
Until
Always
Bunch
Hit
Convinced
Everybody has their role in the food world and what they choose to appreciate. I'm not a fine dining chef. I appreciate it. I think Thomas Keller is amazing. But I really like where I'm at; I like what I do. I like how it makes people feel.
Guy Fieri
Food
People
World
Amazing
Think
Everybody
Thomas
Dining
Fine
Feel
Like
Chef
Makes
How
Role
Where
Really
Choose
Keller
Appreciate
Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder Plutarch, plow through Gibbon. Then they get to Thomas Carlyle and feel like Dorothy when she touched down in Technicolor Oz.
H. W. Brands
Great
History
Year
Down
Every
Thomas
Plow
Classical
Tackle
Touched
Through
Students
Feel
Like
She
Read
Times
Get
Graduate
Graduate Students
Oz
Dorothy
Ponder
Then
Works
Present
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense.
H. W. Brands
Me
History
Revolution
Thomas
Took
Way
Ways
Though
Out
Some
Seemed
Write
He
Taken
Tense
French
Read
French Revolution
How
Years
Years Ago
Effect
Very
Achieved
Middle
Story
While
Figure
Right
Things
Present
Present Tense
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
Thomas
Diverse
Poe
Poets
Edgar
Been
Influenced
Dylan
Dylan Thomas
Lewis
I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.
Jake Tapper
Myself
Me
Class
School
Listening
Thomas
Cartoonist
California
Go
Southern
Southern California
Wanted
Realized
Then
Really
Film
Found
Actor
Film School
University
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
James Laughlin
Love
Great
You
People
Great Deal
Stage
Think
Thomas
Williams
Case
Pound
True
Re-Read
Liked
Most
Call
Read
Deal
Cam
Formative
To Love
Might
Certainly
Whom
Things
When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn't even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company's later success.
Jay Samit
Success
Key
Startup
Software
Thomas
Later
Photoshop
John
Both
Color
Became
Got
Handle
Noticed
Company
Even
Whom
Apple
Images
It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone was desperate to read it, he was not desperate to write it.
Jeff Giles
Silence
Desperate
Publish
Thomas
Everyone
Harris
Write
He
Taken
Read
Years
Which
While
Lambs
Sequel
I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.
Jesmyn Ward
Me
Same Thing
Thomas
Several
Tell
Laura
Write
Writers
Over
Read
Persist
Improve
Michigan
Same
Stories
Again
Worked
Your
Who
Peter
Thing
University
Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
Jo Brand
You
Yourself
Down
Incredibly
Thomas
Someone
Small
Small Children
Put
Along
Until
Because
Tank
Commit
Goes
Getting
Just
Children
Want
Anything
Place
Again
Interested
Engine
Hard
Two
I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.
Joanna Coles
Son
First
Thomas
Had
Hugo
Second
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
John Larroquette
Love
Reading
Enough
Thomas
Books
Faulkner
Signed
Fortunate
God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.
John Piper
God
Time
Poison
Living
Universe
Thomas
Drank
Alive
William
Magazine
Plymouth
Colony
Absolutely
He
Put
Absurdly
Dead
Him
Governed
Cover
His
Existence
Front
Proclaimed
Exploded
Socrates
In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side.
John Shelby Spong
Time
Christ
First
Mark
Side
Thomas
Wound
John
Risen
Physically
No-One
Nail
Feel
Invited
Feet
Come
Gospel
Prints
His
Hands
Spear
Appears
Last
By The Time
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
John Tyler
Nation
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Melancholy
Solemn
Hath
Longer
Announced
Tidings
Discharge
Loud
Artillery
Dismal
Jefferson
Lives
Bell
One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.
Jon Meacham
Bible
Debate
Demanding
Thomas
Evidence
Those
See
Touch
Scenes
Resurrection
He
Most
Prove
Question
Fervent
Just
Probe
Just As Much
Wanted
Heirs
Much
Apostles
Who
Believers
Earliest
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
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