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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
D. B. Sweeney
Time
Me
You
Long
Long Time
Took
Famous
Realize
Choose
I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
Dale T. Mortensen
Mathematics
Good
Science
School
Engineer
College
Looking
Become
Took
High
Ability
High School
Good Student
Student
Courses
Mathematical
Available
Interests
Preparatory
Usual
Program
When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
Daley Thompson
Man
World
Lost
Cried
Took
Record
Ten
Only
Like
Hours
Decathlon
World Record
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
Daley Thompson
Time
Best
Day
Training
Regret
Perspective
Long
Long Time
Took
Projects
Spent
Find
Athletics
More
Over
New
Major
Hours
Years
New Projects
Get
Ended
Any
Six
Eight
Wanted
After
While
Keep
Ever
Things
Competing
Career
Championships
When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
Damian Loeb
Try
Painting
Took
Back
Later
Months
Out
Photos
Through
Put
Particular
Pictures
Come
Sort
Different
Them
Figure
Why
I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
Damon Hill
People
Long
Drive
Year
Sit
Took
Secret
Objectives
Fact
No Secret
Pick
He
Eddie
Concerned
Does
Am
Surprised
Contract
End
Up
Decide
Wants
Anywhere
Who
Competitive
I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.
Dan Gertler
Decision
Took
Long-Term
Wanted
Congo
Player
I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
Dan Gilroy
Me
Writing
Job
Slow
Long
Enjoy
Enough
Took
Tremendous
Out
Directors
Point
Reached
Also
Learner
Felt
Understood
Still
End
Get
Where
Satisfaction
Enjoying
Watched
My dad was always at work running a business, so our mom really took care of us. She'd bring us all to our practices, and we all basically played four sports: baseball, hockey, football, and basketball.
Dan Gronkowski
Work
Mom
Business
Sports
Care
Took
Our
Running
Football
She
Practices
Always
Hockey
Us
Really
Dad
Baseball
Four
Played
Bring
Basically
Basketball
After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
Dan Hawkins
Music
School
Seriously
Took
London
Involved
Very
Get
Moved
After
After-School
Whole
Thing
Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
Dan Pena
Me
Business
Dangerous
Made
First
Waters
Took
Onassis
Mentor
Lifelong
Had
He
Aristotle
Liking
Became
How
His
Shipping
Icon
Fortune
Deep
Swim
Associate
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
Dan Stevens
Me
Remember
Before
Young
Stage
Too
Took
Pantomime
Says
Kids
Tells
Running
Small
Onstage
He
Part
Invite
Sort
Up
Very
Interact
Being
Where
Us
Asked
Show
English
Even
Dad
Phenomenon
Whether she planned it or not, the path that Pelosi took to the House is the one most women used to follow. Women raised their kids, and then they went into politics.
Dana Bash
Politics
Women
Path
Took
Kids
Follow
Most
House
She
Whether
Then
Planned
Used
Raised
What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I was just amazed by it. I just said, 'Hey Mom, can I do this too?' And so she signed me up for little theater classes, and I remember my first audition for a play when I was seven years old was for 'The Thankful Elf.'
Dana Davis
Funny
Thankful
Time
Mom
Me
Remember
Old
First
Too
Took
Seven
Hey
Signed
Classes
She
First Time
Said
Audition
Amazed
Years
Up
Six
Just
Theater
Little
Play
Elf
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
Danica McKellar
Time
Mathematics
Myself
People
Opportunity
Degree
Rare
Research
Other
Took
States
Dimensions
Had
New
Undergraduate
Years
Get
Models
Break
Acting
Theorem
Multiplicity
Actually
Four
Two
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
Danica McKellar
College
Feeling
Few
Took
Solving
Classes
Rush
Study
Like
Well
Equations
Got
Doing
Math
Brain
Intending
Them
Really
Film
Found
Started
I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
Daniel Barenboim
Music
Post
Opportunity
Singing
Build
Took
Way
Ensemble
Seemed
Never
Opera
Because
Deal
Disciplines
Go
Scratch
Staging
Interested
Really
Unique
Unique Opportunity
Interrelated
When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
Daniel Bryan
Me
Parents
First
Warrior
Live
Took
Nine
Around
WWE
Ultimate
Loved
Which
Then
Show
Event
I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
Daniel Cormier
Love
Education
Time
Myself
Home
Me
Hate
People
Money
Dark
Blessed
Gave
Took
Out
Dark Time
Some
Had
Sport
Said
Louisiana
Get
So Many People
After
Then
Really
Games
Many
Olympic
Olympic Games
Chance
It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
Daniel Craig
Work
Fitness
Man
People
Thought
Clothes
Living
Took
Way
Out
Sexy
Able
Only
Physically
Shape
Had
He
Like
Looked
Buff
Also
Stunts
Because
His
Off
Fit
Get
Trying
Did
Wanted
Which
Work Out
Who
Bond
Piracy was kind of hard: It took a few minutes to download a song. It was kind of cumbersome. You had to worry about viruses. It's not like people want to be pirates. They just want a great experience.
Daniel Ek
Great
You
Experience
People
Song
Few
Took
Worry
Viruses
Great Experience
Kind
Minutes
About
Had
Like
Piracy
Pirates
Just
Want
Hard
Download
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.
Daniel Goleman
Class
Anxiety
Focus
College
Trouble
Meditation
Took
Harvard
Ancient
Systems
Adjusting
India
Having
Student
Fellowship
Practices
Freshman
Lot
Handle
Grad
Where
Psychology
Asia
Then
Really
Helped
Awarded
Traveling
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.
Daniel Handler
Work
Money
First
Took
Sold
Finally
Had
Smallest
Almost
Years
Sell
Times
Six
Fiction
Literary
Agent
Then
Interim
Novel
Ever
Amount
Rejected
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Daniel Johnston
Time
Book
Thought
Long
Long Time
Thinking
Took
Kid
Musician
Could
Always
Comic
Comic Book
Artist
Start
From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.
Daniel Pfeiffer
Faith
Good
Day
Long
Extract
President
Took
Our
President Obama
States
Has-Been
Obama
Remains
Open
He
Idea
Supporting
Over
Budget
Been
Families
North
Office
Any
Republicans
Full
Star
United
United States
Credit
Good Idea
When I joined Formula One, I knew that what I found is that the cars are so much faster, and it took me a little while to understand where to always put the car.
Daniel Ricciardo
Me
Car
Faster
Took
Joined
Put
Knew
Understand
Always
Where
While
Formula
Little
Formula One
Much
Little While
Found
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