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A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
Chief Joseph
Great
Lawyer
Country
Took
Sold
Council
Lead
He
Talker
Because
Chief
Nearly
As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.
Clemantine Wamariya
Life
Strength
Me
Impossible
Made
Sister
Control
Older
Otherwise
Took
Our
Way
Our Lives
Claire
Possible
She
Were
Up
Camps
Child
Behaved
Refugee
Taught
Worked
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Older Sister
Lives
Her
Things
Resilience
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Derek Walcott
Love
Stronger
Fragments
Took
Vase
Than
Break
Which
Granted
Whole
Symmetry
Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.
Gerald Vizenor
Best
Woman
Old
Revolution
Old Woman
Other
Took
Would
Give
His
Cultural
Hand
Confucius
Communist
Seat
Seats
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.
Jane Goodall
Sad
Good
Garden
Sky
Homework
Tree
Birds
Took
Spend
Books
Had
Hours
Felt
Climb
Leaves
Up
Very
Child
Green
Just
Used
Among
Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Day
Class
People
Car
Care
Father
Parents
Sister
Own
Nice
Took
Slept
Everyone
Kid
Brother
Able
Brother And Sister
Someday
My Own
Take
Take Care
He
Advantage
Him
Hallway
Were
Goal
Middle
Middle Class
Wanted
Loved
Room
Younger
Younger Brother
Lower
Away
In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.
Kathleen Hanna
Time
Best
Money
Abortion
School
Decision
Sex
Responsibility
Made
First
Sister
Living
Virginia
Took
High
High School
Had
Since
Terrible
Messed
Messed Up
First Time
Without
Got
Still
Sounds
Contraception
Up
Get
McDonald
Pregnant
Worked
Really
Actions
Ever
Save
When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.
Lee Radziwill
Dog
Mother
Difficult
Took
Ran
Seven
Out
Run
High
Brooklyn
High Heels
Rather
New
Very
Get
York
New York
Heels
Far
Across
Your
Bridge
Lived
Away
Started
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Love
Teacher
Best
Good
Class
People
Awesome
Homework
Gave
Took
Those
About
Exams
He
He Or She
Know
Talk
She
Another
Because
Boy
Said
Were
Anybody
Want
Influences
Really
Who
Profession
Ever
Set
The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
Peter Cetera
Me
Heart
People
Took
Out
Rut
Had
Been
Right
I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.
Richard Gere
Life
Time
Key
Made
Insecurity
Long
Long Time
Mistakes
Think
Too
Took
Plenty
Introspective
Stemmed
Learn
Been
Up
Little
Them
Grow
Grow Up
Shyness
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
T. E. Lawrence
World
Old
Victory
Men
Took
Our
Those
Ourselves
Out
Never
Dawned
Knew
New
Likeness
Came
Campaigns
New World
Achieved
Again
Former
Sparing
Old Men
Many
Lived
Lives
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Willa Cather
Great
Animal
World
Edge
Exhausted
Energy
Down
Took
Flung
Spent
Sun
Visiting
Stepped
Over
Like
Due
Stimulated
Cloak
Left
Behind
Fields
Evening
Wide
Presence
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
Peter O'Toole
Took
Only
Take
Exercise
Friends
Walking
Behind
Who
The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
Aaron Rodgers
Time
Rights
First
Country
Beauty
Own
Took
Our
Those
Liberties
Out
Ability
Civil
Civil Liberties
Some
Lay
Firm
Firm Believer
Opinion
Amendment
Bill
Your
Bill Of Rights
Believer
Founded
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Stevenson I
People
Progress
Positions
Took
Unpopular
Resulted
Who
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Adrien Brody
Success
Me
Half
Took
Seventeen
Takes
Half Years
Overnight
Overnight Success
Years
Fifteen
Dad
When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.
Al Sharpton
Work
Great
Rights
People
Speak
Sacrifice
Took
Those
Immense
Easily
Battles
Civil
Civil Rights
Put
Terms
None
Era
Were
Won
Discuss
Often
Behind
Movements
Romantic
Sustained
Place
Them
Fought
The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.
Allison Janney
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Own
Took
Please
Trick
Make
Learn
Real
Auditioning
Go
Trying
Just
Them
Your
Letting
Letting Go
'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
Andrew Gross
Sad
Life
Eyes
Events
Nephew
Past
Real Life
Own
Young
Suicide
Other
Took
Kid
Charles
My Own
Troubled
Shape
Open
Bottom
California
None
Cliff
Real
Years
Encounter
Years Ago
Than
Central
Straight
Landmark
Manson
Forty
Forty Years
Who
Found
Wide
Second
Chance
Two
Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
Anne Enright
Me
People
Speak
First
Before
Nice
Gave
Took
Secret
Able
First Child
Name
Days
Like
Naming
Safe
Well
Child
Did
What If
Suspect
Keep
Her
Second
It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
Barry Jenkins
You
Cinema
Before
Same Thing
Think
Took
Way
Flying
Would
Would-Be
Windows
Open
Feels
New
Like
Most
Occasion
Because
Very
Close
Get
York
Same
Just
New York
Happened
Them
Planes
Used
Flight
Special
Special Occasion
Film
Now
Thing
Watching
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
Bela Lugosi
Work
Hard Work
Before
Took
Several
Small
Attained
Years
Roles
Hard
Stardom
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
Bela Lugosi
Me
Down
Live
Other
Took
Type
Would
Almost
Years
Role
Any
Convince
Producers
Film
Play
Dracula
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
Ben Carson
Good
Me
Anger
Matter
Will
Lost
Control
Thinking
Took
Once
Kid
Mad
Totally
Someone
General
Rational
Point
Had
Reached
Make
Stick
Without
Aroused
Rock
Lot
Grabbed
Brick
Boiling
Bash
Nearest
Conscious
I took my uniqueness and treated it like a horn.
Billy Paul
Took
Horn
Like
Uniqueness
Treated
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