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I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.
Ginni Rometty
Me
You
School
Problems
Engineering
Think
Took
Everything
Latin
Kid
Tried
Solve
Stayed
Could
Take
Because
Felt
Understand
Then
Worked
If I Could
Root
Teaches
Reason
Why
My relationship with Paris began when I was working for Cerruti in the mid-1960s. When there was an important event in his store, Nino Cerruti very kindly took me with him. I was fascinated, and the city made a big impression on me.
Giorgio Armani
Me
Relationship
Made
Important
Big
Took
City
Kindly
Paris
Him
His
Impression
Began
Very
Store
Working
Fascinated
Event
I took a very small image and blew it up to enormous scale. What happens when you do that is that the information in the image starts to become indistinct. The image darkens.
Glenn Ligon
You
Become
Starts
Enormous
Took
Scale
Small
Blew
Up
Very
Happens
Information
Image
When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.
Gloria Estefan
Love
Music
Time
Me
You
Man
Hide
Long
Long Time
First
Singing
Band
Took
First Love
Talked
Get
Front
Used
Nowhere
Started
The actions I took at a time of national crisis in 2003 were necessary to protect lives and property and restore law and order. Regrettably, lives were lost among both the government forces and armed protesters.
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
Government
Time
Property
Law
National
Lost
Took
Crisis
Law And Order
Restore
Both
Armed
Protect
Forces
Were
Order
Actions
Lives
Among
Necessary
If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.
Gordon Ramsay
Took
Relaxed
Would
Foot
Off
Die
Gas
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.
Gordon Sinclair
Morning
Took
States
Point
Pounding
Exchanges
French
Known
Another
Dollar
West
West Point
German
Germany
Hitting
Lowest
United
Ever
United States
British
It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
Gordon Strachan
Great
Me
Become
Club
Took
Football
Like
Involved
Years
Manager
Celtic
Decent
Being
Level
'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.
Gotye
Life
Struggle
November
Hurdles
Somebody
Took
Months
Bit
Find
Constant
Record
Vocalist
Finish
Part
Written
Come
Like
Know
Wrote
She
Make
Fairly
Female
Were
Lot
Quickly
Six
Realize
Really
Used
Right
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
Grace Jones
Life
Reality
Losing
My Life
Half
Stage
Sense
Took
Spent
Out
Thousands
Mirrors
Perfect
House
Got
Reflections
Modelling
Quit
Where
After
Staring
Even though the agency kept me pretty busy, I auditioned for every play and film I could find. But they all wanted a black American sound, and I just didn't have it. Finally, I got tired of trotting around and took myself to Paris.
Grace Jones
Myself
Me
Tired
Black
Busy
Every
Took
Finally
Though
Find
Pretty
Paris
Could
Around
Got
Sound
American
Just
Wanted
Agency
Even
Film
Play
Kept
It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress on that says, 'Here I am.'
Grace Potter
Me
Fool
Took
Dancing
Says
Dress
Having
Stuff
Like
Comfortable
Am
Years
Lot
Get
Here
I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story.
Graeme Base
Thought
Took
Sign
Detail
More
Take
Foot
Step
Adventure
Hour
Genre
Readers
Sure
Off
Expect
After
Decided
Story
Base
Away
Pedal
I believe that God created the Earth. I wasn't there, I don't know how long it took. I don't know how he did it exactly.
Greg Gianforte
God
Long
Believe
Took
Earth
Exactly
He
Know
How
Did
Created
Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.
Greg Grandin
Woman
People
Mother
Value
Young
Took
Through
Up
Salvador
America
Disenfranchised
Refugees
Children
Grew
Young Children
Central
Central America
El Salvador
Social
Midwife
Teaching
Standing
Standing Up
Swept
Activist
Her
Cared
Violence
I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.
Greg LeMond
Thought
Lose
Took
Winning
Could
Tour
Never
Feel
Know
Get
Sensation
While
Again
Race
Racing
Used
It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
Greg Mottola
Time
Youth
Thought
Before
Took
Guess
Back
About
Could
Write
Never
Longest
Longest Time
Like
Look
Getting
Forties
Skinned
Even
Thin
I met one of my best resources because I cold-called the local FBI office one day early in my career with questions. The agent who took the call knew someone who knew someone who was ex-Army, trained in personal protection. The resulting introduction was one of the best, most enduring friendships I've ever enjoyed.
Greg Rucka
Best
Day
Protection
Met
Took
Local
Resources
One Day
Introduction
Someone
Resulting
Knew
Most
Call
Because
Questions
Friendships
Trained
Office
Personal
Enduring
Agent
Who
Ever
Enjoyed
Early
Career
Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.
Greg Rucka
Work
Best
Water
Somewhere
Took
Out
Detail
Some
About
Someone
Entirely
Direction
Written
Dropped
New
Come
Blew
Because
Passing
Unexpected
Preconceptions
Moments
Ever
They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
Gregory Corso
Me
Long
Fall
Nothing
Down
Took
Knocked
Named
Always
Got
Up
Itself
Mountain
Get
Quite
Often
Moves
Them
Swear
I've landed on my shoulders a lot of times, and separated them and stretched the capsule. I've torn my ACL in my right knee; that took me out for an entire season.
Gretchen Bleiler
Me
Stretched
Took
Out
Torn
Entire
Knee
Lot
Times
Them
Landed
Separated
Shoulders
Season
Right
I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.
Grey DeLisle
Degree
Took
Classes
Some
Voice-Over
Get
Did
Theater
My mom - when I complained about my weight, she asked me if I wanted to keep complaining or do something about it. Then she took me to Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old, meetings and all!
Gunnar Peterson
Mom
Me
Old
Complaining
Took
Meetings
About
Something
Weight
She
Years
Wanted
Then
Asked
Keep
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
Gunter Grass
Me
Relationship
Mother
State
Took
Back
Saw
See
Thumb
Advent
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Up
Jacob
Childhood
Grew
Which
Theater
Far
Production
Even
Tom
What I really took in in India was that people - even in the slums - were happy with what they'd got. That's something we're not good at in the Western world.
Guy Martin
Good
Happy
People
World
Took
India
Slums
Something
Got
Were
Western
Western World
Really
Even
There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.
Gwen Moore
You
Vote
Voting
Party
Own
Took
Dare
Gingrich
Cost
He
Over
House
Tradition
Continue
Huge
Being
Republican
Against
Republican Party
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Interests
Your
Forward
Even
Initiatives
Started
Bipartisan
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