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It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.
Nolan Ryan
Best
Myself
Me
Gift
Long
Took
Finally
Out
Possibly
Given
Could
Had
Been
Did
Pitcher
While
Realize
Dedicated
Figure
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Nolan Ryan
Me
Honestly
Took
Say
Fact
Longer
Over
Years
Get
Full
Baseball
Baseball Player
Player
Two
I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.
Nonito Donaire
Love
Hurt
People
Become
Took
Ring
Scared
Minute
More
Outside
Over
Like
Bug
Another
Always
Got
Amateur
Person
Vicious
The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs.
Nora Ephron
Time
Day
Mother
Party
Year
Rose
Every
Took
One Thing
About
About An Hour
Onions
Had
No-One
New
Hour
Bowl
She
Make
Known
Makes
Did
Eggs
Scrambled
The One Thing
Which
Cooked
Games
Nova
Now
Specialty
Her
Thing
The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.
Noreena Hertz
Living
Took
Never
Toward
Supposed
Global
Policy
Shift
According
Nations
Happened
Convergence
Place
Poorer
Richer
Standards
Actually
Bring
Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture.
Norman Davies
Change
Culture
People
Thought
Took
Stay
Some
Seems
More
Put
Over
New
Likely
Terms
Islands
Historians
Dominant
Romans
Then
Much
Population
Now
Resident
My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Education
Me
School
Father
Giving
Year
Gave
Took
Ensemble
Brother
He
Tenth
Died
Formal
Formal Education
Started
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
Olga Kurylenko
Day
Me
You
Took
One Day
Would
Take
Like
Said
Just
Agency
Act
Acting
When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
Oliver Stone
Took
Would
See
About
More
Tend
Knowing
Child
Movie
Interested
Believed
Enjoyed
Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought that it took lousy pictures. Neither thought that they had anything to worry about.
Om Malik
Technology
Phone
Thought
Took
Worry
Neither
About
Had
Pictures
Like
Toy
Makers
Traditional
Camera
iPhone
Inferior
Lousy
Anything
Dismissed
Used
Manufacturers
Companies
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
Me
Passion
Few
Gave
Took
Out
More
More Or Less
Altogether
Years
Up
Get
Any
Want
Anymore
Gambling
Less
Bridge
Even
Card
Playing
Slave
I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
Omari Hardwick
Time
Home
Mom
Sports
Money
Care
College
Thomas
Took
Bit
Cost
Cross
He
Attorney
Household
Came
Lot
Up
Gradually
Grew
Which
Then
Us
Worked
Holy
Full
Full-Time
Pops
Played
Donald Trump was sharp; he was very perceptive. He was engaging. He had this expansive vocabulary, and he very seldom took breaks.
Omarosa Manigault Newman
Took
Vocabulary
Perceptive
Seldom
Had
He
Sharp
Trump
Very
Expansive
Donald
Donald Trump
Breaks
Engaging
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was pretty big into country music, too. So there was a wealth of music being played in the house, and I kind of took it all in.
Orianthi
Music
Mom
Wealth
Country
Big
Too
Took
Jimi Hendrix
Clapton
Kind
Pretty
Country Music
Liked
House
She
Eric
Eric Clapton
Michael
Listen
Being
Used
Dad
Hendrix
Played
Roy
I am a first-generation college graduate, and I'm proud to say that most of my other siblings have college degrees as well. Our parents taught us to work hard and never forget our family roots, where we came from, and how much effort it took to get to where we are today.
Oscar Munoz
Work
Today
Family
Work Hard
College
Parents
Other
Took
Our
Say
Degrees
Never
Never Forget
Most
Well
Proud
How
Am
How Much
Came
Effort
Forget
Get
Graduate
Taught
Where
Us
Much
Roots
Hard
Sibling
I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
Osric Chau
Took
Classes
Want
Wanted
Younger
Really
Sucked
Actor
I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell
Work
Time
Myself
Good
Me
Nothing
Think
Took
Back
Pencil
Songwriters
Put
Since
Look
Hall
Around
Said
Got
Years
Fame
Get
Behind
Happened
Turned
Many
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
Otis Williams
Good
Winter
Long
Hell
Other
Took
Our
Ourselves
Tempt
He
Knew
Name
Liked
Look
Likely
Said
Opinions
Mitchell
Were
Up
Cracked
Any
Anyone
Anything
Asked
Really
Bill
Coats
Four
I had once thought I would become a doctor but gave up on the thought soon enough. I took up the racquet instead. Later, when I saw my sister studying so much to become a doctor, I was like, 'Thank God I am a shuttler!'
P. V. Sindhu
God
Doctor
Thank God
Thought
Become
Sister
Enough
Gave
Took
Later
Once
Saw
Would
Had
Instead
Soon
Studying
Like
Am
Up
Thank
Much
When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
Padmasree Warrior
Love
Today
Me
Technology
Confidence
Women
Passion
Job
First
Took
Only
Only A Handful
Driven
Self
Self-Confidence
First Job
Got
Am
Handful
Times
Going
Where
Among
Kept
First and foremost, that was always my passion: I wanted to wrestle, but unfortunately, it took me down a road that I can't do that anymore.
Paige
Me
Passion
First
Down
Took
Wrestle
Road
Always
Foremost
Anymore
Wanted
Unfortunately
It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
Paloma Elsesser
Me
Feeling
Panic
Took
Say
Kind
Able
Something
Because
Without
Terror
Lot
Model
I took my daughters to see Plastic Ono Band at the Orpheum in L.A. in 2012. It was an amazing experience because she is such a revolutionary artist. Everybody was like, 'Oh, it's Yoko, it's such a joke.' But it's no joke what she did, visually and musically. It's incredible.
Pamela Adlon
Experience
Amazing
Joke
Band
Everybody
Incredible
Took
Musically
See
Daughters
Like
She
Because
Amazing Experience
Revolutionary
Did
Artist
Oh
Plastic
My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.
Pamela Anderson
Funny
Time
Me
Game
Thought
Nervous
Down
Took
Back
About
Only
Football
Football Game
Like
Because
Said
Boyfriend
Coming
Cover
Off
Yes
Offered
Just
Want
Them
Turned
Initially
Eventually
Playboy
Career
Kept
I think it was definitely a love for the four- or five-part vocal male harmony groups that really took me away. I'd always try and be, like, the fifth Drifter; I'd always try and find another harmony that wasn't there.
Paolo Nutini
Love
Me
Try
Think
Took
Harmony
Definitely
Find
Vocal
Like
Another
Always
Male
Fifth
Really
Groups
Away
Four
My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
Pardis Sabeti
Government
Me
Courage
Father
Nation
Conviction
Took
Jobs
About
More
Toughest
Driven
He
Make
Make A Difference
Himself
Because
Always
His
Than
Difference
Want
Cared
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