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The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.
Christina Baker Kline
Grace
Met
Few
Honestly
About
Simply
Know
Most
Also
Pragmatism
Surprised
Surprising
Surprising Thing
Trains
Trait
American
Human
Whether
Midwestern
Fortitude
Riders
Orphan
Thing
Resilience
I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
Diane Keaton
Myself
You
Build
Worse
Along
Know
Around
Go
Wall
Get
Trait
Gets
Any
Hard
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
Douglas Hyde
Character
Nation
National
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Countrymen
Liked
Felt
Always
Subject
Trait
Celtic
Cannot
Disliked
Help
English
Who
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins
Become
President
States
Bad
About
Had
Almost
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
She
Judgments
Got
How
Caucus
Clinton
Handle
Trait
Which
Reasons
Why
Early
The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
Gore Vidal
Day
Every Day
Every
Society
More
More And More
Individual
Environment
His
Dominate
Trait
Confining
Which
Grows
Desirable
Desire
The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.
Hugh Laurie
Great
Character
Think
Thinking
Characteristic
Physical
More
Fact
Than
Trait
Trying
American
Just
Height
Trap
Actor
Play
Start
I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'
James Corden
Good
You
School
Thought
Fire
Wish
Other
Kid
Could
Idea
Also
Always
Go
Off
Trait
Just
Want
Which
Pause
Much
Really
Who
Aware
Alarm
Things
Set
Good Idea
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.
Janet Malcolm
Water
Journalist
Trembling
Fearlessly
Beach
Robe
Most
His
Dominant
Trait
Shore
Where
Stands
Novelist
I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.
Jason Momoa
Character
You
Remember
Action
Punch
Kick
Remember When
Stuff
Does
Trait
Movies
Jason
Action Movies
Watch
A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.
John Mott
Strong
Men
Master
Out
Strong Men
Ability
Point
Highly
Most
Lincoln
Discover
Trait
Influences
Use
Stands
Multiplying
Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.
John Schneider
People
Some People
Thrive
Chaos
Though
Some
Through
Operating
Female
Trait
Then
Creating
Presented
Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.
Jon Taffer
Leadership
Trait
Skill
A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I've had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don't believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either.
Kerry James Marshall
Myself
Character
Me
Guidance
Fate
Remember
Sense
Radical
Believe
Thinking
Back
Mine
Distinction
Destiny
Embrace
Magical
Divine
Had
Like
Matches
Am
Friend
Close
Close Friend
Trait
Goes
Either
Far
Much
Who
Wholeheartedly
Things
Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.
Lionel Messi
Me
Game
Try
Year
Every
Way
Possible
Something
Rut
Stuck
Part
Improve
Get
Trait
Worked
Grow
Player
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
Lorna Luft
Own
Addictions
Addictive
Our
Recognize
Never
Families
Trait
Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.
Marco Zanini
Good
Fashion
Integrity
Distinctive
Superficial
Volatile
Attention
Longevity
Matches
Trait
Product
Less
Need
I'm not sensitive about my lisp, but a lot of people are, and it's not the type of trait people should mock.
Mike Cernovich
People
Type
About
Lot
Mock
Trait
Sensitive
Should
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
Mira Nair
Humility
America
Trait
Often
Associate
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
Orhan Pamuk
People
King
Power
Pedestal
Later
Collecting
About
Inventing
Civilization
Attachment
Habit
Could
Put
Western
Western Civilization
Trait
Essential
Human
Representing
Things
Museums
Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
Paul Henderson
Pride
Somebody
About
Ugliest
Trait
I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.
Paula Poundstone
Me
Conversation
Degree
Back
Everyone
Some
Something
Steer
Annoying
Diagnosed
Always
Years
Years Ago
Trait
Where
Happened
Which
Really
Disorder
Number
Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
Pope Theodoros II
Christian
Society
Must
Constructive
Participate
Integrating
Integration
Trait
Moderate
Egyptians
Us
Fundamental
I dislike the trait of ungratefulness.
R. Madhavan
Trait
Dislike
My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed.
Rachel Simmons
Experience
Girl
Environment
Feel
Sort
Trait
Any
Human
Same-Sex
Human Beings
Aggression
Beings
Universal
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.
Robert Winston
Love
Moving On
Good
Mother
Try
Father
Husband
Move On
Believe
Too
Nine
Saw
Way
Fine
Through
Had
He
She
Trait
Died
Move
Process
Grieving
Moving
Regretting
Should
Mum
Deeply
Her
Second
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
Ron Fournier
Success
Health
Care
Humility
Easily
Obama
Him
Health Care
Health Care Reform
His
Reform
Trait
Capable
Requires
Associated
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