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The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.
Jeffrey Tambor
Old
Honor
Reading
Able
Something
Years
Dickens
Being
Transformative
Room
Should
Play
Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.
Joe Green
Me
Facebook
People
Remember
Political
Too
Only
Feature
Networks
Potentially
Myspace
Built
Discussion
Just
Interactions
Transformative
Social
Used
Social Networks
Unique
Ever
I am of the view that the Affordable Care Act will be a transformative piece of legislation that can lower the cost of health care in the United States - perhaps our greatest fiscal obstacle - and help all Americans lead healthy and productive lives, free from worry that a single illness could mean ruin for an entire family.
John Delaney
Health
Family
Care
Will
Free
Single
Healthy
Our
Ruin
Worry
States
All Americans
Entire
Cost
Could
Lead
Obstacle
Perhaps
Piece
Health Care
Greatest
Am
Fiscal
Affordable
American
Affordable Care Act
Legislation
Transformative
Mean
Lower
Act
View
Productive
Help
Illness
United
Lives
United States
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
Jon Batiste
Music
Experience
Communicate
Power
Live
Our
Ways
Must
Exchange
Genuine
Forget
Human
Transformative
Many
Live Music
Disposal
There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
Jordan Peele
You
Black
Same Thing
White
See
Something
Cheering
Person
Same
Transformative
Theater
Turn
Thing
Live experiences are more than fundamental - they're transformative.
Julia Hartz
Live
More
Than
Experiences
Transformative
Fundamental
Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.
Junot Diaz
Day
Learning
Grateful
Courage
Yourself
Every Day
Power
Every
Open
Students
Takes
Almost
Almost Every Day
Most
Make
Sort
Learner
Am
Real
MIT
Importantly
Transformative
Explicit
Teach
Exposed
Deeply
Things
When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.
Karyn Kusama
Reflect
Believe
Those
Shaped
Come
Am
Were
Losses
Experienced
Experiences
Transformative
Who
It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
Kathleen Parker
Time
Events
Made
Big
Few
Nice
Too
Incremental
Say
Obama
Would
Had
He
Fair
Economy
Ideas
Were
Been
Left
America
Transformative
Less
Appetite
Stressful
Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I'd be struck by the fact that religious beliefs were sometimes transformative, sometimes a motivation for violence.
Lawrence Wright
Conflict
World
Sometimes
Somewhere
Prison
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Struck
Fact
Were
Motivation
Reporting
Oftentimes
Wherever
Transformative
Might
Beliefs
Violence
I think what is magic about black-girl hair is, at its basic level, it's just resilient. It can go from straight to curly in the same day. It's just transformative. When you don't feel so strong, the hair can be a sign of empowerment.
Mara Brock Akil
Day
You
Strong
Hair
Think
Sign
Magic
About
Feel
Empowerment
Go
Same
Curly
Just
Transformative
Straight
Basic
Level
Resilient
Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.
Martin Heinrich
Best
Innovation
World
Internet
Moon
Nation
Defense
Innovations
Our
Project
Latest
Rise
Gene
Advanced
Developing
Leads
Most
Does
America
Whether
Transformative
Available
To The Moon
Apollo
Technologies
Biomedical
The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.
Marvin Ammori
People
Will
Criticism
Ruled
Punish
Parody
Abstract
Merely
Fair
Ideas
Concept
Doctrines
Supreme
Supreme Court
Because
Court
Courts
Permits
Materials
Subject
Crafted
Transformative
Which
Use
Uses
Using
Copying
Copyright
Speech
The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
Naomi Klein
Family
Business
Culture
Book
Job
First
Aim
Market
Corporate
Trends
Broader
Impacts
About
Structure
Part
Taken
Taking
Wrote
Within
Shift
Bullies
Trump
Brand
Model
Place
Transformative
Business Model
Many
Multinational
De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.
Patty Jenkins
Character
Single
Every
Those
Niro
Could
Weight
He
De Niro
Prove
La
Get
Just
Gain
Transformative
Grounded
Play
Things
Fat
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.
Paul Di Filippo
Writing
Better
Doors
Writer
Highest
New
Opening
Altered
Readers
Permanently
Praise
His
Textual
Author
Conferred
Any
Essential
Irreplaceable
Literary
Transformative
Landscape
Engaging
Certainly
Assertion
Her
Qualcomm has seen firsthand the transformative power of mobile technology as part of many projects created through its Wireless Reach initiative - programs around the world that help educators, health care workers, and entrepreneurs take advantage of mobile technology.
Peggy Johnson
Health
Technology
World
Care
Seen
Take Advantage
Power
Programs
Projects
Through
Entrepreneurs
Take
Wireless
Part
Advantage
Reach
Health Care
Around
Firsthand
Educators
Mobile
Transformative
Created
Workers
Help
Many
Initiative
Acting, when it is good, can be transformative.
Robert Rinder
Good
Transformative
Acting
If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.
Ryan Holiday
Time
You
People
School
Smart
Will
Job
Trial
Trial And Error
About
Mentor
Most
Particularly
Talk
Period
Learned
Always
Error
Craft
Where
Experimentation
Transformative
Ask
Successful
Successful People
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
Sam Yagan
Time
People
Will
Girl
Important
Walks
Every
Every Time
Meeting
Everyone
Impact
About
Pocket
Dating
Hot
Idea
Talk
Mobile
Vibrate
Transformative
Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.
Sean Scully
Art
World
Water
Plants
Changes
Way
Relentless
Constant
Through
Shape
Like
Geography
Just
Movement
Transformative
Sea
Works
Truly transformative leaders inspire deep commitment among many and have continued impact long after they are gone.
Seth Moulton
Commitment
Inspire
Long
Gone
Impact
Leaders
Continue
Truly
After
Transformative
Deep
Many
Among
Hyperloop can improve life dramatically for the 16 million people in the greater Moscow area, cutting their commute to a fraction of what it is today. Our longer term vision is to work with Russia to implement a transformative new Silk Road: a cargo Hyperloop that whisks freight containers from China to Europe in a day.
Shervin Pishevar
Life
Work
Today
Day
People
Vision
Cargo
Our
Dramatically
Silk
Russia
Area
Road
Implement
Longer
Term
New
Moscow
Freight
Greater
Improve
Transformative
China
Cutting
Commute
Europe
Million
Million People
Fraction
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Life
Change
Better
Believe
Ways
Intriguing
Insight
Some
Perfect
Through
Better Ways
Knitting
Parties
Metaphor
Doing
Brain
Person
Transformative
Explain
Act
Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare.
Steven Levy
Facebook
Gadgets
Twitter
Changed
Launch
Since
Most
Massive
iPhone
Been
Snapchat
Transformative
Fanfare
Products
Lives
Services
Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.
Susan Burton
Understanding
Telling
Both
New
Audience
Story
Transformative
Storyteller
Created
Your
Bridge
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