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I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.
Ivica Dacic
Today
War
Government
Justice
Resolve
Responsible
Solution
Tried
Finding
Some
Part
Perhaps
Most
Kosovo
Question
Person
Should
Peaceful
I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
J. B. Pritzker
Life
Speak
Men
Own
Think
Tried
See
My Own
More
Could
Make
Up
Done
Situations
Where
Want
Acknowledge
Acknowledgment
Harassment
Need
I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.
J. R. Smith
Success
Change
Nothing
Has-Been
Tried
About
Guys
Had
Name
How
Been
Lot
Times
Just
Upset
Million
Image
Played
Million Times
Portrayed
Career
I get on with Joe Hart really well. He joined Birmingham on loan when I was there and to see him working day-in, day-out was brilliant. As I've progressed I've tried to model myself on him.
Jack Butland
Myself
Brilliant
Loan
Birmingham
Hart
Joe
Tried
See
Joined
He
Day-Out
Well
Him
Model
Get
Really
Working
This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.
Jack Herer
Me
Experience
Sex
Girl
Three
Incredible
Finally
High
Tried
Something
Never
Had
Most
She
Times
Get
Experienced
Wanted
Worked
Ever
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Jack Ma
Buy
Time
Me
Pay
Month
Tried
Cost
Graduated
University
I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
Jack McBrayer
Success
Me
You
Change
People
Job
Lose
Way
Dare
Would
Tried
About
Never
Part
Like
Accent
How
Sound
Am
Get
Want
Sensitive
Little
Notes
Should
Who
Millions
Thinks
Millions Of People
I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
Jack McDevitt
Writing
Too Much
Enjoy
Too
Several
Tried
Times
Quit
Much
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
Jack Nicklaus
Myself
Game
Design
Way
Kid
Tried
Find
Architect
Proper
Since
Suppose
Courses
Always
Begun
Any
Wanted
Golf
Hole
Golf Courses
Asking
Ever
Play
Played
If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
Jack Osbourne
Problem
First
Believe
Tried
Through
He
Head
Feel
Stuff
Like
Talk
Go
Lot
Than
Get
Did
Going
Decided
Sober
Younger
Using
Dad
The player I look up to is Rio Ferdinand. I have always played at the back, and I've always tried to base my game on his.
Jack Rodwell
Game
Back
Tried
Rio
Look
Always
Ferdinand
His
Up
Base
Played
Player
I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
Jack White
Myself
You
Struggle
Challenge
Way
Out
Tried
Easy
Easy Way
Take
Taking
Like
Know
Make
Always
How
Anything
Create
Really
Help
Routes
Compensate
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
Together
Book
Simple
Myth
Legend
Tried
Anecdote
About
Something
Tale
Most
Particularly
Talk
Genre
Call
Fairytale
Tall
Understand
Any
Irresistible
Order
Stories
Really
Show
Origin
Recent
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
Jackie DeShannon
Good
You
Impossible
Try
Think
Elvis
Way
Out
Tried
See
Records
Had
He
Performing
Like
Know
Him
Practically
Get
Just
Anyone
Fortune
Figure
Ever
Good Fortune
Set
I went to a hotel to become a chef and then tried becoming a flight attendant, but no one took me. I then worked in a travel agency and got into advertising and modelling after someone spotted me. So I started doing ads. I did 'Charminar' ad, because of which I got two films.
Jackie Shroff
Me
Travel
Become
Films
Took
Tried
Someone
Ads
No-One
Attendant
Hotel
Advertising
Because
Chef
Becoming
Got
Doing
Modelling
Did
After
Which
Agency
Then
Worked
Flight
Ad
Started
Two
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
Jacob Epstein
Work
Me
Quality
People
Later
Saw
Draw
Immediately
Drawn
Would
Tried
Colored
Splendid
Had
Disappear
Head
New
Like
Quarter
Friends
Did
Models
York
New York
Being
Chinese
Paul
Them
Worked
Plastic
Including
Whose
Among
Early
When I first took the bench, I was assigned to handle a calendar of criminal cases. It was an enormous docket. I tried in each case to make sure that the litigants not only in fact received, but also felt that they had received, a full and fair opportunity to be heard.
Jacqueline Nguyen
Opportunity
First
Bench
Enormous
Took
Criminal
Tried
Case
Cases
Only
Fact
Had
Fair
Calendar
Also
Make
Sure
Felt
Heard
Handle
In Fact
Full
Each
Assigned
Received
What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.
Jacques Monod
Attitude
Universe
Say
Tried
No Intention
Objectivity
Implies
Call
Scientific
Intention
Plan
Show
Fundamental
I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.
Jacques Monod
Impossible
Ought
Philosophies
Say
Would
Tried
Point
Point Of View
Marxism
Traditional
Up
Farce
View
Derive
Including
I got invited to the White House, and I tried to sleep there overnight without permission. The Secret Service came to my house, and I had to talk to them. They legally couldn't do anything because I didn't do anything wrong, but they yelled at me like a principal.
Jake Paul
Service
Me
White
White House
Secret
Tried
Had
Wrong
Invited
Like
Talk
House
Principal
Because
Without
Got
Permission
Overnight
Came
Yelled
Legally
Anything
Them
Sleep
I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges.
Jaleel White
Challenges
Path
Before
Those
Tried
Take
Doing
Trying
Just
Ups
Different
After
Really
Different Things
Chose
Grown
Grown-Ups
Things
I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
James Badge Dale
Work
People
Amazing
Sit
Back
Tried
Some
Through
Learn
Got
Amazing People
Really
Lucky
Watch
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
James Broughton
Teacher
Risks
Action
Imagination
Tried
Horizons
Enthusiasms
Take
Students
Most
Doing
Were
Stir
Afraid
I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.
James Cameron
Me
People
System
Hierarchy
Tried
Like
Because
Get
Blue-Collar
Established
Sensibility
Personally
Hollywood
Sucked
Filmmaker
What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.
James Dyson
You
Wrong Thing
Think
Approach
Tried
Something
No-One
Wrong
Almost
Because
Often
Just
Different
Different Approach
Works
Thing
Start
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
James E. Gunn
Work
Science
Try
Drive
First
Build
Own
Approach
Tried
My Own
Rather
Take
Idea
Discard
Content
Science Fiction
Narrative
Than
Child
Fiction
Acknowledge
Them
Certainly
Fascination
Inner
Inner Child
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