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I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.
Jeremy Rifkin
Few
States
Tried
More
True
Over
Know
Said
Opposite
Same
Quite
Holds
Use
Farmers
Less
Who
United
United States
I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.
Jeremy Scott
Work
Own
Difficult
Back
Tried
Taken
Look
Reflecting
Essence
Body
Product
Aspects
Your
Deduce
Capturing
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
Jermaine Dupri
Time
Me
Crazy
Father
First
Clown
Dancer
Out
Slot
Tried
Promoter
Atlanta
Crowd
He
Opening
Opening Act
First Time
Fresh
Got
Act
Needed
I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.
Jerry Jones
Saying
Mind
Cute
Tried
Spot
Quarterback
Get
I tried to get us what I thought was the equivalent of a Romo with Quincy Carter in the third round.
Jerry Jones
Thought
Tried
Carter
Equivalent
Get
Us
Round
Third
The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.
Jerry Lewis
Me
Crazy
Comedy
King
Punch
Way
Niro
Out
Would
Tried
Never
Had
Allowed
Hysterical
De Niro
Because
Came
Lot
Normally
Get
Did
Any
Movie
Room
Bobby
Film
Play
Awful
Awful Lot
I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'
Jesse Andrews
Me
Haters
Girl
First
Think
Gave
Plot
Tried
More
Higher
Higher Level
Sophisticated
Learn
Affinity
Very
Dying
Screenwriting
Required
Novel
Level
Earl
Bring
I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.
Jesse Andrews
Music
Day
Musicians
School
College
Big
Jazz
Other
Musician
High
Tried
High School
Boston
Outside
Studio
Stuff
Hours
House
Make
Around
Built
Dudes
Were
After
Full
Lived
Basement
Played
Started
Playing
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
Jessica Biel
Home
Tried
Open
Look
Dead
Brain
Child
Squirrel
Skateboard
Cut
Dragged
I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.
Jet Li
Love
Hope
You
Director
Culture
People
World
Will
Girl
Become
Think
Tried
Ang
Ang Lee
Martial
Martial Arts
About
He
Talented
Know
Talk
Lee
Very
Arts
Want
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Chinese People
Use
Used
Film
Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
Jet Li
Hope
Culture
People
Think
Tried
Martial
Martial Arts
About
Talk
Arts
Want
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Chinese People
Use
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
Jewel
Business
Together
Creative
People
Some People
Long
Big
Side
Hoped
Tried
Some
Long Career
Could
Allow
Longevity
Make
Always
Got
Go
Sales
Effect
Huge
Fame
Famous
Want
Decisions
Realize
Really
Each
Popularity
Career
Two
But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.
Jhonen Vasquez
Happy
Draw
Worst
Tried
Could
Thus
She
Make
Boy
Comic
Comics
Noodle
Friends
Want
Anymore
Create
Fast
Her
I live in the moment. I try to win as many games as I can in any given year. That's what I've always tried to do. But I don't dwell on the past games. That doesn't help you win games now. If that helped win games now, I'd dwell on them.
Jim Boeheim
You
Win
Try
Year
Past
Live
Tried
Given
Always
Any
Dwell
Them
Games
Help
Moment
Helped
Many
Now
I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
Jim Carrey
Me
Psychic
Everything
Running
Tried
Colors
Had
Town
Pieces
Around
Aura
Prozac
Did
Done
Ribbon
Who
Therapy
Fill
Thing
Buying
If there was one thing I tried to instil in my children as they were growing up, it was that you get nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get any rewards. That applies in music or whatever you choose to do. The same goes in relationships; you will only get back what you put in.
Jimmy Barnes
Work
Music
You
Work Hard
Will
Whatever
Nothing
Back
Relationships
One Thing
Tried
Only
Put
Were
Up
Get
Same
Goes
Any
Rewards
Children
Hard
Choose
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.'
Jimmy Chin
Day
Try
Before
Ate
Tried
Eat
Following
Like
Were
Endangered
Oh
Little
Migration
Should
Across
Plateau
Traverse
I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop.
Jimmy O. Yang
Tried
About
Had
Spoke
Liked
Accent
Hip-Hop
Repeat
Lot
Get
Moved
After
Rid
English
Shows
Watched
I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.
Jimmy O. Yang
Tried
Classes
Like
Know
Boxing
Bunch
Did
Why
Things
I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.
Joan Allen
Try
Three
Met
Every
Think
Months
Circumstance
Out
Would
Tried
Give
Scene
Never
Like
Liked
Going
Anybody
Bar
Four
Tonight
I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.
Joan Caulfield
Natural
Car
Stars
Other
Bathroom
Worst
Tried
Inside
Struck
Voice
Maids
Outside
Go
Being
Flashy
Upstairs
Hollywood
Mannerisms
Lowered
Avoid
Copied
Poses
I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist.
Joan Kirner
Tried
Persist
Agree
Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.
Joan Kirner
Politics
You
You Can Do It
People
Fear
Community
Too
Say
Tried
Favour
Shape
Come
Democratically
Without
Your
Serve
Chance
I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.
Joan Rivers
Good
Beginning
Think
Tried
Look
Tina
Tina Fey
Fey
In The Beginning
Now
Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn't want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn't want me. And I start to think, 'I have to do something.' In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.
Joanna Kulig
Music
Me
Singing
Jazz
Think
Drama
Tried
Classical
Something
Piano
Study
Polish
Go
Yes
Conduct
Want
Wanted
Start
Started
University
I've enjoyed being a single person, particularly because I'm travelling a lot. It would be hard to maintain a relationship - so I've really not tried.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Relationship
Single
Would
Would-Be
Tried
Maintain
Particularly
Because
Single Person
Lot
Person
Being
Really
Hard
Travelling
Enjoyed
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