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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas
Me
People
Beginning
Tried
Something
Make
Career
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
Patrick Chan
Sports
Kid
Tried
Kinds
Able
Fact
Tennis
Like
Hockey
In Fact
Golf
Skating
Soccer
Play
Started
We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
Patrick M. Byrne
Work
Best
Better
Old
Will
Own
Society
Innovations
Way
Possible
Hierarchies
Systems
Tried
My Own
New
Like
Institutions
Know
Well
Make
Because
Block
Get
Flat
Information
Use
Rid
Large
Works
Chain
Company
I got to talk with some of the great offensive minds in football. Bruce Arians, Byron Leftwich, Andy Reid, Ben McAdoo, Bill O'Brien, I met all those guys and tried to take something away from each of them. Hue Jackson, people that are known for developing quarterbacks, I got exposed to a lot of stuff I hadn't seen before.
Patrick Mahomes
Great
People
Seen
Met
Before
Minds
Those
Andy
Tried
Some
Bruce
Something
Guys
Take
Football
Developing
Stuff
Talk
Known
Got
Quarterback
Hue
Lot
Offensive
Jackson
Them
Bill
Exposed
Each
Reid
Away
Ben
I actually watched Tom Brady a good amount in college. My coach in college was Kliff Kingsbury, and he actually was a backup for Brady at one point, and so he showed me things that he liked with Tom and his pocket movements and stuff he did within the pocket that I've tried to put in my game a little bit.
Patrick Mahomes
Good
Me
Game
College
Bit
Backup
Tried
Pocket
Point
He
Put
Stuff
Liked
Within
Brady
His
Did
Movements
Little
Little Bit
Coach
Tom
Actually
Amount
Things
Watched
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
Patrick Ness
Buy
Me
People
Writing
Other
Tried
Able
Only
Write
Excited
Failed
Nobody
Read
Makes
Been
Whenever
Wanted
Story
Then
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
Patti Smith
Time
Age
Rage
Tried
Had
I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!
Patti Stanger
Love
Water
Dance
Tough
Related
Dancer
Tried
Easy
Minutes
Week
Also
Going
Anything
Break
Thing
Last
The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.
Paul Allen
Complex
Tried
Puzzle
Most
Scientific
Brain
Ever
Challenging
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.
Paul Hawken
Better
Old
Sugar
Alcohol
Coke
Asthma
Fats
Additives
Correlation
Tried
Eating
Could
Weeks
Had
Since
Freely
Felt
Chemicals
Hamburger
Discovered
Normal
Sneak
Begun
American
Diet
Six
Stopped
Experimenting
Breathe
Body
Rebelled
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.
Paul Hoffman
Success
Political
Politicians
Tried
Marshall
Marshall Plan
Some
Unqualified
Had
He
Make
Advisor
Been
His
Dumping
Listened
Plan
Ground
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
Paul Kane
Others
Broke
Hopefully
Would
Kinder
Would-Be
Tried
Some
Writers
Sure
Tested
Mixture
Than
Fix
Unexpected
Formulas
Might
Describe
Techniques
Twists
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
Paul Krugman
Success
Politics
Great
Change
Think
Tried
Had
Great Success
Nor
Any
Predicting
Social
Social Change
Really
Of course he's going to work with Paul Ryan; of course he's tried to bridge the party together with Paul Ryan, but Ryan is also running against somebody who's not going to win but nonetheless is a strong supporter of Mr. Trump's.
Paul Manafort
Work
Together
Strong
Win
Somebody
Party
Running
Tried
Strong Supporter
He
Supporter
Also
Course
Nonetheless
Trump
Going
Against
Paul
Paul Ryan
Bridge
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
Paul Muni
Art
Business
Tell
Tried
Never
Learn
How
Still
Been
Years
Done
Acting
I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.
Paul Rudd
Character
Try
Behavior
Think
Everything
Tried
Find
Pretty
About
Something
Identify
Understand
Role
Much
Each
I've always seen my movies in particular as being an immersive experience. I mean, with the technology at my disposal, I've always tried to make them as immersive an experience as possible.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Technology
Experience
Seen
Possible
Tried
Particular
Make
Always
Being
Movies
Mean
Them
Disposal
You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.
Paul Weller
Saying
You
Yourself
Song
Writing
Somewhere
Inevitable
Else
Mindful
Tried
Somewhere Else
Taking
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Stick
Always
Been
Same
Maybe
Rewritten
Little
Successful
Your
Keep
Challenging
Zone
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
Paula Danziger
Before
Else
Once
Tried
Someone
Write
Successful
Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.
Peggy Lipton
Myself
Sometimes
Try
Feeling
Breath
Would
Tried
Take
Invoke
Dead
Make
Still
Very
Last
Imagine
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
Penelope Cruz
Respect
Integrity
Somebody
One Thing
Tried
Remembered
Box
Person
Any
Artist
Want
Her
Thing
I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.
Pete Docter
Better
Made
Films
Everything
Bad
Tried
Scenes
Animated
Had
Animation
Knew
Stuff
Most
Friends
Get
Did
Just
Fun
Tons
I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.
Pete Gallego
Congress
President
Tried
Obamacare
He
Exempt
Them
Special
Treatment
The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.
Peter Capaldi
Time
You
Wait
Intervened
Else
Way
Tried
See
Cosmic
Something
Something Else
Only
Only Time
Make
Just
Happened
Your
Plans
I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant rage in return.
Peter Hitchens
Me
Nothing
Rage
Wicked
ADHD
Out
Tried
Case
Return
Times
Which
Against
Fantasy
Ignorant
Many
Set
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.
Peter Hollingworth
Great
You
Balance
People
World
Healthy
Young
Down
Think
Extreme
Respectable
Unable
Bizarre
Tried
Religious
Pluralism
Risky
True
Particularly
Vulnerable
Go
Very
Discriminate
Quite
Just
Which
Who
Things
Spectrum
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