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I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.
John McEnroe
Walls
Fighting
Run
Through
Always
Trying
Establishment
Brick
Alan Hutton and I are always fighting the corner for Scottish football. It's a really tough league down here with a lot of quality players trying to get into the Premier League.
John McGinn
Quality
Tough
Fighting
Down
Corner
Football
League
Always
Lot
Scottish
Get
Trying
Really
Premier
Premier League
Alan
Players
Here
Usually, every match in the WWE, I was the one with the stupid ideas. I'm trying to figure out how to jump off the stage or turn the logo into a weapon or obstacle.
John Morrison
Stupid
Stage
Every
Out
Weapon
Obstacle
Ideas
Match
WWE
How
Off
Jump
Trying
Turn
Figure
The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
John Morton
Daily
History
Never
Trying
The History Of
Where
Worked
Start
My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
John Niven
Time
Family
Travel
Remember
Impossible
Relatives
First
Air
Spending
Air Travel
Visit
Toronto
Wear
Abroad
Glamour
Had
Days
She
First Time
Been
Trying
Going
Decide
Eighties
Plane
Mum
Ever
Early
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan
Will
Citizen
Face
Military
Our
Battlefield
Response
Brunt
Troops
Attack
He
Iraq
Person
Trying
Afghanistan
Full
Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.
John Patrick Shanley
Life
Challenge
Life Is A
Big
Lead
Big Challenge
Trying
Fruitful
Interesting
Interesting Life
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
John Pistole
Technology
Hurt
Intelligence
Down
Cargo
Types
Air
Latest
Aircraft
Take
Advanced
Know
How
Passenger
Doing
Affiliates
Pat
Trying
Craft
Want
Whether
Us
Reason
Using
Downs
Al
Al-Qaeda
Imagery
Bring
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
John Pistole
Best
Technology
Enemy
Light
Adept
Possible
Security
Would
Threat
Detector
Determined
Constructing
Bottom
Bottom Line
Devices
Employ
Identify
Metal
How
Line
Provide
Up
Trying
Any
Which
Public
Show
Who
Traveling
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
John Pomfret
Time
Best
Values
Differences
Think
Addition
Those
Some
Fact
Shared
Between
Lot
Trying
Reporters
Same
Same Time
Really
Who
Connect
Illustrate
Societies
It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like 'Far From Me' - I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me.
John Prine
Life
Me
Experience
Somebody
Think
Dig
Enough
Else
Drawing
Broke
About
Dating
Could
Like
Wrote
She
Waitress
Up
Get
Trying
Personal
Personal Experience
Far
Fifteen
Deep
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.
John Requa
You
Yourself
Editing
Problems
Giving
Shifting
Several
Give
More
Genes
Come
Deal
Dealing
Editing Room
How
Versions
Up
Options
Trying
Room
Convince
Your
Actor
Tone
I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
John Robinson
Family
Emotions
Important
Betraying
More
Knew
Unspoken
Like
Felt
Leaving
Than
Trying
Movie
Explain
Them
My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.
John Romaniello
Beautiful
Walk
Insanity
Out
All-Out
Give
More
Throw
Push
Weights
Between
Terrible
Clients
Line
Train
Than
Get
Trying
Controlled
Just
Scream
Want
Themselves
Bodies
Aggression
Hard
I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.
John Sandford
Life
Care
My Life
Whatever
Take
Take Care
Ready
Got
Years
Lot
Get
Trying
Just
Last
I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.
John Sayles
Money
Year
Trying
Did
Done
Which
Many
Raise
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
John Sayles
Politics
Hope
Saying
You
People
Election
Response
About
Indignation
Well
Make
How
Doing
Were
Trying
American
Influence
Movie
Which
Media
Lives
Widespread
I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
John Sebastian
Song
Style
Top
Way
Top Ten
Wildly
Television
Out
Record
Record Company
Ten
Onto
Pushed
Make
Trying
Happen
Theme
Theme Song
Certainly
Company
Suddenly
And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.
John Sexton
Natural
Organization
Looking
Sense
Think
Visual
Seemed
Rather
Steel
Shapes
Come
Traditional
Camera
Traditional Sense
Repeating
Up
Forest
Very
Than
Trying
Rhythm
Forms
Might
Sudden
Set
Position
It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
John Sexton
Beautiful
Looking
Slightly
Those
Out
Find
Some
Vivid
Had
Maine
Glass
Studying
Were
Camera
Square
Green
Trying
Quite
Just
Moving
Ground
Inches
Include
Elements
Right
Rained
I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.
John Singleton
Find
Tackle
Stuff
Until
Tangible
Subject
Trying
Just
Legitimacy
Want
Again
Cool
Fun
Now
Filmmaker
If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It's not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.
John Stockton
Great
Me
You
Chasing
Big
Own
Defense
Benefit
Steals
Disadvantage
Put
Around
Get
Trying
Big Thing
Happens
Then
Really
Your
Thing
Start
Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.
John Sununu
Political
Behavior
Energy
Jet
Corporate
Obama
Promote
Economic
Instead
Without
How
Revenue
Question
Efficiency
Hit
Trying
Personal
Owners
Bankers
Tax
Tax Code
Manipulate
Next
Should
View
Inherently
Companies
Whom
Code
Raising
It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.
John Tesh
Good
You
Impossible
Christian
Think
Enough
Easy
Trying
Then
Really
Hard
I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.
John Updike
Human Being
Out
Category
Fellow
Terrorist
Get
Trying
Human
Being
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
John Updike
Myself
Mother
Thought
Would
Writer
Know
Been
Trying
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