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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Gary Lineker
Game
Sports
Win
Simple
Men
Minutes
Chase
Football
Ball
Always
End
Germans
Twenty-Two
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Arnold J. Toynbee
History
State
Nineteen
States
Collapsed
Moral
Civilizations
Reached
Them
Appeared
Now
Twenty-Two
United
United States
When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
Matt Dillon
Me
You
Hurt
Women
Lie
Easier
Girlfriend
Cheat
Like
Know
Lot
Get
Anymore
Twenty-Two
Harder
The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two elements can describe almost all of the molecules that are, at this moment, you.
Kyle Hill
You
Shopping
Recipe
Almost
Almost All
Up
Suspect
List
May
Human
Just
Molecules
Moment
Describe
Fill
Elements
Twenty-Two
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
Lennie James
Sometimes
Drama
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Television
Dreading
Never
Hour
Least
American
Six
Maybe
Eight
Stories
Length
Episodes
Working
American Television
Series
Petrified
Twenty-Two
Britain
I don't write fight scenes in comics all that well. I think they're a waste of space unless they can move a story forward in some compelling fashion. You've only got twenty-two pages to work with. Why throw that away on a set of meaningless punches?
Marjorie Liu
Work
Fashion
You
Fight
Space
Think
Unless
Punches
Some
Only
Scenes
Throw
Write
Well
Got
Comics
Move
Story
Meaningless
Pages
Forward
Twenty-Two
Waste
Why
Away
Compelling
Set
Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
Bill Bailey
Comedy
Field
Rise
Poland
Like
Meteor
Doing
Been
Years
Fame
Northern
Donkey
Being
Across
Twenty-Two
Lark
Dragged
My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.
Elias James Corey
Work
Age
Chemistry
Completed
Distinguished
Marvel
Joined
Instructor
End
Roger
Illinois
Twenty-Two
University
I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer the question 'What do you want to do with your life?'
Jedediah Bila
Life
You
Age
College
Columbia
Columbia University
Answer
Got
Still
Question
Graduated
Want
Literature
Spanish
Your
Twenty-Two
University
From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
Richard Foreman
Time
Dramatist
Everything
Saw
Something
Through
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
New
Like
York
New York
Twenty-Two
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.
Horton Foote
Mother
Father
Harriet
Brooks
Horton
Named
Great-Grandfather
Always
His
Paternal
Grandmother
Twenty-Two
Her
Albert
So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
William Adams
Time
Myself
Months
Besides
More
Could
Between
Days
Feet
Were
His
Than
Six
Which
Japan
Cape
Stand
Twenty-Two
Four
Maria
Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe.
Marc Koska
Year
Every
Says
Cases
Given
Unsafe
Because
Spread
The Who
Who
Injections
Twenty-Two
Million
Two