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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
Samantha Power
Hope
School
Cause
Slipping
Adult
Support
Feel
Alter
Unusual
Textbooks
Dictators
Them
Youths
Among
Intimidation is an unusual animal: it's a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that's just the basic gist of it... The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage - you're on your way.
Samoa Joe
You
Disappointment
Animal
Hate
Language
Will
Understanding
Rage
Way
Bit
Intimidation
About
Direct
Crush
Most
Knowing
Unusual
Souls
Mixed
Lot
Psyche
Human
Just
Little
Little Bit
Body
Body Language
Your
Human Psyche
Stare
Basic
It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community.
Saul Perlmutter
People
Opportunity
Made
Community
Universe
Guess
Out
Able
Fact
Point
Share
Excitement
Like
Unusual
Hints
Prize
Get
May
So Many People
Fun
Many
Whole
Chance
I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.
Sean Bean
Path
Bit
Something
Like
Unusual
Always
Off
Different
Stray
If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.
Seth Shostak
Life
Would
Would-Be
Only
Arisen
Unusual
Very
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Which
Planet
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.
Seth Shostak
Sky
Alien
Seen
Evidence
Consists
Thousands
Something
He
Majority
Unusual
Surprising
Encounters
Reports
Suspected
Diet
Probable
Describing
Presence
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Sidney Poitier
Me
People
Black
Made
Every
Circumstance
Only
Unusual
Tantamount
Person
Representation
Move
Which
Million
Million People
Set
There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.
Siri Hustvedt
Me
Class
School
Made
First
Saw
Gigantic
High
Minnesota
High School
About
Unusual
Impression
Very
Which
Aged
Keaton
Buster
Film
I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.
Sophie Okonedo
Home
Me
People
Drive
Bit
Nuts
Would
Staying
Scary
Lazy
Stuff
Like
Unusual
Because
Lot
Fame
Offered
Get
Going
Quite
Just
Little
Little Bit
Film
Thing
Level
Loads
I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I've had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.
Stana Katic
Me
Try
Enjoy
Months
Television
Television Show
One Of The Things
Seeing
Had
Adventures
Unusual
Spot
Very
Get
Going
Which
Planet
Used
Show
Many
Away
Things
Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.
Steve Coogan
You
Appreciation
More
Almost
Stuff
Like
Unusual
Because
Am
Odd
America
Get
Done
Famous
England
Actually
SpaceX is very unusual. I don't know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations.
Steve Jurvetson
Money
Looking
Before
Own
Startup
Other
Wildly
Exceeded
Outside
Put
Know
Unusual
His
Very
Expectations
Any
Where
Capital
Reasonable
Founder
Million
Statistical physics or Newtonian physics gives way to quantum physics. Very unusual properties of matter emerge at that scale, and you can think about building products in a very different way. You can think about interfacing to biology in a very different way.
Steve Jurvetson
You
Physics
Matter
Building
Think
Biology
Way
Scale
Statistical
Emerge
About
Properties
Gives
Unusual
Quantum
Quantum Physics
Very
Different
Products
Different Way
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Path
Thought
Approach
Kind
About
Never
Unusual
Which
Career
Career Path
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann
Man
Clever
Stupid
Healthy
Perfectly
Idea
Stupid Man
Unusual
Always
Making
Refined
Ordinary
Illness
Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.
Timothy Spall
Time
Parallel
About
Something
Could
Talked
Unusual
Itself
I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.
Tom Brokaw
Me
Trust
People
Changes
Ways
Ability
Some
Seemed
Through
Write
Cataclysmic
Had
Unusual
Understood
Mix
Trust Me
Curiosity
Get
Them
Viewers
Appeared
In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.
Tony Bradman
Time
School
Seen
Parents
Year
Sister
Older
Living
Later
Several
London
Abroad
Had
Divorced
Couple
Him
Unusual
Got
Years
South
Five
Junior
Flat
Which
Working
Separated
Dad
Older Sister
Mum
Last
Last Year
The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn't that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.
Trish Goff
Situation
Photographer
Horrible
Someone
Weird
Feels
Unusual
Model
Where
Body
Your
Your Body
Right
Thing
Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?
Trisha Goddard
Relationship
You
Would
Someone
Smack
He
Smash
Unusual
Does
Still
Get
Loves
Shout
Who
Daddy
Why
Things
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
V. S. Naipaul
Me
People
Give
Given
True
Unusual
Readings
Lecture
Lectures
Ask
Who
The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.
Virginia Postrel
You
Experience
Internet
Diversity
Believe
Everyone
Way
Ring
One-Way
Web
Category
Anomaly
Unusual
Another
Yahoo
Opinion
Isolated
Were
Been
Exist
Led
Taste
Now
When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
Will Self
Life
You
Creative
Criticism
Starts
Approval
Those
Destroyed
Out
Seek
Give
Seems
Something
More
Learn
Unusual
Least
Go
Than
Any
Often
Anyone
Sustained
Cannot
Little
Creative Life
Inclined
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
William Kempe
Theatre
Try
Nine
Dancer
Background
Classics
Shakespeare
Somewhat
Contemporary
Learn
Read
Unusual
Does
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Years
Trained
Eight
Worked
Actor
I was unusual looking - I didn't have the look of that time. If you look at 'Lucas' - and, basically, my first five or six movies - the characters are not described in the scripts as attractive people.
Winona Ryder
Time
You
People
First
Looking
Characters
Look
Attractive
Attractive People
Unusual
Five
Six
Movies
Scripts
Lucas
Basically
I like to add something unusual to a dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Add
Something
Like
Unusual
Dish
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