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I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
Eric Bana
Me
People
Strangers
Say
Laugh
Telling
Finding
Someone
Idea
Make
Always
Opposite
Up
Front
Getting
Story
Urge
Them
Stand
Appealed
Amusing
I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.
Eric Holder
Rights
Law
First
Others
Citizens
Law Enforcement
Seeking
Join
Tensions
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Exercising
Discord
Condemning
Been
Ferguson
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Inflame
Sow
Urge
Enforcement
Who
Actions
Peacefully
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.
Eskinder Nega
Democracy
Result
Will
Prisoner
Pain
Pledge
Would
Economic
Catalyst
Long-Term
Democratic
Reform
Committed
May
Gain
Short-Term
Against
Sanctions
Urge
Transition
Ethiopia
Act
Europe
Peaceful
Conscience
Apply
The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.
Evan Spiegel
Become
Intertwined
Something
Had
Share
Very
Intent
Different
Urge
Capture
Preserve
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
Evgeny Morozov
Political
Internet
Our
Absorb
Institutions
Urge
Social
Social Institutions
Fully
Lessons
Image
Need
If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?
Francis Collins
Me
Man
Try
Down
Cares
Right Thing
Evolution
Tell
Would
Exactly
About
Guy
Feel
Drowning
Know
Well
How
Opposite
Very
Walking
Person
The Right Thing
Urge
Your
Who
Who Cares
Swim
Even
Right
Thing
Preserve
Save
I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.
George C. Wolfe
Myself
Black
Community
Immediacy
Drawn
Black Community
Something
Potency
Feel
Like
Go
Going
Just
Stories
Urge
Create
Now
Compelling
It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
George MacDonald Fraser
Creative
Trust
Judgment
Own
Other
Punctuation
Diploma
Some
Rather
Than
Get
Authors
May
Just
Dying
Urge
Act
Who
Zealous
Resist
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
Gordon B. Hinckley
God
You
Evil
Thought
Virtuous
Easily
Destructive
Purpose
Divine
May
Ends
Which
Urge
Planted
Deed
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
Hayao Miyazaki
Destroy
Both
Urge
Create
Humans
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!
Hayden Panettiere
Strong
Action
President
President Obama
Obama
Administration
Similar
Take
Taking
Well
Industry
His
Commend
Whaling
Norway
Against
Iceland
Urge
Japan
Barbaric
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
Ian Hacking
Great
Important
Rules
Important Decisions
Make
Reduce
Decisions
Urge
Them
Hard
When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.
Isla Fisher
Work
You
Parents
Consider
Definitely
Out
Stay
Strongly
Put
Divorce
Makes
Up
Urge
Working
Your
Grow
Grow Up
Fast
Things
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
Jacqueline Carey
Struggle
Power
Before
Fathers
Everyone
Our
Temptation
Give
Understands
Demon
Offers
Infernal
May
Urge
Us
Means
Natures
Resist
To those who believe but wish their belief to be strengthened, I urge you to walk in faith and trust in God. Spiritual knowledge always requires an exercise of faith.
James E. Faust
God
Faith
Spiritual
Knowledge
You
Trust
Walk
Wish
Believe
Those
Exercise
Always
Urge
Requires
Who
Belief
Strengthened
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.
Jane Pauley
Today
Feeling
Baby
Boomer
Though
Out
Find
Total
Something
More
Had
Almost
Idea
Another
Felt
Camera
Years
Behind
After
Urge
Might
Less
Original
Original Idea
NBC
I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.
Jens Lekman
People
Longing
Other
Though
About
Somehow
Write
Had
Emotionally
Order
Urge
Gripping
Realized
Even
Needed
I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.
Joanna Coles
Life
You
Women
Money
Job
Three
Control
Aim
Those
Easier
More
Highest
Support
Make
Because
Always
Get
Urge
Actually
Things
Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.
Joanna Newsom
Own
Everything
Seeing
Songs
Like
Well
Instrumentation
Because
Felt
How
Yeah
Up
Did
Just
Wanted
Interested
Urge
Resist
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Joe Henderson
Time
Natural
Defeat
Every
Distance
Running
Finish
Push
Sooner
Deadline
Behind
Against
Little
Race
Urge
Harder
Second
Every Second
I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
John Madden
Myself
You
Say
Embarrassed
Out
Some
Some Things
Something
Football
Learned
Always
Got
Go
Five
Urge
Them
Grandkids
Games
Baseball
Keep
Play
Play Baseball
Play Basketball
Play Football
Things
Watching
Basketball
And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.
John W. Snow
Work
You
People
Progress
Opportunities
Path
Will
Made
Big
Market
Our
Further
Has-Been
Indian
Indian People
Clearly
Openings
Occurred
Continuing
Been
Urge
Theme
Produce
Much
Growth
It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
Joseph J. Ellis
Character
History
Pedigree
Presidential
Respected
Distinguished
Had
Primal
Most
Witnesses
Testify
Clinton
Urge
The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel the urge to belong - not necessarily to the people, but to the landscape.
Justin Cartwright
Beautiful
People
Approaches
Astonished
Table
Feel
Town
Always
Am
Surrounding
Mountain
Urge
Cape
Plane
Landscape
View
Sea
Necessarily
Belong
I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.
Kate Fleetwood
Will
Think
Way
Direct
Like
Quite
Happen
Urge
Inclined
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow
Guess
Purge
Ongoing
Come
Material
Up
Process
Urge
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