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Twitter is a really interesting, useful tool. In lots of ways, it's an exciting place to be. But it's also a megaphone for the kinds of things people used to shout at their telly - and now they send you a message.
Laura Kuenssberg
You
People
Twitter
Tool
Ways
Telly
Kinds
Exciting
Also
Message
Lots
Send
Place
Interesting
Really
Shout
Used
Useful
Useful Tool
Now
Things
If you're playing a real person, then you want to do a certain amount of research, but that's only going to be so useful to you. Each role requires a different kind of approach to get ready.
Laurence Fishburne
You
Research
Approach
Kind
Only
Ready
Real
Role
Person
Real Person
Get
Going
Different
Want
Different Kind
Then
Certain
Requires
Useful
Each
Amount
Playing
A donkey is a very useful beast of burden.
Lawrence Wright
Burden
Beast
Very
Donkey
Useful
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
Lee Child
Made
Birmingham
Well
Up
Where
Grew
Them
Useful
Things
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.
Leonard Nimoy
Myself
Me
People
Long
Ocean
Own
Think
Speed
Back
Distance
Way
Immediately
Finding
About
Long-Distance
Like
Does
Still
Been
Ship
Very
Going
Stop
Flattered
Full
Useful
Captain
Momentum
Keeps
I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Freedom
Change
Struggle
Chapter
Heroes
Will
Citizen
Inevitable
More
Soon
Come
Cuba
Within
Am
Private
Private Citizen
Convinced
Useful
Dedicated
Helping
The children of politicians learn the allure and tricks of politics along with their alphabet. They inherit a network of useful contacts, and - if they're lucky - a name that confers instant voter recognition.
Linda Colley
Politics
Politicians
Recognition
Tricks
Network
Instant
Allure
Contacts
Name
Voter
Along
Alphabet
Learn
Children
Useful
Inherit
Lucky
I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.
Linda Ronstadt
Myself
People
Other
Way
Some
Had
Look
Make
Content
Around
Lot
Get
Useful
Ever
Things
Chances
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
Lisa Marie Presley
Positive
Art
Anger
Negative
Out
Weapon
Something
Write
Songs
Like
Cathartic
Well
Because
Nasty
Create
Useful
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Livy
History
Eyes
Glorious
Before
Our
Record
Above
Exemplary
Makes
Unfolds
Useful
Actions
Desirable
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Lloyd Alexander
Work
Family
Me
Find
Some
Something
Sort
Forget
Sensible
Literature
Useful
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Lois McMaster Bujold
You
Energy
Dressing
Something
Tend
Like
Vent
Truly
Snappy
Up
Available
Useful
Useless
The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
Louise Nurding
Son
Nursery
Kids
Something
Count
Knees
Footballers
Know
Wives
Hands
Want
Converse
Working
Teachers
Useful
Teaching
Jeans
Her
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
Margaret Chan
Action
Aid
Recipient
Related
Out
Responsibilities
Mutual
Paris
Countries
Instruments
Policy
Effectiveness
Donors
Declaration
Agenda
Useful
Set
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
Margaret Spellings
Culture
Parents
Think
Kind
Institution
Know
Useful
It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
Margo Lanagan
Own
Think
Imagination
Seems
Obscure
Because
Processes
Us
Body
Aspect
Useful
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.
Maria Bartiromo
News
You
Noise
Important
Distraction
Easy
Seeing
Some
Fact
Prevents
Investments
Clearly
Headline
Talk
Calling
May
Influence
After
Information
Story
Your
Useful
Buzz
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
Maria Mitchell
Book
Worth
Will
Thought
Think
Out
Some
Write
Over
Read
Exercise
Repay
Which
Notes
Useful
Hard
Publishing
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
Experience
Own
Out
Temptation
Seems
Chiefly
Blunder
Cannot
Useful
Even
Appraisal
Appraise
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
Marie Brennan
History
Think
Honestly
More
Writer
Study
Most
Anthropology
Than
Fields
Fantasy
Useful
Even
Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.
Marilyn Ferguson
Time
Best
Valuable
Accident
Victim
Strategy
Focusing
Kind
Distressed
Deliberate
Pursued
Stuck
Over
Period
Also
Although
Person
Psychological
Useful
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Best
Book
Writing
Better
Illusion
Will
Think
Alive
Would
General
Writer
He
Written
True
Like
Very
Maybe
Next
Useful
Even
Keep
Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.
Marissa Mayer
Future
Great
Important
Think
Apps
Android
Some
Blackberry
Know
Most
Mobile
Going
Us
Really
Rooted
Product
Useful
Platforms
Two
Need
Core
Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers.
Mark Frost
Hopefully
Easy
Never
Answers
Trying
Really
Useful
Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system.
Mark Walport
Justice
Criminal
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Range
System
Outside
Forensic
Fields
Useful
Wide
Techniques
Wide Range
When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
People
YouTube
Thinking
About
More
Share
Stuff
Like
Make
How
Going
Useful
Competing
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