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Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives.
Angus Deaton
Politicians
Live
State
Local
Positively
Easily
Collect
About
More
Various
Tend
Could
Federal
Feel
Failures
Return
Without
Provide
Governments
Than
American
Which
Commonplace
Taxes
Europeans
Whom
Lives
Services
In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.
Ann Leckie
Future
Gender
Else
Characters
Only
Various
Stereotypes
Supposedly
Still
Roles
Different
Either
Much
Used
Now
Here
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler
Family
Own
Characters
Would
My Own
Various
Unrelated
Always
Surrogate
Blood
Formed
Choose
'Targeting' is polite ads-speak for the data levers that Facebook exposes to advertisers, allowing that predatory lot to dissect the user base - that would be you - like a biology lab frog, drawing and quartering it into various components, and seeing which clicked most on its ads.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
You
Facebook
Biology
Drawing
Would
Would-Be
Components
Seeing
Data
Various
Ads
Allowing
Like
Most
Advertiser
Clicked
Polite
Lot
Lab
Targeting
Frog
Predatory
Which
User
Base
Dissect
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
Antony Beevor
Creative
Writing
Has-Been
Poems
Various
Fact
Dawn
Blend
Since
Been
Fiction
Forms
Epic
Used
Creative Writing
Starting
There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.
Aretha Franklin
Myself
World
Other
Else
Way
Wedding
Various
Could
Select
Along
Than
Anyone
Anyone Else
Whomever
Things
I love dabbling in various genres and languages.
Armaan Malik
Love
Various
Genres
Languages
Dabbling
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
Arnold Bennett
Time
Best
Value
Sense
Way
Best Way
Various
Divide
Activities
Need
I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.
Aubrey de Grey
People
Result
Whatever
Meet
Types
Those
Various
Lifelong
Accumulate
Get
Disease
Often
Cellular
Want
Molecular
Who
Suffer
Things
Cardiovascular
Damage
The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.
Azim Premji
Setting
India
Colleges
Various
Taking
Individuals
Particularly
Schools
Partnerships
Came
Up
Families
Forms
Who
Oriented
Original
Villages
Socially
Universities
When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
Barry Eisler
Knowledge
College
International Relations
Relations
Kid
Various
Forbidden
Call
Policy
Became
Loosely
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Interested
Aspects
Speaking
International
Even
I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
Bear Grylls
Me
Broken
Down
Once
Bitten
Plunging
Various
Had
Unconscious
Knocked
Limbs
Came
Fallen
Camera
Been
Snakes
Very
Heavy
Which
Nearly
Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.
Ben Bernanke
Changes
Those
Various
Imperfect
Prices
Supplies
Investors
Implies
Private
Affect
Yields
May
Available
Assets
I think that one of the errors that social conservatives made - particularly Christian social conservatives - was a belief that they needed to use the power of government to try to shore up the various things that they believe make up a life well-lived.
Ben Domenech
Life
Government
Try
Made
Power
Believe
Christian
Think
Conservatives
Various
Particularly
Make
Make Up
Errors
Up
Shore
Social
Use
Belief
Things
Needed
The American identity is mind-bogglingly various.
Ben Fountain
Various
Identity
American
American Identity
We are always taking a hard look at how life was in the past in coming up with interesting subject matter for our various series, and remembering how much I used to want an encyclopedia as a kid made me realize wanting a set is very unlikely for teens today, and that conversation would be interesting.
Benny Fine
Life
Today
Me
Conversation
Matter
Made
Past
Teens
Our
Unlikely
Kid
Would
Would-Be
Various
Remembering
Taking
Look
Always
How
How Much
Coming
Subject
Subject Matter
Encyclopedia
Up
Very
Want
Wanting
In The Past
Interesting
Realize
Much
Used
Hard
Hard Look
Series
Set
Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
Beth Ditto
Babies
Kids
Various
Days
Like
Am
Been
Repeatedly
Friends
Branches
Times
Just
Straight
Plan
Asked
Lesbians
Many
Even
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
Beverly Cleary
Best
Me
Books
Aisle
Best Friend
Various
Inspired
He
Boy
Friend
Person
Grade
Sixth
Across
Who
Sat
Appears
Lively
I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.
Bhumi Pednekar
Sad
Truth
Confidence
Rights
Culture
Words
Girl
Power
Country
Difficult
Our
Various
Voice
Feel
Demeaning
She
Sort
Because
Any
Just
Just Because
Stands
Her
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
Bill Gates
Parents
Parenthood
Various
Head
Volunteer
Almost
Involved
Were
Up
Very
Controversial
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Things
It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
Bipasha Basu
Life
Me
Cinema
Circle
Focus
Before
Films
Other
Medium
Definite
Direction
Various
Come
Like
Without
Got
Modelling
Any
Interested
Them
Working
Youngster
Full
Dabbling
Now
Things
I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.
Bong Joon-ho
Love
Me
Think
Other
Relationships
Intimacy
Danger
Scariest
Various
Name
Also
Another
Becomes
Hand
Very
Close
Person
Loving
Mean
Thing
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
Bono
People
Speak
Language
Live
Think
Would
Would-Be
Some
Various
Term
Contemporary
Learned
Sure
Lot
Fervent
Very
Different
Interface
Languages
Tongues
Christians
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
Brian Eno
Country
Sit
Defensive
Types
Ourselves
Out
Kinds
Various
Longer
Welcoming
Doing
Go
Off
Just
Stopping
Being
Different
Experiences
Them
Really
Use
Different Types
Switching
Shutting
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling
Ignorance
Increasing
Ability
Data
Various
Accumulate
Ends
Manipulate
Declining
Level
I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
Burning Spear
Time
Soul
Song
Queen
First
Before
Musical
Favorite
Kind
Brown
Various
Singers
Get
Tina
Tina Turner
Essence
Listen
James
James Brown
Turner
Even
Started
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