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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
Dan Gelber
People
Law
Protection
Ought
Rules
Would
Proper
Strongly
Scenarios
Had
Sought
Because
Without
Leave
Govern
Opposed
Provide
Juries
Human
Legislature
Interactions
Predictable
While
Created
Engagement
Stand
Your
Ground
Who
Believed
Florida
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
Dan Jenkins
Christmas
Day
Rain
Shopping
Before
Avenue
Living
Out
Easy
About
Freezing
Go
Discovered
Grab
Quickly
Trying
Front
Manhattan
Golf
While
Taxi
Fifth
Standing
Play
Play Golf
Last
My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.
Dan Levy
Mom
Parenting
You
Experience
Parents
Philosophy
Worst
Parent
Something
Point
Could
Had
Head
Always
Hammered
Up
Authorities
Children
Confirm
While
Your
Mom And Dad
Professional
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Things
While so many Americans are still struggling to find good jobs, and our manufacturing sector continues to need a boost, it is only common sense to ensure that taxpayer dollars put Americans to work rather than those outside our borders.
Dan Lipinski
Work
Good
Sense
Taxpayer
Good Jobs
Our
Those
Ensure
Sector
Boost
Jobs
Find
Borders
Rather
Only
Struggling
Outside
Put
Still
Dollars
Than
American
Common
Common Sense
While
Manufacturing
Many
Need
While many federal agencies are engaged with international partners on science and technology projects, there is a need to coordinate these projects across our government network and to identify opportunities for additional beneficial collaborations.
Dan Lipinski
Government
Technology
Science
Opportunities
Science And Technology
Beneficial
Additional
Our
Collaborations
Projects
Network
Federal
Identify
Partners
While
Agencies
Across
Engaged
International
Many
Coordinate
Need
I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
Dan Marino
Age
Win
Matter
Job
Long
Way
High
High Level
Putting
Feel
Like
Look
Limits
Going
Which
While
Team
Help
Team Win
Play
Level
Playing
My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
Dan Miller
You
Problems
Sit
Differences
Down
Else
Ought
Solve
About
Talk
Occasionally
How
Where
Process
While
View
Things
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle
You
Word
Gone
Every
Back
Once
Out
Phrase
Catch
Forever
Want
While
Bring
I've followed Tegan and Sara's music for quite a while, and I've been a fan of them and what they do and what they stand for. We've run into each other at one or two festivals over the years, and I kind of fanned out on them.
Dan Reynolds
Music
Other
Out
Kind
Run
One Or Two
Followed
Over
Been
Years
Festivals
Quite
Quite A While
Fan
While
Them
Stand
Each
Two
While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
Dana Carvey
Myself
Secret
Comics
Persona
Want
While
Many
Fundamentally
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
Dana Carvey
Competition
Comedy
State
Francisco
Got
Still
Won
San
San Francisco
While
Stand-Up Comedy
Lucky
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
Dane Cook
Dreams
Living
True
Coming
Were
Personal
While
Professional
Nightmare
If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
Daniel Boulud
You
Yourself
Once
Those
City
Except
Vegas
Major
Like
Years
While
Places
Landmark
Cycle
Reinvent
I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
Daniel Breaker
Weather
True
Like
Said
West
Lot
Up
Friends
German
Germany
Grew
While
Little
Little While
Seattle
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
Daniel Ek
Music
Day
Technology
Band
Enough
One Day
Tried
Never
Had
Combine
Talented
Along
Make
Spotify
Came
Passions
Up
Decided
While
Companies
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Started
Two
For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist.
Daniel Ek
Music
Time
Me
Legal
Thinking
Back
Way
About
Someone
Could
How
Up
Stockholm
Afford
Get
Same
Artist
Same Time
Suburb
While
Really
Working-Class
Growing
Growing Up
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
Daniel Goleman
Mind
Religions
Study
Began
While
Asian
Theories
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
Daniel Goleman
Achievement
Focus
Relationships
Those
East
More
Bottom
Bottom Line
Put
Emphasis
Line
West
Lot
Affiliation
Human
While
Product
Companies
Appear
Human Relationships
Need
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
Daniel Handler
Composer
Italian
Italian Film
Listen
While
Working
Film
We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
Daniel Kahneman
Life
World
Satisfied
High
Pretty
Know
French
Up
Very
American
Quite
Different
While
Low
Much
Less
Satisfaction
Actually
Champions
Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.
Daniel Levitin
Love
Friendship
Music
Knowledge
Joy
Inspire
Cause
Dance
Example
Feelings
Love Songs
Our
Way
Distinct
Recognized
Slowly
Various
Songs
For Example
Comfort
Within
Aerobic
Cultures
Move
While
Us
Ceremony
Uses
Each
Express
Each One
Species
Widely
The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.
Daniel Levitin
Time
Being Busy
Active
Busy
Enjoy
Would
Rather
Generally
Exert
Being
While
Themselves
Hard
Hard Time
Things
Starting
Amusing
As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.
Daniel Lubetzky
Kindness
Best
Strength
Be True
Believe
Society
Too
Others
Sign
Recognize
Weakness
Something
Superiority
Knew
True
Failing
Over
Greatest
Exerting
Opposite
Led
Dominance
Often
While
Show
Dad
Portrayed
As a business owner, I understand the importance of prioritizing your bottom line, but it's equally as important to consider how you can succeed while also thinking about the long-term impact on the community.
Daniel Lubetzky
You
Business
Important
Community
Thinking
Consider
Impact
About
Bottom
Bottom Line
Long-Term
Importance
Also
Equally
Understand
How
Line
Owner
While
Succeed
Business Owner
Your
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
Daniel Morgan
Life
War
Time
Great
Enemy
My Life
Country
Young
Warrior
Great Enemy
Invaded
Part
Greater
Always
Am
Still
Were
Same
Same Time
While
Again
Should
Lived
Ever
You have to play more hands than usual to be successful in tournament poker. While a conservative approach can help you squeak into the money, the only way to win is to mix it up and get involved with a wider range of starting hands.
Daniel Negreanu
You
Money
Conservative
Win
Approach
Way
Range
More
Only
Tournament
Poker
Involved
Mix
Up
Than
Get
Hands
While
Successful
Help
Usual
Play
Wider
Starting
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