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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi
Myself
You
People
Try
Control
Way
East
Out
Lies
Corruptions
Something
Something People
Countries
Come
Most
Suppress
Another
Islamic
Another Way
Answer
Often
Middle
Middle East
Social
Ask
Why
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
Bahman Ghobadi
Education
Myself
Me
Welfare
Films
Complex
Proper
Almost
Like
Want
Explode
Why
Things
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi
Music
World
Made
Long
Seen
Films
Tehran
Music World
Some
Minutes
About
More
Only
Had
Most
Documentaries
Underground
Always
Were
Wondered
Short
Flaw
Them
Really
Why
I was confident in my ability. It's why I decided to walk on to a bigger school, in the Big 12: because I was confident in myself.
Baker Mayfield
Myself
School
Walk
Big
Ability
Because
Confident
Bigger
Decided
Why
Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
Baltasar Kormakur
Good
Great
Business
People
Pretty
Brutal
Had
Also
Educated
Educated People
Were
Very
Boats
Who
Businessmen
Why
Started
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.
Banks
Me
People
Parents
Big
Intrigued
Seeing
Something
Part
Divorced
Between
Fell
Also
Because
Close
Big Part
Dynamics
Apart
Really
Painful
Why
My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
Banks
Mom
Me
People
Old
Daughter
Distinct
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Voice
Had
Like
Smoker
Does
Always
Sound
Been
Years
Your
Deep
Chain
Even
Why
Four
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Happy
Husband
Nice
Would
Would-Be
Find
See
Catalogue
Hour
Than
Any
Romantic
Bar
Personally
Average
Less
Why
Downtown
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Barbara Ehrenreich
You
Fear
Otherwise
Say
Out
Purpose
Come
Know
Make
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Chief
Just
Common
Us
Languages
Speakers
Fun
Why
Why Not
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Barbara Kruger
Work
You
Language
Way
Attention
Attention Spans
Do You Know
Know
Because
Understand
Does
Itself
Short
Spans
Why
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
Barbara Kruger
Business
People
Focus
Unless
Bookstores
States
Ways
Crisis
Out
Adventure
Longer
Narrative
Narratives
Going
Just
Reason
Many
Even
Film
Now
Why
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
Barbara Olson
Relationship
Think
Besides
Fact
He
Answer
Question
Why
Gary
I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
Barbara Sukowa
Life
Me
Son
My Life
Wrinkles
Those
Laughed
Would
Had
Traces
Am
Surgery
Erase
Were
Lot
Discussion
Get
Going
Want
Wanted
Loved
Which
Younger
Should
Show
Avoid
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Why
Suggested
People are so influenced by the media that they really believe a 38-24-45 plastic-surgery body is normal, and they can't understand why a body would possibly have cellulite or bumps.
Barbie Ferreira
People
Believe
Possibly
Would
Understand
Normal
Bumps
Influenced
Really
Body
Media
Why
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
Barbra Streisand
Others
Wrong
Am
Doing
Famous
Why
Right
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
Barbra Streisand
Work
Women
Men
About
Only
Obsessed
Permitted
Women Are
Why
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
Barbra Streisand
Heritage
Enough
Had
Part
Talent
Sing
Nose
Act
Why
'Annie Hall' and 'The Graduate' are incredible films. Why should we be deprived of watching them because some of the men that made them are bad?
Bari Weiss
Made
Men
Films
Incredible
Bad
Some
Annie
Hall
Because
Graduate
The Graduate
Them
Deprived
Should
Why
Watching
I think I was given an opportunity, and I ran with it. I think I've made a lot more of it than anybody thought I was going to, and that's why it's gone so well, but it's opened a lot of doors and a lot of eyes to what I can do.
Baron Corbin
Eyes
Opportunity
Thought
Made
Doors
Gone
Think
Ran
Given
More
Opened
Well
Lot
Than
Going
Anybody
Why
If we don't talk about the things that are happening, why are we talking about anything at all? Does something have to be a year old for me to have an opinion on it or a conversation with people about it?
Baron Vaughn
Me
Conversation
People
Old
Year
About
Something
Talk
Talking
Opinion
Does
Year-Old
Anything
Happening
Why
Things
It seems that people are tired of everyone looking the same on television. And this seems especially true for white people. Even white people are tired of watching the same white people. That's why we've been importing them from Australia.
Baron Vaughn
Tired
People
Looking
White
Everyone
Television
Seems
True
Been
Australia
Same
Them
Even
Why
Watching
The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
Barry Diller
Service
Time
Money
Important
Nothing
Magic
Entities
Online
Nobody
Over
Make
Because
Still
Going
Move
Bankrupt
Us
Really
Businesses
Why
Largest
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen
Government
Result
President
Hoover
Memoirs
Promote
Pushed
His
Unemployment
Efforts
Estimated
Much
Workers
Avoided
Reason
Many
Why
Herbert
Million
Herbert Hoover
Two
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
Barry Eisler
Good
Great
Conflict
Heroes
Bad Things
Think
Drawn
Characters
Bad
Moral
Find
Guys
Sure
Makes
Ambiguity
Who
Villains
Why
Things
Good Guys
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
Barry Hannah
Sad
Angry
Men
Every
Consider
Thoughtful
Out
Bad
Some
About
Writers
Written
Major
Mostly
Narcissistic
Line
Review
Reviews
Than
Afternoon
Less
Who
Even
Found
Why
Treason
Early
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah
Myself
You
Writing
Wonderful
World
Try
Confusion
Pool
Out
Tell
Kind
Find
Pretty
Like
Also
Jumping
Escape
Get
Trance
Just
Engage
Old-Fashioned
Fun
Why
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