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A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfortunate marketing ideas of our time: Starting as a work garment for miners, the ubiquitous blue jeans became a staple of the counterculture starting when Brando wore them in 'On the Waterfront' and remained so through the anti-war protests of the '70s.
Roger Stone
Work
Time
Word
Waterfront
Our
Marketing
Miners
Our Time
About
More
Remained
Through
Ideas
Became
Protests
Were
Anti-War
Up
Brando
Blue
Blue Jeans
Unfortunate
Which
Wore
Them
Jeans
Staple
Growing
Growing Up
Garment
Starting
I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved to Manchester when I was 12 because I don't think I could have done this in Ireland. And I feel lucky that the government took care of me from the age of 16 to when I signed my first record deal at 19.
Roisin Murphy
Government
Me
Age
Word
Care
First
Think
Took
Signed
Record
Record Deal
Could
Had
Feel
Because
Deal
Proud
Ireland
Done
Manchester
Moved
Use
Lucky
Even
Career
'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.
Romesh Gunesekera
Word
Cold
Late
Anchor
Would
More
New
Up
Than
Stores
New Zealand
Lamb
Little
Commonwealth
Meant
Used
Growing
Zealand
Growing Up
Ever
Butter
I'lI say this: I recall entering Congress in 1971 and being called a 'feminist' by members of my own party as if it was a dirty word. They didn't realize that I wore that label as a badge of honor.
Ron Dellums
Word
Honor
Party
Own
Congress
Say
Entering
Members
My Own
Dirty
Badge
Feminist
Label
Being
Wore
Realize
Recall
People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.
Ron Finley
Food
People
Word
Sense
Sweet
Neighborhood
Kids
Potato
Food Supply
Supply
Know
Fresh
Fresh Food
How
Disconnected
Truest
Get
Them
Show
Grounded
I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
Ron Silver
Relationship
Word
Like
Know
Means
Use
Even
To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
Ron Suskind
Me
People
Simple
Try
Word
Power
Strategy
Difficult
This Administration
Evolved
Administration
New
Days
Like
Questions
Authentic
Handle
Them
Ask
Ignore
Techniques
Many politicians, celebrities, businessmen and women, and community leaders now are open about their struggles with mental illnesses, something almost unheard of when I began. Together, we are spreading the word that mental health affects all of us and deserves our support and attention.
Rosalynn Carter
Health
Together
Women
Mental Health
Word
Politicians
Community
Our
About
Mental
Something
Struggles
Open
Leaders
Support
Almost
Attention
Spreading
Affects
Began
Celebrities
Unheard
Us
Businessmen
Many
Illnesses
Now
Deserves
I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.
Rose Leslie
Alone
Word
Alien
Believe
Universe
Trepidation
Says
Someone
Head
Come
Know
Because
How
Versions
Person
Infinite
Different
Little
Sparks
Many
Using
Images
I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.
Rose McGowan
Myself
Hate
Word
Considered
Never
Celebrity
Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.
Roxane Gay
Events
Word
Sense
Think
Our
About
Something
Networks
Outrageous
Pieces
Reactions
Read
Because
Always
Truest
Comment
Commentary
Essays
Happening
Social
Social Networks
I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word 'chef' on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot.
Roy Choi
Word
Value
Think
Everybody
Some
Classics
Takes
Steps
Chef
Lot
Anybody
Achieving
Little
Certain
Who
Cooks
Profession
Away
Start
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.
Rudy Giuliani
Religion
People
Sometimes
Word
Ethics
Values
Confuse
Say
People Say
About
Share
Talk
Schools
Sure
American
Maybe
Afraid
Use
Teaching
Even
Whose
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Rumer Godden
Word
Circle
Thorns
Motto
Set
'We' is a difficult word for me. I don't know if I feel 'we' about anything.
Rupert Friend
Me
Word
Difficult
About
Feel
Know
Anything
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
Rupert Murdoch
Character
Word
Cold
Market
Our
Collection
Commercial
Human
Choices
Aspirations
Desires
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
Rupert Sheldrake
Time
You
Word
Random
Every
Every Time
Machines
Be Different
Stay
About
Point
Computer
Call
Up
Same
Different
Want
Processing
Your
Whole
Now
Designed
Program
I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me... And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally.
Rupi Kaur
Me
People
Word
Girl
Toronto
Critics
Magic
Brown
Write
Written
Written Word
Around
Understand
How
Tradition
Expect
Experiences
Literary
Holds
Naturally
Why
Nuances
Raised
For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means.
Rupi Kaur
Me
You
Word
Finished
Power
Feeling
Reading
Every
Other
Honey
Once
Possible
Easy
Poem
Only
Poetry
Stuck
Emotion
Feel
Know
Read
Diction
Get
After
Means
Milk
Last
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
Russel Honore
Food
Survival
Word
Right Word
Alive
Stay
Call
Looting
Get
Stores
Right
There are no actions involved in 'beautiful.' It's such an inactive thing, and it's so subject to each individual's taste and appreciation. It's a lovely word, but I feel like it's been hijacked by really boring, dull people who don't understand how to use words.
Ruth Negga
Beautiful
Appreciation
People
Words
Word
Boring
Individual
Feel
Hijacked
Like
Involved
Understand
How
Been
Dull
Subject
Taste
Lovely
Really
Use
Who
Actions
Each
Thing
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.
Ruth Rendell
Women
Word
Christian
Think
Unless
Bad
Must
All Women
Point
Absolutely
Well
Course
Am
Feminists
Left
Up
Yes
Very
Much
Asleep
Fashionable
Socialist
I always like spoken word records.
Ry Cooder
Word
Records
Spoken
Spoken Word
Like
Always
I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out.
Ryan North
Mistake
Book
Words
Word
Made
Three
Before
Worried
Everything
Out
Would
About
Throwing
Never
Part
Written
Getting
Mean
Realizing
Reason
Novel
When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was 'relatable.'
Sabaa Tahir
Myself
Word
Mind
First
See
Superhero
About
Comic
Came
Want
Asked
Pakistani
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Myself
Good
Day
Daily
Me
Words
Good Day
Reward
Word
Will
Slow
Half
Finally
Bookstore
Extremely
Approximately
About
Haunts
Except
Read
Housing
Meticulous
Going
Quota
Which
Much
Page
Works
Set
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