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We need to transform the economy so it works for people and the planet.
Jo Swinson
People
Economy
Transform
Planet
Works
Need
I want to lead the Liberal Democrats so that we can build a liberal movement to stand up to those nationalist forces and stop Brexit, then transform our broken economy so that it is focused on the long-term and works for both people and our planet, tackling poverty and averting climate crisis.
Jo Swinson
Broken
People
Poverty
Build
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Our
Those
Our Planet
Crisis
Focused
Tackling
Both
Lead
Long-Term
Economy
Forces
Democrats
Climate
Up
Nationalist
Stop
Movement
Want
Transform
Then
Planet
Stand
Stand Up
Brexit
Works
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.
Joanna Scott
Marketplace
Complex
Pressures
Given
Demand
Global
Make
Reader
Becoming
Effort
Literary
Justify
Products
Works
Harder
Profitable
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
Jodie Evans
Me
Eyes
Equality
Feminism
Says
About
Someone
Firm
Feminist
Wall
Wall Street
Roll
Going
Works
Street
I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.
Joe Jonas
Good
You
Happy
Yourself
Song
Mind
Back
Those
Definitely
Tell
Kind
About
Someone
Good Song
Splitting
Written
Put
Up
Ended
Then
Your
Works
Things
Album
I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.
Joe Lhota
Director
Gone
Think
Appropriate
Way
City
Constantly
Budget
New
Because
Very
Authority
York
New York
Transit
Capacity
Works
Albany
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
Joe Mantello
Work
Best
Good
Director
World
Beginning
Worst
Mysterious
Know
Understood
Nor
Very
Theater
Realized
Works
Element
I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.
Joe Namath
Life
Me
Learned
Tested
Works
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.
Joe Perry
World
Example
Living
Furniture
Only
Taking
Prime
Around
Rock
Still
Move
Just
Blues
Just Living
Little
Really
Works
Each
Thing
Album
I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.
Joe Perry
Woman
Finding
Like
Off
Romantic
Turned
Groupie
Works
Right
Thing
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
Joel Coen
Time
Home
You
Together
Somewhere
First
Go Away
Before
Back
Way
See
Open
Put
Toward
Veins
First Time
Spot
Go
Were
Go Home
Up
Get
Tub
Gradually
Maybe
Just
Want
Warm
Cut
Then
Your
Works
Film
Away
When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.
Joel Robuchon
You
Else
Everyone
American
Anybody
African
Anybody Else
Dish
African-American
Whether
Asian
European
Works
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann Georg Hamann
Wisdom
Grief
Reward
Worries
Human
Works
Human Wisdom
I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.
Johann Johannsson
Life
Art
My Life
Extreme
Extremes
Borders
Crosses
Attracted
Am
Limits
Very
Transcends
Certain
Works
Boldness
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
John Ashbery
Time
Closed
Poetry
Head
Feel
Look
Occasionally
Off
Going
Length
Works
We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.
John Barrasso
Work
Buy
Government
Family
People
Better
Field
State
Those
Says
Able
Something
Rates
Through
Individually
Insurance
Deals
Lines
Than
Get
Same
Shop
Tax
Tax Rates
Them
Across
Who
Works
Level
Playing
Playing Field
Need
If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.
John Battelle
Cloud
Believe
Society
Data
Make
Understand
How
Holds
Poorer
Engage
Bargain
Aspects
Works
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
John Bradshaw
You
Passion
Energy
Find
Shakespeare
More
Traditional
Freshness
Than
Want
Works
Bring
But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.
John Bruton
Financial
Will
National
Back
Market
Our
System
Must
Economic
Fails
Up
Expansion
Hold
Regulation
European
Works
Keep
Level
Need
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.
John Burdett
Life
Safety
Amazing
Path
Made
Become
Subconscious
Every
Imagination
Assurance
Final
Our
Net
Bets
Direction
Also
Safer
Safety Net
Understand
How
Any
Quite
Closure
Fork
Hedge
Realize
Hard
Appalling
Rehearsal
Works
It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.
John Burnside
Life
Beautiful
Day
Great
Fear
Matter
Wolf
Those
Marsh
Only
Joseph
Look
Great Thing
Cliche
How
May
Works
Paintings
Thing
When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.
John C. Mather
You
Mind
Otherwise
Way
Would
About
Never
Know
Deadline
Another
Equipment
Go
Rocket
Up
Fix
Your
Works
Chance
The key for me with 'Star Wars' is to stay in their world. Don't get in the way of what is already known and what works. I think of the basic nature of the filmmaking process that worked so well for the original trilogy. No stylistic flights of fancy for the sake of showing off. Tell the story, get the shot, get the performances, and move on.
John Cassaday
Nature
Me
World
Key
Move On
Think
Way
Tell
Stay
Trilogy
Performance
Well
Known
Stylistic
Sake
Off
Get
Move
Process
Story
Fancy
Worked
Shot
Flights
Wars
Showing
Original
Works
Star
Star Wars
Basic
Filmmaking
Filmmaking Process
'Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.
John Cho
Nature
Knowledge
Peace
Better
Understanding
Control
Trek
Side
Our
Ourselves
Out
Seek
Seems
Rather
Divide
Toward
Another
Than
Wants
Appeal
Works
Star
Star Trek
Cooperation
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
John Collison
Internet
Easily
System
Network
Computer
Global
Reach
Another
Testament
Any
Where
Transfer
Information
Across
Connected
Works
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
John Cusack
Life
Art
Great
Courage
Fear
Brilliant
Pain
Too
Took
Complex
Kind
Poe
Shame
Wired
Had
He
Terrible
Tight
Terrors
His
Person
Curious
Just
Where
Happened
Them
Turned
Who
Works
Things
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