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I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.
Richard Ayoade
Myself
Everyone
Would
Would-Be
Terrible
Sure
Hire
Anything
Certainly
Actor
You remember France, it's the country that financed the American Revolution... OK, it was in their self-interest, but still, they made it happen. Let's face it: without the French, there would be no America... in other words, without them, there is no us.
Richard Belzer
You
Words
Remember
Made
Face
Country
Revolution
Other
France
Financed
OK
Would
Would-Be
French
Without
Self-Interest
Still
America
American
In Other Words
Happen
Them
Us
American Revolution
I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.
Richard C. Armitage
People
Offended
Think
Would
Would-Be
Most
Were
Quite
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.
Richard C. Armitage
School
Long
Think
Drama
Drama School
Out
Would
Would-Be
Superstar
Had
Instant
Taking
Come
Been
Leisurely
Holidays
Hollywood
Audiences are more drawn in to what they can relate to, so it would be stupid not to have great Latino films for the Latino audience.
Richard Cabral
Great
Stupid
Films
Relate
Latino
Drawn
Would
Would-Be
More
Audience
Audiences
It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point in my life where somebody would be naming a damn burrito after me.
Richard Cabral
Life
Me
Thought
Somebody
My Life
Nothing
Damn
Changing
Would
Would-Be
Find
Point
Like
Naming
Make
Person
Where
After
Themselves
Who
Helping
While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.
Richard Carmona
Home
Me
Army
Mother
Drive
Complete
Would
Would-Be
Tried
Mentor
Stem
Name
Forces
Leave
Educated
His
Goal
Officer
Getting
While
Stranger
Special
Who
Special Forces
Saul
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
Richard Cobden
Government
Problem
Single
Met
Difficulty
Considering
Would
Would-Be
Solve
See
Point
Most
Am
Form
Cannot
Whether
Double
Present
Raising money, like sausage-making, ain't pretty to see, and it would be just criminally naive to rely on the big hearts of big donors.
Richard Cohen
Money
Big
Would
Would-Be
See
Pretty
Rely
Naive
Like
Hearts
Donors
Just
Raising
Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
Richard Corliss
Comedy
Space
Bad
Would-Be
Outer
Outer Space
Classics
Beatty
Road
Like
Edward
Dustin Hoffman
Wood
Movies
Dystopia
Sent
Plan
Warren
Warren Beatty
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.
Richard Corliss
Space
White
Air
Would
Would-Be
Poem
Anguished
Mostly
Were
Production
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
Innocent
Thought
Parents
Musical
Way
Out
Moral
Would
Introduction
Would-Be
Cartoon
Scaring
Magic
Ideal
Tale
Most
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Version
Child
Walt
Walt Disney
Taught
Movie
Little
Might
Disney
Useful
Lessons
I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.
Richard D. Zanuck
Today
Time
Impossible
Tough
Would
Would-Be
Tough Time
Had
Driving
Miss
Years
Years Ago
Off
Getting
Ground
Daisy
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
Richard Dawkins
Life
Great
You
Impossible
Practice
Odds
Out
Would
Would-Be
Find
Finding
Indistinguishable
Task
Spaceship
Against
Galaxy
Planet
Your
Set
I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.
Richard DeVos
Positive
People
Met
Young
Everywhere
Would
Would-Be
Able
Guys
Never
Bought
House
Force
Always
How
Am
Amazed
Been
Owner
Young People
Turn
Much
Less
Team
Many
NBA
Ever
Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.
Richard Engel
People
Nation
Think
Weaker
Would
Would-Be
Seem
Tend
Spoken
Come
Safer
Because
Conclusion
Impression
Yes
America
Agree
Al
Based
Al-Qaeda
If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be convenient for rebels to say, 'It was the Americans.'
Richard Engel
You
Building
Say
Syria
Would
Would-Be
Part
House
Up
American
Blows
Convenient
Next
Your
Suddenly
Rebels
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.
Richard Ford
Time
Good
Hate
Wife
Parents
Think
Married
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Having
Fail
Toward
Excuse
Also
Got
Were
Child
Going
Just
Children
Wanted
By The Time
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
Richard Foreman
Hermit
Would
Would-Be
Theater
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
Richard Gere
Happy
Men
First
Young
Would
Would-Be
Buddhist
Like
Most
Particularly
Encounter
Young Men
Early
Early 20s
I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.
Richard Griffiths
Me
You
Be Nice
Nice
Live
Think
Nine
Unless
Would
Would-Be
London
Paid
Figures
We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.
Richard H. Stoddard
Love
Others
Everything
Ourselves
Would
Would-Be
Lack
I don't have an acting coach, but the closest thing I have would be some of my peers that are my close friends. We bounce ideas off each other and help one another run our lines all the time.
Richard Harmon
Time
Other
Our
Peers
Run
Would
Would-Be
Some
Bounce
Ideas
Another
Lines
Off
Friends
Close
Close Friends
Closest
Closest Thing
Coach
Acting
Help
Each
Thing
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.
Richard Jefferies
Work
Impossible
Single
Believe
Thoroughly
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Find
Proper
Cottage
Throughout
Well
Fit
Any
Done
Human
Estate
Human Beings
Breadth
Length
Landed
Landlords
Farmers
Large
Beings
Now
I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.
Richard King
Work
Other
Financially
Would
Would-Be
Physical
Some
Mental
Temptations
More
Am
Exhaustion
Rewarding
Stop
Stopped
Low
Production
Funds
If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.
Richard Li
Hope
Future
Good
Man
Business
Will
Society
Everyday
Hong Kong
Savings
Our
Those
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Vanishing
Able
Small
Small Business
Make
Kong
Becomes
Equity
American
American Dream
Different
Achieving
Whereby
Then
Use
Hard
Who
Works
Suffer
Street
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