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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil
Life
Beautiful
Best
Good
Evil
My Life
Beauty
Year
Every
Our
Possible
More
Attention
Wisest
False
Fix
Dwell
Little
Convinced
Grow
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
Richard Cobden
War
Government
Confidence
Peace
Year
Down
Increased
Possessing
Security
Proof
Having
Duration
Any
Against
Last
Last Year
They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
Richard Dawson
Year
Air
More
Than
Us
Should
Kept
I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.
Richard Edelman
Tough
Year
Democratic
Chicago
Convention
Hometown
Violence
When we were doing the launch of Kinect for Xbox, it was very much about getting sort of young blogger-influencer types to try this thing well in advance - a year before launch.
Richard Edelman
Try
Year
Before
Young
Types
Launch
About
Advance
Well
Sort
Doing
Were
Very
Getting
Much
Thing
I had a job lined up as an assistant brand manager at Playtex, at age 23, all lined up. But my father had an offer to be acquired by DDB in 1978. He said, 'I'd really like you to come into the business for a year.'
Richard Edelman
You
Business
Age
Father
Job
Year
Had
He
Come
Like
Said
Lined
Up
Brand
Offer
Manager
Acquired
Really
Assistant
When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself swimming in the Tigris to cool off after reporting in the city the caliphs called Madinit al-Salam, the City of Peace. A year later, I realized I wouldn't be taking any midnight dips - Madinat al-Salam no more.
Richard Engel
Myself
Peace
Thought
First
Year
Swimming
Later
Would
City
Dips
More
Taking
Soon
Baghdad
Envisioned
House
Rent
Year Later
Arrived
Off
Reporting
Any
After
Midnight
January
Realized
Cool
You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.
Richard Flanagan
Work
You
Man
Year
Whatever
Financially
Find
Struggling
Take
Unskilled
Like
Looked
Bald
Still
Off
Very
Get
Labouring
Middle-Aged
Successful
Two
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
Richard Greenberg
Me
First
Year
Think
Some
Touchstone
Felt
Reason
Fully
Conscious
Foreign aid should not be automatic. Countries should have to make their case every year, and American officials should openly decide what, if anything, to fund.
Richard Grenell
Foreign Aid
Year
Every
Aid
Case
Countries
Openly
Make
Foreign
American
What If
Officials
Automatic
Anything
Decide
Should
Fund
What is needed to pass gay marriage is not a Democratic majority - this past year has proven that to be true - but politicians and judges comfortable enough to ignore what the majority of the voters want and do what is uncomfortable, unpopular - and morally right.
Richard Grenell
Gay
Marriage
Be True
Year
Past
Politicians
Enough
Gay Marriage
Unpopular
Morally
Uncomfortable
True
Voters
Democratic
Majority
Comfortable
Judges
Pass
Proven
Want
Ignore
Right
Needed
Politically motivated lawsuits and prosecutions cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Richard Grenell
Year
Every
Hundreds
Cost
Lawsuits
Motivated
Dollars
Politically
Taxpayers
Millions
Millions Of Dollars
It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.
Richard Griffiths
People
Year
Live
Sympathize
Astonishing
Kind
Having
Marvelous
Adventure
Missed
Most
Because
Been
Exile
England
Who
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
Richard Krajicek
You
Training
Problem
Job
Year
Weeks
Least
Want
The Problem With
Either
Mean
Coaching
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Now
Travelling
Right
Player
I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.
Richard Linklater
Time
Me
Class
Girl
Year
Think
Playwriting
Took
Seeing
Dating
Terms
Around
Making
Were
Short-Lived
Movies
Who
Fun
Actress
Images
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
Richard Lugar
Work
Day
Victory
Slow
Year
Shortcuts
Ourselves
Must
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Commit
Painstaking
The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
Richard Lugar
Class
Result
School
Political
Opportunity
Year
Beginning
President
Ran
High
Runner
Promising
Runner-Up
High School
Returned
Came
Political Career
Up
Junior
Ironically
Same
Senior
Senior Year
After
Again
Fortunately
Navy
Serving
Career
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
Become
Year
Universe
Presidency
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Tried
Remaining
Had
Force
Around
Revolve
Center
Media
I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.
Richard Madden
Good
Man
Happy
Theatre
Half
Year
Every
Think
Would
Would-Be
Could
Bounce
Between
Stuff
Camera
Very
Happy Man
If I Could
Actor
I always try to pick my parts to be as diverse as I can, and especially when you do 'Game of Thrones' for so many months of the year.
Richard Madden
You
Game
Try
Year
Months
Diverse
Pick
Parts
Always
Game Of Thrones
Many
You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'
Richard Ojeda
Work
Family
You
Training
Job
Three
Year
Down
Virginia
Once
Miner
Job Training
Tell
Minimum
Jobs
Minimum Wage
Give
Having
Only
Take
Support
Make
Parts
Without
Making
Wage
West
Exist
West Virginia
Where
Hold
Them
Coal
When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way.
Richard Quest
Christmas
Time
You
Travel
Yourself
Year
Whatever
State
Way
Mental
Take
Put
Going
Whether
Busiest
Your
Traveler
Traveling
Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world's elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it's highfalutin nonsense that no one understands and everyone ignores.
Richard Quest
World
Year
Every
Meeting
Everyone
Economic
No-One
Understands
Nonsense
Decide
Theme
Ignores
Forum
Switzerland
Elite
I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
Richard Rogers
Work
Family
Big
Year
Go Away
Every
Month
One Thing
See
My Number One
Cousins
Go
Big Family
Italy
Very
Away
Thing
Number
Need
I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
Richard Roundtree
Speak
Year
Until
Closet
After
Fifth
I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
Richard Roxburgh
Life
Theatre
Year
Pay
September
Back
Married
Hoping
Some
Direct
Because
Without
Go
End
Afford
Getting
Getting Married
Then
Really
Means
Your
Moment
Keen
Film
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