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Americans don't want immigration. They don't want any more. Why can't we have a home? You see on 'National Geographic,' 'Oh, the indigenous people, they have a home.' Everyone else can have a home. We are the only people on Earth not allowed to have a home.
Ann Coulter / Commentator
Immigration
Indigenous
Indigenous People
National Geographic
Allowed
Everyone Else
Geographic
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A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.
David Kay /
Accomplished
Conclusion
Focused
Ought
Team
Wmd
Totally
Great Believe Better
Allowed
Full
Deal
Fact
Goes
Great Deal
In Fact
Reach
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We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
Liane Moriarty / Author
Parenting
Fascinated
Laughing
Allowed
Helicopter
Seem
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During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions - a development that made it more difficult to stabilize both inflation and employment.
Janet Yellen / Economist
Development
Disruption
Employment
Federal Reserve
Inflation
Response
Actual
Allowed
Federal
Reserve
Stabilize
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
Val Mcdermid / Crime Writer
Forgiving
Time And Space
Time Space World
Allowed
Mistakes
Develop
Space Time World
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I always had to mask my emotions. I could never show that I missed my mom or my dad, especially when they moved to America. My grandparents were tough. I was not allowed to receive letters that had not been read before. Everything was controlled - everything!
Grace Jones / Singer
Dad
Letters
Mask
Moved
Tough
Mom Dad Always
Allowed
Emotions
Missed
Receive
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Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
Suzanne Fields /
Arabia
Egypt
Lebanon
Papers
Restless
Rulers
Saudi Arabia
Scheduling
Syria
Terrified
Allowed
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Candidate
Elections
Limited
Municipal
Perhaps
Saudi
Whose
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It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.
John Blair /
Contact
Italian
Lawyer
Phone Calls
Allowed
Apparently
Calls
Phone
Joe
Permitted
Prisoners
Telegram
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As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
John Muir / Author
Burned
Decades
Feet
Giants
Height
Hopeful
Hundred
Strongest
Tree
Allowed
Attain
Original
Crowd
Cut
Eager
Few
Finally
Redwood
Sends
Shoots
Soon
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Being involved with BABYMETAL has allowed me to acquire more chances to really become involved with music. As a result, I find myself noticing each individual instrument the band plays and I feel that I have found a new way of enjoying music on a deeper level.
Moa Kikuchi /
Acquire
Band
Deeper
Involved
Noticing
Music Myself Me
Allowed
Chances
Deeper Level
Each Individual
Enjoying
Instrument
New Way
Plays
Result
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Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.
Donna Douglas / Actress
Lines
Producers
Allowed
Charge
More Or Less
Parts
Script
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Alan Dean Foster / Author
Inaccessible
Saved
Traveler
Allowed
Explorer
Otherwise
Started Reading
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I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.
Chris Wooding / Writer
Decent
Fantasy
Plot
Advance
Allowed
Page
Sf
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My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.
Sam Palladio / Actor
Cousin
Electric
Electric Guitar
Amazing Dad Always
Touch
Allowed
Birthdays
Guitars
Mine
Pick
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The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.
Nick Lampson / Former U.s. Representative
Honor
Allowed
Work Honor People
District
Communications
Communities
Congressional
Interests
Local
Network
Reflect
Successfully
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I get on Facebook, and I love it. Then one day, I get a message that says, 'Your account has been deleted.' I click on the link to see why it was deleted, and it says, 'Your account has been suspended because members are not allowed to impersonate celebrities.'
Cole Sprouse /
Impersonate
Members
One Day
Suspended
Love Your Day
Account
Why
Allowed
Celebrities
Click
Deleted
Facebook
Link
Says
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Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.
John Lewis / U.s. Representative
Uncles
Black
Grandfather
Literacy
Men And Women
Mother
My Own
Register
Vote
Time Men Women
Allowed
Attempted
Aunts
Each
Each Time
Time Women Men
Pass
Test
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Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'
Monica Ali / Writer
Beaten
Creative
Curious
Adult
Naturally
Allowed
Internal
Inventive
Rid
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When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
Ellen G. White / Author
Conversation
Curse
Devotion
Dishonor
Prayer
Terrible
Allowed
Although
Assemble
Choice
Christians
Frequently
Professed
Sing
Young People
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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa / Photographer
Coward
Greater
Soldier
Torture
Allowed
Choose
Correspondent
Drinks
Executed
Spot
War Correspondent
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I like to be able to feel as many parts of myself while watching a movie at one time. I think that's what 'Super' is - it's funny, but it's also sad. It's very touching in certain ways, and it's also got a very dark sense of humor. So it's allowed to go anywhere.
James Gunn / Writer
Sad
Humor
Dark
One Time
Sense Of Humor
Touching
Funny Time Sad
Funny Time Humor
Allowed
Anywhere
Funny Sad Time
Parts
Super
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When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
Roddy Doyle / Novelist
Teacher
Wonder
Time Music Myself
Allowed
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I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.
John Niven /
Diet
Decided
Disabled
Missing
Scales
Tipping
Weight
Time Work Home
Fat
Allowed
Work Time Home
Gain
Hat
Homer
Qualify
Returned
Simpson
Tries
Visit
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Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Attention
Bribe
Country
European Countries
Nineteen
Paid
Western
Allowed
Businesses
European
Expense
Little Attention
Necessary
Overseas
Unpleasant
Western Countries
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For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the 'surprisingly modern' reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Administration
Chinese
Complexity
Dynasty
Figures
Grace
Historical
Reactions
Records
Allowed
Classical
Surprisingly
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A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.
Rob Schneider / Actor
Men
Cry
Disturbing
Interesting
Laughing
Rooms
Seconds
Womanhood
Weird
Allowed
Man Me Weird
Man Me Way
Describe
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My style has allowed me to tear down barriers in day-to-day life with people who would otherwise have a negative stereotype of someone who wears a turban, but also to speak to people on Bay Street, professionals who don't really think of New Democrats as an option.
Jagmeet Singh /
Barriers
Day To Day
Day To Day Life
Negative
Speak
Stereotype
Allowed
Bay
Democrats
Option
Street
Otherwise
Professionals
Tear
Wears
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My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Daughter
Industry
Music Industry
My Time
Newborn
Spotlight
Life Love Success
Allowed
Meant
Retire
Set
Spend
Rediscover
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My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
Ina Garten / Author
Chaos
Cooking
Orderly
Retrospect
Allowed
Cook
Studying
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I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
Julian Mcmahon / Actor
Father
Folks
Mischief
Odd
Prime
Prime Minister
Life Me Father
Allowed
Big Part
Life Father Me
Meeting
Minister
Struck
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When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.
Marti Noxon / Television Writer
Ambiguity
Conventional
Allowed
Mode
Opposed
Procedural
Scenario
Unresolved
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My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Hospitals
Insisting
Operations
Red
Actual
Allowed
Cross
Developed
Farther
Near
Rear
Sent
Services
Troop
Volunteered
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All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Heinrich Himmler /
Thankful
History
Fate
Members
Years
Adolf
Allowed
Be Happy
Fuehrer
Germanic
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.
Hannah Simone / Television Actress
Alive
First Time
Grandfather
Greek
House
Thinking
Turkish
Allowed
Somewhere
Side
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For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.
Shaun King / Football Player
New York
Daily News
News
Great Thinking Me
About A Year
Allowed
Chief
Daily
Editor
Saw
Hire
Worked
York
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
Damage
Decades
Discretion
Minimum
Sentences
Allowed
Deliver
Particularly
Forced
Implemented
Judges
Mandatory
Result
Throughout
Young People
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The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.
George Jones / Musician
Bed
Daddy
Mama
Middle
Woods
Music Enough Long
Allowed
Grand
Lay
Listened
Ole
Opry
Roy
Sing
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley / Poet
Conscience
Doctor Who
Doctors
Guilty
Leper
People
Reproach
World
Allowed
Assumes
Science Always World
Doctor
Indeed
Investigate
Recently
Studies
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There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
Stellan Skarsgard / Actor
War
Communist
Directors
Struggle
Allowed
Authorities
Named
Express
Struggling
War Movies
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We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.
Josh Fox / Film Director
Conversation
Disappear
Policy
Roadblock
Situation
Allowed
Runs
Sudden
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I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,' and not ruffle any feathers. Women, in particular, are sometimes not allowed to consider who they are outside of the roles that they play.
Carrie Coon / Film Actress
Women
Care
Defined
Expected
Feathers
Long
Particular
Roles
Take Care
Allowed
Any
Been
Take
Consider
Say
Outside
Serve
Wives
Yes
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It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.
Davey Havok / Vocalist
Aesthetically
Allowed
Anymore
Effect
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I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
Clay Aiken / Singer-Songwriter
Children
One Day
Principal
Thinking
Life Myself Me
Allowed
Direction
Guide
Planned
Possibly
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I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.
Clara Hughes / Cyclist
Excellence
Eye
Inspiration
People
Senses
Myself Eyes Me
Allowed
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After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.
Pedro Pierluisi / United States Representative
Authority
Exercise
Federal Government
Granted
Puerto Rico
Residents
Rico
Affairs
Allowed
Centuries
Federal
Local
Manner
Puerto
Rule
Similar
Spanish
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The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
George Combe / Author
Admission
Air
Effects
Minutes
Pure
Refreshing
Above
Allowed
Brief
Hour
Interval
Lecture
Resumed
Sustained
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Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
William Glasser / Psychiatrist
Teacher
Able
Conversation
Friendly
Half
Interesting
Interesting Conversation
Perspective
Profession
Talk
Allowed
Teachers
Asked
Engage
Enter
Group
Hour
Least
Prior
Prospective
Subject
Wants
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Artist
Foolish
Harm
Impossible
Law
Ordinary
Overestimate
Allowed
Blinding
Newspaper
Random
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian / Writer
Apology
Chinese
Debate
Information
Media
People
Persecuted
Today
Allowed
Chinese People
Public
Event
Forced
Imprisoned
Massacre
Mention
Official
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That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.
Douglas Wood /
Add
Circles
Grateful
Including
Most Powerful
Powerful
Privileged
Successful People
Turner
Allowed
Closely
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Ted
Ted Turner
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