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I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.
John Scalzi
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Author
Crime
Decided
First Time
Flipped
Novel
Science Fiction
Toss
Basically
Coin
Science Time People
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Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
Carolyn Murphy
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Model
Amazing
Birth
Doctors
Giving
Living Room
Midwife
Most Amazing
Squat
Third World
Tree
Amazing Thing
Basically
Behind
Chair
Hospital
Room
Sterile
Third
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You have to build your core nucleus of your team through your draft. What that does is you basically introduce them to your culture and your environment. Then, as guys begin to perform and play to that level, then you say, 'You know what? You guys deserve an extension, so here it is.'
John Dorsey
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Core
Deserve
Environment
Team
Build
Begin
Basically
Perform
Draft
Extension
Guys
Introduce
You Guys
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What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a new consensus to emerge of disaffected liberals, classical liberals, dissident minorities like gays, small-state conservatives, libertarians, people who basically want to be left alone.
Milo Yiannopoulos
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Journalist
Consensus
Lines
Minorities
Basically
Classical
Conservatives
Emerge
Gays
Liberals
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I think there is a misconception that being open and honest and saying what it is you want is something we should be embarrassed about. But that's just not me. I am a very honest person. I always tell somebody what I am looking for, and I don't want people to waste my time, basically.
Mabel
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Embarrassed
Honest
Honest Person
Misconception
My Time
Waste
Time Always Me
Time Always I Am
Time I Am Me
Looking
Basically
Open
Saying
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I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.
Mayim Bialik
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Actress
Ideology
Orthodox
Sound
Theology
Work Look People
Tv
Pretty
Basically
Show
Jim
Liberal
Terms
Title
Tv Show
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Zig Ziglar
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Author
Family
Friends
Happy
Peace
Good Family
Healthy
Mind
Peace Of Mind
People
Prosperous
Secure
Today
Tomorrow
Everybody
Family Hope Good
Basically
Be Happy
Same
Even
Over
Least
Reasonably
Relationships
Same Things
Wants
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
Mahesh Babu
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Film Actor
Film
Just Do It
Might
Shy
Shy Person
I Am Me People
I Am Me Shy
Asked
Basically
Me I Am People
Demands
Front
Off
Shirt
So Many People
Sudden
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In my final year of college, I was interning with L'Oreal, when during one of the photo shoots, a photographer suggested I become a model. I was working under Smira Bakshi, who was this really cool chick, as she was loaded, had her fun, and was successful. I basically aspired to be her.
Kajal Aggarwal
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Cool
College
Loaded
Photo Shoots
Successful
Aspired
Basically
Year
Chick
Photo
Final
Model
Shoots
Suggested
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My youngest son has a very clear idea of what he wants to be when he grows up: he wants to be Indiana Jones, Batman and Jack Sparrow. Yes, all three at the same time. So he basically wants to be an archaeologist who wears tights and fights crimes on pirate ships. That's pretty cool, huh?
Rhys Darby
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Actor
Cool
Clear
Grows
Indiana
Pirate
Ships
Son
Tights
Fights
Basically
Batman
Crimes
Huh
Indiana Jones
Jack
Same Time
Sparrow
Wants
Wears
Yes
Youngest
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There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.
Kara Walker
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Artist
Black
Black History
Book
Embrace
Shocked
Art History Culture
Rules
Artists
Basically
Existed
History Art Culture
Laid
Manifesto
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar
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Brain
Clock
Left
Seconds
Hit
Basically
Hand
Right Hand
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The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?
H. W. Brands
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Election
Presidential
Unifying
World People Feel
Basically
Candidate
Figure
Potentially
Stake
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
Carli Lloyd
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Soccer Player
Champion
Feels
Sitting
Soccer
Training
Whole
Life Family Good
Pretty
Miss
Basically
Burner
End Of The Day
Functions
Gets
Pretty Good
Revolves
Vacations
Weddings
World Champion
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I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.
Joe Bonamassa
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Genre
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Hendrix
Radio
Basically
Certainly
Guitar Players
Hear
Metal
Rock
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Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.
Julius Peppers
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American Football Player
Decision
Basically
Know Where Something
Retire
Itch
Waver
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I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.
Tina Fey
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Actress
Dream
Daughter
Abandon
Mother
Adult
Life Dreams Time
Life Dreams Work
Activities
Basically
Whenever
Your Child
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A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
Alton Brown
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Television Personality
Add
Foam
Structure
Sugar
Water
Collection
After
Basically
Bubble
Wrong
Proteins
Strengthens
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In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
Tim Allen
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Comedian
Car
Men
Differences
Fans
Nascar
Racing
Three
Understanding
Years
Best Men Women
Background
Basically
Difference
Drives
Loves
Gut
Her
Last
Met
Same Thing
She
Uses
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I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.
Dev Hynes
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Singer-Songwriter
Able
Banking
Digital
My Own
Seeing
Pretty
Basically
Days
Few
Fully
Laptop
Painstaking
Putting
Screen
Sounds
Spent
Synth
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My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.
Brian Tee
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Actor
Art
Uncles
Black
Defeat
Fighting
Martial Arts
Military
Taught
Used
Like
Lot
Anything
Actually
Also
Arts
Basically
Belt
He
Came
Through
Possible
High
Fast
Martial
Opponent
Uncle
Where
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Hard audiences tend to be when it's all men. It's when businesses have dos where they're at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They're men of a certain age - basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can't make these people laugh hysterically.
Michael Mcintyre
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Stand-Up Comedian
Comedian
Conferences
Evening
Middle Aged
All Day
Audiences
Basically
Businesses
Certain Age
Laugh
Tend
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I hate phone calls, so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.' If you find yourself in the middle of something, getting an unprompted annoyance is incredibly frustrating.
Alexis Ohanian
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Internet Entrepreneur
Annoyance
Calling
Frustrating
Hey
Phone Calls
Basically
Calls
Phone
Hate Believe Me
Incredibly
Telephone
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Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
Steve Jobs
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Entrepreneur
Business
Accomplished
Microsoft
Two
Years
Applications
Basically
Copy
Mac
Lotus
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In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern to major in English, wound up in college for two years. Studied animation there. Came to Disney. My first week at Disney was the week that 'Star Wars' came out.
John Musker
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Animation Director
Animation
Animator
Cartoonist
College
Northwestern
Studied
Basically
English
Star
Wars
Daily
Disney
Draw
Major
Star Wars
Wound
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
Ursus Wehrli
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Behave
Different Angles
Fascinated
Point Of View
Stage
Structure
Change Art Work
Angles
Basically
View
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
M.i.a.
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Artist
Age
Five
Hierarchy
Long
Poor
Sat
School
Sri Lanka
Tone
Your Long Day
All Day
Skin
Played
Back
Basically
Classes
Street
Front
Lanka
Onward
Row
Sorted
Sri
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I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, like, 'Should you run into this type of woman, run for your life!' So the name of the song is 'Run,' featuring the rapper ScHoolboy Q. It's one of the standouts on the album, in my personal opinion.
Ne-Yo
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Singer-Songwriter
Opinion
Public Service
Rapper
Song
Type
Album
Announcement
Basically
Run
Woman
Public
Personal
Schoolboy
Service
Turned
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There is a song called 'I Refuse,' and I get a bit scolding, I suppose, in a way. But it all comes back to elements of hope, and in the case of that song, it's basically, 'Okay, you're trying to suck me into this world of negativity, and I'm not going to go there. I'm going to live my own life.'
Timothy B. Schmit
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Musician
Elements
Negativity
Okay
Life Hope World
Basically
Case
Suppose
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When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.
Ben Dolnick
/
Environmental
Animal
Chickens
Cows
Eating
Irresponsibility
Meat
Pigs
Reason
Size
Worst
Assumed
Bit
Bad
Basically
Less
Correspond
Good Reason
Harmless
Researching
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My grandad was the most wonderful man. He was a bit like me. He was basically a country bumpkin but he did well; he became managing director of quite a successful company but all he really wanted to do was to come home, put his disgusting old trampy clothes on and go for walks across the country.
Chris Tarrant
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Clothes
Disgusting
Successful
Walks
Wonderful
Across
Home Man Me
Quite
Bit
Basically
Became
Director
Managing
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People of African descent, most of us grew up accepting and loving Spider-Man. I still love Spider-Man. I still love the Incredible Hulk. I still have those characters that were white role models, superheroes, heroes - whatever you want to call it. You basically had no choice but to accept those.
Chadwick Boseman
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Actor
Descent
Grew
Models
Role Models
Spider Man
White
Accept
Had
Heroes
African
Basically
Those
Call
Characters
Choice
Whatever
Still
Hulk
Incredible
Loving
No Choice
Role
Superheroes
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Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon. At Berkeley, we made the narrowest device anybody had ever made. It was basically a single molecule.
Paul Mceuen
/
Physicist
Amazing
Atoms
Berkeley
Carbon
Electrical
Made
Silicon
Single
Good Way Only
Had
Anybody
Basically
Same
Conductors
Device
Ever
Few
Molecule
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I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
Jason Katims
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Television Writer
Best
Flaws
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Trying
World
Everybody
Feel
Understand
Why
Basically
Demons
Watch
Even
Ghosts
Making
See
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The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130.
Helen Oyeyemi
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Novelist
Girl
Asking
Bragging
Next
Pages
Written
Me Day See
Me Day Way
Agent
Basically
Came
Literary
Sending
Telling
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This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
Paul Ryan
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United States Representative
Jobs
Running
Government
Depriving
Healthcare
People
Raising Taxes
Taxes
Government People New
Basically
Turning
Choice
Entire
Facto
Large
New Jobs
Options
Prices
Raising
Takeover
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Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay.
Ryan North
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Writer
Brooding
Crime
Fighting
Likes
Modern Age
New Ways
Silver
Superhero
Water
Basically
Hole
Sit
Squirrel
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For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.
Flume
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Music Producer
Dance
Music
Brain
Dance Music
Fever
Flying
Hip Hop
House
School
Trance
Come
Music Me Dance
Actually
Background
Basically
Coming
Discovered
Electronic
Even
Project
Got
Lotus
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
N. T. Wright
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Bishop Of Durham
Bible
Both Sides
Depressing
Devotional
Granted
Real
Sides
Taken
Taken For Granted
Verses
Atlantic
Basically
Few
Glance
Purposes
Upper
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We don't have all this gay-bashing crime. You don't see that. It's not there. That is not really happening in Jamaica. But because a few artists basically sing it and put records out and the media runs with it, then the stigma becomes big, and now we're trapped with that whole thing. It's really sad.
Shaggy
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Singer
Sad
Crime
Jamaica
Media
Records
Stigma
Trapped
Whole
Now
Artists
Basically
Becomes
Few
Happening
Put
Runs
Sing
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I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'
Noam Chomsky
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Linguist
Conscious
Consciousness
Disappear
Used
Die
Basically
Idea
Creates
Except
Spark
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A lot of people in the western world don't realize how much taxes limit their options. You can end up paying almost half your income in taxes, which basically means you're working for the government for 180 days a year. I think I can find better ways to use the money I make for the benefit of society.
Pavel Durov
/
Better Ways
Half
Income
Western
Western World
Almost
Basically
Benefit
Days
Working
How Much
Limit
Options
Paying
Realize
Ways
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I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong - we get paid a lot of money. There's a sense of 'shut up and play,' that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we're like zoo animals. We're not human beings.
Doug Baldwin
/
Entertainment
Human Beings
Modern Day
Nfl
Paid
Shut Up
Slavery
Money Me People
Animals
Basically
Beings
Shut
Some People
Zoo
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Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking. She was one of the leaders of the desegregation of Nashville, basically. She was a student at Fisk University who was one of the founding members of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Ava Duvernay
/
Filmmaker
Alive
Coordinating
Fighter
Founding
Members
Nashville
University
Basically
Oh
Committee
Deserves
Diane
Student
Leaders
Nonviolent
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I tend to believe that film can try to save what still can be saved, in terms of our histories, our memories. Because a lot of things are disappearing very quickly, things are changing. We are living in very quick times, and we have a new generation who basically know nothing about events 30 years ago.
Raoul Peck
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Filmmaker
Memories
New Generation
Years Ago
Basically
Disappearing
Generation
Histories
Quick
Terms
Save
Tend
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I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.
Mick Cornett
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Mayor Of Oklahoma City
Cities
Fingers
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Warning
Whole
Life Best Your
Basically
Basis
Seen
City
Coming
Cross
Judgments
Tornado
Warnings
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Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.
Wale
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Rapper
Billions
Cds
Internet
No Brainer
Promotion
Internet People Way
Basically
Burn
End-All
Sell
Label
Pass
Tie
Tool
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People think, and by the way I think most people are right: 'The Tory party is run by people who basically don't care about people like me.' That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. I know a lot of Tory MPs and I am sad to say the public is basically correct.
Dominic Cummings
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Sad
Decades
Don't Care
I Am Me People
Sad I Am Me
Basically
Sad Me I Am
Correct
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When a PR person asks why is it a big deal that they got your name wrong or sent you a pitch on something you would never cover, it's because when you get hundreds of those a day, it's incredibly annoying. It's basically like having telemarketers call you all day long for something you never want to buy.
Sarah Lacy
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Journalist
Annoying
Big Deal
Your Long Day
All Day
Basically
Buy
Pitch
Cover
Deal
Hundreds
Incredibly
Sent
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There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.
Armie Hammer
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Actor
Imagination
Armageddon
Impact
Snow
Snow White
Strain
Studios
Decisions
Basically
Deep
Outbreak
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