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I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.
Rob Machado / Surfer
Contemplated
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
Elif Batuman / Author
Realism
Contemplated
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I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.
Bill Maris /
Neuroscience
Background
Contemplated
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I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.
Jada Pinkett Smith / Actress
Religion
Degrees
School
World Religions
Back To School
Contemplated
Degree
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I've often contemplated some kind of tummy tuck surgery, but I know this is not the answer.
Amanda De Cadenet / Photographer
Surgery
Contemplated
Tuck
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Designer
Fashion
Fashion Designer
Interested
Contemplated
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas / Priest
Contemplate
Contemplated
Deliver
Illuminate
Merely
Others
Shine
Than
Truths
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I'd never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.
Maverick Carter /
Athletes
Contemplated
Great Stories
Shaping
Tv And Film
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In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Comforting
Eternal
Eternal Life
Hours
Lonely
Life Time Great
Contemplated
Doctrines
Great Deal
Spent
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We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
Craig Venter / Geneticist
Code
Hypothetical
Contemplated
Genetic
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
John Pople / Chemist
Fundamentals
Pittsburgh
Return
Structure
Years
Contemplated
Earlier
Electronic
Fundamental
Resolved
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I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I'd play past 30 years old. I thought I'd win a few tournaments and then have a family.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Tournaments
Contemplated
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They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Compensation
Film
Matter
Mirrors
Oneself
Seeing
Close
Contemplated
Mirror
Price
Prospect
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Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
John Yoo / Attorney
Abandon
Different
Doe
Enemy
Faces
Geneva
Standards
Al
Applying
Contemplated
Qaeda
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When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Space
Dread
Former
Moving
Outer Space
Soviet
Soviet Union
States
United States
Conflicts
Contemplated
Countries
Outer
Union
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People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.
George Smoot / University Professor
Evolution
Speculation
Contemplated
Origin
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I always wondered what the longevity of the name Lil Xan would be. I always contemplated whether I'd have to change it, but I learned you don't have to if the formula is working.
Lil Xan /
Longevity
Contemplated
Formula
Wondered
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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
George Catlin / Painter
Men
Approach
Boundless
Civilization
Forests
Melting
Noble
Past
Prairie
Race
Red
Spread
Away
Contemplated
Races
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Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
William Bartram / Botanist
Nature
Admirable
December
Grove
Late
Rivers
Appeared
Banks
Bloom
Contemplated
Towards
River
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I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.
Nobuo Uematsu / Composer
Believe
Games
Interesting
Music Believe I Believe
Contemplated
Game Music
Potentially
Several
Therefore
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Enjoyment
Lasts
May
Misunderstanding
Objects
Phrases
Added
Contemplated
Phrase
Prevent
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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.
John Thorn / Historian
Death
Running
Reunion
Thinking
Youth
Although
Anticipated
Background
Attend
Certainly
Contemplated
Smelled
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The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
Aristide Briand / French Statesman
Europe
Groups
League
Nations
Organisation
Contemplated
Ethnic
Oppose
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'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar.
Tempestt Bledsoe /
Exposed
Radar
Below
Contemplated
Cosby
Opened
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I have been approached to consider an appointment to the Virginia Supreme Court. I am humbled and honored to be considered for such a position, but it is not something that my wife and I have previously contemplated.
Ken Cuccinelli / Former Attorney General Of Virginia
Honored
Supreme
Supreme Court
Virginia
Appointment
Humbled
Contemplated
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This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.
Richard Helms / Former Director Of Central Intelligence
Agency
Contact
Mind
Negative
Records
Central
Contemplated
Individuals
Material
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All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems.
Oren Etzioni /
Machines
Plague
Solutions
Space Travel
Contemplated
Diseases
Virus
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I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
Adoniram Judson / Missionary
Affectionate
Becoming
Competent
Engaged
Esteem
Faithful
Mercy
Missionary
Life Work I Am
Actively
Allowed
Attained
Chief
Contemplated
Crowning
My Life
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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
Paul Nurse /
Careers
Drudgery
Experiments
Including
Philosophy
Real
Shock
Slowness
Sociology
Study
Alternative
Complete
Contemplated
Low
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For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.
John Gregory Dunne / Novelist
America
Casting
Economics
Eye
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Race
Silent
Subjects
Vietnam
Years
David
Contemplated
Generation
Global
Place
Member
Thirty-Five
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I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
Steve-O / Stunt Performer
Cease
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry
Existence
Identity
Ascendant
Contemplated
Freaked
Occurred
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When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself.
John Le Carre / Author
Right Way
Understanding
Myself Always Me
Myself Me Song
Contemplated
Sang
Route
Sneaking
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A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
Adoniram Judson / Missionary
Each Day
Eternity
Forever
Indelible
May
Said
Useless
Stand
Same
Through
Contemplated
Each
Ever
Improved
Marked
Marks
Remain
Sins
Spent
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I do feel sorry for the Prince of Wales, waiting and waiting, while his mother looks better and better. She's not staying on because of any concern about his abilities as a king. The Queen simply feels she must do her duty, and she's never even contemplated abdication.
Sarah Bradford /
Concern
Sorry
Staying
Wales
Contemplated
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In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.
Michael Ashcroft /
Graves
Life And Death
Life Death War
Aged
Bullet
Life War Death
Contemplated
Margin
Thin
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I was labelled a jinx. No one wanted to work with me. I was home for about six to eight months without any films. I did modeling. In fact, at one point, I contemplated quitting films. That's when director Ameer called me for 'Paruthiveeran' and I cannot thank him enough for it.
Priyamani /
Modeling
Quitting
Work Home Me
Work Home Enough
Contemplated
Labelled
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When I was young, for some reason, I thought a postman's job was quite cool, and once, I even contemplated becoming a lawyer. Finally, I decided to dabble in something creative like fashion designing or photography. Till I joined college, I had no clue that one day, I will face the camera.
Pooja Hegde /
Clue
Lawyer
Photography
Postman
Contemplated
Dabble
Designing
Joined
No Clue
Till
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