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I went to state in track, won the girls' city championship, and did well in volleyball. I was a varsity cheerleader. So you know, shoot, I've got a couple of letters and things! Last I counted, I think there were eight in my mama's house.
Vivica A. Fox /
Volleyball
Championship
Cheerleader
Eight
Letters
Mama
Track
Counted
Won
Shoot
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I really counted on my technical ability and my passing for everything. Then once you got to bigger stages and the professional level, you can get shoved off the ball and you need to be fit and you need to be at your top level at all times.
Lindsey Horan /
Passing
Counted
Stages
Technical Ability
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In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.
Seamus Heaney / Poet
Behalf
Hay
Summertime
Teens
Acquired
Contributor
Counted
Funerals
Farm
For Example
Representative
Status
Wakes
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Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?
Jeff Goodell / Author
Decades
Development
Disputes
Drilling
Frenzy
Gas
Land
Natural Gas
Would Be
Bubble
Cheap
Counted
Sustainable
Good Thing
Grab
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You found during apartheid a strange occurrence from the white folks themselves. There were those who did make a choice to speak out and stand and be counted in the army of human beings who believed in justice. And then there are those who left.
John Kani /
Apartheid
Army
Folks
Counted
Occurrence
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Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.
Timothy Noah / Journalist
Autonomy
Commitment
Depth
Favors
Counted
Federal
Listens
Measure
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If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view.
B. J. Novak / Actor
Point Of View
Ulysses
Love Work Respect
Counted
For Example
Minority
Seduced
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If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth.
Guy Standing /
Economic Growth
Elderly
Income
Labour
Neighbour
Payment
Relative
Contribute
Counted
Precisely
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Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
Sebastian Junger / Author
Men
Divided
Military
Numbers
Traditional
Clan
Counted
Further
Identified
Local
Provide
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Sam Donaldson / Journalist
Cities
City Hall
El Paso
Exit
Night
Polls
Texas
Counted
Cover
Hall
Votes
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I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.
Aleksandr Lebed /
Borrowed
Capable
Crisis
Give Me
Sixty
Counted
Handling
Held
Sign
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
G. Willow Wilson / Writer
Environmental
Prove
Counted
Inherited
Pinch
Squeezed
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Take '39 Steps'. When I finished writing it, I counted the number of measures in the composition. I always do this because I am interested in the length of a song. So I counted this one a couple of times because 39 is an unusual number of measures for a song.
John Abercrombie / Guitarist
Composition
Finished
Length
Steps
Unusual
Interested
Counted
Number
Measures
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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Coins
Department
Dismayed
Eye
House
Household
Longing
Names
Ailment
Astonished
Clerk
Counted
Cured
Department Store
Finally
Held
Instrument
Till
Store
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Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
Jeffrey Sachs / Economist
Authority
Needed
Senior
Specialists
Treasury
Actions
Commitments
Counted
Gap
Understands
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For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
Laurent Fabius / Former Prime Minister Of France
Technology
Adjustment
Analysis
Disruption
Emerging
Increase
Long
Long Time
Nations
Preventing
Reassuring
Transport
Wages
Would Be
Time Long Long Time
Time Technology Long
Advances
Automatic
Believed
Date
Counted
Rapid
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We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will.
Rick Tumlinson /
Life Experience Age
Calendar
Counted
Runs
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And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Care
Cry
Evident
Mean
Two
Certain Things
Counted
Gandhi
Obviously
Stand Up
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The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.
Kenneth Blackwell /
Comprehensive
December
November
Vote
Audit
Sixth
Cast
Counted
Legally
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Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Discouraged
Labor
Rate
Unemployment
Unemployment Rate
Counted
Reduce
Search
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.
Henri Nouwen / Priest
Space
Discipline
Filled
Mean
Spiritual
Spiritual Life
Life Space Your
Somewhere
Certainly
Counted
Create
Happen
Occupied
Planned
Preoccupied
Prevent
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Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.
Robert Reich / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Clubs
Groups
Membership
Political Parties
Unions
Variety
World War Ii
War World Political
Associations
Belonged
War Political World
Counted
Politicians
Parties
Responsive
Scientists
Voices
World War
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I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.
Joseph Monninger / Writer
Location
Revealing
Trout
Variety
Fish
Colors
Counted
Sizes
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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.
Libba Bray / Writer
Creepy
Ghost
Hey
Invited
Scare
Slumber
Smell
Surprise
Counted
Parties
Tale
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There were a lot of moments in my life where I could have died or I could have ended up serving 20 years to life in prison. I overcame those things, those obstacles, because I listened and I obeyed that higher power that was speaking to me at the crucial moments in my life when it really counted.
Irone Singleton /
Crucial
Higher Power
Obstacles
Prison
Serving
Life Power Me
Counted
Listened
Obeyed
Overcame
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Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, 'The Birds' - it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.
Karl Ove Knausgard / Author
Century
Moving
Novel
Prose
Simple
Subtle
Wonderful
Absolutely
Amongst
Birds
Languages
Classics
Counted
Major
Last Century
Norwegian
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For decades, allies have counted on the U.S. to step up to the plate to work with them to protect the shared values we hold dear. As we face numerous international challenges, both old and new, we need to put more faith and investment in our international and diplomatic institutions, not weaken them.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Allies
Dear
Diplomatic
Institutions
Investment
Counted
Numerous
Plate
Shared
Weaken
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
Dallas Willard / Philosopher
Anger
Attendance
Contempt
Giving
Honesty
Wrong Things
Churches
Counted
Easily
Degree
Wrong
Fundamental
Measure
Thumb
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Americans have, at various times, leaned on the FBI for a measure of justice that local and state police couldn't be counted on to deliver, and recoiled in fear at their exercise of raw federal power. That uneasy trust; the combination of need and dread, is the lot that FBI agents live with day to day.
Joy Reid /
Agents
Combination
Dread
Fbi
Fbi Agents
Uneasy
Counted
Deliver
Measure
Raw
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I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better the human condition - whether it's System of a Down, or Rage Against the Machine, or Public Enemy, or the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, or Pete Seeger. It's a group that I'm proud to be counted among.
Tom Morello / Guitarist
Calling
Clash
Different
Enemy
Human Condition
Proud
Rage
Springsteen
Against
Condition
Affect
Among
Artists
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Public
Counted
Down
Genres
Group
Machine
System
Whether
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In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
Otto Wallach / Chemist
Atoms
Behalf
Bitter
Carbon
Compounds
Smell
Typical
Caused
Arrangement
Counted
Derivative
Properties
Substances
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When I was president, I worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an America where nobody is invisible or counted out. But for this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face. And she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known.
William J. Clinton / 42Nd U.s. President
Invisible
Qualified
Counted
Darn
Hillary
Reduce
Seize
Shared
Uniquely
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Back in August 2013, when Obama entertained the White House press corps in the Rose Garden to explain that he wasn't quite as eager to upbraid Bashar Assad as he might have inadvertently led them earlier to believe, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees counted about two million Syrians in its refugee statistics.
Terry Glavin /
August
Garden
Refugee
Statistics
White House
Obama
Commissioner
Corps
Counted
Eager
Entertained
Explain
Inadvertently
Led
Million
Refugees
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I first learned about kicking under pressure in 1996, my rookie year with the Patriots. I was signed as a free agent by a team that already had Matt Bahr, one of the best kickers around. To win the job, I had to show coach Bill Parcells that I could make kicks when they counted. That process started in training camp.
Adam Vinatieri /
Agent
Counted
Matt
Patriots
Rookie
Signed
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As you get more experience out there, as you get more comfortable with the NBA system, the offense, the schemes, you begin to understand where you're going to get your looks from. And I think a big part of playing well is not having to look over your shoulder and just understanding that you're consistently be counted on.
C. J. Mccollum /
Consistently
Nba
Offense
Schemes
Big Part
Counted
Shoulder
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Equality
Baseball
Earth
Heaven
Judgment
Millions
Today
Willing
Life Today Believe
Stand
Club
Counted
Wait
Longer
Minor
Minor League
Stand Up
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When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.
Mitchell Zuckoff / Professor
Running
Men
Core
Enormous
Investors
Little Man
Principal
Speak
Unexpected
Years
Attract
Avoid
Bank
Blowing
Counted
Curtain
Each Year
Scheme
Small
Percentage
Pull
Reveal
Runs
Withdraw
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Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.
Timothy D. Snyder /
Judiciary
Rule Of Law
Substance
Counted
Votes
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