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I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.
Aljamain Sterling /
Odds
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Entire Life
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I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.
Mike Wallace / American Football Wide Receiver
Anchor
Defied
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
Ted Cruz / United States Senator
Administration
Ignored
Defied
Obama Administration
Openly
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I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
Jesse Ventura / Politician
Airplane
Dove
Feet
Water
Defied
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In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
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Caribbean
Panama
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Invaded
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'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.
David Draiman / Songwriter
Metallica
Construct
Defied
Fade
Perceived
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I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Lucy Larcom / Poet
Enough
Incessant
Machinery
Slave
Defied
Music Fly Me
Drown
Thoughts
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I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
Margaret Anderson /
Curb
Ignored
Inspiration
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Existed
Occur
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In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act with impunity.
David Lidington /
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Terrorist
Weak
Countries
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Forces
Openly
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First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
George William Norris /
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International Law
Nations
Violation
Neutral
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He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
Kit Williams / Author
Blindness
Calling
Denied
Distraction
Later In Life
Madness
Tenacious
Candles
Defied
More And More
Presence
Refusing
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My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than a father. You didn't lie or cheat with him. I would never have defied my father.
Nigel Hawthorne /
Grandfather
Victorian
Defied
Marry
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My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.
Jon Katz / Journalist
Ability
Animal
Beloved
Communicators
Dog
Expensive
Holistic
Trainers
Control
Beyond
Defied
Simply
Repair
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I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.
Conor Mcgregor / Mixed Martial Artist
Doubt
Dublin
Ignored
Ireland
Odds
Defied
Place
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There's no way in hell I'm supposed to be on television or be a broadcaster of any regard. But I have defied those odds because I believe in this: I am damn sure not going to let somebody else define who I am.
Jim Ross / Professional Wrestling Referee
Damn
Odds
Regard
Broadcaster
Believe I Believe Hell
Defied
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Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Logic
Oral Tradition
Style
Thoughtful
Usage
Basis
Centuries
Defied
Manual
Oral
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I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.
Monie Love /
Genre
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Supposed
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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.
Bill Frist / Former United States Senator
Courage
Determine
Millions
People
Polls
Successful
Two
Two Weeks
Weeks
Congratulate
Elections
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Iraqi
Iraqi People
Shown
Terrorists
Threats
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Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.
Joe Klein / Journalist
Men
Covered
Finest
Foreign Policy
Grows
Imposing
Party
Passing
Stature
Years
Tax
Budget
Bush
Defied
Democrats
Elder
Increases
Restrictions
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When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Cancer
Moved
Odds
Shining
Defied
Runner
Season
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The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Barack
Clock
Fame
Fixed
Great Power
Odds
Seems
Wealth
Achieved
Obama
Barack Obama
Defied
Eyes
Oprah
Notice
Oprah Winfrey
Racial
Scarcely
Turned
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In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
Zainab Salbi / Author
Phenomenon
Related
Women Always Culture
Believed
Cultural
Defied
Encountered
Norms
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Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Independence
Recognizing
Secretary
Truman
Zionist
Admired
Defied
George
Harry
Marshall
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And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.
Eric Cantor / U.s. Representative
Pledge
Better Way
Charge
Defied
Republicans
Fired
Too Much Money
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When Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership - not once, but twice - and defied the mainstream media's expectations to gain Labour seats in the 2017 election, it was no surprise to those of us who have always backed Corbyn and his agenda for change.
Clive Lewis /
Surprise
Backed
Defied
Gain
Jeremy
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Tesla has defied everyone's predictions again and again. It has such a unique position in the market, and so far, whatever people think about Tesla and its business model, there is one fact that nobody can dispute: It pretty much has the market to itself.
Henrik Fisker / Designer
Predictions
Tesla
Business Model
Business People Nobody
Defied
Dispute
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I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.
Ezra Furman /
Definitions
Limits
Trends
Velvet
Category
Reed
Defied
Fitted
Mythic
Opened
Underground
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There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.
Eric Liu / Writer
Artist
Asian
Ceo
Eye
Lucy
Pioneers
Public Eye
Stereotype
Years
Admired
Complimentary
Defied
Minority
Recent
Recent Years
Tony
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I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful.
Kathleen Rubins /
Dream
Amazing
Space
Blue
Prepared
Absolutely
Almost
Amazing Thing
Defied
Dream It
Expectation
Launch
Planet
Rocket
Sphere
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
Criss Angel / Magician
Art
Cells
Century
Chinese
Drowning
Helplessness
Houdini
Inspiration
Primal
Remains
Torture
Triumph
Water
He
Cell
Defied
Demonstrations
Early
Escape
Fears
Harry
His
Over
Icon
Inspirations
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In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and - in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - a lifeline to those ravaged by loss.
Stacey Abrams /
Parenting
After School
Church
Hub
Hurricane Katrina
Leader
Legacy
Loss
Mother
Offering
Our Community
Pantry
Programming
Career
Classes
Defied
Her
Hurricane
Lifeline
Minister
Second
Served
Wake
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Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.
Dustin Lance Black / Screenwriter
Attitude
Mom
Brazen
Can Do
Example
Foolish
Ignorant
Our World
Reason
Shocked
Veracity
Family Mom World
Although
Call
Defied
Instilling
Led
Neighbors
Occasionally
Personally
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Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Boxing
Cases
Cuba
Muhammad
Offers
Rejected
Revolution
Temptation
Ali
Champions
Defied
Dollar
First Place
Island
Resisted
Stevenson
Suggestion
Triumphed
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Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.
Tinie Tempah / Rapper
Britain
Good Place
Hero
Inspiration
Urban
Urban Music
Defied
Hat
Realise
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