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If you are a club manager and things are going well, it's a great feeling because you've got the whole city behind you. If you're manager of your country and it's going well - and you've got a whole nation proud of you - I can't describe how that feels.
Chris Coleman
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Football Manager
Describe
Great Feeling
Manager
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I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.
Peter Marshall
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Preacher
Undecided
Accurately
Describe
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No president can amend the past, and the public is tired of candidates who simply point fingers instead of offering their own solutions. They want a leader who will describe the threats as they are and rally the country behind a strategy to defeat them.
Pete Hoekstra
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Former United States Representative
Candidates
Defeat
Fingers
Offering
Solutions
Strategy
Amend
Describe
Rally
Threats
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It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.
Kevin Young
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Alchemy
Describe
Specifically
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In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.
Alan Stern
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Scientist
Cease
Exploration
Lacking
Significance
Alleged
Assume
Bodies
Carries
Describe
In Other Words
Planetary
Scientific
Warrant
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To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat on the back. To dismiss someone's argument as pessimistic is to suggest it is the product of a personality disorder, rather than careful analysis.
David Olusoga
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Analysis
Careful
Insult
Optimist
Pessimistic
Describe
Dismiss
Issue
Labelled
Pat
Personality Disorder
Product
Rather
Suggest
Whereas
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Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
Hernan Cortes
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Details
Five
Grandeur
Hundred
Lofty
Temples
Tongue
Wall
Within
Among
Architectural
Describe
Rest
Families
Room
Surrounded
Whose
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Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
Louis Macneice
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Poet
Concrete
Essence
Eye
Unity
Describe
Lie
Object
Poem
Preach
Resulting
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The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
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Diplomat
Baghdad
Battle
Feels
Gates
Slaughter
Somewhere Else
Threatened
Somewhere
Boa
Describe
Places
Reach
Refused
Runs
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I'm looking forward to the time they describe me as the former president. And, of course, there are pressures from my own party and other Sudanese parties also, and I succumb to those pressures, but I hope as soon as possible I can find an exit out of this.
Omar Al-Bashir
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Exit
Former
Looking Forward
Time Hope Me
Describe
Hope Time Me
Succumb
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If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.
Roger Scruton
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Philosopher
Human Nature
Too Late
Nature Always People
Advance
Arises
Describe
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When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
David Gross
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Berkeley
Binding
Brick Wall
Dynamics
Framework
Interaction
Nuclear
Quantum
Radiation
Theory
Weak
Brick
Calculate
Describe
Motion
Roughly
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It's wonderful being out on that pitch, being able to play there, with the fans supporting us. It's hard to describe, to be honest, when the team is playing well, when the supporters are chanting and singing their songs, when they are really behind the team.
Philippe Coutinho
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Chanting
Describe
Supporters
To Be Honest
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By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.
Keith Rothfus
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U.s. Representative
Good Family
Pennsylvania
Wall
Family Work Good
Bank
Describe
Stretch
Wall Street
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We're quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as 'crazy,' and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I've long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a more clinical sense.
Jacob Weisberg
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Journalist
Odd
President
Seems
Views
Extreme
Clinical
Describe
Politicians
Gingrich
Merits
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Perhaps
Quick
Runs
Whose
Wondered
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In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.
David Gross
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Dynamics
Force
Mathematical
Objects
Strong
Unlocking
Physically
Atom
Binds
Center
Describe
Lab
Suspected
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I'm a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective - I feel things first, and then I think them through - and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel's nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.
Michael Bastian
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Fashion Designer
Believer
Comfort
Cozy
Dark
Introspective
Retreat
Myself World Feel
Bedrooms
Big Believer
Describe
Small
Nest
Squirrel
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Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
John Podhoretz
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Writer
Characterize
Describe
Politicians
Efforts
Folk
Intended
Messaging
Parties
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
Barry Ritholtz
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Author
Abuse
Adopted
Financial
Muppet
Predator
Serving
Term
Amongst
Best Interests
Portfolio
Client
Describe
Interests
Purposes
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It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a Christian? Well then, you're not off the hook. You don't get to claim 'Me, myself, and I' as your four words. 'It's not about me' should describe your life as well.
Monica Johnson
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Christ
Hook
Simple Words
Life Myself Me
Life Myself Yourself
Claim
Describe
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Alice Walker
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Author
Women
Black
Doe
Feminist
Spirit
Women Culture Black
Things
Words
Just
Now
Culture Me Black
Me
Women Culture Me
Does
Correctly
Describe
Expresses
Word
Organic
See
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
Carla Gugino
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Actress
Movie
Kind
Shallow
Silly
Term
Women Are
Chick
Describe
Flick
Unfortunately
Reflect
Something Kind
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It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.
Mal Peet
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Author
Avoiding
Difficult
Millions
Slim
Words
Report
Chances
Describe
Extremely
Interestingly
Journalists
Match
Thousands
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'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.
Richard Engel
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Journalist
Luxury
Opponents
Translate
Weapons
Describe
Favored
Intimidate
Mercedes
Regime
Smuggle
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.
Bob Goff
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Author
Dining
September
Describe
Dining Room
Everyone Else
Gathered
Struggled
Occur
Rushed
Such A Thing
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I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.
Hayden Panettiere
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Actress
Being Yourself
Eclectic
Fashion
Feelings
Taste
Be Yourself
Music Always Yourself
Describe
Music Yourself Be Yourself
However
Uniquely
Wonderful Thing
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History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
Edward M. Lerner
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Author
Crime Fiction
Forensics
Historical Fiction
Describe
Procedure
Readers
Westerns
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It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Michael Korda
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Writer
Confidence
Disaster
Lacking
Catch
Chase
Describe
Ghosts
Nightly
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Several witnesses describe seeing an altercation in the car between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson. It was described as wrestling, tug-of-war. Several other witnesses described Mr. Brown as punching Officer Wilson while Mr. Brown was partially inside the vehicle.
Robert P. Mcculloch
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Punching
Seeing
Vehicle
Wilson
Inside
Mr
Describe
Officer
Several
Witnesses
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I talk a lot about Jackie MacMullan. Think about the trust and the equity Jackie has built with people in this game. When you watch her work, there is such a high level of respect given. It's hard to describe it, but you can see it when players engage with her.
Doris Burke
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Respect
Trust
Equity
Given
High Level
Jackie
Trust Work Respect
Talk
Game
Describe
High
Watch
Engage
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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
Edmund White
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Novelist
Individual
Individual Life
Liberation
Memories
My Own
Particular
Self Acceptance
Boy
Case
Describe
Effect
Mainly
Mine
Personal
Truly
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My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Actor
Issues
Left Wing
Little Bit
Party
Wings
Describe
Parents
Political Party
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I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.
Sarah Zettel
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Author
Character
Depends
Fall
Piano
Describe
Dig
Entirely
Follows
Plots
Sudden
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp
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Writer
Success
Character
Development
Hands
Human Beings
Immature
Method
Moving
Plant
Self Sufficiency
Beings
Consists
Deliberately
Describe
Searching
Solely
Toward
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
William Morris Hunt
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Artist
Art
Men
Book
Creation
Emotion
Lasting
Monument
Universal Language
Describe
Picture Book
Suggest
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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
Padma Lakshmi
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Author
Jobs
Chef
Criticism
Giving
Contestant
Describe
Extension
Top Chef
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Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.
John Malkovich
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Actor
Knowledge
Relation
Cyclical
Describe
Entire
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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
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Actor
Men
Cry
Disturbing
Interesting
Laughing
Rooms
Seconds
Womanhood
Weird
Allowed
Man Me Weird
Man Me Way
Describe
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When I was in Vojvodina, it is not possible to describe. If you play one bad ball, one little mistake, they are, 'Oh, what is that?' Then, some players, they are afraid to take responsibility. They don't feel well, you know; you don't have freedom to show yourself.
Dusan Tadic
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Describe
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The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
Craig Brown
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Critics
Honestly
Intelligent
Reader
Author
Describe
Detective
Suspect
Treat
Worrying
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Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Physician
Emperor
Pages
Realised
Relapse
Time Me Woman
Answering
Battling
By The Time
Describe
Undergone
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You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss.
Tom Brokaw
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Journalist
Effort
Emotion
Engines
First Kiss
Human Condition
Irreplaceable
May
Mysterious
Unending
Universe
Condition
Artists
Biologists
Compete
Describe
Guided
Essential
Poets
Psychiatrists
Search
Search Engines
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For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.
Andrew Dominik
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Film Director
Select
Life Best Me
Life Best Always
Describe
Evolving
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I always knew what I could do in there and believed that I would win the world title. But when it actually happens, when your dreams all come true, it is the culmination of a life's work. The feeling you get, I don't have words for it. I don't know how to describe it.
Luke Rockhold
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Mixed Martial Artist
Culmination
Your Dreams
Life Dreams Work
Describe
Title
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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Mathematician
Book
Order
Together
Universe
Ascribe
General
Contain
Describe
Followed
Scheme
Movements
Plan
Positions
Therefore
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I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.
Sophie Kinsella
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Author
Funny
Contemporary
Issues
Lit
Mean
Pragmatic
Term
Writing
Quite
Asked
Meant
Cause
Chick
Comedies
Dealing
Describe
Ideal
Romantic Comedies
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I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.
James Carville
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Commentator
Imagination
Class
Encyclopedia
Fortunate
Healthy
Income
Middle
Middle Class
Son
Sure
Decidedly
Describe
Extremely
Stretch
Upper
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
Gary Johnson
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Former Governor Of New Mexico
Clinton
Establishment
One Word
Beholden
Describe
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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I believe now that I've cemented my spot as the best swimmer in the world, and I can't describe how proud that makes me. I just want to keep working hard and hopefully just inspire more youngsters to keep swimming and encourage South Africans to become a winning nation.
Chad Le Clos
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Swimmer
Inspire
Swimmer
Winning
Youngsters
Best Believe World
Best Believe I Believe
African
Cemented
Describe
Spot
Working Hard
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In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.
Cass Sunstein
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Legal Scholar
Features
Manipulate
Psychology
Situation
Behavioral
Certain Way
Describe
Jedi
Options
Shown
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