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In 1990 there were about 300 scripts being written demanding the release of Nelson Mandela. And suddenly we watched Mandela walking out of prison. So those scripts had to be destroyed.
John Kani
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Destroyed
Nelson
Release
Scripts
Demanding
Mandela
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
Carlisle Floyd
/
Opera Composer
Men
Destroyed
Fascinated
Stories
Tackling
Want
Success Man Me
Demons
Stark
Willie
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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
Maimonides
/
Philosopher
Destroyed
Essence
Permanent
Transient
Bodies
Nor
Subject
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
Harold H. Greene
/
Judge
Cocktails
Destroyed
Dinner
Upset
Best Good World
Phone
Good Friends
Service
Single-Handedly
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In the 1970s, Japan moved into the U.S. turf with its televisions, cars, chips, and steel. But if you think about it, the only business Japan destroyed was the U.S. television industry.
Fujio Mitarai
/
Car
Chips
Destroyed
Industry
Japan
Moved
Steel
Television
Turf
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I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.
Louis Malle
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Film Director
Destroyed
Scene
Tone
Further
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The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
Jenny Shipley
/
Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Home
Decision
Destroyed
France
Nuclear
Pacific
Raised
Storm
Testing
Resume
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In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to run the country as they see fit.
Heather Cox Richardson
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Cadre
Destroyed
New Deal
Wealthy
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You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
Marco Rubio
/
United States Senator
Government
Accountants
Big Corporations
Corporations
Destroyed
Guy
Hurt
Best Government World
Lawyers
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The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Martin Van Creveld
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Author
Assembly
Capable
Destroyed
Enemy
Entity
Intelligent
Military
Reacting
Resembles
Targets
Therefore
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Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Writer
Capacity
Destroyed
Leader
Motivation
Organization
Productivity
Appears
Worker
Bosses
Choose
Leaders
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We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.
Paul Bloom
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Professor
Bones
Destroyed
Dust
Existence
Function
Bodies
Brains
Turning
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As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
Heinrich Böll
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Writer
Cologne
Countryside
December
Destroyed
Evacuation
Return
Accompanied
Relatives
Settled
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The movie I worked on that had the most problems and interference came from the smallest indie movie I've ever done. I couldn't believe what the director had to go through; he was destroyed.
Brian Reitzell
/
Destroyed
Interference
Smallest
Indie
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Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.
Kirk Hammett
/
Guitarist
Destroyed
Itunes
Networking
Social
Streaming
Possible
Record
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The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.
Joe Scarborough
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Former United States Representative
Crippled
Destroyed
Majority
President Bush
Republican Party
Bush
Weakened
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I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
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Former Prime Minister Of Georgia
Destroyed
Forced
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We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.
Richard Leakey
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Politician
Concerned
Destroyed
Discovery
Fossils
Wealth
Nowhere
Time World Place
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Patrick Dempsey
/
Actor
Delicate
Destroyed
Empty
Fame
Honor
People
Responsibility
Stardom
Creature
Refused
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The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London.
Robert Lepage
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Critics
Destroyed
Edinburgh
Horrible
London
Six
Streams
Opened
The Most Important
Yes
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Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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Presenter
Coverage
Credibility
Destroyed
Emperor
Engraved
Ethiopia
Famine
Heard
Terrible
Denying
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You've got to not care about what people think. You learn that as an actor. If you get a bad review, will you be destroyed by it? Or will you think you're God's gift when you get a rave review?
Martin Henderson
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Actor
Destroyed
Rave
Bad Review
God Gift People
Review
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Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
P. J. O'rourke
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Satirist
Concerned
Destroyed
Nuclear
Relief
Barn
Let Us
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
Maimonides
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Philosopher
Destroyed
Disposition
Substance
True Nature
Accidentally
Consists
Receive
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Reputations can be built, attacked, and destroyed on social media. It's a huge game-changer - instantaneously emboldening adversaries and shortening the ride for any corporate or personal brand.
Judy Smith
/
Adversaries
Corporate
Destroyed
Huge
Media
Social
Social Media
Social Media Media Social
Attacked
Brand
Instantaneously
Personal
Reputations
Ride
Shortening
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
Nancy Gibbs
/
Essayist
Carter
Destroyed
Handle
Johnson
Overwhelmed
Corrupted
Doubts
Ford
Mortal
Nixon
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The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education.
Charlie Sykes
/
Destroyed
Higher Education
Professors
Steadily
Systematically
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
Gabe Newell
/
Manager
Space
Bunch
Catastrophe
Destroyed
Exit
Margins
People
Thinking
Pc
Windows
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Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.
George Packer
/
Journalist
Acting
Calculating
Careers
Clinton
Destroyed
Including
Close
Talented
Politicians
Interests
Nixon
Obviously
Supremely
Ways
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Behind that picture of me, thousands and thousands of people, they suffered - more than me. They died. They lost parts of their bodies. Their whole lives were destroyed, and nobody took that picture.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
/
Destroyed
Me Lost People
Suffered
Thousands Of People
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France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
Pierre Laval
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French Politician
Country
Despite
Destroyed
Fate
France
Misfortunes
Past
Prestige
Thanks
Tremendous
Inflicted
Old Country
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One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
James Howard Kunstler
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Author
Destroyed
Distinction
Fiasco
Suburbia
Understanding
Urban
One Of The Problems
Rural
Same Thing
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I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.
Greg Walden
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U.s. Representative
Nature
Concern
Destroyed
Profound
Torn
Torn Apart
Treatment
Addictive
Apart
Forum
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When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.
Meir Soloveichik
/
Almighty
Atonement
Crisis
Destroyed
Jewish
Centuries
Unlike
Jewish People
Medium
Primary
Sacrificial
Served
System
Temple
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A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.
Dave Morris
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Destroyed
Oracles
Publishing
Future Great Past
Empire
Great Deal
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In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.
Richard Engel
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Journalist
Destroyed
Enemy
Hamas
Elections
Earlier
Officially
Relatively
Via
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
Gabriel Lippmann
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Physicist
Colour
Destroyed
Eye
Interference
Constituent
Image
Imprinted
Plate
Sends
Thus
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The dreadful terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist organizations has affected thousands of Israeli citizens, has destroyed families, and has tried to disrupt the lives of the citizens of Israel.
Ehud Olmert
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Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Destroyed
Israeli
Palestinian
Terrorism
Disrupt
Dreadful
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The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.
Barton Gellman
/
Journalist
Agents
Destroyed
Hawaii
Miles
November
Weapons
Chemical
Convention
Southwest
Stocks
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All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
George Crook
/
Destroyed
Driven
Left
One Thing
Remains
Sides
Tribes
Away
Game
Same
Fight
Same Story
Starve
Surrounded
Tell
While
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If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
/
34Th U.s. President
Destroyed
Disputes
Force
Foundation
International
Military
Nations
Order
Organization
United
United Nations
World Order
Best Hope World
Admit
Establishing
Settled
Using
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The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that bag.
Fela Kuti
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Multi-Instrumentalist
Artistry
Commercialization
Destroyed
Greatness
Art Experience Music
African
Artists
Bag
Belong
Experience Art Music
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Brazilian boys as young as 14 and 15 are now based in Europe. They spend their best years in Europe and come back to Brazil when they are past their prime. This has destroyed local clubs and championships.
Zico
/
Brazil
Destroyed
Brazilian
Championships
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My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!
Richard Hammond
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Presenter
Car
Broke
Brother
Destroyed
Heart
Red
Roof
Toyota
Absolutely
Blues
Blues Brothers
Jack
Painted
Union
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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.
Gilbert White
/
Buffalo
Destroyed
Forests
One Time
Terror
German
Time Great Country
Bull
Wild
Neighbourhood
Turned
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I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.
Jean-Claude Juncker
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Former Prime Minister Of Luxembourg
Cameron
Destroyed
Gorbachev
Scotland
Soviet
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Wave
Extent
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All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.
Simon Hoggart
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Journalist
Arrogant
Destroyed
Health Care
People
Powerful
Provision
Rich
Sight
Health Care People
Odious
Proper
Whose
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I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
Richie Allen
/
Destroyed
Owners
Love Business Game
Love Business Better
Horses
Realized
Traded
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
Barton Gellman
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Journalist
Cyber
Destroyed
Dramatic
Iranian
Nuclear
Attacks
Cited
Developed
Weapon
Worm
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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.
Alan Hovhaness
/
Composer
Destroyed
Periods
Two Weeks
Awful Lot
Burn
Fireplace
Lasted
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