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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Assassins
Egypt
Former
Prison
Sentences
Executed
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The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Egypt
Libya
Long Term
Short Lived
Period
Executed
Grand
Ideal
Incompatible
Policies
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According to Colombia's respected Escuela Nacional Sindical, as of April 2015, 105 union activists had been executed in the four years since Clinton's free-trade treaty went into effect. That's just trade unionists.
Greg Grandin /
April
Clinton
Colombia
According
Activists
Effect
Executed
Union
Treaty
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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson / Lawyer
Religion
Government
Opinion
Week
World
Government World Your
Religion Government World
Report
Somewhere
Open
Executed
Imprisoned
Newspaper
Opinions
Tortured
Unacceptable
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I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'
Bill Lawrence /
Tv
Anybody
Based
Works
Entirely
Sell
Executed
Feature
Feature Films
Films
Poorly
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It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
Atom Egoyan / Stage Director
Conviction
Important
Purpose
Trying
Work Myself Done
Both Ways
Complete
Cover
Executed
Such A Way
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It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Government Lies
Injustice
Lying
Manifest
Resistance
Security
Tyranny
Certainly
Executed
Forcible
Lies
Unless
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I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score.
Tom Brady / Football Player
Game Plan
Prepared
Score
Tangible
Week
Great Your Game
Did
Game
Part
Executed
Great Part
Well
Plan
Whether
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
Alexander Haig / Former United States Secretary Of State
Bloody
Enlightened
World Long People
Executed
Followed
Liberal
More People
Reactionary
Regime
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
Taylor Jenkins Reid /
Fingers
Quiet
Traveled
Author
Executed
Intent
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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
Ricky Gervais / Comedian
Funny
Clever
Glasses
Intellectual
Pot
Sexy
Had
Anybody
Take
Coming
Executed
Off
Him
Rounded
Whether
Wore
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Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it.
Julia Roberts / Actress
Best
Best Way
Done
Passionate
Perfect
Purpose
Had
Been
Easiest
Easiest Way
Executed
Maybe
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I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed!
Charlene, Princess Of Monaco /
Volleyball
Beach
Debut
Green
Looking Back
Monaco
Nails
Red
Time Society Great
All Day
Executed
Looked
Painted
Realize
Threw
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If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.
Matthew Davis / Actor
Enthusiasm
Function
Genre
Executed
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In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed.
Tim Cope /
Army
Burned
Conquest
Refuge
Catherine
Russians
Completed
Executed
Peninsula
Took
Turkey
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The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy.
Michiko Kakutani / Literary Critic
Calculus
Camps
Descent
Immigration
Immigration Policy
Incarceration
Removal
Executed
Homes
Japanese
Redefine
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I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
Michael Connelly / Author
Beach
Body
Caught
Daytona
Journal
Journalist
Linked
News
Real
Serial Killer
Woods
Crimes
Executed
Later
Serial
Story
Wrote
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Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf / Diplomat
Accusing
Battle
Blair
British
Captured
Anyway
Cowards
Executed
Soldiers
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It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Candidates
Incapable
Rhetoric
Temperature
Bringing
Executed
Influenced
Suggest
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I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton / Political Activist
Patriotism
Chamber
Community
Consciousness
Defeat
Gas
Higher
Higher Level
Mean
Escape
Executed
Expect
Necessarily
No Time
Step
Trial
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In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be nice to think that centuries of advances in science and education have made people less prey to phantasms and falsehoods.
Max Boot / Author
Prey
Advances
Be Nice
Centuries
Witches
Executed
Falsehoods
Suspected
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Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Computers
Disappear
Force
Half
Handful
Investors
Essentially
Exchanges
Executed
Profits
Slower
Stock
Trades
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And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.
Steven Hatfill / Scientist
Fbi
Mail
One Day
Readiness
Residence
Attorneys
Confirming
Cooperate
Executed
Indeed
Investigator
Otherwise
Search
Warrant
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Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that's not a high-concept idea. But if it's executed well, it makes a great show.
James Burrows /
Boston
Pilots
Bar
Executed
Great Show
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
Victoria Aveyard / Author
Arena
Fitting
Lightning
Teenage
Teenage Girl
Visual
Brush
Executed
Gladiator
Queen
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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa / Photographer
Coward
Greater
Soldier
Torture
Allowed
Choose
Correspondent
Drinks
Executed
Spot
War Correspondent
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Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.
Eric Maskin /
Information
Mechanism
Needed
Optimal
Outcomes
Particular
Prescribing
Advance
Simply
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Executed
Fiat
Generally
Indirectly
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It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Knowledge
Wisdom
Down To Earth
Earth
Ego
Horrible
Ideas
Son
Thinking
God Knowledge Power
Come
Wisdom God Knowledge
Alter
Better Way
Idea
Could
Down
Executed
Forgive
Himself
Sins
Tortured
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In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
William Hull / American Politician
Arrested
Artillery
British
Hamilton
Lines
Spy
Truce
Within
Afterwards
Aid
General
Camp
Captain
Condemned
Washington
Executed
Flag
Informed
Officer
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HSNi's performance gained momentum throughout 2014 as we executed on our strategic priorities across our business, by strengthening our customer file, optimizing our digital platform, and differentiating HSNi and our brands at content-rich, immersive commerce destination.
Mindy Grossman /
Brands
Commerce
Destination
Digital
Momentum
Priorities
Strategic
Customer
Executed
File
Gained
Platform
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Californians like to spend a lot of time talking about how great our state is, but the truth is that we have learned and executed a very important lesson: if we want to win on issues as critical as climate change - if we want to lead - we absolutely have to stand together.
Tom Steyer /
Californians
Climate Change
Change Time Truth
Executed
Change Truth Time
Important Lesson
Lesson
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
Samantha Harvey /
Modern Society
Philosophical
Political Beliefs
Questioning
Relentlessly
Beliefs
Executed
Similar
Tolerant
Wondered
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
Don Mccullin / Photojournalist
Famine
Narrative
Peril
Photograph
Revolutions
Wars
Embracing
Executed
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We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
John Grisham / Lawyer
Innocent
Locked
Fairly
Executed
Later
Row
Sent
Spent
Tried
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The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!'
John Knoll /
Assumption
Standpoint
Tools
Executed
Figure
George
Restricted
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Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.
Fidel Castro / Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
Custody
Dignity
Offended
Pakistan
Authorities
Conceal
Executed
Inhabitants
Traditions
Violated
Wives
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I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.
Omari Hardwick / Actor
Cases
Divorce
Midst
Executed
Family Member
Member
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I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.
Asap Rocky / Rapper
Artist
Backgrounds
Capability
Composing
Different Backgrounds
Great Music
My Generation
Rap
Thinking
Unexpected
Music Great People
Rapping
Executed
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To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually - a 'fade out' as I like to call it.
Dan Levy /
Decision
Difficult
Distance
Prove
Troublesome
Act
Call
Create
Edit
Executed
Fade
Gradually
Properly
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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
Dan Wheldon / Racing Driver
Jobs
Class
First Class
Honestly
National Guard
Phenomenal
Racing
Team
Track
Absolute
Executed
Guard
Incredibly
Panther
Perfectly
Pit
Races
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People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.
Stone Cold Steve Austin / Actor
Arena
Disbelief
Executed
Highest Level
Pro
Suspend
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
Matthew Desmond /
Never Forget
Rainy
Rainy Day
Sheriff
Executed
Passed
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I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.
Michael Eric Dyson / Author
Eloquence
Ivory
Powerless
Real
Responsibility
Thinking
Towers
Executed
Intellectuals
Self-Critical
Real People
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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Appreciation
Brilliant
Company
Form
Genius
Gifted
Hamilton
Human Beings
Overwhelmed
Possibility
Beings
Seat
Itself
Public
Deeply
Watch
Executed
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Saw
Piece
Wept
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Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Adopted
Blood
Congress
Good Times
Honor
Worst
Affections
Cheerfully
Commands
Earliest
Entirely
Executed
Service
Shall
Smiling
Soldiers
Whose
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Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.
Bruce Pittman /
Opportunity
Advantage
Increase
Management
Probability
Risk
Risk Management
Solve
Time Opportunity Will
Budget
Take
Complete
Either
Even
Executed
Project
Small
Performance
Precisely
Sense
Take Advantage
Undertaken
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
Larry Wilmore / Producer
Cds
Deserve
Gun
Punishment
Resisting
Selling
Sterling
Arrest
Bootleg
Crimes
Executed
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