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I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
Jeremy Irons
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Actor
Holiday
School
School Days
Sleep
Traveled
Admittedly
Done Always Guitar
Bag
Somewhere
Guitar Always Done
Discovered
Fair
Holidays
Lay
Sleeping
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In a world that is more interconnected and interdependent than ever before, it is critical that we work together to uphold the norms and statutes that keep our citizens safe, our countries secure, and our economies fair.
Loretta Lynch
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Attorney
Citizens
Critical
Interconnected
Safe
Secure
Work Together World
Countries
Economies
Fair
Interdependent
Norms
Uphold
Work Together
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray
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Actress
Humor
Fun
Good Sense
Sense Of Humor
Tease
Trying
Good Me Fun
Fair
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It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
Kathleen Parker
/
Columnist
Appetite
Stressful
Obama
Fair
Incremental
Transformative
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That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
Stephen Hadley
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Former National Security Advisor
Council
Influence
Lebanese
Officials
Resolution
Security
Security Council
Spring
Troops
Fair
Requires
Syrian
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
Gloria Steinem
/
Journalist
Jobs
Women
Baking
Feminism
Pie
Everywhere
Job
Life Women Woman
Been
Woman
Too
Getting
Existing
Fair
Making
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The condition of women in our country is so bad that compared to them I have been through nothing. I have just had a child out of wedlock, but I get to be the face of the independent modern woman. I don't think it is fair.
Neena Gupta
/
Independent
Modern Woman
Wedlock
Condition
Fair
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When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.
David Cameron
/
Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Difficult Decisions
Fair
Permanently
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As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.
Jane Green
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Author
Burning
Golden
Rich
Summer
Skin
Fair
Far
Worshipped
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I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.
David Brock
/
Journalist
Comfortable
Conversation
Fighting
Progressive
Future I Am Me
Side
Future Me I Am
Fair
Platform
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Author
Always Me Street
Bought
Fair
Me Street Always
Quarter
Stayed
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To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?
Rick Perry
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Governor Of Texas
Boards
Illegal
Library
Thinking
Apply
Board
Card
Photo
Fair
Id
Instituted
Least
Standard
Required
Votes
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I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.
Brittany Snow
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Film Actress
Best Friend
Smile
Committed
Fair Share
Good Friend
Hard Times
Middle School
School
Suicide
Fair
Good Friends
Personal Experience
Thereafter
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Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
Michael Gove
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British Politician
Fair Trial
Flawed
Forfeit
Shadow
Prefer
Dock
Fair
Pressures
Result
Trial
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During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.
Frederick Banting
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Medical Doctor
Lonely
Lovely
Lunch
Unhappy
Fair
Grounds
Memory
Stick
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou
/
Author
Positive
Truth
Air
Civil Rights
Equal
Equal Rights
Fair Play
Impossible
Including
Justice
Rights
Struggle
Because
Blacks
Civil
Without
Fair
None
Whites
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So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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U.s. Representative
Fair Game
Gender
Palin
Ready
Tough
Vice President
Asked
Fair
Sarah Palin
Sarah
Thus
Vice
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I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.
Brandi Carlile
/
Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Bullied
Fair Share
Gay
Humans
Poor
Share
Thinking
Sure
Anybody
Anybody Else
Did
Too
Else
Fair
Got
Other Kids
Picking
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All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.
Melanie Chisholm
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Singer-Songwriter
Ears
Preconceptions
Unbiased
Great Enough People
Dictated
Fair
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I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.
Mira Nair
/
Film Director
English Literature
Hangover
India
Literature
School
Vanity Fair
Years
English
Boarding
Boarding School
Colonial
Convent
Covers
Fair
Novels
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I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin
/
Painter
Father
Fire
Graves
Hunting
Sadness
Setting
Silence
Smooth
Sun
Clap
Fair
Fathers
Ground
Mouth
Setting Sun
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So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.
Todd Tiahrt
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Former U.s. Representative
Change
People
Pockets
Relief
Tax System
Tax
Change Money People
Invest
Extra
Fair
Pocket
Save
Tax Relief
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A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
Johannes Rau
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Former President Of Germany
Fair Share
Fundamentals
Hundred
Share
Years
Years Ago
German
Co-Operative
Composers
Ensure
Fair
Fundamental
Hundred Years
Performed
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And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to bargain collectively. That's not only fair, it makes workers more productive, it strengthens our economy.
Hillary Clinton
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Bedrock
Class
Easier
Middle
Middle Class
Unions
Workers
Believe I Believe More
Bargain
Collectively
Fair
Formed
Strengthen
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A very big passion of mine and that of the people that run our production is finding factories that have fair labor practices and treating them more like partners in our family than people just who are going to produce for us.
Blake Mycoskie
/
Entrepreneur
Factories
Labor
Partners
Produce
Fair
Finding
Mine
Practices
Treating
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Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.
Bobby Ray Inman
/
Both Sides
Committed
Leader
Sides
Thinking
Appears
Fair
Impose
Solution
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube
/
Record Producer
Funny
Alright
Feet
Thinking
Funny People Never
Neck
Fair
Foot
Telling
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It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.
Betsy Devos
/
Magic
Not Fair
Perfect
Preparing
Wave
Beyond
Fair
Magic Wand
Somehow
System
Transit
Wand
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On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
Jim Gerlach
/
U.s. Representative
Ballots
Country
Decades
Democracy
Election
Iraq
Millions
Pillars
Cast
Fair
Free Election
Iraqis
Marking
Toward
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright
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Former United States Senator
Society
Abuse
Baffled
Democracy
Democratic
Democratic Society
Fair Trial
Indulge
Innuendo
Libel
Outraged
Scandal
Suspicion
Public
Fair
Resort
Themselves
Trial
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Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
Blanche Lincoln
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Former U.s. Senator
Believe
Fiscal Responsibility
Retirement
Secure
Senior
Spending
Tax
Decisions
Believe I Believe Responsibility
Cut
Fair
Fiscal
Seniors
Tax Cut
Working Families
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The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.
Andrew Weil
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Medical Doctor
Disputes
Eating
Justification
Loss
Meals
Metabolism
Usual
Weight
Weight Loss
Extra
Fair
Fair Amount
Supports
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I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
Sarah Palin
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Former Governor Of Alaska
Believer
Capitalism
Conservative
Democratic
Democratic Process
Firm
Free Market
Party
Republican
Compete
Competitive
Emerges
Fair
Project
Firm Believer
Parties
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As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
Ernst Toller
/
Playwright
Kings
Boys
Chamber
Figures
Hero
Pity
Unreality
Heroes
Annual
Fair
Horrors
Shocks
Wax
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The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.
William H. Gray
/
Equal
Minorities
Pursuit
Colorblind
Fair
Funds
Implies
Minority
Rid
Scholarships
Somehow
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Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.
Dennis Moore
/
Accurate
Apples
Compare
Private School
Public School
School
Selective
Test Scores
Job
Everyone
Public
Fair
Oranges
Private
Private Schools
Scores
Second
Test
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As some of us can testify, the viciousness of the lobby groups funded by the fossil fuel industry, and the publications that amplify their message, knows no limits. As we have already seen, they treat even children as fair game.
George Monbiot
/
Writer
Amplify
Fair Game
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Groups
Limits
Fair
Fossil
Lobby
Publications
Testify
Treat
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Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.
Gary Johnson
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Former Governor Of New Mexico
Balance
Consumption
Measurement
Tax System
Years
Tax
Budget
Fair
Measurements
Replace
Throw
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
Randi Weingarten
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Attorney
Adequate
Conditions
High Quality
Recruit
Resources
Succeed
Support
Teachers
Fair
Retain
Wage
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I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
Cherie Lunghi
/
Theatre Actress
Peace
Wisdom
Age
Acceptance
Certain
Mind
Nice
Peace Of Mind
Stamina
Thinking
Wonderful
Youth
Inside
Being
Exchange
Human
Fair
Gain
Glow
Gracefully
Human Being
Lose
Ok
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
Warren Farrell
/
Activist
Anger
Relationship
Men
Altered
Disagree
Nice
Nice Person
Afterwards
Argue
Bone
Consider
Fair
Learned
Underlying
Whom
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On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.
Nia Vardalos
/
Actress
Wedding
Average
Depiction
Felt
Greek
Hook
Looks
Publicity
Real
Real Life
Writer
Fat
Again
Asked
Below
Fair
John
Tour
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Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.
Sanjay Kumar
/
Add
Focused
Never Say Never
Acquisitions
Fair
Public Company
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
/
Economist
Avarice
Foul
Hundred
Liberty
Littles
Precaution
Years
Useful
Pretend
Fair
Hundred Years
Least
Longer
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The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.
Donald Evans
/
Important
Morocco
Parliamentary
Political
Views
Applaud
Fair
Reforms
Manner
Recent
Reported
Widely
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To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.
Joe Baca
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Former U.s. Representative
China
Congress
Decisive Action
Economic Security
Fair Trade
Long Term
Security
Squandering
Weak
Workers
Bill
Businesses
Decisive
Fair
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I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.
Sarah Jones
/
Born
Certain
Circumstances
Developmental
Historical
Invention
Particular
Traits
Unique
Interested
Experiences
Fair
Geographical
Suppose
Physical
Selves
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I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.
Aisha Tyler
/
Actress
Unfair
Choose
Fair
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I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.'
Mark Salling
/
Actor
Cry
Fair Share
Mood
Rely
Share
Coldplay
Cover
Fair
La
Woo
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In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
Allen West
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Former United States Representative
Adoption
Agency
Charity
Fair Share
Legion
Progressive
Real
Real World
Share
Volunteer
Agencies
Bake
Churches
Conservatives
Fair
Local
Post
Sales
Sends
Sermon
Smug
The Real World
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