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Back in 2014, my fellow Hong Kongers and I hoped to use nonviolent means to fight for our territory's democratic system - a simple right, promised by Beijing, to choose our own leader.
Joshua Wong
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Beijing
Territory
Fellow
Hoped
Nonviolent
Promised
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I've had shows where, afterwards, people have commented or hoped I would talk more about something in politics or that I would make a joke about Mitch McConnell or something like that.
Wyatt Cenac
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Stand-Up Comedian
Politics Where People
Afterwards
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Hoped
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My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.
Tom Rachman
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Novelist
Journalism
Thrilling
Drawn
Eventually
Gain
Hoped
Intent
No Question
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
Peter Matthiessen
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Novelist
Journey
Travel
Beautiful
Regret
Return
Safe
Strange
Had
Those
Brings
Far
Hoped
Over
Peaks
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I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.
Douglass North
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Economist
War
Berkeley
Marine
School
Strong
Strong Feeling
Graduated
Hoped
Joined
Merchant
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I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.
Tony Dungy
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Football Player
Nfl
Pittsburgh
Quarterback
Agent
Drafted
Ended
Hoped
Whoever
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Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
James Macarthur
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Actor
Hawaii
Lord
Series
Six
Years
Years Ago
Completed
Episode
Hoped
Immediately
Jack
Premier
Realized
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I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse.
Mark Pocan
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United States Representative
Climate
Climate Change
Effects
National Security
Change Health Climate
Address
Even Worse
Hoped
Imperative
Recognize
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I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.
Chuck Berry
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Guitarist
Home Me Never
Connect
Hoped
Studio
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For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.
Claude Monet
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Painter
Alas
Long Time
Poor
Hoped
More And More
Necessary
Suffers
Weaker
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The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
Charles Williams
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Poet
Leadership
Divine
Judging
Officers
Religious
Judge
Comments
Hoped
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I was always interested in becoming a midwife. Then, at my own birth, I didn't get the support I'd hoped for, and that changed everything. That's why I became a doula. There's such a need.
Domino Kirke
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Birth
Midwife
Hoped
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I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.
Frank Lautenberg
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Former United States Senator
Afterlife
Congress
Country
Important Issues
Issues
Plans
Tonight
American People
Exactly
Facing
Unfortunately
Country People Important
Hoped
Tackle
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Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
John Amery
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Afterlife
Imagine
Listeners
Qualified
Radio
Tonight
Wonder
German
Englishman
Hoped
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When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped, fresh. And whether anyone should act on that idea is a very different question.
Cass Sunstein
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Legal Scholar
Academic
Excitement
Hoped
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I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had.
James Salter
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Novelist
Prepared
Seventeen
Spoiled
Succeed
Vain
West Point
Me Father Anything
Anything Else
Enter
Father Me More
Hoped
More Than Anything
Remote
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Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
Joyce Meyer
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Author
Trust
Certain
Choices
Offense
Way
Anyway
Certain Way
Choice
Happen
Hoped
Prayed
React
Toward
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Having a kid who begged for 'just a few more minutes' of television was the antithesis of what I had hoped parenthood would be. It was resigning ourselves to a universe of want and consumption.
Kim Brooks
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Antithesis
Consumption
Minutes
Parenthood
Resigning
Television
Universe
Few
Hoped
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
Tariq Ali
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Writer
Capitalist
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Restoration
Revolutions
Concept
Hoped
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
Anne Lamott
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Novelist
Disappointing
Gravy
Hate
March
San Francisco
Virginia
Wake Up
Woolf
Somewhere
Francisco
Hoped
Recent
San
Wake
Woke
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I can explain to you in detail just how a tree can be made into paper. But I've always wondered - and hoped - that someday, someone would help me discover how paper can be made back into a tree.
Hope Jahren
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Paper
Someday
Tree
Detail
Discover
Explain
Me Help Always
Hoped
Wondered
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Paulo Costa vs. Yoel Romero was everything we hoped it would be. Two behemoths throwing sledgehammers at each other and walking forward. Just an incredible display of athleticism, will and power.
Ariel Helwani
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Display
Throwing
Hoped
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Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.
Isaac Marion
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Writer
Pointless
Regret
Work Out
Based
Belt
Deciding
Hoped
Notch
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We got married in 1987; it was really Ross that wanted to get married. I had hoped I might find someone rich and never have to work again, and I could see that was not going to be the case with Ross.
Ingrid Seward
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Married
Rich
Case
Get Married
Hoped
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Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.
Ken Liu
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Fiction Writer
Book
Letters
Rejection
Short Story
Sun
Writer
Collected
Short
Hoped
Market
Submitted
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The most important thing is to simultaneously deal with reality - really the way it is, not the way you wished it could be or you hoped it could be - but also have a vision about where you want to go.
Alan Mulally
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Engineer
Important
Reality
Vision
Also
Could
Deal
Hoped
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Simultaneously
The Most Important
Wished
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I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
Sigourney Weaver
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Actress
Dream
Afterlife
Father
Fulfilled
Observing
Satisfaction
Hoped
Striving
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I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.
Lana Wood
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Film Actress
Lonely
Life Love Me
Belonged
Marry
Hoped
Wanting
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George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.
Marc Rich
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Trader
War
Barack
Big Mistake
Disappointed
Iraq
Iraq War
Mistake
Needed
President
Change Good Done
Obama
Barack Obama
Bush
George
George W
George W. Bush
Hoped
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Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
Alfred P. Sloan
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Author
Competition
Rate
Return
Temporary
Competitive
Final
Hoped
Losses
Price
Profits
Result
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When I was around 13 or 14, there were visits to the theater, which really ignited my passion. Going to see live theater is when I properly got the bug and hoped I'd be able to do it for a living one day.
Genevieve O'reilly
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Live Theater
Bug
Hoped
Properly
Visits
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As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.
Tracy Chapman
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Singer-Songwriter
Imagine
Consider
Hoped
Sustain
Truthfully
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The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.
Giada De Laurentiis
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Chef
Jobs
Culinary
Culinary School
Right Decision
School
Summer
Hoped
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The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
Tom Holland
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Good
Hardest
Important
Most
Yourself
Good Yourself Your
Always Yourself Your
Because
Anything
Thing
Good Yourself Important
Always
Good Always Yourself
Try
You
Down
Even
Still
Good Yourself Always
Good Important Always
Hoped
Important Thing
Letting
Most Important Thing
Sense
The Most Important
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
Robert Sheckley
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Author
Science
Acceptable
Fiction
Humour
Science Fiction
Would Be
Science Science Fiction Fiction
Hoped
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
Patrick Marber
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Comedian
Dramatic
Elegant
Emotion
Structure
Tension
Hoped
Meeting
Underlying
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
Jack Layton
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Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Journey
Cancer
Defeat
Discouraged
Gone
Please
Canadians
Hoped
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It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.
Tom Shales
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Critic
Civilized
Imitation
Smart
Sophisticated
Alternative
Cheap
Commercial
Develop
Hoped
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When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.
Vint Cerf
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Computers
Communicate
Ingenuity
Standards
Predict
Blossom
Hoped
Net
Unleash
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The first product I ever used was my mom's foundation. When I was younger, I had pimples, so I just slapped it on and hoped it would fix the situation. It never did, because it was about 18 shades too light for me.
James Charles
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Pimples
Situation
Younger
Hoped
Product
Shades
Slapped
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Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.
David Blunkett
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British Politician
Available
Brave
Offenders
Protection
Secretary
Expand
Hoped
Introduced
Substantially
Witnesses
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After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
Chang-Rae Lee
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Novelist
Finishing
Hoped
To Be Honest
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker
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Author
Family
Parenting
Creative
Flower
Mother
More
Anonymously
Could
Read
Often
Grandmothers
Handed
Hoped
Letter
Plainly
Sealed
See
Spark
Themselves
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I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.
Scott Adams
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Comic Strip Creator
Correlation
Passion
Reality
Lots
Seen
Hoped
Lose
Tried
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Historian
Defeated
Perpetual
Succeed
Revolutions
Condemn
Discover
Gain
Hoped
Parties
Regain
Ruin
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That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.
Andrew Lincoln
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Actor
Bars
Excitement
Identification
Restaurants
Always People Find
Escape
Hoped
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
Viggo Mortensen
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Actor
Disappointing
Mere
Shadow
Shooting
Stories
Would Be
End Product
Hoped
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Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.
David Leslie
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Car
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Stage
Job
Unfortunately
Hoped
Moment
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No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.
Regina Brett
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Columnist
Dresses
Each Day
Heaven
Matter
Feel
More
Always
Get
Show
Days
Could
Day
How
Each
Hoped
Some
Serve
Slice
Smaller
Truly
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With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
Alison Sweeney
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Actress
Cameras
Chemistry
Gems
Reality
Reality Tv
Tvs
Blossom
Camera
Envision
Loves
Hoped
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