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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.
Jamie Foxx / Actor
Music
College
Fun
Grandmother
Made
Next
Piano
Practice
Scholarship
Smarter
Wanted
Everybody
Now
Music Man Me
Any
Career
Classical
Full
Day
Michael
Every Day
Hour
Jackson
Makes
Mozart
Next Thing
She
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I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.
Steve Berry / Author
Morning
Had Enough
Law
Morning Person
Writing
Hour
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The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs.
Nora Ephron / Journalist
Eggs
Games
Onions
Specialty
About An Hour
Time Day New
Bowl
Cooked
Hour
Nova
Scrambled
The One Thing
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The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.
Dolores Huerta / Labor Leader
Cents
Cold
Conditions
Drinking
Drinking Water
Earning
Fields
Periods
Terrible
Toilets
Water
Atrocious
Rest
Hour
Time Rest People
Wage
Worked
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If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Deny
Done
Five
Internet
Minutes
Surf
Surfing
Time Yourself Your
Time Start Done
Time Done Yourself
Allow
Try
Facebook
Hour
Ignore
Schedule
Start
Themselves
Tried
Tweets
Urge
Web
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'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot it, plus it has an hour of content. 'The Good Wife' is network. They're shooting on HD. It moves quicker and they only have forty minutes of content instead of a full hour. Not to mention the difference of shooting, you know, rated-R stuff!
Carrie Preston / Film Actress
Blood
Forty
Good Wife
Plus
Shooting
Shot
Shoot
Hour
Mention
Network
Quicker
True Blood
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Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Home
Morning
Makeup
Ready
Taken
Twelve
Work Morning Home
All Day
Go Home
Wait
Hour
Picked
Same Thing
Tiring
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Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?'
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Boyfriend
Appropriate
Calling
Night
Two
Voice
Time Change Your
Answering
Calls
Hour
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From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school. It's like going to the gym as an actor: every single night, you have to recreate the illusion of the first time, so you really have to listen and connect and stay in the moment for an hour and a half - with no breaks.
Beth Behrs / Actress
Community
First Time
Five
Gym
Half
Illusion
Night
Single
Theater
Actor
Breaks
Connect
Stay
Every Single Night
Hour
Hour And A Half
Moment
Recreate
Single Night
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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Breathing
Calling
Eight
Golden
Nine
Noon
Pages
Tapping
Toes
Waiting
Work Day People
Neck
Deadlines
Hour
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I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Band
Bass
Drummer
Guitar
Guitar Player
Intense
Percussion
Player
Singers
David
Bass Player
Hour
Lee
Present
Roth
Sixties
Whereas
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Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Consolation
Exalted
Foolish
Honorable
Nevertheless
Smoke
Unprepared
God Your Look
Cut
Enemies
Fade
Fruits
Hour
Largest
Required
Shall
Trees
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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
Eddie Rickenbacker / Race Car Driver
Car
Bones
Ears
Hundred
Judging
Miles
Motor
Nerves
Practise
Racing
Sound
Speed
Training
Simply
Distances
Engine
Gives
Helps
Hour
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I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.
Sloane Crosley / Writer
Structure
Established
Check
Day Job
Freelance
Hour
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Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.
George Kaiser /
Age
Brain
Development
Dollars
Educational
Geometric
Influential
One Day
Progression
Appears
Month
Day One
Dramatically
Experiences
Formative
Spend
Hour
Point
Quoted
Takes
Truly
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For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
Jane Mcgonigal / Game Designer
Ability
Care
Challenges
Difficult
Gamer
Real
Real Life
Most
Life Time Power
Back
Bring
Favorite
Day
Engage
Still
Hour
Letting
Notice
Playing
Relationships
Strengthen
Virtual
While
Worlds
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A couple of years ago, I went to dinner with a very high-profile source, and out of respect, I put my phone down for, say, an hour and a half. And during this dinner there was a major breaking story related to the Secret Service. When I picked my phone back up, I had missed about 50 emails and seven phone calls from the network.
Kristen Welker / Television Personality
Respect
Dinner
Half
High Profile
Phone Calls
Related
Secret
Years
Years Ago
Back
Back Up
Breaking
Calls
Couple Of Years Ago
Down
Phone
Emails
Hour
Hour And A Half
Major
Put
Missed
Network
Picked
Service
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The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.
Nick Hanauer / Venture Capitalist
Yoga
Good
Earning
Gym
Lessons
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Mother
Piano
Restaurants
Things
Person
Eat
Going
Doing
Those
Out
Flowers
Day
Federal
Hour
Piano Lessons
Raise
Studio
Sending
Taking
Wage
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To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?
Melissa Rosenberg / Screenwriter
Character
Compelling
Episodes
Frustrating
Interesting
Inventing
Two
Time Face Challenges
Hour
Incredibly
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As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.
Marlo Thomas / Actress
Brilliant
Clock
Commitment
Disease
Doctors
Fighting
Men And Women
Researchers
Work Men Women
Attest
Work Women Men
Firsthand
Hour
Jude
Painstaking
Scientists
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When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.
Rufus Wainwright / Singer
Opera
Piano
Real
Sitting
Staring
Thinking
Bench
Bodily
Meant
Deal
Hour
Least
Movements
Regular
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Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.
Emily Oster / Economist
Activity
Leisure
Passion
Planning
Life Time Work
Since
Assume
Works
Life Work Time
Hour
Per
Just Be
Leaves
Pays
Pick
Tend
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For 'The Haunting Hour,' I thought it would be a lot of fun. It was great to play this cool kid role. My episode is called 'The Intruders' and my character is this mean, angry teenager because her younger brother was just born and he gets all of the attention. She's always playing tricks on her family, and there are some cool twists.
Willow Shields / Film Actress
Angry
Brother
Haunting
Tricks
Twists
Younger Brother
Younger
Episode
Hour
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The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.
Victoria Smurfit / Actress
Dracula
Hour
Jonathan
Nuances
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There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry is the minimum-wage business model. I say phooey to that. You go to a Costco store, and you see people there who've been working there for years and years. They're making $15, $20 an hour, plus health benefits.
Tom Perez /
Benefits
Costco
Health Benefits
Notion
Plus
Health Business People
Business Model
Categorically
False
Model
Hour
Service
Store
Years And Years
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I love to eat, and I don't believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I'm not obsessed with it; I don't have a trainer or do any of the fancy classes, but I usually put on my iPod and run on the treadmill for an hour a few days a week. I'd much rather be the girl who worked out more so she could eat more; I could never not eat.
Amber Rose / Model
Fancy
Work Out
Love Work Myself
Classes
Denying
Hour
Ipod
Trainer
Worked
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Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.
Gigi Hadid / Model
Breakdown
Cry
Dinner
Drag
Over It
Race
Swimming
Accept
Couch
Phone
Gonna
Hour
Lay
Ok
Paul
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We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.
Louise Mensch / Author
Closing
Common Sense
Media
Riot
Social Media
Two
Facebook
Facebook And Twitter
Hour
Restore
Shut
Spreading
Survive
Temporarily
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If there is anything good to be said about my particular line of work, it's that we get to tell people the news they need to hear, and to put it in context. To get to that - for one hour every night on the 'PBS NewsHour,' and for an additional half-hour every Friday night on 'Washington Week,' we have to slog through a lot of tough stuff.
Gwen Ifill / Journalist
Every Night
Friday
Friday Night
News
Night
Particular
Pbs
Tough
Additional
Work Good Night
Context
Washington
Hear
Hour
Line
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When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.
Chelsea Peretti / Comedian
Carpet
Comedian
Edgy
Funny Stuff
Legendary
Red Carpet
Rivers
Blew
Hour
Joan
Standup
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I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You'd be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.
Atul Gawande / Surgeon
Court
Defined
Tennis
Life Good Believe
Version
Every Single Thing
Hour
Single Thing
Wherever
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Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Anger
Depression
Blinders
Break
Eye
Handle
Horse
Illness
Loneliness
Next
Pain
Sadness
Too Much
Actually
Days
Challenge
Stay
Each
Small
Hour
Moment
Piece
Task
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And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.
Billy Gardell / Comedian
Angry
Guy
Laughing
Thinking
Life Your Me
Life Angry Me
Happening
Hour
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One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
Dave Gibbons / Comic Book Writer
Comic
Comic Book
Spending
Thrown
Work Long Nothing
Draw
Hour
Previous
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When you're out there in the octagon and you've got thousands of people, millions across the world, either cheering for you to win or cheering for you to get knocked out, the adrenaline is going, so it doesn't hurt while you're out there. Now fast forward to about an hour and a half to two hours after the fight? Oh yes. It's pretty painful.
Stephen Thompson /
Adrenaline
Half
Hurt
Millions
Painful
About An Hour
Across
Cheering
Fight World People
Fast
Forward
Hour
Hour And A Half
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Yes
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To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
Joshua Foer / Journalist
Cards
Deck
Feats
Masters
Memories
Order
Precise
Superhuman
Two
Time World Must
Attain
Perform
Time World Memory
Master
Grand
Hour
Memorize
Rank
Seemingly
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A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so they're still the character you know and love.
Vince Gilligan / Producer
Zero
Stretching
Typical
Love Always Character
Beginning
Franchise
Hour
More Or Less
Protecting
Tv Show
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I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.
Macaulay Culkin / Actor
Bones
Clothes
Done
Happened
Likes
Likes And Dislikes
Memories
Miles
Spinning
Stuck
Thousand Miles
Things
Person
Come
Very
Across
Collection
Me
Am
Thoughts I Am Me
Back
Bag
Every
Dislikes
Ever
Wear
Hour
Large
Place
Rock
Object
Thoughts
Sum
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A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you're at work, you've been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you're raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.
Henry Cavill / Actor
Morning
Activity
Constant
Eye
Sleep
Time Work Morning
By The Time
Everyone Else
Work Time Morning
Flowing
For Example
Hour
Juices
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It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.
Robert Pozen /
Home
Colleagues
Finished
Left
Office
Reading
Reality
Surfing
Unfortunate
Workplace
Again
Stay
Fast
For The Day
Go Home
Goes
Hour
None
Web
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You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.
Hope Jahren /
Discouraged
Grace
Handful
Lucky
Might
Perfume
Smell
Strawberries
Sun
Taste
Two
Yield
Come
Appear
Them
Wild
Closed
Part
Encouraged
Eyes
Hour
Nor
Parts
Pick
Searching
Unearned
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There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.
Mark Haddon / Novelist
Space
Cinema
Cities
Insane
London
Metropolitan
Open Spaces
Oxford
Theatre
Contains
Cultural
Facilities
Hour
Near
Spaces
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'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don't have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you're done.
Jason Blum / Film Producer
Activity
Fifty
Paranormal
Versions
Disciplined
Hour
Screen
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
Dan Stevens / Actor
Business
Bells
Broadway
Calling
Chapel
Enthusiastic
Every Night
Half
Lines
Night
Show Business
Theatre
Actor
Before
Show
Certainly
District
Curtain
Vast
Street
Walk
Hour
Place
No Business
See
Sounds
Tune
York
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Zero
Advantage
Ambition
Arriving
Burden
Danger
Liberty
Private Life
Recompense
Remains
Return
Tranquillity
Welfare
Accept
Life Done Believe
Calculate
Hour
Private
Provided
Shall
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It's no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television - or educational television, as it used to be called. On a commercial network, a program that actually inspired viewers to get off the couch and spend an hour cooking a meal would be a commercial disaster, for it would mean they were turning off the television to do something else.
Michael Pollan / Author
Cooking
Disaster
Educational
Julia
Program
Viewers
Accident
Appeared
Turning
Commercial
Couch
Hour
Meal
Network
Something Else
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I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Joyce Meyer / Author
God
Morning
Couple
Friday
Monday
Saturday
Sunday
Sunday Morning
Thursday
Tuesday
Wednesday
God Your People
Box
Emergency
Hour
Invade
Just Be
Saying
Sit
Wants
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Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.
Stephen J. Dubner / Journalist
Society
Acknowledge
Blank
Half
Little Bit
May
Slate
Willing
Decisions
Child
Aside
Bit
Biases
Blank Slate
Set
Habits
Help
Hour
Individuals
Large
Rethink
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