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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Allen Tate
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Poet
Quality
Conditions
Instance
Morality
Psychological
Social Conditions
Three
Two
Nor
Poem
Qualities
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If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
Samuel West
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Actor
Done
Instance
Passing
Play
Staggering
Torches
Weight
Carrying
Torch
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I've been arrested a few times. The most high-profile instance was when protesting at the fracking site in Balcombe. It's an industry which will undermine our chances of tackling climate change.
Caroline Lucas
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Arrested
Climate Change
High Profile
Instance
Site
Tackling
Change Will Climate
Chances
Change Climate Will
Protesting
Undermine
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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.
Andrzej Wajda
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Film Director
Movie
Money
Actors
Distributors
Film Industry
Giving
Instance
Legislation
Not Interested
Percentage
Sales
Sharing
Ticket
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They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
Robert Stack
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Actor
California
Desert
Instance
Location
Sahara
Comparable
Match
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Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
Ilan Stavans
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Essayist
Defined
Half
Instance
Mexican
States
Territory
Turmoil
Gave
Historically
Internal
Treaty
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When I look at character artistes, they begin after 40. For instance, Boman Irani took up his first film after he was 40. Since I too, am in my 40s, I think I am finally getting to be in my zone.
Rahul Dev
/
Instance
Zone
Character Look I Am
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I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Novelist
Cynical
Instance
No Reason
Talking
Thinking
Seasoned
Superior
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I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
Major Taylor
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Cyclist
Athlete
Clean
Clean Living
Efficacy
Inspiration
Instance
Long
Long Way
Cite
Coupled
Proves
Received
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For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.
Miriam Makeba
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Singer
Arms
Buying
Fighting
Giving
Indebted
Instance
Needs
Resources
Wherever
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All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate who was 'enthusiastic' about religion attracted censure and suspicion.
Amanda Foreman
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Aftermath
Censure
Civil War
Enthusiastic
Instance
Nations
Struggle
Suspicion
All Nations
Attracted
Civil
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I was a player for 20 years. When there was something bothering me, I couldn't perform to my usual standard. When your wife is annoying you, for instance, it's not easy to do your best work, is it?
Gennaro Gattuso
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Annoying
Best Work
Instance
Usual
Best Work Your
Best Work Do Your Best
Bothering
Do Your Best
Standard
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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
Brian Eno
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Musician
Combination
Fascinated
Form
Instance
Kind
Magic
Popular Music
Fairly
Established
Popular
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I always see bridal as a cultural thing: you have to get under the skin to find out what is needed in that market. For instance, the Italians love plain dresses, and the Americans loved beaded ones.
Jenny Packham
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Bridal
Instance
Italians
Plain
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We humans are great at creating tools with unforeseen consequences. For instance, when we invented the wheel, we had no way of knowing we were also laying the foundations for the TV show 'Top Gear.'
Charlie Brooker
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Broadcaster
Creating
Humans
Instance
Tools
Unforeseen
Tv
Consequences
Foundations
Gear
Invented
Laying
Tv Show
Wheel
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The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
Dwight Schultz
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Film Actor
Describing
Instance
Military
Myth
Perpetuating
Procedures
Bodies
Craft
Incident
Witnesses
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Kate Adie
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Journalist
Government
Believe
British
Contact
Information
Instance
Ira
Ireland
Media
Members
Northern Ireland
Ahead
Believing
Governments
Northern
Prohibit
Question
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I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.
Tony Visconti
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Record Producer
Audio
Instance
Logic
Order
Track
Years
Board
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I haven't studied theology in any systematic way. I don't think I'd find certain subjects - canon law, for instance - terribly interesting. But I'm always picking around and finding different things.
Stephen Hough
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Canon
Different Things
Instance
Subjects
Systematic
Theology
Terribly
Picking
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It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
William Lamb, 2Nd Viscount Melbourne
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Former First Lord Of The Treasury
Impossible
Instance
Rugged
Steep
Unpopular
Maintain
Popular
Safest
Transit
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While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.
Mark Knopfler
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Songwriter
Captured
Guitar
Instance
Song
Swings
Western
Swing
Tune
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If it's a huge tentpole movie, for instance with a movie like 'Tintin,' a year and a half, almost two years in advance, we were developing a videogame campaign and massive consumer products campaign.
Kathleen Kennedy
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Developing
Instance
Massive
Advance
Campaign
Consumer
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I can give you 150 philosophies about converting to vegetarianism, but you will only convert if your body feels right. I, for instance, feel fabulous; my body feels clean after becoming a vegetarian.
Rahul Dev
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Fabulous
Instance
Vegetarianism
Your Body Will
Convert
Philosophies
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According to me, the key is 'less is more.' For instance, if the print is the star of your outfit, don't accessorize too much. And if you have a gorgeous piece of jewellery, allow it to shine through.
Masaba Gupta
/
Gorgeous
Instance
Jewellery
Less Is More
Print
Too Much
According
Allow
Star
Outfit
Piece
Shine
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Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington.
Tucker Carlson
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Commentator
Flattering
Higher
Humanity
Instance
Moved
Opinion
Since
Washington
Politicians
Maybe
Steadily
View
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I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
Arnold Schoenberg
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Composer
Deny
Instance
Proud
Way
Writing
Directly
Owe
Mozart
Quartet
String
String Quartet
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One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
Lawrence Halprin
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Landscape Architect
Disaster
Instance
Telegraph
Views
Plaza
Therefore
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You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.
Summer Glau
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Film Actress
Character
Choices
Decision
Instance
People
Understood
Always People Connection
Connection
Passed
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Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!
Riaad Moosa
/
Wisdom
Flu
Instance
Pigs
Ridicule
Scared
Swine
Understand
Behind
Europeans
Muslim
Saying
Sudden
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Roger Waters
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Musician
Kids
Father
Instance
Song
Helped
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Theatre remains my first and last love and even when I am noot doing plays, I am associated with it in some way. For instance, I go to Mumbai University as a visiting faculty and talk about the medium.
Himani Shivpuri
/
Faculty
Instance
Mumbai
Remains
Visiting
Love I Am Doing
Associated
Love I Am Way
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
Jaclyn Smith
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Actress
Instance
Machines
Mass
Mass Production
Factory
Hose
Prices
Threads
Uses
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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Alexander Alekhine
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Chess Player
Committed
Crime
Drunk
Excuse
Instance
Considered
Short
Statement
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In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
Poppy Z. Brite
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Author
Convinced
Crushed
France
Influence
Instance
Magazines
Soul
Writer
Huge Influence
Magazine
Souls
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Sometimes things can take a very long time and still not be very good. It took us all of evolutionary history just to get where we are today, for instance, and mostly where we are today is on the couch.
Gina Barreca
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Professor
Instance
Long Time
Time History Good
Couch
Evolutionary
Mostly
Took
Very Long Time
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Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.
Gina Mccarthy
/
Administrator
Jobs
Controversy
Decision
Embrace
Instance
People
Unhappy
Be Happy
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I think what people call genre is just a question of orchestration. So, for instance, with Punch Brothers, you look at that band and say that's a bluegrass band, when really it's an orchestration choice.
Chris Thile
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Mandolinist
Bluegrass
Instance
Orchestration
Punch
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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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Composer
Aspect
Instance
People
Writing
Aspects
Participate
Vital
Young People
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I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.
Nancy Wilson
/
Jealous
Band
Bunch
Christine
Fleetwood Mac
Instance
Obvious
Variety
Added
Stevie
Fleetwood
Singer
Lead Singer
Sing
Though
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All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
Gianni Agnelli
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Industrialist
Instance
Stable
Infinitely
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Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo, for instance, without the assistance of Prussia.
Linda Colley
/
Historian
Assistance
Instance
Most Powerful
Prussia
Waterloo
Alliance
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Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria drug, for instance. We don't understand those. We don't understand how they work together.
Frances Arnold
/
Instance
Malaria
Together
Inside
Living
Understand
Work Together Your
Cell
Itself
Enable
Work Living Your
Proteins
Thousands
Work Together
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We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.
Leonard Mlodinow
/
Physicist
Instance
Slam
Hammer
Pull
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Honestly, I realized the deeper significance of spirituality only after becoming a mother, like, for instance, the selflessness, understanding the needs of another and so forth that comes with the territory.
Nikita Thukral
/
Deeper
Instance
Selflessness
Significance
Spirituality
Territory
Forth
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If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.
Judy Collins
/
Singer
Indifferent
Instance
Shameless
Good Myself Day
Chore
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I think if you look at, for instance, what the Seahawks - what we did winning the Super Bowl, that was with a very young team. So you have to blend the experience with young players and develop those as well.
Paul Allen
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Philanthropist
Instance
Super Bowl
Winning
Blend
Bowl
Develop
Super
Young Players
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philologist
Christianity
Instance
Afterwards
Alleviating
Prescription
Provides
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The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.
John Hersey
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Writer
Body
Higher
Instance
Levels
Normal
Stage
White
Came
Compensate
Count
Ills
Increased
Struggled
Reaction
Returned
Third
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Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
Marco Rubio
/
United States Senator
Alright
Barack
Believe
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Instance
Admit
Barack Obama
Straight
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Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.
Michael Dirda
/
Critic
Christmas
April
Austen
Divided
Ghost
Instance
Jane
Seasons
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