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I'm not supporting nor not supporting TV casting shows - there is no doubt they are created for financial reasons - but I don't have a problem with wanting to sell tickets, and if you want to do an arena version of a rock musical, you have to sell a lot of tickets to justify the cast.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Arena
Casting
Justify
No Doubt
Tickets
Supporting
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People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.
Jamie Johnson /
Justify
Not Talking
Secure
Wealth
Brings
Onto
Privileges
Questioned
Resource
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When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire /
Intelligent
Justify
Profitable
Traditional
People Sometimes See
Continuous
Explain
Gap
Learnt
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The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it provided them with a whole glossary of stereotypes and preconceptions that they then deployed in order to justify their aim of introducing immigration controls.
David Olusoga /
Aim
British
Citizens
Immigration
Imperialism
Introducing
Justify
Preconceptions
Racism
Controls
Deployed
Elite
Postwar
Provided
Rendered
Stereotypes
Unable
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When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.
Connor Franta /
Beauty
Experience
Capture
Color
Contrast
Justify
Light
Reason
Special
Symmetry
Appears
Basis
Find
Photo
Daily
Daily Basis
Particularly
Front
Moment
Onto
See
Sheds
Taking
Whether
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Imran Khan / Pakistani Politician
War
Bombing
Children
Civilised
Immoral
Insane
Justify
Suspects
Terror
Vietnam
Wife
Eliminate
Neighbours
Wives
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In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.
Vladimir Putin / President Of Russia
Aggression
Council
Independent
International
International Law
Justify
Method
Pretext
Security
Security Council
Sovereign
Sanction
Sovereign State
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
André Aciman / Writer
Conventions
Justify
Narrative
History Past People
Neutral
Log
Memoirs
Provided
Tale
Trial
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Michael Bradley has the stuff of leadership; he works hard and can break up the opponent's play. However, that's not enough to justify his philanthropic attitude towards possession, the generous portion of balls that he contributes to his foes. His sloppiness constantly culminates in unnecessary goals.
Franklin Foer / Journalist
Break Up
Generous
Justify
Philanthropic
Unnecessary
Michael
Foes
Opponent
Portion
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What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
Mitt Romney / Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Justify
Liberalism
Wages
Time Good Character
Failed
Good Jobs
Insist
Policies
Real People
Schools
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What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.
Jon Krakauer / Writer
Aspect
Climbing
Compelling
Justify
Life Great Game
Strangely
Trite
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Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.
Charlie Kimball / Racing Driver
Beach
Justify
Marketing
Racing
Life Good Car
Compete
Driver
Expense
Life Car Good
Indy
Quarter
Races
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I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.
Martin Landau / Film Actor
Bad Guys
Cunning
Ethical
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Villains
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You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Answers
Conferences
Justify
Negative
Ninety
Provocative
Across
Yourself Day Every Day
Asked
Board
Cent
Per
Press
Topic
Tour
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I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.
Khaled Hosseini / Novelist
Afghanistan
Deny
Elsewhere
Existence
Female
Islamic
Justify
Oppression
Pointing
Western
Women Always I Am
Avoid
Basis
Derived
Even Worse
Examples
Notions
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Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.
Simon Sinek / Author
Fair Share
Half
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Law
Purpose
Tax
Actions
Percentage
Requires
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Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well.
Mary Roach / Author
Justify
Sake
Surgery
Cosmetic
Exists
Nonetheless
Nose
Practicing
Undergo
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Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'
Anand Giridharadas /
Appearing
Disruption
Economy
Inheritance
Justify
Share
Good Myself Me
Deflect
Joint
Terms
Threw
Truly
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
Jane Smiley / Novelist
Effects
Justify
Order
People
Philosophy
Profound
Economists
Embraced
Sucked
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
Maggie Rowe /
Arbitrary
Comparison
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Maggie
Sampling
Score
Overall
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?
David Cameron / Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Expensive
Focus
Huge
Justify
Numbers
Organisation
Programmes
Race
Spending
Budget
Carry
Commission
Controlling
Number
Global
Gets
Huge Number
Peripheral
Pound
Shutting
Worked
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My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
David Gerrold / Screenwriter
Science
Approach
Arrogant
Dollars
Justify
Little Bit
Millions
Science Fiction
Stars
Thinking
Writing
Good Enough Me
Tv
Star
Episode
Expense
Science Good Me
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Millions Of Dollars
Screen
Star Trek
Thousands
Trek
Tv Show
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For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.
Ruth Glick / Writer
Romantic
Wisdom
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Guy
Hero
Inner Strength
Justify
Mean
Might
Perfect
Strong
Suspense
Tough
Bend
Wrong
Got
Inner
Outside
Right And Wrong
Sense
Strong Sense
Tender
Thinks
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If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Government
Authority
Consent
Establishment
Justify
Party
Principles
Answered
Despotic
Governments
Principle
Viz
Weaker
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Hoping to garner the support of the American people, proponents of regime-change wars routinely cite humanitarian concerns to justify military intervention in foreign countries. But here is the reality: As a direct result of our intervention in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, human suffering increased dramatically.
Tulsi Gabbard / United States Representative
Foreign Countries
Human Suffering
Hussein
Justify
Saddam
American People
Cite
Concerns
Dramatically
Garner
Hoping
Overthrow
Saddam Hussein
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There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
Phoebe Tonkin / Actress
Justify
Pilots
Staying
Love Family Work
Corner
Unfortunately
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Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
Ernst Haas / Photographer
Caption
Concentration
Creative
Existence
Informative
Justify
Prose
Pure
Seeing
Speak
Taken
Touching
Picture
Becomes
Less
Itself
Composed
Descriptive
Moment
Subject
Suggestive
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I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.
Kajol / Film Actress
Choosy
Crap
Husband
Justify
Months
Powerful
Six
Three
Today
Tolerance
Love Time Today
Away
Becomes
Less
Equally
Go Away
Older
Spend
Role
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
B. D. Wong / Actor
Average
Everyday
Justify
Reason
Television
Transgender
Actor
Oh
Clearly
Ethnic
Rarely
Television Show
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For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.
Alessandro Michele /
Fragments
Garments
Justify
Urgent
Myself I Am Me
Myself Me Past
Guest
Obsess
Sees
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Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
Martin Jacques / Journalist
Behaviour
Hills
Ideology
Justify
No Reason
Rhetoric
Vigorous
For Example
Grounds
Invariably
Seeks
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I like to consider myself a detective, which is how I justify my obsession with my phone. By nature, since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a detective, and any portal to information and investigating things I have ever been given access to, I have dived into. With my phone, unfortunately, I have immediate access to everything.
Emily Meade /
Investigating
Justify
Obsession
Detective
Immediate
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White / Novelist
Bohemia
Burning
Burning Desire
Comfort
Desire
Justify
Poverty
Choose
Confess
Different Person
Entirely
Impelled
Toward
Turned
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Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.
Leon Bourgeois / French Statesman
Color
Common
Common Language
Danger
Involved
Justify
Purpose
Undefined
Unity
Background
General
Basis
Essential
Grave
Masses
Movements
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My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to be respected. The issue is whether it is possible to define and justify our rights without taking a stand on the moral and even sometimes religious convictions that citizens bring to public life.
Michael Sandel / Philosopher
Citizens
Emphasis
Individual Rights
Justify
Liberalism
Moral
Public Life
Religious
Life Great Believe
Convictions
Define
Issue
Main
Quarrel
Respected
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Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Communist
Concepts
Force
International
International Affairs
Justify
Menace
Pretext
Series
Substance
Affairs
Defending
Developed
Period
Wearing
Long Period
Thin
Turned
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I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Ban Ki-Moon / Diplomat
Abuse
Access
Activity
Aggressive
Becoming
Concerned
Disturbed
Exceptional
Human Rights
Internet
Justify
National Security
Programmes
Reason
Rights
Security
States
Surveillance
Understand
Criminal
Freedoms
Fundamental
National
Safeguard
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On April 14, 1986, when the Reagan administration launched an airstrike on Libya in clear violation of international law, Kissinger did the rounds on news shows to justify the bombing. The day after the bombing, Kissinger appeared on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to voice his 'total support.' Attacking Libya, he said, was 'correct' and 'necessary.'
Greg Grandin /
Good Morning
Administration
April
Attacking
Bombing
International Law
Justify
Libya
Rounds
Violation
Abc
Good Morning Day
Appeared
Correct
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Former National Security Advisor
Conflict
Debate
Discussion
Justify
Lurking
Missing
Terrorist
Almost All
Nonetheless
Perpetrator
Simple Fact
Sustained
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