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I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Programmer
Found
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Change Best World
Lots
Change The World
Companies
Develop
Hire
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Start
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An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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Author
Kids
Book
Just One
One Friend
Share
Writing
Lots
Author
Friend
Copy
Grown-Up
Published
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I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing.
Tracy Chapman
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Singer-Songwriter
Coltrane
Franklin
Jazz
Records
Talking
Family Music Always
Lots
Aretha
Blues
Jackson
Sang
Sing
Soon
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For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.
Michael Dirda
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Critic
Christmas
Vacation
Holiday
Leftovers
Pressure
Reserved
Two Weeks
Weather
Lots
Being Used
Frightful
Twelfth
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In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Chow Yun-Fat
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Actor
Romantic
Dramatic
Hero
Hong Kong
Novel
Romance
West
Love Romantic I Am
Love Romantic Always
Lots
Audiences
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To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.
Matt Taibbi
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Author
Running
Assets
Dollars
Firm
Gas
Millions
Oil
Profitable
Stations
Wall
Lots
Corporation
Street
Hundreds
Millions Of Dollars
Wall Street
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The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Allyson Felix
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Track And Field Athlete
God
Trust
Different
Following
God's Plan
Important
Lessons
Seems
Trials
Control
Most
Will
Like
Us
Go
Always
Lots
Any
Make
Never
He
Through
Circumstance
Every
Leave
Times
Important Lesson
Learned
Lesson
Plan
Sense
The Most Important
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It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
Roger Waters
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Musician
Home
Late
Mad
Rhythm
Shouting
Tonight
Track
Album
Lots
Arab
Background
Broad
Drums
Graham
Lots And Lots
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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Jeffery Deaver
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Crime Writer
Book
Garden
Pages
Surprise
Turns
Twists
Lots
Beasts
Big Surprise
Ending
Generally
Ideally
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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
Edward Witten
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Physicist
Experience
Block
Building Blocks
Equipment
Everyday
Everyday Life
Gravity
Ordinary
Physics
Strong
Weak
Lots
Basic
Blocks
Explore
Forces
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I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!
Julia Voth
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Beautiful Country
Beer
Country
Japan
Machines
Modeling
Teens
Yeah
Love Beautiful I Am
Started
Lots
Did
Calvin Klein
Covers
Street
Magazine
Vending
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One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.
Jason Alexander
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Actor
Acting
Addict
Brushing
Different Characters
Love Work People
Against
Lots
Bit
Interested
Characters
Often
Hear
Incorporate
Observe
Reasons
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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Mary Wesley
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Novelist
Courage
Men
Battle
Children
Courageous
Husband
Illness
Long Term
Men Women Brave
Courage Men Women
Lots
Braver
Facing
Courage Women Men
Husbands
Immediately
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I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.
Matthew Lillard
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Actor
Battle
Being Funny
Choices
Direct
Electric
Inspire
Lots
Big Fan
Fan
Leading
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I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
Angela Merkel
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Chancellor Of Germany
Bad Luck
Caught
Sorry
Strong
Team
Lots
German
Ball
Carry
Oliver
Psychologically
Saves
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I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.
Brian Cox
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Physicist
Ambition
Difficult Times
Lots
Later
Realise
Thwarted
Young Actor
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In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published - skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.
Hilary Benn
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British Politician
Britain
Holland
Papers
Photograph
Shorts
Skinny
Lots
Lining
Other Kids
Park
Published
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I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never met in the real world - who get trapped in a shared dreamscape when they fall asleep. It's called 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr.
Stephen Cole
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Doctor Who
Fall
Favourite
Real World
Spooky
Trapped
Lots
Asleep
Doctor
Catherine
Liked
Invalid
Met
Shared
Tale
The Real World
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Ahana does lots of things; that's the problem with her. She is a fashion designer and is also writing some scripts. She doesn't want to do the regular commercial films. So she has decided that only if she really likes something, then she will take it up.
Hema Malini
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Decided
Designer
Fashion Designer
Likes
Scripts
Lots
Commercial
The Problem With
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I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to have any more than that. But I have lots of dogs. I love the dogs. I breed them. I always have a puppy coming. And I show dogs. I show German shepherds.
George Foreman
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Professional Boxer
Puppy
Shepherds
Love Wife Me
Love Always Me
Allow
Lots
German
Breed
Corner
Dogs
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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Neil Gaiman
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Author
Yearbook
Articles
Artist
Editors
Magazines
Phones
Lots
Bought
Copy
Phone
Hired
Soon
Talked
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
Chris Stapleton
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Musician
Church
Eastern
Folks
Mountain
Secular
Training
Lots
Artists
Churches
Sing
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For a long time, it seemed as if podcasting was a male realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men doing podcasts, but women are voicing a lot of the form's biggest hits. 'Serial,' the podcast that made podcasts a phenomenon, was narrated by a woman.
Michelle Dean
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Form
Long Time
Phenomenon
Time Men Women
Sure
Male
Lots
Biggest
Woman
Time Women Men
Hits
Longer
Realm
Seemed
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'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.
Kelli Williams
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Actress
Lucky
Monologues
Objections
Practice
Seven
Great Me Long
Lots
David
Great Long Me
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
Emma Thompson
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Actress
Despite
Difficult Decisions
Motherhood
Decisions
Lots
Best Time Work
Due
Period
Efforts
Best Work Time
Grown-Up
Long Period
Resist
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He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.
Jane Badler
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Actress
Method
Lots
Believed
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After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!
Linda Sue Park
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Author
Charming
Degrees
Dublin
High School
Husband
London
Moved
Reading
Stanford
University
Lots
English
Irishman
Near
Received
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I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.
Skylar Grey
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Singer-Songwriter
Jealous
Details
Fit
Melody
Storytelling
Lots
Big Fan
Rappers
Songwriter
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
Anthony Holden
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Writer
Men
Book
Columns
Couple
Lots
Associate
Suffered
Insults
Interview
Quotes
Tabloid
Tower
Trial
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The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.
Robert Mcchesney
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Broadcasters
Influence
Time Money Long
Lots
Tremendous
Commercial
Washington
Politicians
Extremely
Reasons
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It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.
Marissa Mayer
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Engineer
Childhood
Surround
Variety
Well Rounded
Mom Childhood Me
Mom Always Me
Lots
Liked
Opportunities
Pick
Result
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Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
Bill Walton
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Basketball Player
Basketball
Fun
Parking
Sleep
Staying
Swimming
Lots
Changes
Declined
Hotels
Sleeping
Tour
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Balance takes work. Lots of it. There is no endpoint in balance, no goal, no finalization. Balance requires practice, patience, and - most importantly - movement. We often get stuck in our ways and form habits based on our fears and driven by our insecurities.
Tara Stiles
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Model
Patience
Balance
Driven
Movement
Practice
Stuck
Lots
Based
Fears
Habits
Importantly
Insecurities
Requires
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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
Jim Crace
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Writer
Formal
Formal Education
Harvest
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Vocabulary
Working Class
Lots
Innately
Main
Main Character
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I've met some very difficult people and I've had some very difficult conversations and had lots of criticism, especially from away supporters who sing songs that aren't very pleasant. So I think part and parcel of life is accepting that not everyone likes you.
Karren Brady
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Executive
Criticism
Likes
Parcel
Pleasant
Life People Difficult
Lots
Conversations
Difficult People
Life Difficult People
Part And Parcel
Supporters
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I work in a studio with lots of young people, most of whom are my former students. We delight in trading YouTube videos! We all stop working to watch them. I'm totally addicted to anything with kittens and puppies, but 'Very Scared Kid' is one of my favorites.
Marilyn Minter
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Artist
Delight
Former
Scared
Youtube
Totally
Lots
Work People Young
Watch
Favorites
Puppies
Studio
Videos
Whom
Young People
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
Chuck Klosterman
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Author
Different Things
Eight
Fortunate
Newspapers
People
Years
Lots
People Know Story
People Know Where
Different People
Interviewing
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Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
Ben Goldacre
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Physician
Bad People
Colleagues
Doctors
Enormous
Flip
Good People
Harm
People
Roles
Lots
Doctor
Forth
Inflict
Systems
Yes
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When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.
Trey Parker
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Actor
Blood
Dentist
Fake
Patient
Play
Talent
Lots
Sixth
Grade
My Friend
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Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
Trinny Woodall
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Fashion Designer
Addiction
Biscuits
Chocolate
Dark
Delicious
Dinner
Every Night
Half
Night
Pudding
Sells
Unbelievable
After
Lots
Bring
Daily
Dinner Parties
Packet
Parties
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I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.
Barry Sanders
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Football Player
Running
Concrete
Fields
Kansas
Taken
Vacant
Sure
Lots
Avoid
Open
Fast
Street
Tackle
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I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.
Caitlin Rose
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Singer
Alabama
Energy
Instance
Magnetic
Nashville
Reservations
Theory
Towns
Lots
Bad Ones
Cemeteries
Energies
Gravitational
Places
Pull
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I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.
Sophia Bush
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Actress
Funny
Home
Lucky
Sibling
Wonderful
Lots
Both Worlds
Leave
Go Home
In The End
Large
Worlds
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I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.
Ricky Martin
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Musician
Cardiovascular
Caribbean
Class
Cycling
Discipline
Exercise
Jogging
Meat
Problem
Rice
Lots
Favorite
Classes
Dish
Exercises
Grains
Having
Lately
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All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the CEO followed by a series of memos to the staff, with lots of posters and one-day workshops. This typically creates 'innovation theater' but very little innovation.
Steve Blank
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Entrepreneur
Ceo
Corporate
Initiative
Posters
Series
Staff
Theater
Workshops
Lots
Board
Creates
Followed
Mandate
Meeting
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett
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Investor
Zero
Company
Dumb
Paid
Decisions
Lots
Billion
Bought
Dexter
Gave
Million
Shoe
Stock
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I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.
Mike Colter
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Actor
Running
Diet
Basketball
Fast Food
Gym
Protein
Soda
Swimming
Water
Love Food Diet
Lots
Cook
Diversify
Fast
Foods
Fried
Indoors
Lean
Workouts
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Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.
Alanis Morissette
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Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Being Famous
Blank
Offering
Prepared
Sacred
Yourself People Way
Lots
Celebrities
Define
Project
Putting
Screen
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People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.
Anjelah Johnson
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Black
Character
Chicks
Hood
Mexican
People
Representation
Want
White
Me Look People
Like
Me
Lots
Character Me Look
Doing
Out
Call
Chick
Look
Character Black Me
Some
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Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.
Flume
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Music Producer
Voice
Additional
Free
Lots
Quite
Skin
Background
Bit
Bolder
Rappers
Hear
Prompt
Quite A Bit
Sing
Vocals
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