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A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
Barbara Tuchman
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Historian
Government
Periods
Pursuit
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Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
Siobhan Fahey
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Musician
Feeling Down
Long
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Years
Life Long My Life
Long Periods
Smashed
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Hannah Cowley
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Immortal
Periods
Achievements
Charms
Neither
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Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
Lynn Good
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Chaos
Crisis
Harness
Periods
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Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
Helen Mirren
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Actor
Space
Good And Bad
Granted
Husband
Long
Periods
Terribly
Long Periods
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I don't really think my work breaks into periods. In fact, if you listen to my work in all its so-called periods, what you should hear is continuity.
Krzysztof Penderecki
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Continuity
Periods
Breaks
In Fact
So-Called
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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
David Viscott
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Author
Clay
Lists
Periods
Stones
Time Better More
Original
Carved
Contained
Longer
Oven
Stone
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It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.
Jean Smart
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Film Actress
Accents
Make Believe
Periods
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There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.
Kurt Angle
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Professional Wrestler
Periods
Rounds
Confuses
Demographic
Evolved
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I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.
James Mcbride
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Writer
Musician
Periods
Work Music Me
Types
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I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
Rick Boucher
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Former U.s. Representative
Internet
Periods
Policy
Approximately
Decade
Period
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THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.
Jenny Holzer
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Artist
Gone
Periods
Sometimes
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I have a lot of vintage, so my style is pretty eclectic of different time periods and styles. I would describe it as comfortable, creative, and vintage.
Isabel Lucas
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Actress
Eclectic
Periods
Vintage
Describe
Styles
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I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.
Dom Kennedy
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Rapper
Confused
Periods
Want
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
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Film Writer
Imagination
Dangerous Ideas
Done
Ideas
New Ideas
Periods
Three
Idea
Good Idea
Pass
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If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.
Anna Quindlen
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Author
Kind
Periods
Skins
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The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
John Pomfret
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Bosnia
Factions
Indication
Periods
Time Me Doing
Right Job
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Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
Jim Rogers
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Investor
Hype
Long
Periods
Wall
Investments
Long Periods
Press
Stocks
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Author
Brands
Painting
Periods
Stories
Storyteller
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I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
Albert Brooks
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Actor
Chinatown
Periods
Player
Terrific
Period
Pretty Good
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This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey
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Musician
Enormous
Periods
Reality
Self
Self Destructive
Sight
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When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
Marcelene Cox
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Contemplating
Periods
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Listen, the conditions in prison as a whole - you're not sleeping in a comfortable bed, you're not eating good food, and this is for long periods of time.
Michael Sorrentino
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Bed
Comfortable
Conditions
Eating
Good Food
Periods
Prison
Time Good Food
Long Periods
Sleeping
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The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
Louis Susman
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United States Ambassador To The United Kingdom
Britain
Hardship
Periods
Survived
War Peace Always
Bond
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Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.
Daniel Clowes
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Cartoonist
Eye
Periods
Research
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When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.
Ananya Birla
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Periods
Emotionally
Long Periods
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Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
Paul Greengard
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Neuroscientist
Drudgery
Glamour
Periods
Discover
Portrayed
Wonderfully
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But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.
Ezra Koenig
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Musician
Enemy
Funeral
Periods
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I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.
Aneurin Barnard
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Actor
Periods
Genres
Most Important Thing
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While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
Brad Feld
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Periods
Plenty
Dealt
Downs
Emotionally
Fundamentally
Struggled
Ups
Ups And Downs
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
Anne Lamott
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Novelist
Car
Beach
Desert
Doors
Locked
Periods
Room Service
Prefer
Short Periods
The Doors
Windows
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During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
Andrew Lo
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Professor
Balance
Behavior
Efficiency
Extremes
Greed
Periods
Extreme
Generate
Market
Proper
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I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.
Jordan Burroughs
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Olympic Athlete
Camps
Foreign Countries
Periods
Time Home Walk
Long Periods
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Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
William Pinnock
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Writer
Painful
Patient
Periods
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
Honore De Balzac
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Novelist
Energy
Illusion
Periods
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But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
Leigh Steinberg
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Sports Agent
Equipment
Injury
Periods
Player
Protect
Developed
Injuries
Worse
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We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Bars
Election
Election Day
Loud
Peaceful
Periods
Population
Day People Election
Day Election People
People Say
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
Gary Oldman
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Actor
Kids
Focus
Late
Periods
Seat
Period
Great Deal
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I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.
Sturgill Simpson
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Singer-Songwriter
Periods
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I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.
Orhan Pamuk
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Novelist
Legacy
Nocturnal
Periods
Waking
Automatic
Immediately
Waking Up
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In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.
Luke Shaw
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Next Level
Periods
Carrying
Foot
Pedal
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The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.
Rick Warren
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Pastor
Periods
Purpose
Significant
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I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.
Charles Stross
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Writer
Conclusion
Cynical
Historical
Lazy
Middle Aged
Periods
Time I Am Long
Time Long I Am
Sucked
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There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them.
John Mcdonnell
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Civil Liberties
Lines
Periods
Sand
Undermining
Basic
Charge
Civil
Cross
Liberties
Locking
Long Periods
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Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.
Barry Ritholtz
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Author
Cycles
Decades
Periods
Secular
Alternate
Bear
Bull
Define
Long Periods
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Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.
Colleen Hanabusa
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Former U.s. Representative
Legal
Access
Buyers
Checks
Firearms
Mental Health
Periods
Records
Reports
Waiting
Background
Mental
Transfer
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You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
Trevor Rabin
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Musician
Dark
Might
Over It
Over You
Periods
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We have to stop using words like 'that time of the month' or other such variations. Say it: I have my periods. There is nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.
Ekta Kapoor
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Embarrassed
Periods
Variations
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There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.
Jimi Hendrix
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Musician
Gigs
Periods
Talking
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Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Harry Seidler
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Architect
Baroque
Civilisation
Eras
Periods
Starting Over
Views
Western
Architectural
Borne
Peak
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