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When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.
Bill Murray
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Actor
Jobs
Chance
Handle
Phones
Situation
Chances
Phone
Opposed
Placed
Ringing
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Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.
Eden Robinson
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Novelist
Mean
Self
Situation
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From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
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Author
Asia
Consumption
Expanding
Japan
Point Of View
Prosperity
Seems
Situation
Views
Arising
Incorporated
Large
Production
View
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
P. J. O'rourke
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Satirist
Inappropriate
Situation
Humorist
Funny Thing
Voluntary
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Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.
Euny Hong
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Atmosphere
Common
Common Ground
Drawing
Fart
Faster
Loud
Matter
Shattered
Single
Situation
Universal
Butt
Create
Grave
Ground
Instantly
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
George Clooney
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Actor
Buried
Faults
Intimidated
Situation
Truth Is
World
Batman
Project
Franchise
They Say
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If you look at the automobile in many countries, there is a certified pre-owned market for Lexus, BMW, and many other brands. When you buy a high-end smartphone, you can expect the same kind of a situation there.
Tim Cook
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Business Person
Automobile
Bmw
Brands
Situation
Buy
Certified
Countries
Expect
High-End
Market
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I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you - magic all around you - no matter what situation you're in.
Keke Palmer
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Actress
Believe
Magic
Matter
Reality
Situation
Reality Yourself Your
Yourself
Allow
Make
Around
Choose
Believe I Believe Reality
Possibilities
See
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With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Ben Carson
/
Failure
Situation
Abject
Apply
Utter
Complex
Measure
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You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
Benjamin Carson
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Doctor
Done
Fingers
Situation
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
Bono
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Singer
Cancellation
Concerts
Debt
Involved
Nelson
Situation
World
African
Respond
Demanded
Desmond
Mandela
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Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.
Clairo
/
Happy
Music
Best Way
Made
Over It
Situation
Little
Best Music Always
Best Always Me
Then
Best Music Me
Bundle
Through
Create
Emotions
Over
Making
Put
Shell
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I speak to my mum and dad about the club, and my uncle and all my mates are big Leeds fans as well. They're on the up, if you like. It's a better situation than it was when they were in League One not so long ago.
James Milner
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Dad
Fans
League
Leeds
Mates
Mum
Situation
Speak
Club
Uncle
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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Happiness
Happy
Inspirational
Motivational
Uplifting
Cheerful
Determined
Disposition
Greater
May
Misery
Situation
Unhappiness
Am
Circumstance
Find
Part
Whatever
Learned
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I'm comfortable in any situation. I don't have fears about a lot of things. It's not a survival thing, but on a farm, you always look after yourself. You're very independent, but you're still very family-oriented.
Travis Fimmel
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Actor
Comfortable
Independent
Situation
Survival
Lot
Always Yourself Look
After
Still
Farm
Fears
Look
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I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.
Mira Nair
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Film Director
Humanity
Mirrors
People
Situation
Two
Within
Beings
Hold
However
Human Being
Oppressive
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If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that.
Lynn Good
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Anger
Helpful
Resolve
Situation
Disarm
Reaction
Techniques
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
Kara Walker
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Artist
Situation
Unexpected
Heroine
Same Time
Wanting
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The first product I ever used was my mom's foundation. When I was younger, I had pimples, so I just slapped it on and hoped it would fix the situation. It never did, because it was about 18 shades too light for me.
James Charles
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Pimples
Situation
Younger
Hoped
Product
Shades
Slapped
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
John Irving
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Novelist
Relationship
Character
Giving
Novel
People
Situation
Begin
Interests
Message
Prizes
Toward
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It's funny because I feel like growing up in Europe and having these different experiences, I feel like I can talk to anybody. I'm always comfortable in every situation that I go in, and that helps me on the court.
Rj Barrett
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Funny
Comfortable
Court
Europe
Growing Up
Situation
Always Me Situation
Funny Always Me
Anybody
Funny Me Feel
Experiences
Helps
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Why would you codify a set of safeguards you might want to change as technology evolves and you face new risks of privacy, in addition to changing safeguards that might need to be relaxed in an emergency situation?
Tom Cotton
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United States Representative
Technology
Privacy
Relaxed
Situation
Addition
Set
Emergency
Safeguards
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There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We're seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.
David Crystal
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Author
Compare
Dying
Extraordinary
Massive
Situation
Unusual
Scale
Languages
In The Past
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I grew up in Nagpur, and I first started enjoying the author Harishankar Parsai. He wrote mostly satire, essays on the current situation and social issues. He wrote many books and I think he was my first influence.
Rajkumar Hirani
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Film Director
Current Situation
Essays
Influence
Issues
Satire
Situation
Social Issues
Author
Books
Current
Enjoying
Mostly
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There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.
Scott Adams
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Comic Strip Creator
Bullets
Clock
Clock Is Ticking
Clock Ticking
Situation
Sweating
Myself Always Never
Close
Deadlines
Meet
Ticking
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I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.
Alexa Chung
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Presenter
Advantage
Empowered
Sexy
Situation
Taken
Uncomfortable
Shoots
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
Feist
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Singer-Songwriter
Fine
Situation
Useful
Guess
Pull
Realise
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I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.
John Mcafee
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Computer Programmer
Economy
Ignored
Plight
Significant
Situation
Smallest
World Economy
Political World People
Countries
Largely
Least
Political Situation
Terms
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Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.
Jason Isaacs
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Actor
Jobs
Kids
Acting
Games
Playing Games
Simple
Situation
Background
Dressing
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You're brought up not to hit girls, that it's the worst sin, and that's what I do. But you know, gender is the last thing I think about when I'm fighting. It's the one situation where I don't think of gender at all.
Fallon Fox
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Fighting
Gender
Sin
Situation
Worst
Brought
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The one thing you've gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what the given situation, no matter what comes up against you. You do the best you can do, and you never give up. Never quit.
James Corden
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Actor
Best
Matter
One Thing
Situation
Against
Thing
Give
Gotta
Never Give Up
Quit
The One Thing
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A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.
James Hetfield
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Songwriter
Band
Bass
Dense
Lows
Situation
Sound
Highs
Jamming
Tend
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The Republican critique here is that Russia is in a weak situation, but has been emboldened by a weak response from the United States, that in Ukraine, that in other places, the United States has not stepped forward.
Steve Inskeep
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Republican
Situation
Weak
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The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.
Miranda Hart
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Actor
Comedy
Embarrassment
Flip
Moments
Over It
Painful
Painful Moments
Situation
Life Time Your
Experiences
Funniest
Suppose
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When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked and I figured out how to communicate that things were good - or at least okay - then I felt pleased.
Charlie Kaufman
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Screenwriter
Children
Situation
Successful
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It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.
Cecilia Bartoli
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Opera Singer
Fantastic
Joy
Situation
Unbelievable
Express
Sing
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Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
George Herbert Mead
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Data
Scientist
Situation
Applying
Responses
Solving
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Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.
Jim Mattis
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Answers
Caught
Dark
Give Me
Loss
Path
Problem
Reading
Situation
Thanks
Ahead
Often
Lights
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I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
Chuck Close
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Photographer
Behave
Changed
Intuitive
Needs
Photography
Situation
Way
Build
Life Nature Work
Terribly
Trick
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The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Consumption
Forget
Situation
Anxieties
Consume
Created
Production
Worries
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I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.
Jools Holland
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Bandleader
Queens
Couple
Courtesy
Delightful
Situation
Writing
Queen
In Fact
Met
Note
Yes
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I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.
Sofia Coppola
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Screenwriter
Cameras
Conscious
Found
Observing
Self
Self Conscious
Situation
Studied
Myself Doing Never
Camera
Directing
Everything Else
Front
Tried
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As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.
Ashley Graham
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Model
Affirmation
Core
Path
Return
Situation
Owning
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The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president.
David Garrow
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Historian
Barack
Illinois
Outspoken
Progressive
Situation
Ended
Legislative
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My first real kiss was actually on the set of 'The Vampire's Assistant' with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!
Chris Massoglia
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Television Actor
Crush
First Kiss
Interesting
Jessica
Situation
Vampire
Assistant
Plays
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You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.
Tony Kushner
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Playwright
Depression
Administration
Barack
Catastrophe
Great Depression
President
Situation
Absolute
Obama
Argue
Barack Obama
Bush
Bush Administration
Global
Inherited
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The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.
Mark Fisher
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Anything Is Possible
Capitalist
Grey
Possibility
Realism
Situation
Again
Curtain
Event
Happen
Hole
Horizons
Marked
Reaction
Suddenly
Tear
Tiniest
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They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.
Michael Crichton
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Author
Jurassic Park
Situation
Thinking
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If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.
Fuzzy Zoeller
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Golfer
Best Way
Body
Letting Go
Mind
Pressure
Situation
Tension
Whistling
Your Body
Act
Best Music Your
Barely
Whistle
Gets
Off
Let Go
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I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.
Caryl Churchill
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Dramatist
Class
Dinner
Fed Up
Middle
Middle Class
Situation
Dealing
Fed
Seemed
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