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I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.
Stephen Furst / Actor
Beach
High School
Virginia
Good Me Never
Good Me School
Guys
Pretty Good
Talked
Threw
Va
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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
Kenneth R. Miller / Biologist
Girl
Baseball
Certainty
Growing Up
Long Hair
Natural Order
Pants
Short Hair
Skirts
Time Always Long
Male
Threw
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Leaving was tough because it got to a point where - I was dealing with so much, mostly being Undertaker's girlfriend while I was on TV. There was even a writer who threw the papers up one day and said, 'Why don't we just call it the Michelle McCool and Undertaker show.'
Michelle Mccool / Professional Wrestler
Girlfriend
Leaving
Papers
Undertaker
Michelle
Threw
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In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'
Jens Lekman / Musician
Good Way
Randomness
Rely
What If
Good Past Way
Combined
Direction
Drum
In The Past
Record
Samples
Synth
Threw
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My 15-year-old threw open the door the other day to my room and screamed, ''Freaks and Geeks' only has one season? Can they make another one?' And I tried to explain to her that it happened a long time ago. She didn't understand that because it felt very relevant to her.
Shonda Rhimes / Screenwriter
Long Time Ago
Relevant
Time Long Day
Explain
Freaks
Geeks
Screamed
Threw
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
Jack Mcbrayer / Actor
Assumption
Management
Panic
Life Time Business
Attack
First Job
Studying
Threw
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Islamophobia first appeared in my life on 11 September 2001. I was coming back from college and didn't know what had happened. A white van stopped and a man got out. He spat on me, yelled a profanity, and then threw a can of coke in my direction. I cried as I walked home.
Nadiya Hussain /
Coke
College
Cried
Profanity
September
Life Home Man
Appeared
Coming
Direction
Threw
Van
Yelled
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
Zosia Mamet / Actress
Girl
Dating
Men
Casting
Confused
Feminism
Gender
Misinterpreted
Sloppy
Uncomfortable
Door
Holding
Threw
Unpleasant
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Everything was a lot more challenging for me because of who my brother was. If I were in the film, someone would had said that I got the part because Eddie's in the film. If I wrote a script, folks would say that I didn't really write that: that Eddie did and I threw my name on it.
Charlie Murphy /
Eddie
Threw
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I once stayed at a Ritz in D.C., paid for by a client, and when I asked to change rooms because mine smelled of smoke, the hotel immediately found me a better room, then paid for my dinner and drinks and even threw in a free massage to compensate me for the very minor inconvenience.
Shawn Achor / Author
Dinner
Hotel
Inconvenience
Massage
Paid
Ritz
Rooms
Change Me Better
Asked
Client
Compensate
Drinks
Immediately
Mine
Smelled
Stayed
Threw
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The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.
Alan Davies / Comedian
London
Mates
Eve
Funniest
Funniest Thing
Stood
Threw
Tube
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I was eight when I found out I was adopted. My step-brother told me. He'd overheard my mum and my stepdad at the time talking about it, and he threw it in my face. But I didn't really care. It didn't seem relevant, because I never once in my life felt unloved or like I was a burden.
Rj Mitte / Actor
Adopted
Burden
Eight
Mum
Relevant
Talking
Unloved
Life Time Face
Overheard
Seem
Threw
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If you want me to perform in Silver Lake - where it looks like 'Vice' magazine threw up everywhere, where all the men are wearing V-necks to their belly buttons, salmon pants, and carrying a screenplay - I'll do it, because they might appreciate a Banksy joke I can't do anywhere else.
Ali Wong /
Appreciate
Belly
Buttons
Looks
Pants
Salmon
Silver
Everywhere
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Perform
Carrying
Wearing
Lake
Magazine
Screenplay
Threw
Vice
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I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.
Ann Wagner /
Headache
Floor
His Way
Prices
Signs
Threw
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I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California. In my 30s I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them.
Michael Shellenberger /
Ancient
Environmentalist
Billion
Invest
Obama Administration
Persuade
Renewables
Successfully
Threw
Unprotected
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
Patrick Duffy / Actor
Balls
Dallas
Filled
Just One
Popping
Seconds
Boom
Gymnasium
Literally
Threw
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I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!'
Phil Mickelson / Golfer
Fans
Firsts
Forget
Orange
Ran
Remember When
Fan
Came
Grabbed
Ground
Nick
Norman
Peel
Presence
Price
Threw
Tour
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My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
Mamie Gummer / Actress
Dialect
Directors
Lines
Two
Virginia
Why Not
Costume
Figured
Infants
Screaming
Threw
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The love affair between black folks and the Clintons has been going on for a long time. It began back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president. He threw on some shades and played the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show.' It seems silly in retrospect, but many of us fell for that.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Affair
Folks
Love Affair
Retrospect
Saxophone
Silly
Love Time Long
Love Time Black
Bill Clinton
Hall
Shades
Threw
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I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom, and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits. I was the type of person that would show a Powerpoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
Brie Larson / Actress
Over It
Powerpoint
Presentation
Rebellious
Type
Versus
Close
Crying
Fits
Screaming
Square
Threw
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I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.
Wesley Clark / Political Figure
Accused
June
Outrage
Pentagon
Spring
Steps
Thousand
Goat
Civic
Threw
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I was a disruptive student. I hated my teachers, especially my Spanish teacher. When I went to see the musical 'Matilda,' the horrible Miss Trunchbull brought back all sorts of horrible memories. I'd go into Spanish class, put on headphones, and sing at the top of my lungs until they threw me out.
Steve Kazee / Actor
Teacher
Class
Disruptive
Headphones
Horrible
Lungs
Memories
Musical
Teachers
Miss
Brought
Student
Sing
Spanish
Threw
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How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.
Joe Gebbia /
Convince
Host
Marketing
Stranger
Sales
Threw
Trivial
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When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, and they described the character to me. Greg Berlanti used a couple of music theater references to kind of explain who the character was. They threw up Chris Pratt in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' as a reference point.
Chris Wood /
Andrew
Couple
Galaxy
Sat
Theater
Music Character Me
Chris
Explain
Guardians
Reference
Sold
Threw
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I guarantee that if you threw 100 people into a room, the first three questions they would ask each other are: 'Where did you grow up?,' 'Where did you go to school?' and 'What do you do for a living?' Most people on Bumble are looking for a life partner, and those things have a huge impact on compatibility.
Whitney Wolfe Herd /
Compatibility
Huge
Impact
Life Grow People
Bumble
Grow Up
Guarantee
Huge Impact
Room
Partner
Threw
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I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'
Jimmy Fallon / Television Host
Birthday
Cake
Cutting
Fountain
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Shooting
Stars
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Coin
Threw
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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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At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and only rarely displayed in school. Years later, I would come to appreciate, abstractly, the importance of productive activity to the mind and soul of both an individual and a nation.
William E. Simon / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Discipline
Employment
School Years
Work Myself Always
Displayed
Rarely
Securities
Threw
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
Fiona Apple / Singer-Songwriter
Morning
Compelled
Disorder
Garbage
House
Lying
Recycling
Uncomfortable
Worst
Wrong Way
Alley
Bin
Leave
Roll
Threw
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It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
Madi Diaz / Songwriter
Abbey
Cliffs
Desert
Grand Canyon
Los Angeles
Six
Sun
Rise
Angeles
Drive
Watched
Canyon
Grand
Listened
Los
Sang
Picked
Threw
Tumble
Weeds
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When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt just like writing my first book again - it was really liberating.
Sophie Kinsella / Author
Apology
Entertainment
Liberating
Realised
Full-On
Minute
Switched
Threw
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Once, when I was 5 years old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on a muumuu and run across a nearby parking lot. So I did. I threw it on, hiked it up in one hand, and ran like hell. It felt amazing to be in a dress. But suddenly my grandmother appeared, a look of horror on her face.
Janet Mock / Writer
Amazing
Parking
Parking Lot
Ran
Across
Appeared
Dared
Door
Hand
Little Girl
Nearby
Next Door
Suddenly
Threw
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The thing about a music career is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the times people threw in the towel on Dylan - or Neil Young. Remember when Young was doing things in the '80s like 'Trans' and the rockabilly album and being completely lambasted by critics who now think he is wonderful again?
Jeff Buckley / Singer-Songwriter
Critics
Dylan
Music Career
Remember
Remember When
Rockabilly
Wonderful
Young
Fat
Again
Album
Career
Lady
Neil
Neil Young
Sings
Threw
Times People
Towel
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I think it's always interesting when you see a company start moving so quickly - it's like wow, incredible. When a company like Uber starts breaking away, it's not a linear thing. It's exponential. All of a sudden, the guy you know who threw $25,000 at Uber very early on - all the sudden, that $25,000 is $25 million.
Tyler Winklevoss /
Linear
Uber
Breaking
Exponential
Sudden
Threw
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I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear. But when I sat down to play the piano, the very new shoes kept slipping off the pedal. So I took them off, threw them away, and have never worn shoes while playing the piano from then on.
Benjamin Clementine / Musician
Designer
Slipping
Worn
Nowhere
Pedal
Threw
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It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
Bruce Sutter / Baseball Player
Mike
Morris
Roger
Swings
Good Great Me
Ball
Career
Pitch
Definitely
Helped
Hitter
Jack
Pitchers
Misses
Scott
Threw
Throw
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It's not the way I threw the football - it's not particular games that I won - but that they remember that here's a guy that believed, that worked hard. Although things didn't always go in his favor, he continued to press through, and with his faith in himself and his faith in God, he was able to accomplish great things.
Kurt Warner / Football Analyst
Accomplish
Great Things
God Faith Great
Favor
Threw
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I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.
Simon Cowell / Television Producer
Teacher
Bored
Electric
Electric Guitar
Giving
Lessons
One Day
Hit
Beat
Bought
Guitar Lessons
Obviously
Offered
Threw
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Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.
David Berman / Author
Harder
Mastery
Montana
Stripes
Successful
White
Words
Words People Always
Jack
Joe
Rock
Threw
Throw
Worked
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Down at Bournemouth, I kicked a tray of cups up into air, and one hit Luther Blissett on the head. He flicked it on, and it went all over my suit hanging behind. Another time, at West Ham, I also threw a plate of sandwiches at Don Hutchison. He's sitting there, still arguing with me, with cheese and tomato running down his face.
Harry Redknapp / Football Manager
Running
Air
Another Time
Arguing
Cheese
Cups
Ham
Luther
Sandwiches
Sitting
West
Time Face Me
Hit
Behind
Head
Plate
Suit
Threw
Tomato
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I had to deal with it so often, I found ways of making a point against racism. When I played against Real Zaragoza, they chanted like monkeys and threw peanuts on the pitch. So when I scored, I danced in front of them like a monkey. When the same thing happened against Real Madrid, I scored and held my fist in a Black Power salute.
Samuel Eto'o / Soccer Player
Black
Found
Happened
Madrid
Peanuts
Racism
Real
Salute
Against
Played
Pitch
Deal
Often
Danced
Fist
Front
Held
Making
Monkey
Point
Same Thing
Threw
Ways
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I'm quite laid-back but some people say I'm unemotional. I don't get carried away with success and similarly I don't get depressed when something bad happens. I didn't take it personally when rival fans threw banana skins at me when I was playing for Liverpool. I can't control 50,000 idiots shouting at me, so why would it bother me?
John Barnes / Author
Bother
Fans
Liverpool
Shouting
Skins
Control
Success Me People
Why
Quite
Away
Bad
Banana
Carried
Depressed
Idiots
People Say
Personally
Rival
Similarly
Some People
Threw
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I think my confidence and competitiveness - that will - comes from my mother. I always knew my mom loved me, and she always made me feel like I was - I don't want to say 'special' - but that I was capable of doing things. Before I ever shot a basketball or before I ever threw a baseball, I had confidence, and that was from my mother.
J. J. Redick /
Confidence
Baseball
Basketball
Capable
Competitiveness
Mom Always Me
Mom Mother Always
Shot
Threw
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In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.
Mark Foster /
Dangerous
Felt
Five
Morocco
Prayer
Propaganda
Scary
Beautiful Me Day
Call
Coming
Towards
Hear
Muslim
Subconsciously
Threw
Trip
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