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At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carrying your virtual reality with you, and being able to jump into it whenever and wherever you want, qualitatively changes the experience for the better. Experiencing mobile VR is like when you first tried a decent desktop VR experience.
John Carmack / Programmer
Experience
Able
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Decent
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The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
Paul Ryan / United States Representative
Leadership
Candid
Debt
Economy
Offering
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Refreshing
Romney
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Solutions
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Control
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Anybody
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Mitt Romney
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Yeah, with 'NASARATI,' that was my first project. I really worked literally three days on it, writing on the beats and putting it together. I'm not saying that I don't love the mixtape, but it was really my first, first move in rap. I tried to make sure everything sound different, so you hear no two songs and think they sound alike.
Lil Nas X /
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Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.
John Henrik Clarke / Writer
Communicate
Doubt
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Islam
Messiah
Muhammad
Orthodox
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In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned.
Ravi Shankar / Musician
Avant Garde
Composer
Electronic Music
Heritage
Identity
India
Jealously
Orthodox
Music Believe Me
Classical
Destroyer
Electronic
Getting
Learned
Mixed
Performer
Protecting
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The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.
Brad Thor / Novelist
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Flawed
Ideology
People
Reason
Socialism
Socialist Countries
States
United
United States
Ask
Time Good Always
Time Good World
Countries
Failed
Every Time
Looked
Socialists
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I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?
Damon Dash / Entrepreneur
History
Accepted
Individual
Instinct
Mind
One Thing
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Willing
Everybody
Understand
Beliefs
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Else
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Follow
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Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your shared biases, or your prejudice. How to do the opposite? To create a sense of the real and then challenge your biases. I think that is my favourite aspect of writing, and that is what I've tried to do in 'The Lovers.'
Amitava Kumar / Writer
Aspect
Convince
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Favourite
Lovers
News
Prejudice
Real
Reality
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Opposite
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Biases
Challenge
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Preconceived
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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
John Shelby Spong / Author
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Hero
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Party
Persecution
Surviving
Jewish
Began
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Define
Jews
Recipients
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Romans
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For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.
Brian Skerry /
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England
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Marine
New England
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Secrets
Shark
Surrounding
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In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.
James G. Stavridis /
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Bridges
Century
Goods
Movement
Security
Across
Correctly
Networks
Endlessly
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For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.
Klaus Schwab / Economist
Adam
Competitiveness
Curiosity
Economic
Elusive
Late
Measuring
New Ways
Prosperous
Research
Successful
Young
Centuries
Countries
Formula
Identify
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There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.
Marc Laidlaw /
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Half Life
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The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.
Tony Dungy / Football Player
Leadership
Book
Coaches
Football
Football Team
Leader
Little Bit
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Coming from Montreal, Patrick Roy was the guy that everybody looked up to. He was consistent and successful early in his career; he won the Stanley Cup when he was really young and he played with a great organization. For me it was also a French thing, like one of us had made it that big in the NHL, and you tried to follow in his footsteps.
Martin Brodeur / Ice Hockey Player
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Footsteps
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Montreal
Nhl
Organization
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Stanley Cup
Successful
Great Me Young
Played
Career
Coming
French
Cup
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Great Organization
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Boldness doesn't mean rude, obnoxious, loud, or disrespectful. Being bold is being firm, sure, confident, fearless, daring, strong, resilient, and not easily intimidated. It means you're willing to go where you've never been, willing to try what you've never tried, and willing to trust what you've never trusted. Boldness is quiet, not noisy.
Mike Yaconelli / Writer
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Noisy
Obnoxious
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Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.
Matt Bomer / Actor
Charming
Hope Myself Better
Collar
Finish
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I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.
Eric Dickerson / Football Player
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Sister
Abortion
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Mama
Mother
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Viola
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Within
Family Great Me
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I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
John Mahoney / Actor
Teacher
Brother
Brother In Law
English Teacher
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Horrible
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Interest
Milton
Archetypal
English
Shakespeare
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There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that's just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom's heritage - that's very familiar to me.
Lana Condor /
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I tried for a long time to make DJ-able dance tracks that were more specific to the stuff that I was playing. Ultimately, I found I wasn't really capable of doing that. The only type of music I was able to make that really made me feel something would just come straight from my heart or straight from whatever emotions I was feeling at that time.
Mija /
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Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Calm
Churning
College
Disturbing
Parent
Stomach
Dealing
Enter
How Much
Occur
Quickly
Second
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They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.
Grace Jones / Singer
Girl
Black
Jamaica
Stars
Sun
Used
White
Years
Why
After
Skin
Call
Eyes
Figure
Fly
Lights
Looked
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