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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
Karen Robards / Author
Christmas
Tree
Time Myself Me
Time Christmas Myself
Lincoln
Log
Piles
Trucks
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I am vigorously opposed to the Mexican trucks coming into the country. The way we have done it and, I think, the way we should do it in the future, is to have the goods come into the United States from Mexico within a 20-mile commercial space and unloaded from Mexican trucks into U.S. trucks.
Virgil Goode / Virginia State Senator
Goods
Mexican
Mexico
Commercial
Opposed
Trucks
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I'm from Anderson, S.C., but I grew up in the South. So I know what it is to ride to school and have Confederate flags flying from trucks in front of me and behind me, to see a parking lot full of people with Confederate flags and know what that means. I've been stopped by police for no reason.
Chadwick Boseman / Actor
Confederate
Flags
Flying
Grew
No Reason
Parking
Parking Lot
Police
South
Police Me People
Anderson
Me Ride People
Behind
Stopped
Full
Front
Ride
Trucks
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It wasn't that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of books. It was about not seeing my young life reflected back to me: my family dynamics, the noise and complexities of my neighborhood, the things I loved, like ice cream trucks and Kool-Aid.
Jason Reynolds /
Cream
Dynamics
Ice
Ice Cream
Neighborhood
Noise
Selection
Life Family Good
Complexities
Pretty Good
Reflected
Trucks
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I still have a pretty lively audience in German and across Europe. And I continue to say, 'Thank you, God,' for making me smart enough to avoid getting hit by trucks and going out and finding myself an audience abroad. Which includes Asia - from Jakarta to Japan. Working hard at finding an audience abroad.
Al Jarreau / Singer
Thank You
Asia
Europe
Japan
Lively
Smart
God Myself Me
Abroad
Across
German
Avoid
Hit
Finding
Thank
Trucks
Working Hard
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Southwest Detroit has been through hell (excuse my directness) with Matty Moroun, his Bridge Company, and all his fancy-named subsidiaries. From blighted homes that my boys have to walk by to allowing his trucks to rumble down our residential streets, passing our parks, schools, and homes - we have had it.
Rashida Tlaib /
Allowing
Detroit
Excuse
Parks
Passing
Streets
Bridge
Homes
Residential
Southwest
Trucks
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I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.
Peter Jackson / Film Director
Garden
Puppet
Love Dad Mom
Puppet Show
Trucks
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Vegas is definitely a new challenge, but I wanted to be able to put on a different type of show. You get to do so much more when you don't have to put your stage in trucks after the show every night - we got to build a venue specifically for my show. It's going to be more like a party than a typical concert.
Britney Spears / Artist
Every Night
Stage
Type
Vegas
Challenge
Concert
Different Type
New Challenge
Specifically
Trucks
Venue
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The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Billions
Bustle
Explosions
Heaven
Hustle
Invisible
Molecules
Particles
Petrol
Relentless
Signals
Storm
Blocks
Electronic
Engine
Trucks
Unable
Violently
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From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Car
Britain
Factories
Iran
Navy
Oil
Ran
Royal
Ships
Living
Buses
Cheap
Fueled
Standard
Powered
Projected
Supported
Throughout
Trucks
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I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.
Madeline Carroll / Film Actress
Young Age
Ahead
Cool Age Young
Catch
Trucks
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In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.
Eduardo Paes / Mayor Of The City Of Rio De Janeiro
Connected
Decision Making
Location
Manage
Operations
Rio
Traffic
Waste
Weather
Collection
Buses
Center
Check
Departments
Municipal
Trucks
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My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.
Greg Iles / Novelist
War
Black
Book
Civil War
Loaded
Pageant
Raised
South
Survived
Taught
Ancestors
Anyone
Miss
Civil
Confederacy
Decade
Dug
Expert
Facto
Fought
Graduated
Ole
Performed
Trucks
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Not everything that lowers HDL is bad for you. If you change from a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to a healthy low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, your HDL levels may stay the same or even decrease because there is less need for it. When you have less garbage, you need fewer garbage trucks to remove it, so your body may make less HDL.
Dean Ornish / Physician
Diet
Decrease
Fewer
Garbage
Levels
Remove
Your Body
Trucks
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There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
Jerry Saltz / Art Critic
Barbara
California
Color
January
Los Angeles
Roots
Santa
Sunday
Alone Love Work
Angeles
Backs
Photographs
Consists
Depicting
Genuinely
Grid
Los
Passed
Title
Trucks
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My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.
Jesmyn Ward / Novelist
Family
Fighting
Flooding
Grandmother
House
Hurricane Katrina
Left
Refuge
Shelter
Water
White
Category
Open
Breaking
Them
Were
Could
Demolished
Entire
Field
Saw
Help
Hurricane
Over
Town
Refused
Searching
Something
Survive
Took
Trucks
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