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Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.
Nathan Myhrvold / Author
Car
Gas
Neglect
Reality
Responsibility
Stranded
Accountable
Ahead
Choice
Politicians
Fail
Fired
Held
Ignore
Individuals
No Choice
Plan
Realities
Responsibilities
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It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.
Steve Bannon /
Fascism
Groups
Handle
Islamic
Eventually
Global
Global War
Governments
Outright
Partner
Quicker
Topic
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I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.
Kristin Scott Thomas / Actress
Assurance
Bully
Doing The Right Thing
Horrible
People
Right Thing
Always Me Confidence
Always Me Lose
Provide
The Right Thing
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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
James D. Watson / Molecular Biologist
Blame
Born
Brain
Genes
Humane
Instance
Liver
Condition
Be True
Properly
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Brussels sprouts are unique creatures. When cooked poorly, they can give off a strongly sulfurous aroma that many find unpleasant. But if you can crack through that aroma and release the natural sweetness hiding underneath, then you're rewarded with one of the most delicious vegetables around.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt /
Brussels
Delicious
Hiding
Release
Sweetness
Vegetables
Cooked
Crack
Poorly
Rewarded
Strongly
Underneath
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Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.
Sendhil Mullainathan / Professor
Available
Debate
Display
Health Care
Pointing
Bankrupt
Economists
Patients
Receive
Skill
Specialize
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
Rainbow Rowell / Author
Selling
Accidentally
Love Romantic Beautiful
Romantic Comedy
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Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Civilized
Liberty
Practice
Situation
Discovered
Entirely
Exceptions
Women Men Country
Indeed
Intended
Principle
Putting
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Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'
Yance Ford /
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Festivals
Schedules
Arranged
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My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.
Ronnie Dunn / Singer-Songwriter
Country Singer
Aspiring
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Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.
Dan Mintz /
Combination
Offended
Mouth
Sensation
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If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.
Peter Zumthor / Architect
Movie
Architecture
Core
Human Beings
Little Bit
Movie Theater
Shelter
Simple
Theater
Basic
Beings
Cabin
Mountains
Word
Log
Log Cabin
Provide
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One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
History
Impatient
Mother
Patient
Ready
Everybody
Attended
First
Feed
Cries
Fed
Indefinitely
Makes
Other
Well
Perfectly
Unpleasant
Waits
Which
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw / British Politician
Uncles
Extraordinary
Gas
Half Hearted
Teeth
Wall
Mother Day Father
Attempt
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When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.
Francois Hollande / President Of France
French Language
Italian
Nevertheless
Polish
Portuguese
Everywhere
Admit
Me Will Sometimes
Basis
Contacts
French
Defend
Me Sometimes Will
Informal
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The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
Terry Pratchett / Author
Amount
Boys
Died
Disease
Fortitude
Games
Long
Massive
Style
Treatment
Wish
Young
Person
Very
Had
Afterwards
Boy
Assassin
Game
Bravest
Rare
He
Through
Chose
Take
Part
Complex
Convention
Ever
Saw
Him
His
Last
Met
Sense
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The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
Ayelet Waldman / Novelist
Antipathy
Average
Offenders
Population
Youth
Adolescent
Combine
Good Ones
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
Pat Toomey / United States Senator
Compelling
Contempt
Dictator
Military Force
National Security
Ought
Remove
Supporter
Power World Me
Objective
Unpleasant
Vital
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Ties of loyalty play an understandably important part in how most MPs interact with their own party and the supporters who have elected and sustained them in their careers. As I know personally it is the strain put on those ties which constitutes the most unpleasant aspect of being at variance with one's own party line.
Dominic Grieve /
Loyalty
Careers
Strain
Ties
Variance
Important Part
Interact
Party Line
Sustained
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
Walter Gropius / Architect
Approved
Germany
Hostile
Russia
Consequences
Report
Criticizing
Italy
Official
Remark
Risking
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My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.
Srikumar Rao / Author
Effort
Lasting
Produce
Change World Your
Behavioral
Beliefs
Different Person
Examine
Functions
Literally
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On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
Billy Campbell / Film Actor
Issues
Land
Mean
Resolve
Sinking
Walk Yourself Your
Extreme
Circumstance
Literally
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I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Abuse
Block
Transient
Twitter And Facebook
Death Myself Always
Ether
Facebook
Hurl
Platform
Remind
Reported
Threats
Tweets
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Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Novelist
Editing
Me People Own
Camera
Editing Room
More Or Less
Script
Stages
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When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
Ellen Key / Writer
Experience
Alone
Avoided
Disagreeable
Isolated
Oneself
Time Experience Mind
Alone Time Mind
Alone Time Experience
Absolute
Child
Annoys
Basis
Crying
Explained
Him
Immediately
Laid
Result
Same Time
Unpleasant
Whoever
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You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Hiatus
Work Home Done
Work Home Together
Arduous
Go Home
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I started using my blog to get information about cities I was about to visit, asking followers what the main problems there were. Many mentioned misconduct of politicians and other things I wanted to talk about during my shows. Then, before a show in one city, local politicians called saying they would sue if I said something unpleasant.
Beppe Grillo /
Followers
Misconduct
Blog
Mentioned
Sue
Unpleasant
Visit
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There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this sort of greasy fallen-angel character who was voyeuristic and sleazy and really unpleasant. It was a great role, but I didn't especially enjoy living with this awful man for the length of time it took to make the movie.
Brian Cox / Physicist
Length
Sleazy
Uncomfortable
Time Great Character
Rob
Roy
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The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Accounts
Avoiding
Essence
Habit
Lying
Procrastination
Tasks
Thinking
Great People Happy
Indulging
Involve
Lies
Mental
Perplexing
Psychic
Surely
Toll
Unpleasant
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Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
Brad Feld /
Closure
Life Experience
Release
Life Sad Hope
Autobiographies
His Way
Passed
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I really want to emphasise this - 'Strictly' is a positive show. It's interesting that it gets cast into this, understandably, the ordinary net of reality shows, but there's no part of it which feels nihilistic or unpleasant. It's all about learning something and doing well, and you feel this overwhelming sense of people wanting you to do well.
Robert Rinder /
Ordinary
Overwhelming
Reality Shows
Net
Strictly
Unpleasant
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