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Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is - about how devoid of compassion it is. It's not healing the harm that victims experience. It's not rehabilitating people. And in many ways, it's making us less safe.
Chesa Boudin /
Bars
Broken
Compassion
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Decades
Harm
Healing
Lessons
Safe
Taught
Visiting
Behind
Criminal
Devoid
Victims
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Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts - Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed - but I wouldn't mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks's 'Culture.' You'd just have a hard time getting me to leave.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Vacation
Monsters
Terrible
Visiting
Time Good Mind
Time Good Culture
Banks
Conflicts
Fictional
Hard Time
Places
Tend
Worlds
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I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'
Terry Zwigoff / Filmmaker
Folding
Shirts
Visiting
All Day
Work Thinking Better
Anything Else
Equivalent
Grow Up
Lights
Neighborhoods
Struggling
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Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
Wallace Shawn / Actor
Awkward
Chocolate
Elegant
Gentle
Hands
House
Malicious
Persona
Pouring
Shy
Visiting
Aristocrat
Cruel
Cup
Interestingly
Portray
Socially
Tossing
Trembles
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In 2004, I was visiting my cousins in San Francisco and we were in a restaurant talking in Punjabi. We suddenly saw heads turn. And one of the Americans at the restaurant abused us and called my cousins, 'turban-headed Osamas.' That strengthened my resolve to make a film that highlights the issue.
Puneet Issar /
Abuse
Highlights
Resolve
San Francisco
Visiting
Francisco
Heads
San
Strengthened
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Certainly, Occupy Wall Street protesters have different ideas about the movement's mission. Many of the marchers I met even disagreed on the purpose of their trek - some thought it was about getting to Washington to protest the 'supercommittee'; others thought it was about visiting other Occupations.
Elizabeth Flock /
Different Ideas
Occupy Wall Street
Visiting
Mission
Occupations
Trek
Wall Street
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I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.
James Heckman / Economist
Zero
Engines
Equipment
Visiting
Center
Received
Skill
Sold
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I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's game,' and they keep trying to make young songs. But you don't know the slang - it changes every day, and you're just visiting. So you're trying to be something you're not, and the audience doesn't buy into that.
Jay-Z / Rapper
Mature
Rap
Slang
Visiting
Buy
Changes
The Problem With
They Say
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When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of 'Porgy and Bess' is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear. He shed several tears, but one of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript. And he was horrified.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Score
Sondheim
Visiting
Overcome
Holding
Horrified
Manuscript
Onto
Tear
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I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
Mandy Moore / Singer-Songwriter
Access
Cold
Equal
Malaria
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Organization
People
Phones
Visiting
Ambassador
Disconnect
Programs
Striking
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
Hannah Storm / Journalist
Daughter
Bedroom
Covered
Foundation
Productions
Storm
Visiting
Business Dad Me
Cbs
Cbs News
Charts
Enthusiastically
Hannah
Shop
Table
Youngest
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You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!
Marissa Jaret Winokur / Actress
Vacation
Beach
Liberty
Los Angeles
Statue Of Liberty
Visiting
Time Family Your
Angeles
Family Time Me
Los
Relatives
Statue
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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.
Luke Harding / Journalist
Affluent
Birmingham
Britain
Cologne
Contrast
Germany
Grapes
Host
Lovely
Visiting
Array
Dressed
Startled
Table
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I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.
Thierry Henry / Soccer Player
Visiting
Something People
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It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.
Peter Higgs / Physicist
Cambridge
Paper
Visiting
Similar
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If we are visiting Afghans, typically the Afghan governor, district or provincial governor, we see he doesn't wear body armor, and yet we're walking through his streets. I'm his guest. I think that that's important that I send a message that I trust him and I don't think I am more valuable than I think he is.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
Afghan
Armor
Streets
Valuable
Visiting
District
Governor
Guest
Provincial
Send
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Though I have worked in Bhojpuri films and had been introduced to the culture of the area, it was on visiting that region that I came to know that a lot needs to be done to improve the living conditions, and an initiative has already been made with the help of the Pardesiya Kala Sangam and Jagriti, both NGOs.
Nagma /
Conditions
Initiative
Living Conditions
Visiting
Introduced
Ngos
Region
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The mistake British comedians often make is trying to beat the Americans at their own game - getting visiting American singers on their shows, talking about 'sidewalk' instead of 'pavement,' sitting on high stools in a white dinner jacket doing ballads. That way, you simply end up with a mid-Atlantic mishmash.
Benny Hill / Comedian
Ballads
British
Dinner
Mistake
Pavement
Sidewalk
Sitting
Talking
Visiting
Beat
Comedians
Simply
Instead
Jacket
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When Washington State has been good, they've always had a connection to Southern California. You know, as far as visiting, that's different than recruiting. Recruiting is based on production and players, who you can get. You know, so, the nicest parts of Southern California aren't necessarily the best players.
Mike Leach / Football Coach
California
Southern
Southern California
Visiting
Best Good Always
Connection
Washington
Nicest
Necessarily
Parts
Recruiting
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I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one's even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It's a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Beach
Candidates
Columbus
Disappointment
Pity
Revenue
Visiting
Ashore
Encountered
Island
Sadly
Stumbled
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I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.
Olivia Wilde / Actress
Academy
Adopted
Artist
Earthquakes
Haiti
Organization
Primary School
School
Visiting
Work Peace Justice
Artists
Earthquake
Primary
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
Gabrielle Zevin / Author
Electric
Erase
Fascinating
Florida
Ibm
Visiting
Adele
Bell
Typewriter
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Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
Diego Luna / Actor
Experience
Curious
Disappointed
Interesting
Scratches
Tourists
Visiting
Everywhere
Stay
Leave
Times
Further
Walk
Longer
Scratch
Tourist
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We've had Vice President Pence visiting Tallinn, where he met not only with me but also with my other Baltic colleagues - Lithuanian President Ms. Grybauskaite and Latvian President Mr. Vejonis. And, of course, Vice President Pence has been very clear that NATO acts as a whole. Attack against one is attack against all.
Kersti Kaljulaid /
Colleagues
Nato
Vice President
Visiting
Acts
Baltic
Ms
Vice
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I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents - who had little money - made the most of this.
Linda Colley / Historian
Architecture
Ancient
Five
Little Money
Medieval
Visiting
Money Great City
Cathedral
Contains
Roman
Spent
Stuart
Walls
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I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.
Robert Woodrow Wilson /
Aunt
Figure Skating
Houston
Ice
Lessons
Marching Band
Public School
Trombone
Visiting
Winter
Activities
Remember School High School
Attended
Enjoying
Farm
Marching
Piano Lessons
Uncle
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Ivanka's work is never-ending. Whether it's meeting with workers looking to bridge a skills gap, visiting female engineers building innovative robotics, speaking to leaders around the world about the importance of female entrepreneurship and much more, Ivanka has been quietly racking up long-term successes for the country.
Katie Pavlich / Journalist
Country
Engineers
Entrepreneurship
Female
Importance
Innovative
Long Term
Never Ending
Robotics
Skills
Visiting
Workers
Bridge
Gap
Meeting
Quietly
Racking
Speaking
Successes
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I feel like people have stereotypes and notions about Latin America that aren't necessarily accurate or aren't particularly positive. For me, Latin America is a place that I personally really love and enjoy visiting and going to, and I wanted to be able to show it in a light that was very different to an Asian, Korean viewer.
Eric Nam /
Accurate
Asian
Latin
Latin America
Visiting
Notions
Stereotypes
Viewer
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It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher's intentions were - whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.
Jay-Z / Rapper
Teacher
Central Park
Inspire
Manhattan
No Idea
Poor
Qualified
Visiting
Sixth
Central
Field
Grade
Intentions
Park
Realized
View
Took
Trip
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While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.
Cheryl Hines / Actress
Costa Rica
Elementary School
Fixing
Nine
Principal
Visiting
Day School One Day
Donated
Elementary
Local
Local School
Nearby
Playground
Returned
Schools
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The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.
Hugo Chavez / Former President Of Venezuela
Approval
Lowest
North America
South America
Visiting
George W
George W. Bush
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My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.
John Updike / Novelist
Death
Aunt
Boyhood
Cosmic
Fright
Greenwich
Jokes
Land
Pages
Ulysses
Visiting
Waste
Written
Books
Came
Closely
Copy
Mysteries
Opened
Uncle
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I kind of work on an airplane. The Burger King brand headquarters is in Miami. The Tim's headquarters and our head office is in Toronto. And we have international offices for the brands in Switzerland and Singapore, so I kind of bop back and forth around all the offices. And I try to spend most of my time visiting our restaurant owners.
Daniel Schwartz /
Airplane
Brands
Burger King
Headquarters
Miami
Owners
Singapore
Switzerland
Toronto
Visiting
Burger
Forth
Offices
Restaurant
Tim
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
Kary Mullis / Author
County
Cows
Dairy
Empty
Enjoyed
Grandfather
Hung
Milk
Products
Visiting
Window
Twice
Liked
Driver
Neighbours
Once A Week
Saturdays
Several
Supplied
Twice A Day
Walked
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Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.
Ricky Jay / Magician
Bookstores
Cards
Collecting
Collectors
Deck
Greed
Obsessed
Obsession
Print
Serious
Shops
Sitting
Thinking
Visiting
Writing
All Day
General
Hand
Libraries
Supposedly
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As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.
Jean Fritz / Writer
Letters
Newspapers
Old Books
Visiting
Adventures
Surprises
Detective
Personalities
Reached
Uncover
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In 2006, I appeared before a House subcommittee considering real estate reform. It was like visiting the capital for the 'Hunger Games' as an outsider in a glamorous and byzantine fairy tale: I couldn't believe how beautiful all the congressional aides were, and I never understood the system of bells and alarms warning legislators to vote.
Glenn Kelman /
Bells
Considering
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Glamorous
Hunger
Legislators
Reform
Visiting
Warning
Aide
Alarm
Appeared
Congressional
Estate
Hunger Games
Outsider
Real Estate
Subcommittee
Tale
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I am beyond thrilled to be hitting the road with 'Singin' in the Rain.' As a huge fan of the original movie, the chance to bring this story to life on stage is something I couldn't pass up, and it'll be great visiting some of the beautiful theatres on the tour; some I've been to previously; some are going to be a brand new experience for me.
Maxwell Caulfield / Film Actor
Brand New
Hitting
Rain
Visiting
Life Experience Great
Original
Huge Fan
Pass
Singin
Thrilled
Tour
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