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adjectives populism populist
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. Brian Eno
adjectives certain designed looking news paint people picture repeatedly sort trying
I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way. Thomas Sadoski
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull tight weak
Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place. William Strunk
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull weak
Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace. William White
adjectives proud way
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman. Bipasha Basu
adjectives chemicals describe general media needs public understand
One needs only to look at the adjectives used by the media to describe chemicals to understand why the general public is frightened: toxic, killer, lethal, deadly,
adjective job title whether
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor. Matt Bomer
adjectives bits engaging few flowery gonna known lyrics nouns odd sort
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication. Ian Anderson
adjectives creating describe form memoir version
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction. Isabel Allende
jewish onstage terrified willie york
I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified. Lesley Ann Warren
jewish-tradition giving vampire
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. Calvin Trillin
jewish marry truth
To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister. Amy Heckerling
jewish-values vision important
The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important. Avigdor Lieberman
jewish liked music people sort stopping weddings
People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.
jewish large presume
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments? Judith Butler
jewish ourselves regard social standing worthy
It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians. Louis D. Brandeis
jewish love people
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. Lauren Bacall
jewish record track
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. Anita Diament
limiting options until
We are not limiting our options until this comes back before you,
limiting motto
Our motto has been defend, rebound, and run. We did well limiting them to one and done.
limiting quitting six whenever
Quitting is a process. It's gradual. I'm limiting it to six a day after meals, before you go to bed, whenever you get up.
limiting package
Being better is what we have to look at. Are we better with limiting him or going with our package with Richard?
limiting physical playing stuff teams touches trying
They just weren't going in today, you know? Teams are playing a lot more physical and limiting my touches and trying to make me do stuff I don't want to do.
nouns ifs objects
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. Janis Joplin
nouns
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
nouns blame
We all have some proper noun to blame. Chuck Palahniuk
nouns verbs theater
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Martha Graham
nouns statistics verbs
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller
nouns earth verbs
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
nouns adjectives verbs
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. Kim Harrison
nouns disease adjectives
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. Florence Nightingale
nouns obsessed clear
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. Fiona Shaw
russian-athlete
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? Anna Kournikova
russian
It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy. Lucas Till
russian-writer
There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. Natan Sharansky
russian-athlete
I'd like to be known for my character. Soundarya
russian-athlete
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber. Anatoli Boukreev
russian-athlete
I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
russian
We've got to do something. You can't play Russian roulette on this. John Sparkman
russian-revolutionary
From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. Mikhail Bakunin
russian
I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. Mikhail Baryshnikov
whether
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. Matt Mullenweg
whether
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. Leos Carax
whether
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song. Kate Bush
whether
If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it. Gene Simmons
whether wonder
Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.
whether
Whether they made the right choice, who knows? Pierce Brosnan
whether
Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.
whether
Whether or not they do it is still in question.
whether
Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say. John Podhoretz