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“Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.”

Want Shows Running Night Given Roles Standing Actresses Reviews Every Night Initials Ovation

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.”

Ifs Knows Way Bigs Running Lost Given President Republican Losing Accounts Romney Mccain Tidy Offshore

Author:George Will

“I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.”

Knows Has Beens Running Given Path Trouble Grew Grew Up Humble Missions Backgrounds Feds Midnight Stamps Right Path Many Friends Destitute Food Stamps

Author:Debi Mazar

“Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.”

Art Important Whole Moments Hands Running Political Lying Given Numbers Findings Infinite Possession Circles Endless Chains Firm Guarantees Links Vicious Political Life Vicious Circles

Book:What Is to Be Done?

Source: What Is to Be Done?

“Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.”

World Long Running Given Policy Benefits Trade Agreement Foreign Policy Long Runs Trade Agreements Dislocation

Author:David Brooks

“Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.”

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy

“I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.”

People Thinking Mean Running Given Behinds Cameras Grounded

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .”

“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Thinking World Needs Mind Persons Ideas Shows Running School Young Opportunity Given Planets Demand Authority Evidence Sacred Train Rational Brethren Young Minds

Author:Jack McDevitt

“There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.”

Needs Play Home Running Desire Belief Given Baseball Affection Credit Intimate Buried Take Time Humanitarianism Yankees New York Yankees Home Run Ruth

Author:Waite Hoyt

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.”

Ifs Stills Running Given Break Performances Baseball Defense Hitting Clutch

Book:The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Source: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

“I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.”

Knows Doe Body Running Opportunity Given Sides Water My Own Know How Down And Golf Ice Score Veins Temperature Choke Boiling Splinters Body Temperature Ice Water Boiling Point

Author:John Updike

“To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.”

Men World Needs Dream Running Strong Given Ability Growing Progress Risk Modern Divine Materials Solitude Communicate Mysterious Surround Modern Life Restlessness Dissipation

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential.' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?”

Want Looks Country Running Hate Given Baby I Hate Angry Definitions Throwing Promotion Given Up Throwing Away

Author:Zosia Mamet

“People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Long Has Beens Problem Running Reading Given Intellectual Publishing Proven Output Pseudo Cartels Snobby Pseudo Intellectuals

Author:Tucker Max

“When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.”

Soul Running Age Given Forever Holy Speech Rounds Gallery Whispering Utterance Domes

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.”

Feels Made Country Running Given Pleasure Charity Foxes

Book:The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural

Source: The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural

“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”

Humans Problem Running Given Chance Human Beings Half Disease Sitting Leap Rats No Fear Foul Loaded Have No Fear

Author:David Attenborough

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.”

“None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.”

Believe Running Father Given Christ Calling Eternal Election Sheep Parallels

Book:A Sure Guide to Heaven

Source: A Sure Guide to Heaven

“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Stills Running Courses Given Virtue Alive Honor Safe Fairs Praise Distinguished Hymns

Author:Plato

“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”

Men Giving Running Together Given Down And Bosoms You Again Giving And Receiving

Author:Luke the Evangelist

“Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?”

Knows Men May Reason Running Today Given Particular Yesterday Wiser Senators House Divided

Book:Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery

Source: Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery

“The most challenging work is producing. The physical act of getting a production up and running is extremely taxing, and you never have any guarantee that your years of work on any given project will ever bear fruit.”

Years Running Given Challenges Bears Projects Fruit Productions Guarantees Guarantees That Challenging Work

Author:David Hayter