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It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Candidates
Department
Police Department
Population
Significant
Unfortunate
Convictions
Male
Minority
Percentage
Whites
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If, in 2014, we're still making 'white savior movies,' then it's just lazy and unfortunate. We've grown up as a country, and cinema should be able to reflect what's true. And what's true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own perspectives.
Ava Duvernay / Filmmaker
Cinema
Lazy
Savior
Unfortunate
Center
Movies Black People
Grown
Perspectives
Reflect
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Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
Pico Iyer / Essayist
Wisdom
Alas
Sentences
Six
Unfortunate
Emerson
Inspirations
Souls
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Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.
Richard Lamm / Former Governor Of Colorado
Denver
Los Angeles
Unfortunate
Believe I Believe Way
Believe Doing I Believe
Angeles
Believe Way Doing
Developed
Ideal
Los
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It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because you have to make a living. On the other hand, I don't do a better job because I get paid a lot of money. I'm never like, 'I'm not going to work as hard because I'm not getting paid as much.'
Matt Dillon / Actor
Unfortunate
Better Job
Work Money Better
More And More
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For me, what I learned is that I went for a long time without making music when I was married, and I think some of that was because - it was a little bit unfortunate - but it didn't make sense in the confines of my marriage for me to be the musician and the writer, which requires a lot of focus and attention.
Ryan Adams / Singer-Songwriter
Unfortunate
Confines
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President Donald Trump's decision to ban American aid to all organisations that in any way advocate women's right to abortions is very unfortunate. All experience shows that this kind of decision does not reduce the number of abortions; rather, it forces girls and women to revert to life-threatening procedures.
Isabella Lovin /
Abortion
Procedures
Unfortunate
Advocate
Aid
Ban
Donald
Life-Threatening
Organisations
Reduce
Revert
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It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.
Miranda Richardson / Film Actress
Doctors
Hung
Ideas
Thinking
Unfortunate
Doctor
Time People Woman
Seemed
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
Macaulay Culkin / Actor
Father
Games
Good Person
Play
Unfortunate
Success Good Always
Controlling
Vaguely
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Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for 'the faith community,' whatever that is. Yet 'TfT' is almost always pabulum about how God wants us all to love each other and care for the unfortunate. I'm sure humanists would say much the same, without God.
Simon Hoggart / Journalist
Reserved
Unfortunate
Love God Faith
For The Day
Slot
To Love
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It's very unfortunate to see the amount of obstruction the Democrats have put forward. There has not been a point since the beginning of President Trump's term that they have said, 'Let's come to the table. Let's work with you.' Even when they see their own constituents suffering because of their failing healthcare.
Ronna Mcdaniel /
Failing
Healthcare
Obstruction
Unfortunate
Democrats
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I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.
Greg Kinnear / Actor
American Football
Amount
Athens
Football
Football Team
Greece
High School
Information
League
School
Senior
Senior Year
Team
Unfortunate
Cup
Somewhat
Downside
High
Limited
Pass
Piece
Took
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While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services.
Rebecca Mackinnon / Blogger
Constrain
East
Iran
Middle East
Online
Sanctions
Software
Storage
Syria
Unfortunate
Activists
Applications
Chat
Governments
Intended
Services
Widely
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I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.
Joshua Henry /
Jordan
Nba
Phenomenal
Unfortunate
Great Player
Michael Jordan
Signed
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You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.
Jordan Peterson / Psychologist
Chaos
Feminine
Forever
Unfortunate
Possible
Reasons
Underneath
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I don't read my reviews. Unless I'm unfortunate enough to catch something by accident, which happens, and it's always a bad review. Always, it's amazing. I will be sitting in a café, and I will open a random paper right to the page of the review.... And then you're sucked in and go home and never want to go out again.
Keira Knightley / Actress
Home
Enough
Unfortunate
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
Jack Reed /
Diminish
Election
Experts
Intelligence Community
Unfortunate
According
Deliberately
Highest Level
Interfered
Russian
The One Thing
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Bombay
Break
Decision
Direct
Perception
Sensibility
Unfortunate
Work Good Bad
Attempt
Certain Level
Gel
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Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a big butt, but didn't have boobs, so I wanted my body balanced out. My nose was fine in real life, but it didn't photograph well, so I had it tweaked for my line of work. I'm very happy with it.
Holly Madison / Model
Balanced
Photograph
Real Life
Unfortunate
Voluptuous
Life Work Always
Life Work Look
Butt
Nose
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We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the reports written by American NGOs - we discovered that not only Russians but kids from other countries and the American-born kids have been subject to very unfortunate behavior on the part of their adopted parents.
Sergei Lavrov /
Adopted
Behavior
Other Countries
Reports
Unfortunate
Basis
Russians
Discovered
Ngos
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Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
Jon Katz / Journalist
Religion
Technology
Cat
Culture
Disconnected
Dog
Economy
Fragmented
Mean
One Thing
Our Lives
Stressful
Ugly
Unfortunate
Come
Very
Live
Thing
Much
Animals
Every
Day
Depend
Every Day
Faithfully
Loving
Struggling
Unconditionally
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I was bought up as a boy. I don't blame my parents in the slightest since it was just an unfortunate timing in many ways, in other ways it was very fortunate. If I'd been born 20 years earlier, there wouldn't have been the surgical techniques to correct the deformity and by the time I was of an age, they did exist. I was very lucky.
Lady Colin Campbell /
Blame
Born
Deformity
Fortunate
Lucky
Timing
Unfortunate
Since
Boy
Bought
By The Time
Correct
Exist
Earlier
Parents
Slightest
Surgical
Techniques
Ways
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With Trump, because of the kind of seemingly violent way that he talks about things and because he's on Twitter almost every single morning, I think it brings down the respect that we have for the White House and for the Oval Office in particular, so the expectation is anything can happen, and that becomes the norm, which is unfortunate.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Norm
Oval
Unfortunate
White House
Expectation
Oval Office
Seemingly
Talks
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Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Legal
Dna
Granted
Important
Kind
Mistrust
Protect
Unfortunate
Relationship Me Important
Bond
Legally
Professional
Soft
Tend
Tuned
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The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.
Jane Goodall / Primatologist
Behavior
Capable
Dark
Dark Side
Deliberate
Evil
Excuse
Human Behavior
Shocked
Unfortunate
Vicious
Among
Attacks
Side
Calculated
Parallel
Strangers
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It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.
Robert Pozen /
Home
Colleagues
Finished
Left
Office
Reading
Reality
Surfing
Unfortunate
Workplace
Again
Stay
Fast
For The Day
Go Home
Goes
Hour
None
Web
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
Patrick Duffy / Actor
Karma
Circumstances
Including
Instance
Lifetime
Son
Two
Unfortunate
Unfortunate Things
Manifested
Particular Set
Two People
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Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.
Ava Duvernay / Filmmaker
Women
Society
Color
Dna
Historic
Permission
Unfortunate
Ask
Time Women Society
True
Been
Part
Instead
Passed
Somehow
Taking
Trained
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I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important.
Freddie Prinze, Jr. / Actor
Greater
Unfortunate
Life Time Nature
Life Nature Death
Ahead
Burnt
Opposed
Quicker
Recognize
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A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfortunate marketing ideas of our time: Starting as a work garment for miners, the ubiquitous blue jeans became a staple of the counterculture starting when Brando wore them in 'On the Waterfront' and remained so through the anti-war protests of the '70s.
Roger Stone / Political Consultant
Anti War
Blue
Blue Jeans
Brando
Growing Up
Ideas
Jeans
Marketing
Miners
Our Time
Unfortunate
Time Work More
Became
Garment
Word
Protests
Remained
Staple
Ubiquitous
Waterfront
Wore
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