Sentences with phrase «famous people whose»

Near the end of her life she created a list she called «The famous people whose hand my little hand has touched.»

October 27, 2017 • For their first Ask Me Another challenge, Pyle and Gelman went on a celebrity sightseeing tour, answering questions about famous people whose names double as geographic places.

What about famous people whose memory is kept alive and passed on, or others whose descendants culturally honor their memory without letting it fade?

Keep in mind that Jones has gone from a climate scientists in a field that people had probably never heard of to being a rather famous person whose research is the basis for hundreds of billions in spending globally.

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It's not difficult to find numerous examples of now - famous business people whose friends and family scoffed at their ideas that seemed crazily far - fetched, but were just what the marketplace needed.

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

It's run by Pastor Hyung Jin Moon, whose father founded the Unification Church in the 1950s and became low - level famous for «mass weddings,» in which he would marry huge crowds of people to each other.

To emphasize the point, Howe likened Percoco's influence to a famous investment commercial whose slogan was: «When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.»

These are the people who make those decisions, from lobbyists whose names stay out of the press to the famous «three men in a room» that hash out the state budget to the prosecutor who has emerged as the fourth man in that room, listening in on every deal and upending the status quo of a place that seemed like it would never change.

It gives us an opportunity to pay homage to the many famous leaders and the countless unnamed people whose selfless sacrifice and desire to make the world a better place for all, has allowed us to progress.

Crowe plays Maximus, a famous Roman general whose exploits on the battlefield have endeared him to both the Roman people and their emperor, Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris).

«For me, it's just cool to be a middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

Like Lauren Holmes, whose short story «My Humans» - in the collection Barbara the Slut and Other People - charts the breakdown of a relationship through the eyes of a dog, Wroblewski is an author prepared to put the voice of an animal in an adult story, stepping away from the anthropomorphic stomping ground of many famous children's stories and novels.

The first subjects of her Memorial Drawings were the famous chef Julia Child and the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, whose deaths moved De Jesus greatly; eventually she expanded the project to include a wide range of people, some of whom she knew personally, such as Irene Pijoan, an influential artist friend of hers when she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute.

But in a culture cluttered with people who are famous for no good reason whatsoever, Marc Randazza is an outlier: someone who is becoming famous as a First Amendment badass whose First Amendment badassery actually exceeds his rep.. If I ever get sued for defamation, he's my first call.

More than 37,000 people live in this Otero County neighborhood, whose famous local landmark is a pristine desert called the White Sands of Alamogordo.