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And I started asking athletes if they would publicly pledge to donate their brain to science.
We've also been lucky to have people like Brandi Chastain, the women's soccer icon, NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. Just two weeks ago, Hall-of-Famer Nick Buoniconti who had been diagnosed with dementia, signed up to pledge his brain.
CA: Reed, you signed the Giving Pledge a few years ago, you're committed to giving away more than half of your fortune during your lifetime.
So Toby founded an organization called Giving What We Can to spread this information, to unite people who want to share some of their income, and to ask people to pledge to give 10 percent of what they earn over their lifetime to fighting global poverty.
We were arrested, signed a pledge not to drive again, released.
CA: And since this relationship, it's amazing— (Applause) And recently, you and Warren have been going around trying to persuade other billionaires and successful people to pledge to give, what, more than half of their assets for philanthropy.
BG: Well, we've got about 120 people who have now taken this giving pledge.
We pledge to our patients that we are here to serve you, so you have a right to know who we are.
In our initial trial, over 300 doctors have taken the total transparency pledge.
This is a major reason why China's government announced that actually they've already achieved their 2020 carbon reduction pledge ahead of schedule.
The subsequent international media forced the local government to pledge 10 million dollars in coastal cleanups.
The "new better off," as I've come to call it, is less about investing in the perfect family and more about investing in the imperfect village, whether that's relatives living under one roof, a cohousing community like mine, or just a bunch of neighbors who pledge to really know and look out for one another.
It's time we pledge our resources as leaders across the spectrum to work on this old problem in new ways, to ask, "How might we?" How might we make good on a promise of greater security for Jasmine's generation in a world beyond nuclear weapons?
Idea number two: we need a kind of Hippocratic oath for the news industry, a pledge to first do no harm.
Will you pledge to watch one film by a female filmmaker per month?
Pledge of Allegiance for the first time.
Allowing me to believe that the private people we have loved and lost in our families, and the public figures we have respected in our history, just as Abraham Lincoln wanted to believe, really can live on, so long as we pledge to tell and to retell the stories of their lives.
Can't have enough of it This our only way of life Keeping, keeping on the grind Keeping, keeping on the grind The mandem make some noise Like a million, million voice All the mandem make some noise With a million, million voice Can't stop I, won't stop I With a million, million voice Can't stop I, won't stop I With a million, million voice Can I be your leader Can I be your Caesar If I show you how to make some more will you pledge allegiance Is it always either Me or you or neither If I show you where I'm coming from, will you take a breather?
When I was a small boy, I took my pledge as an American, to save and faithfully defend from waste the natural resources of my country, its air, soil and minerals, its forests, waters and wildlife.
Let's have a system where we have ownership of land that is registered in a government office, that people can pledge as collateral.
A bunch of sorority girls make a new pledge spend the night in a creepy mausoleum.
Anyway, having deposited their unfortunate pledge at the mausoleum, the rest of The Sisters take off to go get stuff (like masks, sheets, etc) to come back and scare the crap out of her, but little do they suspect what's going on and they get more than the crap scared out of them.
This past week, Detroit Public TV had a 1-1/2 hour clip show as part of their pledge drive.
Well, some years later, some college kids are pulling some pledge prank.
Horrible acting goes from pledge to the head jock.
Things like the jock yelling at him to do stuff in quite a non-chalonte manner, with pledge over reacting and over-doing the whole "eager to be popular role" What really took the cake with this one is the final battle.
The two pledge to become Betas and along the way they get involved with a whole lot of sex, tits, and some hot girls along the way.
This is why Uncle Sam tells a dreaming Porky Pig to learn his Pledge of Allegiance.
A patriotic message cartoon, it features an apple-cheeked Porky Pig as a schoolboy who is bored by his attempts to learn the pledge of allegiance until the ghost of Uncle Sam explains why it is so important.
Well, the story is nothing new here: two girls wish to join a sorority and are asked as their final pledge initiation test to stay in a house known to be haunted(after licking sandals with chocolate sauce and being spanked with a big paddle labeled Daddy).
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