Bill Gates

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?

American Businessman

John Lewis

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

American Politician

Ted Cassidy

Getting Lurch's character straightened out was fun because I was brand new to professional film acting. I had only been in radio up till then as an announcer or a program director.

American Actor

Bill Lee

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Athlete

Laetitia Casta

I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.

French Model

Anushka Sharma

We have to look good... our hair does get damaged due to straightening... tonging. We have to do something that helps our hair look good and healthy.

Indian Actress

Jimi Hendrix

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

American Musician

Brian Lara

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.

Trinidadian Cricketer

Billy Graham

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

American Clergyman

Keith Whitley

Lorrie came along, which is the best thing that ever happened to me. Because of her, I straightened up my life.

American Singer

Used when describing actions that involve physically straightening an object or part of the body.

Physical Actions

Often refers to small movements or tweaks to perfection, like straightening a tie or glasses.

Minor Adjustments

Can mean to make an actual line or path direct and uninterrupted, with no curves or bends.

Literal Direction

Highlights the act of making something orderly and tidy, not just organized.

Neatness Focus

Could imply improving appearance, such as hair or clothing, to look well-groomed.

Personal Appearance

Implies resolving disagreements or clearning up confusion, not just formal problems.

Conflict Resolution

Can mean to explain something clearly and comprehensibly to avoid miscommunication.

Clarification

 so I didn't want them to put me under anesthesia, or whatever you call it. And so they sewed my face up. And then they had to straighten out my nose, and they took these rods and shoved them up my nose and went up through my brains and felt like it was coming out the top of my head, and everybody said that it should have killed me,

Anna Deavere Smith: Four...

 you can elevate your feet on a stool and lean forwards with a straight back, which straightens the anorectal angle and eases the passage of waste. Going a day without a bowel movement isn’t necessarily cause for alarm. But if you are experiencing chronic constipation, simple dietary and lifestyle changes, like fibrous vegetables,

What causes constipation?...

 And so I did, I worked my hardest to overcome all the things that people said were wrong with me. I stayed out of the sun so that my skin wouldn't get too brown, I straightened my curls into submission. I constantly tried to lose weight, I bought fancier and more expensive clothes. All so that when people looked at me,

America Ferrera: My...

 working to shine a light on people who are rarely heard from in the media. Over and over again, I'd see how this simple act of being interviewed could mean so much to people, particularly those who had been told that their stories didn't matter. I could literally see people's back straighten

Dave Isay: Everyone...

 Well, my team went all out and we won, we won big, and for the next three days I could not straighten my arms, which isn't that big a deal except when you're in a wheelchair and that's really what you have to use to get around. And that proved to be a very important lesson for me.

To overcome challenges,...

 My name is America. I trained my whole life for this. I'll just follow the playbook. I'll work harder." I stayed out of the sun so that my skin wouldn't get too brown. I straightened my curls into submission. I constantly tried to lose weight.

Your identity is your...

 once you get the macro-economy straightened out, the opportunities in various other sectors are enormous. We have opportunities in agriculture, like I said. We have opportunities in solid minerals. We have a lot of minerals

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How...

 Return After all that adventure, the hero returns to his ordinary world. New Life This quest has changed the hero; he has outgrown his old life. Resolution All the tangled plot lines get straightened out.

What makes a hero? -...

 ecosystem which is pretty important isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened

Wild Beavers Return...

 for God well then people were crazy high praise them up I realize more God woman does alright okay there in straightening iron jaw out here tightly out then you

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Minor Adjustments

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