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• A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

  Billy Bragg

  Sleep, Dancing, Politics

  Song: Help Save the Youth of America

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• It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Opportunity, People

  John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  Flavor Flav

  Jobs, Men, Hype

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• I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  New York, Winning, Giving

  "Ford's Bluff Is Called; He Won't Challenge Gillibrand In N.Y." by Ken Rudin, www.npr.org. March 2, 2010.

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• I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

  Lena Headey

  Actors, Pants, Unprepared

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• I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

  Florence Henderson

  Love Is, Flying, Done

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• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  Owen Hart

  Jobs, Wrestling, People

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• When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Country, Thinking, Hands

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• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  Abdallah II

  Iran, Talking, Play

  "Paper: Jordan's King Abdullah II Wants Nuclear Program". www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2007.

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• I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Couple, Coffee, Writing

  "Exclusive Interview with Bong Joon-ho" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 07, 2007.

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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  Iris Johansen

  Real, Writing, Events

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• You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.

  Dolly Parton

  Sex, Pay, Stranger

  Song: Gamble Either Way

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• When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

  Steve Kazee

  Thinking, Virginia, Play

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• Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Political, Risk

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• I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Play, Sitting, Theater

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• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  Frances O'Grady

  Cutting, Mps, East

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• New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Cities, Government

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• Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

  Lucy Powell

  Government, Differences, Choices

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• Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

  Sally Quinn

  Position Of Power, People, House

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• When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

  Michael Richards

  Two, Flying, Cameras

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• I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

  Bob Saget

  Dirty, Tv Shows, Nuts

  "Bob Saget talks dirty about The Aristocrats". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. July 25, 2005.

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• I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?

  George Saunders

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  "George Saunders On Absurdism And Ventriloquism In 'Tenth Of December'". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 20, 2013.

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• We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

  John Salazar

  Insurance Companies, Company, Drivers

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• Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

  Bobby Vinton

  Today, Arena, Bigs

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• And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

  Judy Woodruff

  Careers, Long, Political

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