Benches Quotes - Page 12

• ...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

  Clive Ponting

  Opening Up, Body, Conservative

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• I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.

  Michael Jackson

  Wall, Kids, Swings

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• I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.

  Nick Antosca

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

  Roelof Botha

  Technology, Israel, Spirit

  "Roelof Botha on startups: Ditch the polish, it’s about ‘raw authenticity’". Interview with Michelle Atagana, memeburn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

  Simon LeVay

  Reality, Ivory Tower, Age

  "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality". Book by Simon LeVay, Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 9, 1996.

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• A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Kind, Heavy

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• I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

  Al Jarreau

  Mother, Dad, Piano

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• It's tough, you know, when you're thin and you don't put on muscle mass that easily. What you've got to remember is that you really have to eat a lot and you have to work your body out with basic exercises like deadlifts and squats and the bench press - the workouts that are basic in form but work a large group of muscles.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Workout, Exercise, Groups

  "Daniel Cudmore Interview by Meg Brown". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Men, Want

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• It's a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic. I haven't had time to visit the theatre, but I find it remarkable that Toronto has the third-largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, after New York and London. I once noticed a fellow sitting on a bench, then I realized it was a statue of Glenn Gould. It's very realistic.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

  Bobby Knight

  Player, Brain, Messages

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• Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, Justice, Office

  "New Nationalism Speech". Theodore Roosevelt's speech at the Dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas, teachingamericanhistory.org. August 31, 1910.

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• One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.

  John Wooden

  Play, Coaches

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• Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

  Gene Spafford

  Integrity, Car, Investing

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• Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

  Janet Macunovich

  Silly, Doe, Next

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• A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something in their childhood and they don't want to think they themselves were sexually abused as children or they are abusing their own children and they're sitting on a bench and they either can't admit it, won't admit it, depending on how deeply buried it is.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will be forced to work, side by side, with all types of people of all races; that in the lunchrooms, rest rooms, recreation rooms, they will be compelled by law to mingle with persons and races which all their lives they have by free choice, avoided in social and business intercourse.

  Strom Thurmond

  Race, Law, People

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• If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Giggs, Ifs, Has Beens

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• Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

  Molly Ivins

  School, Mad, Blame

  "Ivins: The new 'activist' judges" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. August 24, 2006.

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• In high school football, the coach kept me on the bench all year. On the last game of the season, the crowd was yelling, We want Youngman! We want Youngman! The coach says, Youngman - go see what they want!

  Henny Youngman

  Football, School, Years

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• Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

  Nancy Astor

  Growing, Grass, Fronts

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• It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

  Norman Tebbit

  House, Rubbish, Remember

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• I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

  Karl Kraus

  Book, Reading, Butterfly

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

  Beatrix Potter

  Fire, Hands, Tea

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “Collection of Beatrix Potter: Beatrix's Tales”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

  Jens Lehmann

  Play, Insulting, Sitting

  "Almunia comes to terms with Lehmann's 'hate'" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2008.

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