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• Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

  Quincy Jones

  Eye, Light, Hands

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• If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.

  Ann Coulter

  Player, College, Race

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• When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

  Lewis Black

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, Done, Homework

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."

  Brett Ratner

  Memories, Father, Night

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

  Douglas Adams

  Horse, Animal, Ordinary

  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ch. 2 (1987)

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• I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Thinking, Imaginary

  Source: www.complex.com

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• At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says "you like baseball?" I said, "Oh, man, I love baseball." So he goes "Did you know that if Jesus had played ball, he'd have been the greatest ball player ever?" Like I'm gonna argue with that logic. So I sat there for a second, and then I said "did you know that if Babe Ruth had been the Messiah, the Catholics would have beer and hot dogs at Communion?" He left.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Baseball, Dog

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• The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Self, Decision, Voting

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?

  Meg Whitman

  Business, Thinking, Research And Development

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• The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a Web site saying, "Please stay." I love the people in the city. I've literally sat on the bench with a towel on my head crying, because I feel the passion in the stands.

  Dwight Howard

  Passion, Cities, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

  Alice Walker

  Justice, One Day, Firsts

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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• I'm a bit obsessive. I've just bought this Wi-Fi radio, which can pick up 7,500 stations from all over the world. I'm boring my wife to death with it. I've got a thing about technology, so I've got four sat-nav systems and loads of gadgets, including a 100% accurate watch. Any new development and I'm there buying it. My best trait is that I'm happy and optimistic.

  Tony Blackburn

  Optimistic, Technology, Wife

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

  Thomas Hardy

  Lonely, Loneliness, Oxen

  Thomas Hardy (2009). “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

  Gene Fowler

  World, Speech, Said

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• I woke up this morning,
  Smiled at the rising sun,
  Three little birds,
  Sat on my doorstep,
  Singing sweet songs

  Bob Marley

  Song, Sweet, Morning

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• During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

  John Adams

  Together, Revolution, Three

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography”, p.511

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• It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

  Francis Bacon

  Dust, Tree, Wheels

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1999). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.

  Bun B

  Liars, Rapper, Knowing

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Swimming

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Happy, Failure, Hands

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• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  Katherine Losse

  Engineering, Laughing, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to let [my photographs] be something that comes from the model in her own way. I don't want to take the models too much out of their own skin. I realized that I wanted to create a marriage between who the person was, the nature, the beauty in the figure, and how the models sat or posed themselves.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Skins, Want, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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