Seats Quotes - Page 21

• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  Carly Fiorina

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Carly Fiorina on 'Your World'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Fashion, Media, Clubs

  "Merging Physical and Digital in Fashion" by Nicola Formichetti, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Heart, Being Sad

  1926 War or Peace,'Young India'.

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• To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hands, Heavy, Firm

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

  Stone Gossard

  Wheels, Cards, Bananas

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• I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Running, Risk, Michigan

  "Women: We Want You on the Political Battlefield" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

  Buddy Hackett

  People, Laughing, Trying

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• I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Subway, Tubes

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• I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

  Chick Hearn

  Boys, Two, Talking

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• With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

  Levon Helm

  House, Horny, Horns

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• Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

  James Hillman

  Jobs, Men, Office

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• I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

  Whitney Houston

  Crazy, Play, People

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• The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Heart, Religion

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

  Rodney King

  Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

  Greg Kinnear

  Tables, Partners, Picks

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• I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

  Evel Knievel

  Hurt, Pants, Hurt Feelings

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Agendas, Tables, Gains

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

  John Lasseter

  Children, Sitting, Stories

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  Queen Latifah

  Christmas, Giving Up, Simple

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• Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.

  Denis Leary

  Dog, Two, Rehearsal

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

  John Lydon

  Dog, Needs, Want

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• My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

  Paul Lynde

  Eight, Small Numbers, House

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• As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.

  Michael Mann

  Night, Views, Years

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• I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

  John Mayer

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• We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

  James McGreevey

  Anger, Thoughtful, Government

  Farewell address to the state, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2004.

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