Seats Quotes - Page 7

• Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  White, Numbers, House

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Sky

  Song: Take to the Sky

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• Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Way

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• If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat.

  Alice Cooper

  Ties, Meat, Bigs

  Song: I Better Be Good, Album: Zipper Catches Skin, 1982

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

  Al Yankovic

  Artist, Austin, Kind

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

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• Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

  Cliff Robertson

  Doors, Ideas, Finding Yourself

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

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• The beauty behind killing someone who no one thinks you're willing to kill is, of course, that you throw people out of their comfort zone. And that's good because you want people to be on the edge of their seats.

  Michael Loceff

  Thinking, Killing Someone, People

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

  Yogaswami

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

  Douglas Pagels

  Cheer, Positive Thinking, Want

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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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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Struggle, True Identity

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

  William C. Bryant

  Soul, Faces, Features

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Past”

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