Sat Quotes - Page 31

• I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

  Laura Carmichael

  Girl, Play, Agents

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• Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

  Diane Cilento

  Children, Bed, Parental

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• I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

  Julian Castro

  Dream, School, Opportunity

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

  Jim Dale

  Writing, Kids, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.

  David Graeber

  Country, Thinking, Decision

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• President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

  Elton Gallegly

  Two, People, President

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• The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

  Jessica Alba

  Kids, Directors, Agents

  "Jessica Alba In ‘Elle’: Shows Skin, Talks Motherhood". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  Dad, College, Oxford

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

  Waylon Jennings

  Beer, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Out Of Jail

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• A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use going on. I know what you will say next, and I know what you will do next.' The distinguished scientist promptly sat down on the floor, turned two back somersaults, and returned to his seat. 'There,' he said with a smile. 'That's to prove that you're not always right.'

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Two, Use

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• Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

  Ice Cube

  Wall, Drinking, Eight

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• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

  Don McLean

  Fire, Games, Devil

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• You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

  Richard Dawson

  Moving, Want, Next

  "Former 'Family Feud' host Richard Dawson dies". www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!

  Richard Fleeshman

  Stars, Taken, Talking

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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  Rachel Gibson

  Book, Writing, Romance

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• You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.

  Gregory Hines

  Emotional, Trying, Rehearsal

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• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  J. A. Jance

  Writing, Long, Firsts

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• Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.

  Bob Keeshan

  Children, Real, Dinner

  "Bob Keeshan, Creator and Star of TV's 'Captain Kangaroo,' Is Dead at 76" by Richard Severo, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2004.

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• It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

  Marie Lu

  End Of The World, Ends, Feels

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• In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Real, Way, Film

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

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• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  Zayn Malik

  Games, Play, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

  Eric Liu

  College, Class, Creating

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• The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

  David Petraeus

  Military, Office, Advice

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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