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• I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Writing, Giving

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• I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness

  Bobby Gould

  Hot, Felt, Seats

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• Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.

  Ryan Bingham

  Up In The Air, World, Empires

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• I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Stories, Crowds, Tradition

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• I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

  Romain Gary

  Mother, Dream, Inspiration

  Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Terrible Events, Evil People

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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.

  Martin Luther

  Stars, Wine, Beer

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• I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

  Sophia Loren

  Jewels, House, Mind

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.

  John Keats

  Stars, Sadness, Silence

  1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems, 'Hyperion', bk.1, l.1-5.

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• The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

  Alice Coltrane

  Heart, Piano, Soul

  "Alice Coltrane, Wife of John, Left Her Own Mark". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 16, 2007.

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• Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.

  Doris Lessing

  New York, Men, Thinking

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• Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

  Tahir Shah

  Daughter, Doorways, Reputation

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 18, 2013

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• I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.

  John Buchan

  Adventure, Men, Games

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1649, e-artnow

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• Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.

  James Elkins

  Portraits, Records, Movement

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Husband, Home, Eye

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

  Aesop

  Dust, Tree, Wheels

  "The Fly on the Wheel". Fable by Aesop,

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• The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.

  Will Carleton

  Eye, Hands, Editors

  Will Carleton (1873). “Farm Ballads”, p.127

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• I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Pie, Vision

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.34, Macmillan

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• I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.

  Angelina Jolie

  Focus, Unhappy, Purpose

  "Angelina Jolie Dies for Our Sins" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. July 20, 2010.

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• The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Embodiment, Awareness, Bliss

  "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 13: 1975-1977". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba, www.sssbpt.info.

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• We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Children, Loneliness

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• If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

  Thomas Pynchon

  America, Darkness, Towns

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Mason & Dixon”, p.432, Penguin

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• The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  School, Olives, Losing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 376, 1895.

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• Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Boys, Night

  Song: My Hometown, 1984

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