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• When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.

  Bob Costas

  Loses

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• A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good.

  Can Themba

  Book, Thinking, Hymns

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• Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

  Sam Raimi

  Crafts, Horror, Film

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• This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

  Ted Kooser

  Book, Light, Darkness

  Ted Kooser (2004). “Delights & Shadows: Poems”, p.84, Copper Canyon Press

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• It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

  U. R. Ananthamurthy

  Notebook, Views, Essence

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• At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

  Cat Stevens

  Men, Mosques, Jerusalem

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with a limited electorate - just like the one the writers of our Constitution meant this country to be. When these white Christian patriots sat down to write the Declaration of Independence, there were no black citizens for them to worry about.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Christian, Country, Believe

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

  Norton Juster

  Inspirational, Mistake, Princess

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.189, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Procrastination, Men

  "There Is A Way Out!". Book by Vernon Howard, 1975.

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• The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

  Laurie Colwin

  People, Guilt, Dinner

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• That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.

  Michael Lewis

  Sheep, People, Gold

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• I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

  Ray Conniff

  Smile, New York, Fun

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• I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

  Ray Conniff

  Broadway, Paradise, Restaurants

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• We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.

  Sol Saks

  Men, Fire, Pits

  Sol Saks (1991). “Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing”, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC

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• Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Finished

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• As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

  Kit Williams

  Feet, Would Be, Way

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• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Men, Paris, Black

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• Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'

  Mark Steel

  Plato, Mean, Men

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• I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

  Deborah Moggach

  Lonely, Children, Rain

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• When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

  Taylor Hackford

  Rays, Pieces, Stones

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• My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

  Dan Harmon

  Dog, Crazy, Cat

  Twitter post from May 21, 2012

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• Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

  Jedediah Berry

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.158, Penguin

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• If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

  Donald Miller

  Sunset, Mean, Dark

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

  Ransom Riggs

  Mother, One Day, Peculiar

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

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