Sitting Down Quotes - Page 8

• Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

  Alice Walker

  Meaningful, Teaching, Circles

  Alice Walker (1987). “Meridian: a novel”, Isis Large Print Books

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• If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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• Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Teenager, Thinking, Manipulation

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

  Robert Barry

  Sleep, Night, House

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that's a pure, organic process of learning from someone else's mistakes.

  Anthony Green

  Song, Mistake, Writing

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I've worked in an office. People are sitting down doing their stuff, or pretending to do their stuff, and they're bored. I've heard a car tire screech and 30 people went to the window. That was a piece of excitement in their day, that a car might have had to stop quickly, you know. You don't need dinosaurs, you know.

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Car, Office

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Sunday, Ideas

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.

  Brian McGinn

  Believe, People, Guy

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't split poles. When I'm walking with my friends by lampposts, we all walk on the same side. And I won't cross over your legs. If you're sitting down and like chilling on the floor, I won't walk over your legs because then you'll go to jail.

  Curren$y

  Jail, Over You, Legs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Law, Passive Resistance

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• I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line, or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings. This would be solved if Donald Trump would release his tax returns as he's told the American public that he would do.

  Tim Kaine

  Ukraine, America, Ties

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Cities, Needs, Able

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I love sitting down with my friends at dinner and actually telling them a story, as opposed to going, "Hey, did you see that thing I posted on Instagram?" For me, I would so much rather sit there and actually share a story with somebody and have somebody tell me about their trip, or things like that. I don't need to see it.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Needs, Stories, Hey

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, House, Different

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Happiness, Vacation

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• I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Heart, Character, Bridges

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

  Samuel Palmer

  Matter, Plans, Walking

  Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

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• I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

  Dave Grohl

  Writing, Thinking, Singing

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

  Diane Ravitch

  Wise, Book, Pressure Groups

  "Some educators take issue with textbooks" by Casey Wian, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2003.

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• People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting.

  Linda Evangelista

  Thinking, People, Dresses

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

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• I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  New York, Nice, People

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• I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Play, Down And, Violin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Skills, Listening

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