"There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot."
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"Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles."
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"See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back."
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"Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak."
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"Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet."
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"Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot."
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"I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!"
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"I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument."
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"I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life."
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"I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back ."
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"I know a lot of people in Washington would say, well, you know, indigent people can't manage their health savings account. They're too stupid. But they're not too stupid. Somebody has a diabetic foot ulcer, they learn very quickly not to go the emergency room where it costs five times more to take care of it. They go to the clinic."
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"When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet."
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"People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned."
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"Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness."
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"I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people."
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"A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust [them]. Often it is people who have been there [in a similar situation to the people he or she is leading]. They would generally be people who are ready to take the risks themselves. Most leaders would be people who don't ever give commands and remain at home and let the foot soldiers be the ones who bear the brunt."
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"Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!" He honestly thought it mattered."
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"What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained."
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"Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out."
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"He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left."
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