"Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy."
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"A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass"
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"The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet."
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"But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair."
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"Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something."
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"I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?"
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"I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one."
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"I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity."
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"I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script."
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"When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!"
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"The biggest sin is sitting on your ass."
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"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing."
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"At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'"
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"It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass."
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"When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on."
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"When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England."
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"There’s something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one."
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"Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly."
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"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection."
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"Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture."
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