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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Sitting

"Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person."

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
Sitting

"The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich"

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Sitting

"Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Sitting

"The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time."

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Seth Lloyd Computer Scientist
Sitting

"According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here."

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Neve Campbell Actress
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"There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process."

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Pam Brown Poet
Sitting

"It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Sitting

"You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?""

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Sitting

"Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position."

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Sitting

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

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Colin Hay Musician
Sitting

"In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well."

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Ang Lee Director, Producer
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"When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore."

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