"You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family."
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"What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality."
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"Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it."
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"Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins"
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"Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time."
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"It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there."
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"I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything."
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"When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess - we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop - let's get to work."
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"I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song."
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"SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom."
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"Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance."
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"We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do."
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"We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are."
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"I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts."
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"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate."
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"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
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"I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else."
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"Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice."
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