"While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves."
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"I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her."
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"The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot see that there is a banquet because seeing the banquet requires that we see also ourselves sitting there starving-seeing ourselves clearly, even for a moment, is shattering. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves."
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"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."
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"It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water."
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"I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way."
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"Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C."
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"I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk."
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"The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone."
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"And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest."
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"Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?"
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"Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness."
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"My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that."
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"The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting."
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"Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell."
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"I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile."
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"...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often."
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"I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning."
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"I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom."
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"The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it."
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