"Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub."
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"...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine."
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"...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position."
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"And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there."
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"Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness."
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"Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away."
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"Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius."
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"Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?"
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"We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now."
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"I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple."
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"It's a lot of talent sitting in suits."
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"Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me."
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"I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time."
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"I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy."
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"O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do."
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"To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other."
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"I've always enjoyed prasadam much more when I've been at the temple, or when I've actually been sitting with Prabhupada, than when somebody's brought it to me. Sometimes you can sit there with prasadam and find that three or four hours have gone by and you didn't even know it. Prasadam really helped me a lot, because you start to realize "Now I'm tasting Krishna.""
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"I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around."
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"A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them."
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"I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end."
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