"The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced."
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"Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something."
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"Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun."
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"You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly"
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"Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise."
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"Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?"
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"Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once."
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"He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise."
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"Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise."
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"One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?"
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"Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?"
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"Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action."
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"No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink."
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"The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive."
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"The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe."
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"Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while."
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"When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable."
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