"Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made."
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"I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going."
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"He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.""
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"Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying."
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"When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted."
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"I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me."
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"The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened."
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"Some make the world go round; others watch it turn."
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"I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow."
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"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
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"I watch ESPN all day long."
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"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
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"Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry"
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"It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV."
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"The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space."
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"Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future."
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"I only watch TV when I go to hotels."
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"Always observe, watch, and talk to older people."
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"On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty."
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"You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it."
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