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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. -- Ogden Nash
There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful. -- Grant Hill
I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. -- Holly Valance
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat. -- Bear Grylls
At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. -- Steven Levitan
Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy. -- Betty Williams
It's really sad down there. Everyone's sitting around asking to help and BP won't let anybody do anything. People are coming down to help. People want to help. -- Austin Nichols
There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done. -- Drew Houston
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. -- George Gershwin
When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding. -- Maria Semple
Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old. -- Alison Gopnik
I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes. -- Daisy Fuentes
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them. -- Christopher Hampton
Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens. -- Debi Mazar
When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it. -- Lupe Fiasco
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers. -- Zadie Smith
People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down. -- Charlie Kimball
It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music. -- Brad Paisley
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. -- Kurt Cobain
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly. -- Gary Larson
Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.... -- Phil Ochs
Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer. -- Joe Rogan
It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. -- Hannah Kent
But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology. -- Steven Levitan
As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down. -- Gracie Allen
I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served. -- T.I.
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. -- Patricia A. McKillip
Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers -- Ziggy Marley
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... -- Alice Walker

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