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Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
James Cash Penney
Time
,
Good
,
Clock
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
Bjork
Funny
,
End
,
Hand
I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government.
Nick Clegg
Good
,
Government
,
Try
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
Laura Hillenbrand
Down
,
Makes
,
High
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
Education
,
Work
,
America
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
Jasper Johns
Work
,
Freedom
,
May
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Jane Smiley
Nature
,
Good
,
Evil
I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.
Gary Numan
Someone
,
Makes
,
State
I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
Gary Numan
Time
,
Problems
,
Though
There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
Gary Numan
Early
,
Electronic
,
Nails
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
Robert Rodriguez
Work
,
Sometimes
,
Dream
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
Education
,
Learning
,
Stupidity
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
J. J. Abrams
Work
,
Good
,
Writer
The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Hard
,
Understand
,
Why
It's so easy to play us guys that I hate to give away secrets to women because I know they'll use them. But OK, if you just simply don't give a guy the time of day, every once in awhile, it just makes us more like 'What do we do?' Men are developed to conquer. When we can't seem to conquer, we stay in it no matter what.
Jamie Foxx
Time
,
Women
,
Men
Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
Barbara Corcoran
Great
,
Nothing
,
Real
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler
Law
,
Once
,
Half
Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.
Jeb Bush
Positive
,
Capitalism
,
Benefits
I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
Danica Patrick
Win
,
Sometimes
,
Attention
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
Laura Schlessinger
Women
,
Power
,
Understand
Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
Laura Schlessinger
Compassion
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding
Science
,
Fashion
,
Rather
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
Astrid Lindgren
Love
,
Great
,
Children
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Herbert Read
True
,
Desire
,
Might
I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
Omar Sharif
Sex
,
Seductive
,
Seduce
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
Anne Tyler
Time
,
Children
,
Book
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard
Time
,
Moving
,
Everything
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
Katey Sagal
Life
,
Music
,
Time
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.
Eric Liu
Health
,
Smart
,
Care
Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
Wayne Rooney
Person
,
Others
,
Camera
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