Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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Related It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because gener... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they thi... PAUL GREENGRASS Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is... RENé DESCARTES I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; the... PETER THIEL I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a... DAVID CHIPPERFIELD The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are ... MICHAEL PORTER Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they d... BEN SHAPIRO Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually in... BILL KRISTOL These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon... BAM MARGERA As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my fat... NATASHA TRETHEWEY As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of Americ... MARK UDALL In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that... AARON RODGERS I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things li... SUE TOWNSEND People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secret... SARA PARETSKY Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stres... KEVIN SPACEY Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never trans... TOM CLANCY [L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communicatio... GARTH GREENWELL I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's somethi... DWIGHT SCHULTZ Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar tha... ZAC BROWN Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support... DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't... LARRY PAGE There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for bo... L.A. WEATHERLY They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to ... WENDY LONG They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to ... WENDY LONG My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say... CAIO FONSECA I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that a... JOHN MALKOVICH I find that 'Ghostbusters' and 'Alien' actually have a lot in common in that they... AKIVA SCHAFFER Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they&... JOSHUA BELL Kitchens generally tend to recoup their cost, and bathrooms too. Those are widely appealing to the m... DELORES CONWAY It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, ... ALEC BALDWIN They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea w... EDWARD SNOWDEN Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view... 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ELLSWORTH KELLY The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. ... JOHN FRANKENHEIMER With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you... MARGOT KIDDER Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, ... GREG GRAFFIN The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense... MICHAEL SWANWICK Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will d... JAMES PATTERSON I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they w... BRIAN ENO People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that havi... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're ... MATT GROENING I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers... STEVEN LEVITT What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ... BILLY CORGAN I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the... SCOTT WALKER I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don'... RASHIDA JONES It is disappointing that elephants live in zoos and circuses, chained for days and months on end, fo... CAROL BUCKLEY I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God,... CARRIE NUGENT Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's w... JASON ROBERT BROWN I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and man... CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, an... NICHOLAS KRISTOF The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little hou... MARTHA STEWART It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting... JON KATZ There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they'... CHAD HARBACH Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something t... JACKSON KATZ Collaborations are really hard to achieve, ... We've all been so isolated. The common denominator th... DANIEL VALDEZ Collaborations are really hard to achieve. We've all been so isolated. The common denominator that w... DANIEL VALDEZ The master policy will have liability insurance in it for shared spaces, like sidewalks, gutters and... CAROLYN GORMAN I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things togeth... DAVE VAN RONK We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're f... JENNIFER PAHLKA I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes o... MARTIN FREEMAN Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that ... LAUREN GROFF I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading thi... JENNY AGUTTER Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will ... BEN PARR Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how... J. B. PRIESTLEY I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information... TONY SCOTT Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask,... TRAVIS BRADBERRY The public deserves the right to healthy public spaces. Even with all the information available, the... KATHRYN MOLNAR When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they... CASSANDRA CLARE In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Successful Team’s, Are Built On & Operate With A High Level Of Trust & Character. They Understand ... GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ... JANE YOLEN President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortun... RICHARD M. NIXON A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacr... EMILE DURKHEIM In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I ... NIGEL HAMILTON The problem with privacy cases is that most privacy plaintiffs have to give up their privacy. In ord... CHRIS HOOFNAGLE All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON People want to connect over shared passions and interests. They're seeking inspiration. We see t... MARNE LEVINE As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popula... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM It is somewhat surprising that collections of the 'hundred best books,' which usually begin ... VINCENT MCNABB What do Windows and a handgun have in common?Both are harmless while not loaded. UNKNOWN I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with pe... PARKER STEVENSON Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of... JEFFERY DEAVER The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... BEN OKRI Democrats or Republicans ? it doesn't matter ? the fact is it needs to be fixed. If they expect to c... LEE GRACZYK All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of so... JON BURNHAM
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