Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
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Related Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a ma... ALBERT BROOKS My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be s... NATHAN KRESS You've got pickup trucks with CDs, leather seats and air conditioning, four-door, and they can sit f... JOHN MCELROY I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me ... JOYCE MEYER Diligently beget a thriving idea today & you shall comfortably sit among kings. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home an... SARA PAXTON If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines ... BLAKE LIVELY Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch som... VICTORIA OSTEEN It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back... JOE ROGAN To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you migh... CALVIN JOHNSON You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. BORIS YELTSIN I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch mo... BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN You can love me, you can hate me, but just don't be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch. DANIEL CORMIER Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a... LIONEL RICHIE I can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it ... JANINA GAVANKAR When ignorance masquerades itself as intelligence, there's not much one can do but sit back and watc... FATHOM When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a ... BALTASAR KORMAKUR A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. WILLIAM RALPH INGE A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can y... CHARLES DANCE You can be all that you want to be. Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The life you thought you killed, sit back and watch me live TANICA S HALL You can just sit here and watch these guys deal out of their house. It's unbelievable. DON BACHMAN As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to s... DARREN ARONOFSKY I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is ... ELIAS KOTEAS I'm a hateful sadist. I make everyone's day nice so that I can sit back and watch what happens. ANTHONY T. HINCKS I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... TOM PETTY So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can&... DRAYMOND GREEN I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your fo... KERRY HEALEY I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and obse... SOPHIA MYLES Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's ... JOHNNY DEPP If you watch a six-minute film, and you're really watching it, it can be a profound experience. But ... MATTI LESHEM It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psycholog... RICKY PONTING What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too ... JONATHAN DAVIS I didn't like having to sit there and watch that. MIKE HARGROVE I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, ... JOSE ANDRES As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit b... DARREN ARONOFSKY I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my th... KALEY CUOCO I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars thems... BRETT RATNER Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day. LARRY NIVEN One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised,... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock ... BIRDMAN Be all that you can be. You can be great. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... DEYTH BANGER My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until t... BILLY HOWLE What's really wrong with making them the problem is that you abdicate your own responsibility. Once ... MICHAEL CRIGHTON I can't talk him through the drills, but he can sit back and watch it a time or two, and he gets out... LARRY EASTERWOOD It was very difficult for me to sit there and watch and grit my teeth and do nothing. BRIAN STEIDLE I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn'... JOE BIDEN I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure. ZOE KRAVITZ I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out. ASHLEY TISDALE You have to get the kids intimately involved. They can't just sit and watch or sit and listen. ERIC SPINA One can advise comfortably from a safe port. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One can advise comfortably from a safe port. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in mo... GEORGE A. ROMERO My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can... NATASCHA MCELHONE My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work... MARY OLIVER I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun... EDDIE KAYE THOMAS Having to sit and watch the district tournament was hard, not being out there. But the girls won it ... KAYLA HOOPER I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I... NICK MORAN Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to... AMANDA PAYS I have friends that are nearly 26 who sit down and watch it and that's a real crack up. What are you... KATE BELL I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth. TRUTH DEVOUR I'd like to sit back and watch. GREG BALL I will never provide you hoes with entertainment, I'll just sit back and watch as you make a fool ou... RICHARD DANIELS It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological... RICKY PONTING I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle ... MAYA ANGELOU For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's r... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things... JAMIE WYETH If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a ... EVANGELINE LILLY Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing. PAUL MCCARTNEY I've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports ... GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Bath could have won the game comfortably, RICHARD HILL All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix. KYRIE IRVING You watch how teams are defending it. Do they play a box or a diamond? Do they come after you or sit... DALE HUNTER I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can&... LAURIE HOLDEN One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can... MAYA ANGELOU i was told who knows better do better so more time you sit and watch let them talk you watch and obs... TREVADO HIBBERT One can give advice comfortably from a safe port FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one d... DARLENE LOVE Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enoug... SAUL D. ALINSKY I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a mes... ASGHAR FARHADI I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food. EMILIE DE RAVIN I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girl... FERGIE My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w... KAREN BASS I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Gue... MAIKA MONROE I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at ... CARROT TOP I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back... ROB GRONKOWSKI I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have grea... KATHERINE KELLY I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die... GEORGE CLOONEY My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally o... TREY PARKER Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me. B. D. WONG I love hot sauce. It can't be hot enough for me. CHERYL HINES - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get... JOAQUIN ANDUJAR This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done. JACKIE ROBINSON
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BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr... PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons... BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a... MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ... PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe. MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h... PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv... TERRY BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ... TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me... MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d... PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma... PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS