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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot / Playwright
Christmas
Smile
Advancing
Brilliance
Chairs
Children
Christmas Tree
Fall
Grasping
Legs
Moving
Pleasure
Rising
Tables
Toys
Tree
Alarm
Arm
Boldly
Corner
Eager
Falling
Fragrant
Reassured
Retreating
Sudden
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When President Kennedy come to West Virginia, he spoke about West Virginia and the people that gave the people here pride. And my family, my father remembers when President Kennedy was in Logan County and at places like the smokehouse, standing on chairs, talking to people.
Richard Ojeda /
Chairs
County
President Kennedy
Virginia
West Virginia
Remembers
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I go to a wrestling match, and I love it. But at a wrestling match, on every level - that includes Division I - you go into an empty and cold gym, you roll out a mat, and you set 10 chairs up on each side. That's a dual meet, and it's very hard to act like it's a big event.
Chael Sonnen / Mixed Martial Artist
Chairs
Division
Empty
Gym
Big Event
Dual
Mat
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I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.
Mark Zupan / Film Actor
Chairs
Feet
Guy
Legs
Pain
Your Body
Everywhere
Foot
Body Feel Your
Leg
Survey
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As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.
Robert Green Ingersoll / Lawyer
Chairs
Honesty
Redress
Bench
Courts
Enforced
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I think that's the great thing about interiors is that they can be treated like a great wardrobe. Choose a sofa and chairs that are staples in clean shapes that will keep for the next couple of years or decade. Then an easy way to bump up your entire room or your interiors is accessories.
Jeremiah Brent /
Great
Accessories
Chairs
Clean
Couple
Easy
Easy Way
Interiors
Next
Shapes
Treated
Wardrobe
Years
Great Your Will
Your Will Way
Then
Thing
Bump
Choose
Decade
Entire
Great Thing
Room
Sofa
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I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don't like to sit in fancy chairs. It's really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they're working for.
Bobbi Brown / Makeup Artist
Bags
Chairs
Fancy
Heels
High Heels
Sneakers
Work Culture People
Floor
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My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.
Janet Malcolm / Writer
Chairs
Coffee
Covered
Living Room
Over It
Persian
Bowl
Photographs
Coffee Table
Drawings
Dried
Fireplace
Group
Large
Room
Table
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Kate leaned back against her chair. "Where is the bane of my existence?" "In the shower, freshening up." "Oh, God, who did Asciano screw now?" "No, no, he's covered in blood." "Oh good." She sighed and stopped. "The kid is covered in blood and we're relieved. There is something wrong with us.
Ilona Andrews / Novelist
Kids
Blood
Chairs
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I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.
Elizabeth Mccracken / Author
Baseball Player
Chairs
Superstitions
Worthy
Work Done Me
Armchair
Chair
Desk
Professional Baseball
Professional Baseball Player
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I wanted to go and I wanted to drive the miles for no pay, I wanted to set up the rings, I wanted to set up the chairs, I wanted to go to training six-seven days a week for hours upon hours and blow myself up to where I can only work on instinct. I wanted to sleep in my car. I wanted to do all of that.
Tessa Blanchard /
Blow
Chairs
Instinct
Miles
Rings
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The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with each turn.Finally Prometheus turned and glared at the immortal. "If you do that one more time, I'm going to feed you to the Lotan myself." "And I will help," Niten added.
Michael Scott / Irish Author
Amusing
Chairs
Helping
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Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole set. Individual chairs, though, go for much lower prices, and if you carry around a reference photo of the chairs you want, you may be able to build up a cut-price collection, chair by chair.
Judith Miller / Journalist
Chairs
Eight
Premium
Chair
Photo
Dealers
Sell
Prices
Reference
Sets
Supplying
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I learned how to cover race riots by telephone. They didn't pay me enough at my first newspaper job to venture onto the grounds of South Boston High School when bricks were being thrown. Instead, I would telephone the headmaster and ask him to relay to me the number of broken chairs in the cafeteria each day.
Gwen Ifill / Journalist
Boston
Bricks
Broken
Chairs
Each Day
Thrown
Venture
Me Day School
Enough Me Day
Cover
Grounds
Newspaper
Onto
Relay
Riots
Telephone
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I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.
Jhumpa Lahiri / Author
Atmosphere
Chairs
New England
Life Always Me
Life Me Grow
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Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.
Simon Sinek / Author
Experience
Space
Chairs
Coffee
Comfortable
Environment
Outlets
Pressure
Starbucks
Stores
Tables
Wanted
Time Work Experience
Time Work Space
Lots
Founded
Time Work Power
Buy
Option
Work Time Power
Work Space Time
Spend
Incidental
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
Lady Gregory / Dramatist
Home
Chairs
Evening
Sheep
Years
Home Great Music
Home Music Great
Lasted
Old Home
Placed
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I've got one of those over-stuffed leather chairs from the Pottery Barn. It faces north. I live in San Francisco, so there's the Golden Gate Bridge off to the left, and there's Alcatraz off to the right, and I've got a pile of pulp fiction next to me, and there's usually a decent bottle of red wine next to the fireplace.
Mike Rowe / Actor
Chairs
Decent
Faces
Fiction
Golden
Leather
Left
Next
Pottery
Pulp
Red
San Francisco
Wine
Barn
Bottle
Bridge
Fireplace
Francisco
Gate
Off
North
Pile
Pulp Fiction
San
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I remember coming up in the business and seeing how the grind turned some executives into grizzled cynics. And I vowed to never become that guy. I have always believed it's incumbent upon network brass to bring a wide-eyed optimism to the chairs they rent. Talent deserves that. And frankly, the jobs are just no fun otherwise.
Kevin Reilly /
Jobs
Brass
Chairs
Executives
Grind
Guy
Seeing
Talent
Believed
Bring
Coming
Cynics
Deserves
Frankly
Incumbent
Network
No Fun
Otherwise
Rent
Turned
Vowed
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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
Evan Davis / Economist
Academia
Chairs
Example
Expression
Found
Function
Law
Oneself
Parliament
Self
Self Expression
Used
Words
Just
Why
Bench
Seat
Chair
Describe
High
For Example
Place
Medium
Professions
Provide
Sit
Something
Status
Themselves
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We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
Design
Chairs
Customers
Establishment
Minimum
Starbucks
World Your Look
Bare
Original
Expect
Glass
Least
Lights
Nicely
Standard
Wood
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I don’t bite Marcus. You can come sit on the comfy old couch with me. That chair is incredibly uncomfortable.” Just the opening I needed. I jumped up and sat down on the end of the couch and stretched my legs out in front of me. “You don’t have to tell me twice. I was just being polite.” Will ow chuckled and brought a blanket over to the sofa with her.
Abbi Glines / Novelist
Chairs
Just Being
Legs
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