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Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.

Going to work around 8:00am at the body shop. After work it's either weight training or practicing afterwards.

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running.

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.