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I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.