- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Uber is just very different; there's no model to copy. It may be the reason why we've been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don't do anything conventional... And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I'm a bit of a lone wolf.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
He must be lightning slow.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Human Giant' was a kind of lightning in a bottle. A rare opportunity for us to write and create our own sort of thing, with very few restrictions.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conan O'Brien's the best. I'm glad he's in L.A. because I want to move in with him. I was a guest on that show one time to promote 'Human Giant,' and he was the coolest, funniest guy. I was really impressed. He's also eight feet tall and can shoot lightning from his fingertips.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am extremely concerned that Syrian and ISIS recruiters can use the Internet at lightning speeds to recruit followers in the United States with thousands of followers in the United States and then activate them to do whatever they want to do.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
- Nov 07, 2020
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have my first 'Black Lightning' that I got way back in the day, and my first 'Steel.' And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
- Heavier
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved watching the base of those thunderstorms, the billowing tops of the cumulonimbus, the lightning that effortlessly lit up the lake and the sky. It was gorgeous, so energetic. I was in love.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have to recommend the chorus of 'Lightning Crashes' for just about everyone that needs a little something, a little comeback.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
- Sure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 5 o'clock lightning, for sure.
- Cartoonish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, in books, I find female power to be cartoonish - power is a process, an evolution - it has responsibilities. It's not as simple as picking up your lightning bolt and throwing it at someone.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other music that 'Ride The Lightning' led me to discover was to start really kind of sinking my teeth into some of the thrash of the era that I literally had no exposure to - whether it was Slayer, whether it was Testament, whether it was Megadeth. It was the opening of a doorway, for me, to a whole new palette of music.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really know of 'Black Lightning' until I got the script and started to investigate - it wasn't a hero that I grew up with. So I didn't know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his - that whether he has the suit or not, he has them.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lovely moment when everyone's part of something greater than the sum of its parts. That encapsulates what a comedy gig should be, with the comic as the lightning rod, the Norse mischief god, getting the audience to do something they wouldn't necessarily do.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020