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I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date.
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.
In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.
And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.
Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar
In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be.
In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.
Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.
There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.
I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
Actually, when I did "10,000 B.C.," in the middle of production, I wanted to quit my job, because everything went wrong.
If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.
We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.
I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
I am human and get insecure because I am a middle class man and I need to feed my family and acting is the only job I know.