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Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to sing.
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.
I wasn't star struck, but you know you're in the game when you're eye-to-eye with Nicki Minaj. It means you made it.
Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.
It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.
In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.
You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
I am struck by the memories of all of the fantastic Links ladies who worked so hard to host the Ebony Fashion Fair shows.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.
It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
The Comeback' is so cringey and difficult, but watching it, what I was really struck with was the kindness and the generosity.
I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
I'm not one of those who gets star struck at all, I don't feel I should give someone so much importance just because they are famous.
I have encountered thousands of value investors over the years and am constantly struck by their differences - and their similarities.
I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.
I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
The poor lifestyle I had been leading made my body susceptible to diseases. Had it not been cancer, some other malady would have struck me.
I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.