And yes, we didn't sit back and wait for Wall Street to roll over us again, we went after them too.

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So, we can't simply sit back and wait optimistically for everything to work out.

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There's nothing we can do - we can't hold back nature so we've just got to sit and wait.

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In the Times, Mr Miliband reveals that Angels, whose lyrics include "I sit and wait" and "I know that life won't break me", is "always in the CD player in the car when we get away for a weekend together".

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We shall start immediately because it will be my joint top priorities together with getting the police and the sentencing system right, we shall start immediately, obviously we won't have places there for everybody in the first five minutes, nor will I sit back and wait until all the places are on-stream.

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