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"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."
Julius Erving
"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."
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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
Virginia Woolf
"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
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"I kill myself for my body."
Cher
"I kill myself for my body."
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"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism."
Ivan Pavlov
"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism."
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"You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise."
Grenville Kleiser
"You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise."
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"If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche."
Ted Danson
"If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche."
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"It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake."
Lindsay Lohan
"It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake."
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"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body."
Jodie Foster
"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body."
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"The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate."
Max Baucus
"The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate."
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"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."
Jane Austen
"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."
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"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
Phil McGraw
"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
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"I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there."
Ursula Andress
"I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there."
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"Souls are designed to fit inside a body."
Alex Chiu
"Souls are designed to fit inside a body."
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"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
Arthur Eddington
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
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"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."
Clive Owen
"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."
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"There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke."
Evel Knievel
"There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke."
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"At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that."
Anita Roddick
"At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that."
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"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
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"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."
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"Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting."
Nicole Richie
"Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting."
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"You gotta have a body."
Jayne Mansfield
"You gotta have a body."
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"I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day."
Fiona Apple
"I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day."
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"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
Karl Rahner
"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
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"Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body."
Thomas Bulfinch
"Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body."
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"But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal."
Asa Gray
"But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal."
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"The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that."
Peter Coyote
"The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that."
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"I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me."
Margaret Walker
"I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me."
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"The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ."
Johannes P. Muller
"The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ."
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"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."
Andrew Weil
"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."
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"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
Bruce Jackson
"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
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"I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces."
Judith Light
"I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces."
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"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body."
Dan Millman
"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body."
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"No one is ever really dead unless we find the body."
Julia Barr
"No one is ever really dead unless we find the body."
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"In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't."
Vladimir Kramnik
"In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't."
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"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
Kathy Acker
"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
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"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
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"What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system."
Kurt Huber
"What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system."
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"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
Shannon Miller
"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
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"The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding."
Gene Tunney
"The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding."
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"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."
Diego Rivera
"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."
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"All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding."
Travis Barker
"All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding."
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"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
Poppy Z. Brite
"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
Alfred Hitchcock
"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
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"Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit."
Judith Jamison
"Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit."
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"Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor."
Carl Levin
"Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor."
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"And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months."
Brandon Routh
"And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months."
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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
Douglas Sirk
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
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"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
Elayne Boosler
"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
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"Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening."
Herbert Gold
"Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening."
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"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."
David Soul
"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."
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