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"You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity."

"You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity."

Stone Gossard, American Musician

Body, Vanity, Winter

40

"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."

"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, American Actor

Body, Feeling, Solution, Will

40

"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."

"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."

Shannon Miller, American Athlete

40

"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve."

"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve."

Sallust, Roman Historian

40

"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."

"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, American Musician

40

"The Buddha is your real body, your original mind."

"The Buddha is your real body, your original mind."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

40

"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."

"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."

Courtney Love, American Musician

40

"To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line."

"To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line."

Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier

Body, Race, Talk

40

"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese Actress

Body, Difference, Sense, Training

40

"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."

"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."

Konrad Adenauer, German Statesman

40

"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."

"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."

Jerry Seinfeld, American Comedian

Body, Now, Pretty

40

"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for."

"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

40

"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."

"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Body, Doctrine, Logic, World

40

"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."

"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."

Karen Duffy, American Actress

Body, Pain, Right

40

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

40

"I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part."

"I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part."

Lee Ritenour, American Musician

39

"Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready."

"Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready."

Carly Patterson, American Athlete

39

"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."

"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, German Scientist

39

"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."

"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."

Andrew Weil, American Scientist

39

"Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression."

"Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression."

Judy Collins, American Musician

Body, Depression, Help, Meditation

39

"I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?"

"I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?"

Al Lewis, American Actor

39

"My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body."

"My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

39

"There's all body types, but there's just one size."

"There's all body types, but there's just one size."

Conor Oberst, American Musician

39

"A feeble body weakens the mind."

"A feeble body weakens the mind."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

39

"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar."

"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar."

Fred Frith, English Composer

Body, Grammar, Language, Learning

39

"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."

"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."

Tracey Gold, American Actress

39

"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."

"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."

Michael Polanyi, Hungarian Scientist

Body, Community, Principles, Production

39

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."

Julius Erving, American Athlete

38

"Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'."

"Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'."

Swami Sivananda, Indian Philosopher

Body, Disease, Mind, Thinking

38

"The body is a sacred garment."

"The body is a sacred garment."

Martha Graham, American Dancer

38

"A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops."

"A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops."

Johnny Bench, American Athlete

38

"I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down."

"I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down."

Jack Osbourne, English Celebrity

Body, Drinking, Europe, Trying

38

"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."

"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

38

"Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation."

"Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation."

Alex Chiu, American Businessman

Body, Reincarnation

38

"The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back."

"The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back."

Amitabh Bachchan, Indian Actor

Body, Religious, Remarkable, Wonder

38

"Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare."

"Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare."

Donald Johanson, American Scientist

38

"I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions."

"I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions."

Jock Sturges, American Photographer

38

"Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long."

"Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long."

Alex Chiu, American Businessman

38

"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."

"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."

David Soul, American Actor

38

"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world."

"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world."

Galen Rowell, American Photographer

Body, Mind, Philosophy, World

38

"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."

"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."

Karl Lagerfeld, German Designer

38

"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."

"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."

Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer

Body, Repetition, Walking

38

"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."

"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, American Musician

Body, Day, End, Hate

37

"I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities."

"I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities."

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American Politician

37

"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known."

"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known."

Robert Atkins, American Celebrity

Body, Energy, Pretty, Will

37

"The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body."

"The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body."

George A. Sheehan, American Writer

Body, First, Mind, Self

37

"I think of my body as a side effect of my mind."

"I think of my body as a side effect of my mind."

Carrie Fisher, American Actress

Body, Effect, Mind

37

"I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment."

"I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment."

Don Henley, American Musician

37

"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."

"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, German Philosopher

37

"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."

"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, American Actor

Body, Effort, First, Months

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