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"I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body."

"I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body."

Tina Louise, American Actress

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"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."

"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."

Richard Steele, British Dramatist

Body, Mind, Reading

21

"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

21

"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."

"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."

George H. Mead, American Philosopher

20

"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

William Congreve, English Poet

Body, Conscience

20

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

20

"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."

"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."

Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

Body, Environment, Freedom, Heredity

20

"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

20

"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."

"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."

Irwin Shaw, American Novelist

20

"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

20

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

e. e. cummings, American Poet

20

"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."

"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, American Public Servant

Body, Television

20

"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

20

"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

20

"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

20

"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

20

"They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs."

"They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs."

Kieran Culkin, American Actor

20

"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."

"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

20

"Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle."

"Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer

Body, Building, Hell, Talking

20

"A feeble body weakens the mind."

"A feeble body weakens the mind."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

20

"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."

"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Body, Mind, Understanding

20

"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."

"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, English Businessman

Body, Jobs, Queen

20

"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M."

"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

20

"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy."

"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy."

Ben E. King, American Musician

20

"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."

"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."

George C. Williams, American Scientist

20

"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

20

"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."

"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."

John Searle, American Philosopher

19

"I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing."

"I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing."

Naima Adedapo, American Musician

Body, Name, Spirit

19

"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

19

"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."

"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."

Mike Tyson, American Athlete

Body, Right, Talking

19

"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."

"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, Russian Psychologist

Body, Canal, World

19

"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."

"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."

Lucian Freud, British Artist

Body, Choice, Painting, Will

19

"You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!"

"You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!"

Jack LaLanne, American Athlete

Body, Exercise, Measure

19

"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

19

"I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces."

"I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces."

Judith Light, American Actress

Body, Mind, Spirit

19

"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."

"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."

Gabrielle Reece, American Athlete

19

"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."

"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."

Noel Coward, English Playwright

Body, Mind, Suspicion

19

"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."

"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, American Actress

Body, Eye, Pain

19

"At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations."

"At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations."

Amar Bose, American Inventor

Body, Expectations, Fortune, Network

19

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

William Penn, English Leader

Body, Mind, Rest, Silence

19

"If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once."

"If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once."

Brian Eno, British Musician

19

"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."

"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."

Diego Rivera, Mexican Artist

Body, Sexuality, Woman

19

"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

19

"I don't have a political bone in my body."

"I don't have a political bone in my body."

Joan Allen, American Actress

19

"I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up."

"I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up."

Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician

Body, Communication, Country, Pretty

19

"When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off."

"When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off."

Ace Frehley, American Musician

Body, Press, Space, Water

19

"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."

"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."

Elayne Boosler, American Comedian

19

"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

19

"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

19

"You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well."

"You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well."

Margot Kidder, American Actress

Body, Cards, First, Mind

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