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"The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement."
Charlotte Rampling
"The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement."
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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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"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
"They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs."
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"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."
Martin Chemnitz
"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."
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"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
Samuel Beckett
"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
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"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
"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."
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"Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement."
Ken Norton
"Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement."
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"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
"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."
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"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."
Elsa Schiaparelli
"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."
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"And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy."
Jon Porter
"And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy."
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"I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it."
Lorna Luft
"I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it."
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"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."
Geoffrey Rush
"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."
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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 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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"If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?"
William Jennings Bryan
"If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?"
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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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"It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet."
James Payn
"It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet."
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"I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things."
Deborah Bull
"I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things."
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"I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine."
Keira Knightley
"I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine."
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"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
"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."
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"I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there."
Malin Akerman
"I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there."
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"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
Richard Steele
"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
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"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."
Ornette Coleman
"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."
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"The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind."
Nassau William Senior
"The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind."
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"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."
Bill Griffith
"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."
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"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
"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."
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"I'm very happy with my body."
Alicia Keys
"I'm very happy with my body."
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"Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body."
Hugh Dancy
"Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body."
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"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."
Mike Tyson
"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."
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"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
Charles de Secondat
"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
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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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"Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations."
Ellsworth Huntington
"Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations."
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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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"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
"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."
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"I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick, t like my body."
Alicia Keys
"I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick, t like my body."
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"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind."
Dizzy Dean
"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind."
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"I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm."
Vanessa Marcil
"I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm."
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"I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it."
Dudley Moore
"I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it."
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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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"Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year."
Michael Baden
"Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year."
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"They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink."
Yann Martel
"They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink."
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"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."
Nick Lowe
"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."
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"The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first."
Rachel Bilson
"The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first."
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"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"
Joe DiMaggio
"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"
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"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
Marilyn Monroe
"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
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"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."
Kenneth Scott Latourette
"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."
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"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
"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."
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"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."
Gabrielle Reece
"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."
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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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"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."
Daniel Okrent
"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."
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