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"Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that."
Tony Parker
"Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that."
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"I had the luck of having an obedient body."
Burt Lancaster
"I had the luck of having an obedient body."
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"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
"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."
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"Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long."
Alex Chiu
"Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long."
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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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"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
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"The orgasm is simply when the body does take over."
Betty Dodson
"The orgasm is simply when the body does take over."
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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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"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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"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
Konrad Adenauer
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
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"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
"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."
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"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
"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."
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"When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out."
Robert Goulet
"When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out."
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"If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used."
Charles Francis Richter
"If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used."
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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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"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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"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
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"Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body."
Catharine R. Stimpson
"Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body."
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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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"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body."
Matthew Barney
"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body."
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"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."
Clarence Thomas
"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."
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"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
"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."
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"Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat."
Neal Barnard
"Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat."
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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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"I'm very happy with my body."
Alicia Keys
"I'm very happy with my body."
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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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"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
John Locke
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
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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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"You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice."
Will Friedle
"You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice."
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"It is the mind that makes the body."
Sojourner Truth
"It is the mind that makes the body."
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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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"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 think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me."
Andie MacDowell
"I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really."
Michelle Rodriguez
"They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really."
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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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"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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"And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them."
Henri Bergson
"And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them."
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"Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body."
Yann Martel
"Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body."
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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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"Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno."
David Letterman
"Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno."
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"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
"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."
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"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."
Menander
"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."
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"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
Ben Nicholson
"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
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"The body is a sacred garment."
Martha Graham
"The body is a sacred garment."
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"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
"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."
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