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"I'm very happy with my body."
Alicia Keys
"I'm very happy with my body."
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"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
"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."
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"Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready."
Carly Patterson
"Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready."
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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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"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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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."
Jean Cocteau
"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."
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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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"Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor."
Grantland Rice
"Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor."
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"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
"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!"
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"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
"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."
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"A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him."
William Lyon Phelps
"A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him."
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"I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot."
Alfre Woodard
"I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot."
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"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."
Woody Allen
"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."
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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."
Stone Gossard
"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."
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"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
"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
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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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"The body is the substance of the stone."
George Ripley
"The body is the substance of the stone."
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"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
"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."
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"I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular."
Donna Dixon
"I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular."
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"I think of my body as a side effect of my mind."
Carrie Fisher
"I think of my body as a side effect of my mind."
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"Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive."
Loni Anderson
"Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive."
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"The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls."
John Hersey
"The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls."
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"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."
Noel Coward
"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."
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"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve."
Sallust
"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve."
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"I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything."
Al Sharpton
"I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything."
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"Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly."
Julian McMahon
"Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly."
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"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
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"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years."
Gloria Swanson
"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years."
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"In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it."
Dana Plato
"In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it."
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"After thirty, a body has a mind of its own."
Bette Midler
"After thirty, a body has a mind of its own."
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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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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
Horace
"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
Margaret Atwood
"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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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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"My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus."
Charles Atlas
"My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus."
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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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"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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"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."
Ernst Mach
"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."
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"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
"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."
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"There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry."
Robert Hass
"There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry."
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"I find nothing wrong with the naked body."
Moira Kelly
"I find nothing wrong with the naked body."
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"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
Karl Lagerfeld
"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
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"The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ."
Benny Hinn
"The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ."
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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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"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."
Francis Bowen
"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."
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"I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down."
Christy Romano
"I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down."
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"A feeble body weakens the mind."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"A feeble body weakens the mind."
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"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
"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."
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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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