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"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
"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."
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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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"I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing."
Ornette Coleman
"I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing."
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"I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine."
Mike Piazza
"I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine."
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"We are all cells in the same body of humanity."
Peace Pilgrim
"We are all cells in the same body of humanity."
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"I've tried body surfing. It's nice."
Ziggy Marley
"I've tried body surfing. It's nice."
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"I don't believe in having body doubles for a film."
Nicole Kidman
"I don't believe in having body doubles for a film."
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"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet."
Titus Flavius Vespasian
"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet."
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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 rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body."
Barbara Hepworth
"I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body."
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"We know for a fact that the body is able to process colloidal silver quite well if it is made correctly and the dosage levels and concentrations are not too high."
Stan Jones
"We know for a fact that the body is able to process colloidal silver quite well if it is made correctly and the dosage levels and concentrations are not too high."
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"I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body."
Ana Gasteyer
"I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body."
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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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"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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"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."
Joe Orton
"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."
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"Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."
James Naismith
"Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."
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"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's."
Goodman Ace
"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's."
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"Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!"
Steve Irwin
"Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!"
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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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"We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame."
Jim Cooper
"We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame."
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"I don't have a political bone in my body."
Joan Allen
"I don't have a political bone in my body."
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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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"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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"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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"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."
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"Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss."
Anne Grant
"Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss."
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"It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts."
Seymour Hersh
"It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts."
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"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."
Pierre de Coubertin
"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."
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"The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body."
John Bruton
"The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body."
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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
Walt Whitman
"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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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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"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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"Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body."
Estella Warren
"Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body."
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"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."
Susan Griffin
"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."
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"Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready."
Patrick Ewing
"Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."
Arthur Chapman
"Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."
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"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
Thomas Hardy
"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
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"Think with your whole body."
Taisen Deshimaru
"Think with your whole body."
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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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"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
Mary Astell
"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
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"....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia-by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett)"
Plato
"....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia-by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett)"
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"Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face."
Evelyn Glennie
"Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face."
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"At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants."
Egon Schiele
"At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants."
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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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"These hormones do not make me feel feminine: every night, I lie in bed feeling wrenched, and the bulge of my sanitary napkin in my kickers looks like a cock."
Caitlin Moran
"These hormones do not make me feel feminine: every night, I lie in bed feeling wrenched, and the bulge of my sanitary napkin in my kickers looks like a cock."
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"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
Edwin Louis Cole
"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
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"He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted."
Nicolas Malebranche
"He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted."
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
George Santayana
"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
Mason Cooley
"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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