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• I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

  Ben Stein

  Stars, Real, Men

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• Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

  Matsuo Basho

  Men, Color, Example

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• I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

  John F. Kerry

  Art, School, Mean

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• Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Stuff, Lord

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.108, Delacorte Press

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• When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

  Timothy Leary

  Men, Suits Of Armor, Bully

  Timothy Leary (2012). “High Priest”, p.127, Ronin Publishing

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• You are What you do When it counts" - Armor

  John Steakley

  John Steakley (1984). “Armor”, p.5, Penguin

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• it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Winter, Iron, Afternoon

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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• and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.

  Frank O'Hara

  World, Speed

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.217, Univ of California Press

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• If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

  George R. R. Martin

  Solitude, Ifs

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.169, Bantam

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• Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Battle, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.277, Penguin

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• To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Artist, Piercings

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.

  Dalai Lama

  Hero, Heart, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

  Taylor Swift

  Fighting, Hands, Battle

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• Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Errors, Color

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• People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Moving, Caring, Animal

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• ...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Two, Bored, Care

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• But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

  George MacDonald

  Hurt, Truth, Light

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• That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, War, Lying

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine; I can't emotionally cope with that kind of volume. Sunglasses are part of my armor.

  Jack Nicholson

  Eye, People, Sunglasses

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A man in armor is his armor's slave.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Slave

  Robert Browning (1899). “The Works of Robert Browning”

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• As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

  Molly Haskell

  Marriage, Taken, Suits Of Armor

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse

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• You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Ideas, Suits Of Armor, Flesh

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• So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear, you have created it. It was needed at one time - now it is no longer needed. A simple understanding that it is no longer needed... now it is a barrier, a hindrance, a burden. If you find something truthful, it will have its own validity. But in the armor you will not find anything that has any connection with truth. The whole armor is made of fear - layers and layers of fear.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Simple, Understanding

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.167, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Important, Skins

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• With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

  John Steinbeck

  No Hope, Without Hope

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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