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• You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.

  Demetri Martin

  Majority, Attention, Conformity

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• Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

  Marc Riboud

  Joy, Doubt, Luck

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• I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

  Candis Cayne

  Community, Trying, Want

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• The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.

  David Burtka

  Giving Up, Years, Three

  "When Stars Collide". www.out.com. January 18, 2012.

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• In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.

  Richard Pipes

  Russia, Revolution, Ends

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• There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.

  Peter McWilliams

  Sea, Balance, Answers

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.

  Caroline Manzo

  Trying, Boat, Wave

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• It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target if the original one doesn't look good.

  Mia Bloom

  Thinking, Target, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.

  Jacob Gelt Dekker

  Responsibility, Thinking, Air

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• The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Roots, Church

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• If you're saved and you're breathing, you need to know who William Tyndale is.

  Steven J Lawson

  Needs, Saved, Knows

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• The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.

  Michael Ventura

  Integrity, Crazy, Dark

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• Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

  Judith Jamison

  Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Doors

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

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• I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it. I studied diction, breathing control, phrasing, why the song means something. You want to bring that across to your listeners.

  Ledisi

  Song, Grateful, Mean

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• Acting is what I'm living and breathing on a day-to-day basis.

  Ruby Rose

  Acting, Bases, Day To Day

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Trying, Events, Essentials

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• Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

  Hassan Blasim

  Wall, Reality, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Running, Air, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

  Ronee Blakley

  Song, Drinking, Glasses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know how to talk about technology in a positive or negative way because it's just the way the world is to me. It seems like talking about the advantages of breathing through holes in our face instead of holes that lead more directly to the lungs.

  Chelsea Martin

  Technology, Talking, Negative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

  Denise Duhamel

  Song, Book, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing.

  Patrick Fabian

  Swim, Mind, Rolling

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous.

  Amanda Schull

  Technique, Routine, Overwhelmed

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I join all of you who are advocates telling others that they can improve their lives and the quality of their lives and others by taking a few moments, breathing, and allowing one's whole being to become a vessel for positivity.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Positivity, Quality, Moments

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