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• That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

  Mos Def

  Trying, Strive, Clear

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• Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

  Alan Rickman

  Character, Play, Together

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• I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mean, Long, Age

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• Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Hero, Reality

  1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

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• So you see, movies are really another dimension.

  Cecilia Bartoli

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• I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Real, Feelings, Texture

  "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

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• And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

  Ayrton Senna

  Car, Different, Driving

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• The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Change, Stress, Humor

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• What is a society without a heroic dimension?

  Jean Baudrillard

  Hero, Heroism, Heroic

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.89, Verso

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• We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Velocity, Uniforms

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Believe, Numbers

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

  Edward Witten

  Time, Ordinary, Three

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• I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

  Richard Brautigan

  Christmas, Waiting, Forever

  Richard Brautigan (2011). “So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Car, Design, Important

  "Business trips: driving you crazy". CNN Interview, cnn.com. February 4, 2003.

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• The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

  Stanislav Grof

  Reality, Important

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.224, SUNY Press

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• I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

  J. Carter Brown

  Luck, Important, Be Prepared

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Death, Time, Destiny

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Player, Watches

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• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  John Lasseter

  Waiting, Tape, Saws

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• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Loyalty, Spiritual

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Color, Males

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.239, Routledge

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• I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

  Steve Ballmer

  Kids, Ipods, Google

  "The sleeping giant goes on the offensive". Interview with Telis Demos, archive.fortune.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Hands

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Moving, Space

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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