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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Teacher, Smart

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• A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Play, Important, Roles

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• I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Forgiveness, Hatred, Should

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• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Thinking, World

  "May Richard Parker be always at your side". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2002.

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• Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

  Eve Ensler

  Life, Strong, Stars

  "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World". Book by Eve Ensler, 2010.

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• Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

  Bob Dylan

  Mainstream Culture, Sound, Looks

  "Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.

  Owen Wilson

  Pajamas, Littles, Showing Up

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the sensory deprivation that we experience, which is due to this tendency towards globalization, towards homogenization, towards the generic - a technological standard rather than an aesthetic standard. I'm mining history, trying to regenerate a pictorial situation that is more humanistic. It's not about commodification, it's not about fitting into some sort of corporate structure. It's opposed to that direction.

  Philip Taaffe

  Trying, Painting, Globalization

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like feeling a bit of an outcast where I am. I've always been that way. Somehow, I fit in by not fitting in.

  Karen Elson

  Feelings, Fit, Outcast

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered

  Patricia Highsmith

  Flower, White, People

  Patricia Highsmith (2011). “The Price of Salt”, p.206, She Winked Press

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• The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise. If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus, but in my imagination they should feel uncomfortable when they're in the store, if there's no mahogany paneling, there's nothing that's welcoming. This is a ladies' paradise. And that thinking goes into the design of the store, the fitting rooms, the fabric, the display. It's all from the lady's point of view. It has nothing to do with men.

  Les Wexner

  Men, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Fighting, People

  "Women Leading the Way" by Robin Amos Kahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Jesus, Heart, Dancing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

  Tre Cool

  Musical, Trouble, Drummer

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• Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, Cities, Needs

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• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  Gary Oldman

  Father, Heart, Swimming

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• Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Forever

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Kingdoms, Empires

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.3

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• To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Unity, Flesh, Dignity

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2020, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

  Danny Cipriani

  Want, Rugby, Plans

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• Withal I did infer your lineaments,
  Being the right idea of your father,
  Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
  Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
  Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
  Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
  Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
  Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.152, Cambridge University Press

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• Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Agony, Uniforms

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• It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Leader, Wish

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'

  Oswald Chambers

  Hands, Judging, Might

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

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• Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Giving Up, Real

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