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• I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.

  Dave McKean

  Color, Trying, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

  Pierre Soulages

  Art, Opposites, Perspective

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• I never say never to anything. I don't really think it would be for me, but I never put limitations on myself. Part of getting older is acceptance, though, so I'd like to think I'll age gracefully. But if other women get confi dence from having surgery, then I would never judge.

  Donna Air

  Acceptance, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The whole thing that drew me to doing an animated film is that you're freed from the physical limitations of your physical body. All of a sudden, you get to be something that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a 6'4", lumbering dude, and that is really exciting.

  Jason Segel

  Body, Facts, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• It [voicing animation] is very freeing. Nobody in the cast is doing their voice. No one is talking like they normally talk and it's because, all of a sudden, you're freed from the physical limitations of how you look, which is amazing.

  Jason Segel

  Talking, Voice, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Hurt, Men

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• Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.

  Daniel Webster

  Rights, Government, Law

  Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.83

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• In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

  Stephen Elliott

  Book, Term

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

  Steve Ross

  Being Yourself, Mean, Mind

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• Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours.

  Robert Anthony

  Belief, Enough

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

  Andrew Davies

  Frustration, Classic, Adaptation

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• Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Philosophy, Medicine, Empowering

  "Knowledge". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

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• The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

  Robert Anthony

  Change, Self, May

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.4, Morgan James Publishing

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• Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

  Colin Wilson

  Reading, Listening, Needs

  "The Origins of the Sexual Impulse" by Colin Wilson, (p. 75), 1963.

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• I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

  Daniel Webster

  Slavery, Politics, Compromise

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• We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.

  Emily Deschanel

  Moving, Thinking, Trying

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself? 

  I. M. Pei

  Kids, Thinking, Temptation

  Source: archtalks.com

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• I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?

  Mike Ness

  Thinking, Style, Want

  "Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Matt Schild, music.avclub.com. January 18, 2011.

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• There is a story that you have to tell within a certain amount of time, and you can only show so much of the character. So as much as the script is born from the source material, there are certain limitations.

  Henry Cavill

  Character, Stories, Scripts

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.

  Henry Cavill

  Character, Past, Actors

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

  Anna Kendrick

  Movie, Couple, Thinking

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• My advice is that you go and do something that you are really driven to do. I loved to play baseball and, because I loved it, I practiced it. Some of us have limitations, but if you are passionate about something and if you have the drive, then you can accomplish it.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Play, Advice

  Source: baseballreflections.com

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• I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.

  Marge Piercy

  Girl, Fighting, Class

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Song, Mean

  "Bob Dylan's original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone's lyrics goes on sale". www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2014.

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