Muscles Quotes - Page 23

• I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

  Shawn Johnson

  Class, Mind, Relax

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• When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.

  Grace Jones

  Men, Arms, Raises

  " Grace Jones: 'God I'm scary. I'm scaring myself'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Jobs, Winning, Bronze Medal

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• Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Thinking, Psychics, Stronger

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• The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Brain, Body

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• I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Chinese, Trying

  "Tiger, Tiger burning bright". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.

  Leona Lewis

  Relax, Massage, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Years, Relax, Want

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Memories, Imagining Yourself, Brain

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• I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Anxiety, Despair

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• I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

  Apolo Ohno

  Focus, Body, Symmetrical

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• I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

  Apolo Ohno

  Running, Kind, Make Sense

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• Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Pilates, Incredibles, Starting

  "Kelly Osbourne has 'lost a stone in a month' on Dancing With The Stars" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. September 15, 2009.

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• What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

  Mehmet Oz

  Grief, Heart, Feelings

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• With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Athlete, Artistic, Kind

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• Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Running, Character, Guy

  "Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges Talk R.I.P.D., Childhood Memories, On-Set Injuries, Creating Roy the Cowboy, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

  Eli Roth

  Writing, Self, Creative

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• Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.

  Michael Schumacher

  Horse, Exercise, Feet

  2003 In the Observer, 2Mar.

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• I don't want to force anything on anyone. I'm not trying to bust you over the head and make you buy this record or this song or whatever. I'm presenting it to you so you can take it in. You know, it's like trying to force a kid to eat broccoli. If I present it as trees that make your muscles grow, my son is like, 'I'm down with getting muscles.'

  Jill Scott

  Song, Kids, Tree

  "New Jill Scott Swings to Hollywood [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelly L. Carter, www.ebony.com. September 3, 2013.

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• A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Together, Beats, Operations

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• Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Two, Honor, Target

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• I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Years, Games, Iron

  "COMIC-CON 2010: Stallone Says ‘Velcro Muscles’ Made Old-school Stars Expendable". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 18, 2010.

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• People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Essentials, Realizing

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