Shapes Quotes - Page 12

• I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

  George Foreman

  Boxing, Fighter, Nervous

  "Hungry for more". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Duty

  North of Boston (1914) "Self-Seeker"

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• American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Book, Kind

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Quality, Energy

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• Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Play, Car, Batteries

  "Q&A: Renault-Nissan CEO Pledges $5.6 Billion for EVs". Interview with Chuck Squatriglia, www.wired.com. June 16, 2011.

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• A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Zero, Motivation, Laughing

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• The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

  Al Gore

  House, Perception, Climate

  "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview with Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

  Ellie Goulding

  Athlete, Age, And Love

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

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• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Couple, Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

  Sammy Hagar

  Running, Voice, Singing

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• I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

  Geri Halliwell

  Different, Size, Different Shapes And Sizes

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• Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

  Scott Hamilton

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Self Esteem

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• I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

  Keith Haring

  People, Lines, Common

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Games, Play, Actors

  "Interview with Tony Host Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2009.

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• To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Liberty, Facts, Belief

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 33-34, 1978.

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• Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

  Christopher Lasch

  Perception, Embedded, Structure

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• To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

  Hugh Laurie

  Clever, Boys, Form

  Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Guitar, Practice

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• My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

  Jim Lehrer

  Grateful, Marine, Who I Am

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• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  Doris Lessing

  Cat, Air, Water

  Doris Lessing (2012). “On Cats”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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• The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Depressing, Public Opinion, Tools

  "'Skewed' Polls, ACORN, And Right-Wing Delusion" by Eric Boehlert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

  Maya Lin

  Editing, Goal, Needs

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• Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Light, Serenity

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• Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

  James Lovelock

  Favors, Environment, Organisms

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