Shapes Quotes - Page 7

• Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who has survived past anyone's expectations, and make the simple assumption it wasn't an accident, and you understand why he did what he did, now you're ready to predict ... The key to forecasting is to understand both the constraints nations are under and the manner in which the struggle for power shapes leaders.

  George Friedman

  Struggle, Simple, Past

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

  George Carlin

  Fashion, Needs, Suits

  "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr., July 7, 2001.

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• If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.

  Alison Assiter

  Sex, Philosophy, Two

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mean, Optimism, Cynicism

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.

  Michael Cera

  Baseball, Ocean, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.

  Frankie J. Grande

  Blessed, Way, My Sister

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• The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

  Beth Ditto

  Missing, Important, Matter

  "Talking to Beth Ditto About Her New Fashion Collection: "Don't Wait For Things to Change for You, Change It Yourself"". Interview with Clementine Desseaux, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. February 16, 2016.

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• We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

  Beth Ditto

  Ideas, Certain

  "Clem Wears: Beth Ditto New Collection". Interview with Clementine Desseaux, www.bonjourclem.com. February 15, 2016.

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• The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  New York, Dad, Wall

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• On Valentine's Day, couples in Calgary can celebrate their love for each other with couples' nude yoga - great way to get in shape and see a side of your partner you've never seen before and never want to see again.

  Peter Sagal

  Couple, Valentine, Yoga

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

  Adam Rapp

  Coffee, Down And, Way

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Space, Errors, Color

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• What better motivation is there to get in better shape than imagining your thighs exposed, watusyin' and a shimmyin' all over the stage.

  Erica Schroeder

  Motivation, Stage, Thighs

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

  Kevin Shields

  Bass, Drum And Bass

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thinking, Years, Pounds

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Men, Blood

  Source: bukowski.net

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• Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

  John R. Levine

  Cells, Sound, Helping

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• I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture.

  Sally Kohn

  Hair, Bangs, Email

  "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.

  Keith Murray

  Children, Real, Hands

  "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Cutting, Enemy, Tables

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• If I'm playing a fat person, then I actually eat a lot of cakes and as much as I can. If I'm playing a person in shape, then I'll increase my intensity of boxing training. It's really dependent. It kind of allows me to take whatever specific character I want.

  Guy Burnet

  Character, Cake, Boxing

  "Guy Burnet, Mortdecai Actor: On Boxing Every Day and Staying Balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

  El-P

  Writing, Hands, Age

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• Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Answers, Kind

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