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"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."
Diego Rivera
"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."
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"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
Claire Bloom
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
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"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."
Ernst Mach
"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."
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"I find nothing wrong with the naked body."
Moira Kelly
"I find nothing wrong with the naked body."
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"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
George C. Williams
"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
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"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."
Cesare Pavese
"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."
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"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
Franz Kafka
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
Virginia Woolf
"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
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"I like exercise. I like a healthy body."
Erin Gray
"I like exercise. I like a healthy body."
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"Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting."
Lucy Liu
"Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting."
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"Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles."
Colleen Atwood
"Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles."
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"If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche."
Ted Danson
"If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche."
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"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right."
Ezra Stiles
"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right."
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"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
Phil McGraw
"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
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"I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there."
Ursula Andress
"I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there."
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"Souls are designed to fit inside a body."
Alex Chiu
"Souls are designed to fit inside a body."
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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
Alfred Hitchcock
"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
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"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."
Courtney Love
"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."
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"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
Arthur Eddington
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
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"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."
Clive Owen
"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."
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"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."
Chiaki Kuriyama
"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."
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"When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in."
Mariska Hargitay
"When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in."
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"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
Konrad Adenauer
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
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"There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke."
Evel Knievel
"There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke."
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"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
Wilhelm von Humboldt
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
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"Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left."
Joshua Chamberlain
"Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left."
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"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."
Ben Affleck
"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."
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"I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless."
Kim Kardashian
"I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless."
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"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
Karl Rahner
"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
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"Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready."
Carly Patterson
"Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready."
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"I kill myself for my body."
Cher
"I kill myself for my body."
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"But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal."
Asa Gray
"But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal."
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"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."
Denzel Washington
"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."
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"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body."
Daniel D. Palmer
"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body."
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"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
Bruce Jackson
"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
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"I think of my body as a side effect of my mind."
Carrie Fisher
"I think of my body as a side effect of my mind."
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"In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't."
Vladimir Kramnik
"In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't."
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"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
Kathy Acker
"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
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"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."
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"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
Ida B. Wells
"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
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"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech."
Dogen
"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech."
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"I speak two languages, Body and English."
Mae West
"I speak two languages, Body and English."
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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
Douglas Sirk
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
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"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."
David Soul
"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."
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"I have a woman's body and a child's emotions."
Elizabeth Taylor
"I have a woman's body and a child's emotions."
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"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
Constantin Brancusi
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
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"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
Robert Bresson
"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
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"There's all body types, but there's just one size."
Conor Oberst
"There's all body types, but there's just one size."
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"As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling."
Trish Stratus
"As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling."
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"You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well."
Margot Kidder
"You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well."
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