"As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object."
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"It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand."
"Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination."
"Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains."
"Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming."
"The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear."
"Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest."
"... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession."
"Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable."
"It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable."
"Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small."
"Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form."
"Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him."
"If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear."
"I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves."
"I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well."
"If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it."
"God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none."
"That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy."
"As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form."