Charles James
Fashion Designer
"There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations."
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Shapes
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Barack Obama
Politician
"We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future."
Edward Said
Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
"My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated."
Liz Murray
Author and Speaker
"This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life."
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"Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out."
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"To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines."
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"I'm in shape. Round is a shape."
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"If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success."
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"We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror."
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"There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change."
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"All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
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"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
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"There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with."
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"It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up"
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"Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature."
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"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
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"You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it."
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"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."
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"The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life."
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"Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul."
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"I'm not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day."
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"Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe."
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"I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape."
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"I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own."
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