"I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape."
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"It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape."
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"Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won."
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"The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going."
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"Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works."
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"Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny."
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"You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams."
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"It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences."
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"It's the moments of our life that shape us."
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"What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?"
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"I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal."
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"There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future."
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"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
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"Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture."
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"It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity."
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"Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal."
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"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."
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"If you want to get in shape, go to the # gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there."
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"When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness."
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"To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size."
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