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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
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"I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?"

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Josh Young Musician
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"Usually if I want to just listen to something or sing along to something I'll put on some Gavin DeGraw or some Billy Joel. Occasionally, if I am feeling vocally in really great shape I will sing Jean Valjean's Soliloquy from LES MIZ or something."

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence."

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there."

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk."

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Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter
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"Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does."

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