"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."
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"I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy."
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"School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for."
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"On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes."
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"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."
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"And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up."
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"It seems to me that the testimonies, practically, have come into that shape, that it is not of any use to try to defend the erroneous claims that are now put forth for them."
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"The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words."
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"I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it."
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"These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed."
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"I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape."
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"To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate"
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"so full of shapes is fancy"
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"Don't look for me in a human shape, I am inside your looking."
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"The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence"
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"We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment."
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"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name."
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"First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us"
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"The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now"
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"The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume."
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