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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
Edgard Varese
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Composer
Groups
Ideas
Shapes
Sound
Speed
Structure
Attracted
Basis
Constantly
Idea
Changing
Different Shapes
Direction
Forces
Internal
Repulsed
Shape
Split
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I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?
Imelda May
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Musician
Boots
Couture
Fashion
Form
Juicy
Refuse
Sorry
Me Better Way
Appeal
Better Me Way
Wear
Move
Shape
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I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.
Imelda May
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Musician
Clothes
Five
Heels
High Heels
Love Always People
Although
Love People Always
Foot
Places
Shape
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
Tavis Smiley
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Talk Show Host
Kings
Helping
Helping People
People
Regard
Roles
Television
King Me People
Assumptions
Dr
Dr. King
Shape
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
F. Sionil José
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Writer
Future
Classroom
Influence
Young
Touch
Teachers
Beyond
Nation
Enrich
Hearts
Minds
Well
Shape
Souls
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A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
Dwight Yoakam
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Singer-Songwriter
Emotion
Finale
Musical
Odyssey
Turns
Expressing
Human Being
Shape
Unto
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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Marilyn French
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Author
Art
Mind
Tears
Tongue
Fix
Emotions
Occur
Permits
Union
Shape
Tear
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I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.
Sarah Silverman
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Comedian
Iphone
Notes
Paper
Onstage
Shape
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We read this article that discussed the shape of our hearts. It said that God shaped the heart that way in order for us to find our other half - the other part that would complete the shape. Quen completes me.
Liza Soberano
/
Half
Order
God Heart Me
Article
Complete
Read
Discussed
Hearts
Shaped
Shape
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My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
Derek Walcott
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Poet
Caribbean
Delight
Landscape
Direction
Shape
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A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Ivor Novello
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Film Score Composer
Home
Cost
Couple
Generous
Giving
Return
Seats
Avoid
Comparatively
Freedom From
Good Picture
Homes
Minds
Shape
Worries
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Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.
David Hasselhoff
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Actor
Hard Times
Hard Work
Mind
Work Hard Work I Am
Blowing
Work Mind I Am
Demanding
Work Hard Work Mind
Incredibly
Shape
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Actress
Connections
Electricity
Sick
Complete
Shape
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I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.
John Le Carre
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Author
Laughing
Mature
Mood
Thinking
Two
Guess
Laugh
Shape
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
Alan Alda
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Actor
Agree
Catholic
Conversion
Doe
Left
Shapes
Teach
Used
Head
Object
Shape
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People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.
Debbie Millman
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Attention
Color
Numbers
People Will See
Understand
Read
Foremost
Front
Put
Shape
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The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Alice Morse Earle
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Historian
America
Annoying
Habit
Irritating
Plentiful
Records
Unknown
Bridle
Colonial
Far
Learn
Scold
Shape
Though
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
Quincy Jones
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Record Producer
Good
Forget
Melody
Written
Just
Accompanying
Appear
Ever
Factor
Front
Good Shape
Lyrics
Rewritten
Shape
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I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.
Haruki Murakami
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Writer
Running
Everyday
Exercise
Hours
Sitting
Weight
Writer
Basis
Began
Desk
Figured
Gain
Gain Weight
Quickly
Requires
Shape
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I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.
Kelly Slater
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Surfer
Careers
Mind
Poor
Stronger
Best Mind Body
Career
Definitely
Performance
Physical
Shape
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Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.
John Crowley
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Author
Editing
Momentum
Piece
Shape
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
Karen Traviss
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Author
Answers
Caution
Facts
Habit
Handle
Messages
Objectivity
Opinion
Steady
Books
Aware
Deliberately
Drip
More Power
Provide
Shape
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We never said the U.K. is in bad shape if it leaves the E.U.: we said the E.U. would miss a massive opportunity. Without the U.K., the E.U. may never be able to stand up against superpowers like China and the U.S.
Joe Kaeser
/
China
Massive
Miss
Leaves
Shape
Stand Up
Superpowers
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Television shows are not like cars or operating systems, and they are not best made by engineers or coders in the same assembly line manner as consumer products which need to be of uniform size, shape, and quality.
John Landgraf
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Executive Producer
Quality
Car
Assembly
Assembly Line
Engineers
Operating Systems
Products
Shows
Size
Television
Television Shows
Consumer
Line
Manner
Operating
Shape
Systems
Uniform
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
Clare Balding
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Television Presenter
Bones
Flesh
Understood
Acts
Merely
Shape
Thin
Thinner
Veil
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I was two years old when I saw the mandolin for the first time, and I just loved it. I just loved the sound of it, the shape of it even, and the way it looks. And I still love it, which is a testament to something.
Chris Thile
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Mandolinist
First Time
Testament
Love Time Way
Mandolin
Shape
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Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
Gustav Stresemann
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German Politician
British
Despite
England
Faults
Germany
Greatness
Present Day
Shapes
Worthiness
Loves
Germans
Helped
Insist
Recognize
Shape
Subject
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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
Asa Gray
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Botanist
Animal
Definite
Existence
Individual
Plant
Shapes
Scale
Beings
Individuals
Low
Shape
Simpler
Specialized
Sufficiently
Throughout
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Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi
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Musician
Bridges
Fit
Giving
Meter
Rhyme
Shapes
Traffic
Bridge
Complete
Lyric
Musically
Shape
Steve
Verse
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The older I get, I just don't know. But, there is absolutely that part of me that watches action shows and goes, 'I can still do that. I can still roll with that. I stay in shape. I keep it together. I stay strong.'
Gina Torres
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Television Actress
Action
Stay Strong
Watches
Absolutely
Older
Shape
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I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump of footage, and you have to shape it and make it into a story - which I love doing.
Thelma Schoonmaker
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Film Editor
Documentaries
Improvisation
Love Great Me
Footage
Handed
Help
Lump
Shape
Story
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When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
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Model
Baby
Modeling
Real
Stubborn
Voluptuous
Fat
Better Shape
Heavier
Shape
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Push ups actually target your chest, however if you touch your thumb and forefingers together to make a diamond shape with your hands, you are doing a close grip push up, and this is really going to hit your triceps.
Chloe Madeley
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Television Presenter
Diamond
Target
Touch
Hit
Chest
Close
Grip
However
Push
Shape
Thumb
Ups
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
Benjamin Britten
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Composer
Bricks
Bricks And Mortar
Color
Composing
Details
Driving
Fog
House
Mortar
Notes
Foggy
Slowly
Road
Shape
Toward
Windows
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I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.
Nostradamus
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Apothecary
Calculations
Famine
Horrible
Inspiration
According
Approaching
Lifetimes
Revealed
Shape
Sword
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Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
Aaron Schock
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Former United States Representative
Diet
Exercise
Shortage
Stress
Good Diet Exercise
Physical
Representative
Shape
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You have an ideal of masculinity to live up to, and then there's everything else on top. You have to be a perfect husband. You have to be in shape. Apart from alcohol and exercise, there are very few outlets for men.
Kris Marshall
/
Alcohol
Exercise
Husband
Masculinity
Outlets
Apart
Everything Else
Ideal
Shape
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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
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Economist
Knowledge
Society
Belief
Facts
Harm
Liberty
Shapes
Knowledge Power Society
Act
Power Knowledge Society
Enable
Entirely
Fact
In Fact
Likely
Possess
Processes
Shape
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I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.
Eric Lewis
/
Losing
Yamaha
Represent
Endorsed
Holds
Shape
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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Former U.s. Secretary Of Defense
Leadership
Command
Consent
Critical
President
Shapes
Thinking
Contacts
Experiences
Lead
Help
Personal
Persuade
Shape
System
Thus
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My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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Former President Of Poland
American President
Poland
President
Ten
United States
Years
Years Ago
Good Shape
Shape
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Visit
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Orrin Hatch
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United States Senator
Constitutional Rights
Hands
Order
Policy
Public Policy
Rights
Constitutional
Public
Define
Judges
Make Up
Oppose
Shape
Strike
Undermine
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It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
Frank Black
/
Romantic
Ancient
Danger
Fire
Intuition
Longing
Moon
Navigation
Stellar
Love Death Romantic
Animals
Wild
Context
More Or Less
Reflects
Shape
Wild Animals
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No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.
Amitabh Bachchan
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Film Actor
Committed
New Projects
Ahead
Finish
Restrictions
Shape
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You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in the right place at the right time. So you have to be an overall athlete: you need to be in shape to be able to throw.
Michelle Carter
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Agility
Athlete
Feet
Right Place
Time Good Power
Time Power Good
Explosive
Overall
Quick
Shape
Throw
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Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many 'intelligent' systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.
Kate Crawford
/
Discrimination
Intelligent
Racism
Sexism
Forms
Categorized
Shape
Systems
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There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
Janine Benyus
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Science Writer
Building
Cities
Copying
Ecosystems
Form
Mimicking
Process
Three
Like
Another
City
Ecosystem
Leaf
Level
Shape
Third
Types
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The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.
Hilary Mantel
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Writer
Dramatic
Facts
Inconvenient
Adhere
Closely
Intractable
Novelist
Shape
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The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
Eugene Jarecki
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Author
Country
Feet
Ideas
Vigilance
Vote
Labors
Shape
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After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.
Adam Rex
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Illustrator
Black And White
Pacing
Work Good Your
Editor
Good Shape
Lay
Loosely
Manuscript
Shape
Sketch
Text
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