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• We make weapons now that, if we ever used them, would kill ourselves. How do you explode a weapon with so much radiation in it that it will wipe out an entire city and think that it's not going to blow over your own cities? We all breathe the same air. It's madness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blow, Thinking, Over You

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• A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said, "No, I am not married to sorrow, I just choose not to look away." To not avert our eyes to suffering is to trust the power of presence. Joy emerges through suffering. Suffering is a component of joy. Whether we are sitting with a loved one dying or witnessing dolphins side-by-side watching the oil burning in the Gulf of Mexico, to be present with the world is to be alive. I think of Rilke once again, "Beauty is the beginning of terror." We can breathe our way toward courage.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• I think a huge part is how we're socialized growing up to see our value and worth as being tied into a relationship and how our culture teaches us a distorted sense of romantic love - can't live without you, can't breathe without you, I'll die without you. As teenage girls we believe that level of emotional intensity and dramatics equates with real love. We're also taught that if we date lots of people, then we're sluts, so at an early age we put all our eggs into one basket, so to speak, and concentrate on "the one".

  Rachel Lloyd

  Girl, Growing Up, Teenage

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• Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying but it shows just where the problems are. Of course, I do get bored of the words after a while. I take breaks from them so that we can breathe. And by the time I'm done with my umpteenth regurgitation, I hate the words. They become flavorless chewing gum. Like how really old gum gets once it starts disintegrating in your mouth. Gum that's lost its elasticity and feels like a sweater.

  Myriam Gurba

  Hate, Bored, Done

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• I do feel like L.A. has a very supportive and collaborative energy. I felt that in New York too but also there's so much space here! You can have a home studio. In New York you had to rent a room to do a session or to practice. As a solo artist, it was a lot more expensive. Here there is that comfort in lifestyle a little bit more, being able to breathe a little bit more, and creatively flow, not having to stress about how to get our gear there in a cab and pay by the hour, it's just a different vibe.

  Alex Winston

  Stress, Home, Artist

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• The minute I know it's real to the minute we start shooting, I will work on the script, breaking it down and working on the character, doing as much research as I possibly can to the point where I feel like I eat, sleep and breathe it without looking at a page. Then I go in and try to forget all of it and just be there.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Real, Sleep, Character

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• Dark Horse movie might be blood, sweat, and tears for Todd Solondz, because things are so important to him and so specific. He has such a rhythm and a tone. So while he may have to work so hard to keep that intact, it allows the actors the freedom to just breathe. Because he's done all the heavy lifting. He really has. He has everything the way he needs it. And so we can just get there and be whatever he saw in the audition.

  Selma Blair

  Horse, Dark, Important

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• Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  I Love You, Haiti, Always Love You

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 21, 2011.

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• I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

  Donovan Bailey

  Running, Race, Relax

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• What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

  Nellie Bly

  Mysterious Things, Silence, Forever

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Air

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• Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

  Junot Diaz

  World, Facts, Marvelous

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• I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

  Fred Durst

  Writing, Long, Giving

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• Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

  Seth Godin

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.

  Eva Green

  Sick, Proud, Feels

  "Eva Green: 'Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!

  Eva Green

  Nice, Black, Able

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• Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Fall, Air

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• We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Men, Light

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• Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Crazy, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.

  Shawn Johnson

  Team, Athlete, Opportunity

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• I do my job like I breathe.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs

  "You'll think I'm a Madman" by John Colapinto, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2007.

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• I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Memories, Funeral, Lasts

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Abraham

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• As long as I can wear something that's not too tight, I can move in it, it's not too thick, and I can breathe, it's great.

  Kellan Lutz

  Moving, Long, Thick

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