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• It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

  Charlie Parker

  Play, Trying, Band

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• The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

  Laozi

  Dry, Plant

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• With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.

  Marc Blucas

  Tvs, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Past, Thinking, World

  Source: collider.com

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• You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Cutting, Bait, Path

  Source: collider.com

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• Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Shapes, Bent

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• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Defense, Definitions, Conviction

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• It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

  John Irving

  Mind, Stories, Easier

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Awareness, Spontaneous

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• Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.

  Karl Rove

  Issues, Needs, World

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Strong, Jazz, Modern

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

  Giorgio Armani

  Modern Life, Modern, Attire

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Vocabulary, Way, Tongue

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• Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

  John F. Kennedy

  Past, Hands, Immigration

  President John F. Kennedy (2016). “A Nation Of Immigrants”, p.104, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Funny, Reading

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Bamboo, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

  Theresa May

  Retirement, Children, Moving

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

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• I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Unions, Britain

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation. To represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world. To advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets. And to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.

  David Cameron

  Strong, Believe, Europe

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Ambition, Unions

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

  Jeremy Renner

  Moving, House, Creative

  "Brutal Honesty from Jeremy Renner, Streep & Coen Talk Film in China, Knightley on Dangerous Method & Anna Karenina" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Reality, Years

  "How Capitalism Can Save Art" by Camille Paglia, www.wsj.com. October 05, 2012.

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• The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

  Penelope Lively

  Writing, Character, Alternatives

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• I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Unbreakable, Adaptable

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: I never hated the Burmese army". Interview with Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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