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• You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

  John Cleese

  Self, Ego, Inappropriate

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Technology, Training

  "From 'Craig's List' to virtual community" by Writer Elizabeth Knefel, cnn.com. March 25, 1998.

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• Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

  Marianne Moore

  Imagination, Towers, Evanescence

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Yoga, Reading, Giving

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• Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

  Mark Twain

  Broken, House, Purpose

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.166, Univ of California Press

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• The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

  Glen Mazzara

  Keys, Communicate, Organized

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• As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better.

  Victoria Moran

  Hair, Color, Mind

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• Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Creative, Secret

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• As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.

  Stephen Lang

  Basketball, Yoga, Games

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• Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

  Robert David Steele

  Integrity, Challenges, Resilience

  Robert David Steele (2012). “The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust”, p.86, North Atlantic Books

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• One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.

  Epeli Hau'ofa

  Religious, Bombarded By, Political

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• Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Odd Things, Jam

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

  Josh Duhamel

  Mother, Teacher, Growing Up

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• Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Unexpected, Machinery

  "Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Consciousness" by Antonio Damasio, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2010.

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• We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

  John W. Snow

  Priorities, Economic, Economy

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

  Regina King

  Careers, Littles, Bits

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

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• The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.

  Alice Steinbach

  Fun, Hands, Each Day

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• He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.

  Dave Eggers

  Feelings, Jogging, Room Service

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.158, Vintage

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• We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

  Wesley Clark

  Air, Patterns, Way

  "NATO: Aerial photo may show mass graves in Kosovo". www.cnn.com. April 11, 1999.

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• The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

  Queen Victoria

  Powerful, Voice, Touching

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• The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Followers, Tao, Circumstances

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• Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Men, Lines, Angle

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Ideas, Symbolism

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• Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

  David Cunliffe

  Succeed

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• The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

  Christian Audigier

  Strong, Men, Risk

  "Ed Hardy Interview". Interview with Andrew Cliver, www.askmen.com.

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