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• While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.

  Antanas Mockus

  Believe, Heart, Use

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• It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Numbers, People, Strange

  "Hayao Miyazaki: iPad Use ‘Disgusting,’ ‘Masturbation-Like’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

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• John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.

  William J Doherty

  Book, Successful, Keys

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• I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Purpose, Bows, Force

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.11, A&C Black

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• It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

  Jane Rule

  Love, Teacher, Kindness

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• Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

  William Faulkner

  Beautiful, Men, Ideas

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1973

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• The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.

  Jeff Koons

  Inspirational, Art, Jobs

  "Art Changes Every Day". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. January 2014.

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• To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

  Remy de Gourmont

  Memories, Writing, Style

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• It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.

  Maria Callas

  Distance, House, Records

  "Callas : The Art and the Life". Book by John Ardoin, 1974.

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• ...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Real, Technology

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• Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Letting Go, Men, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

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• You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Voice, Sound, Looks

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• For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

  Harry Shearer

  Guy, Virtue, Dainty

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry about whether a well-meaning gesture could produce complications. We have no problems with countries like Madagascar or Bolivia, for example. But Germany is our neighbor and we have a shared past. Besides, Germany is powerful and ambitious and more than four times as large as we are. It makes complete sense that we would act cautiously. It's simply Realpolitik.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Powerful, Past

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Taken, Media, Wire

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• You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

  Paul Keating

  Military, Chinese, Friendly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  Art, Moving, Sight

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Use, Stitches, Research

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

  Vance Gilbert

  Ribs, Definitions, Able

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

  Tom Coburn

  Commitment, Oath Of Office, Political

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Sacred, Resistance, Rage

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

  Leila Josefowicz

  Effort, Want, Music Is

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• All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bystanders, Events, Admiration

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Fleeting, Afar

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