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• When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.

  River Phoenix

  Trying, Actors, Speak

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

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• I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

  Philip Johnson

  Twists, Riches, Tradition

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• If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

  Queen Latifah

  Trying, Failing, Reason

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• Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

  Gene Simmons

  Real, Differences, Entrepreneur

  "Kiss and Tell: Gene Simmons talks business". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2008.

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• John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

  Matt Taibbi

  Men, Blue, Self

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• Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Love You, Giving

  Francine Rivers (1993). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.14, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Men, Fire

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Lines, Bones

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.146, Penguin

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• Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Editing, Color, Tasks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Children, Arms, Child Of God

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• But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Worry, My Best Friend

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize the Night”, p.85, Macmillan

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• Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

  Richard G. Scott

  Grateful, Fit, Righteous

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• I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Lying, Cutting, White

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• It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

  Susan Sontag

  Loneliness, Violence, Sides

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• He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).

  J. M. Coetzee

  Long, Mind, One Day

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.117, Random House

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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• [E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

  Charles Taylor

  Unique, Voice, Demand

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

  Lydia M. Child

  Fashion, Flower, Being Different

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• A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Heritage, Shapes, Next

  "Installation address: Unleashing our most ambitious imaginings". Public Speech, Cambridge, www.harvard.edu. October 12, 2007.

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• He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stay Strong, World, Firm

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• He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Names, Svengali

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• One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Writing, Mean, Dark

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• Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

  Oliver Herford

  Laughter, Wine, Giving

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• The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Powerful, Practice, Agriculture

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