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• People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

  Mariah Carey

  Thinking, People, Asking

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• I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Doctors, Race

  "Drew Carey: 'I feel like I'm aging in reverse". Interview with Mary Brophy Marcus, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 8, 2011.

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• I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

  Nicolas Cage

  Boys, Thinking, Magic

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• I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

  Steve Buscemi

  Magic

  "Steve Buscemi Talks Balancing Comedy and Drama, and His Experience with Improv On the Set of THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

  Cate Blanchett

  Beach, Bunnies, Goth

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• I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

  Jello Biafra

  Writing, Style, Influence

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• All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Nice, Boys

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• I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

  Lauren Oliver

  Winter, Kissing, Feet

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Growing Up, Stupid, Grows

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Selfish, Men, Church

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.265, Applewood Books

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• You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Years, Answers, Might

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• I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Girl, Memories, Phrases

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• Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Artist, Winning

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• Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

  Martin Filler

  War, Machines, World

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• To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

  Lucy Larcom

  Blue, People, Tree

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Children, Character

  "Girlhood and Character". Book by Mary Eliza Moxcey, p. 27, 1916.

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• I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Believe, Thinking, Adolescence

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• We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Government, Effort, Gold

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• She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

  John Irving

  Children, Expectations, Attention

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• Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

  Gayle Forman

  Wall, Tired, Effort

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• I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feet, Watches, Tonight

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Children, Hate, Feet

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.62, Penguin

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Optimistic

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Risk, Cost

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, p.126, Macmillan

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Maturity

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