Posing Quotes - Page 2

• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Problem, Plans

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• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle

  Owen Hart

  Motivational, Wrestling, Talking

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• I felt proud of myself. I worked out really hard, and the reason I wanted to do it the most is because I am posing for a purpose: a portion of the proceeds from each issue sold is going to go to my charity.

  Cindy Margolis

  Issues, Proud, Purpose

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.

  Dorothy Lamour

  Girl, Sex, Achievement

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

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• An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

  Lisa Bonet

  Mind, Body, Resistance

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

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• The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

  Lenny Henry

  Hate, Cameras

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• Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Sound, Lasts

  Christopher Hitchens (2002). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.268, Verso

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• It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.

  Doug Hepburn

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Mirrors

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• There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.

  Roy Stryker

  Differences, Interesting, Honest

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• Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Mirrors, Advice

  Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Past, Years

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• War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Government, Parades

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• Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

  Angela Carter

  Grandmother, People, Boast

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• Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

  Harlan Ellison

  Doe, Use, Fluoride

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Deathbird Stories”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  World, West, Victim

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• The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

  Marc Jacobs

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

  Sally Ride

  Fun, Curiosity, Natural

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• I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Regret, Gun

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• In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Practice, People

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.60, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

  Rooney Mara

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "'Girl with the dragon tattoo' star Rooney Mara talks Nude Poster" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.

  Diego Maradona

  Goal, Messi, Celebrate

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• I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

  Joan Baez

  Kids, Thinking, Answers

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• Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Becoming, Problem

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.60, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

  T. S. Eliot

  Differences, Statesmen, Elders

  T.S. Eliot (2013). “The Elder Statesman”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Government, Media

  "Surveillance State evils". www.salon.com. April 21, 2012.

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