Shapes Quotes - Page 6

• Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

  Coco Rocha

  Girl, Unique, Different

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• think we're still stuck in that agricultural mindset, where we imagine that we can shape the Earth. Sure, we can do that. But the Earth has the power to shape us much more powerfully. To survive climate change, we'll have to realize how dependent we are on our ecosystems for our own survival.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Survival

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance, that Freud was no big deal in terms of the shape of social organization then or now. I might think that the discourses of politics and law are real and stable and fair.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Thinking, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.

  Annalee Newitz

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.

  Kina Grannis

  Unique, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.

  George Washington

  Government, Worst Enemy, Different

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, People, Empowering

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• Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story isn't there in the beginning, right from the start, I generally can't beat it into shape no matter how much rewriting I do.

  Mary J. Miller

  Two, Trying, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

  John Dufresne

  Character, Childhood, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.

  Denise Duhamel

  Book, Cutting, Ties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Past, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.

  David Rees

  Geometric Shapes, People, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.

  eL Seed

  Art, People, Feelings

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than trying to shape their interests and point of view to fit better into the world around them.

  Marie Calloway

  Artist, Views, Perspective

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

  Viola Davis

  Inspire, Way, Used

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.

  Chris Baio

  Girlfriend, Jobs, School

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• You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

  Paul Greengrass

  Character, Giving, Trying

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Fun, Creating

  Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.

  Guy Branum

  Silly, Media, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.

  Guy Branum

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Letting Go, Focus, Needs

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Past, People, Perception

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can be more progress towards Buddha-hood, toward love, and wisdom, and helping all being etc. So that's the great value of it.

  Robert Thurman

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Progress

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella?

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Data, Mind

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 20.

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• Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who has survived past anyone's expectations, and make the simple assumption it wasn't an accident, and you understand why he did what he did, now you're ready to predict ... The key to forecasting is to understand both the constraints nations are under and the manner in which the struggle for power shapes leaders.

  George Friedman

  Struggle, Simple, Past

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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