F. Matthias Alexander Quotes
The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
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My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
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A man should be upright, not kept upright.
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I shall I not equivocate, there is a meeting of men and women and there is a meeting only for women.
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The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seeking.
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Working with Olivia Colman has probably been the highlight of my career so far.
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I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.
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Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required
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A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.
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The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.
