Form Quotes
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
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When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
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It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
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A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
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Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."
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A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
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I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of environmental thing.
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If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.
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In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. Bernard Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.
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Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
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I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.
