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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber

Face, Sentence, Staring

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.
Gwyneth Paltrow

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Freda Adler

Change, Heart, Creative

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov

Great, Book, Ideas

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
Tadao Ando

Future, Before, Dream

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery

Universe, Plan, Present

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Pete Townshend

Music, Today, Rock

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
Al Gore

Government, Law, President

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Change, Time, Same

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
Christopher Alexander

Life, Nature, Feeling

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel

Government, Words, Military

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.
Dee Dee Myers

Person, Him, President

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
Jimmy Page

Made, Else, Felt

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Amazing, Book

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
Benjamin Carson

Time, Person, Thinking

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
Adam Sandler

Life, Great, Learning

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller

Home, Play, Story

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
Damian Lewis

Life, Time, Good

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch

Age, Character, Express

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
Vera Wang

Work, Woman, Give

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Jo Brand

Society, Social, Times

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
Philip Glass

Music, Revelation, Rhythm

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
Michael Behe

Time, Black, Eye

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
Steven Tyler

Far, Ideas, Goes

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens

Life, Reality, May

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.
Margaret Cho

Beautiful, Give, Enough

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Gene Tierney

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.
Tom Hanks

Good, Blessed, Nothing

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
Geddy Lee

Song, Expression, Intrigues

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
John Polkinghorne

Understand, Sense, Simply

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