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When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

I respect people and expect that kind of respect back.

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kind of be more dressed up more of the time. I'm not really someone you see in sweatpants a lot.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

I'm kind of obsessed with food - I really am.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I'm kind of a private person in a way.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.

I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.