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My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
Manolo Blahnik / Fashion Designer
Catholic
Rigidity
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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
Bill James / Writer
Break
Causes
Rigidity
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All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.
Robert Benchley / Humorist
Laughter
Relieved
Rigidity
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
Franz Grillparzer / Writer
Women
Disgusting
Rigidity
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.
David Cameron / Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Able
Rigidity
Speed
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I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
Andrea Hirata / Author
Bohemian
Corporate
Mathematics
Rhythm
Rigidity
World
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I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
Rene Burri / Photographer
Rigidity
Switzerland
Influenced
Protestant
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When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
Charles Kennedy / British Politician
Alienation
Centre
Rigidity
Rules
Result
Subject
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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
Gail Sheehy / Author
Cultivating
Hallmark
Rigidity
Spontaneity
Counteract
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The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
Robert Heller /
Administration
Bureaucrats
Choices
Differences
Management
Rigidity
Choice
Difference
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
Vidal Sassoon / Hairdresser
Excited
Eye
Hair
Old Ways
Rigidity
Way
Window
Possibilities
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When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.
Confucius / Philosopher
Process
Rigidity
Transformation
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For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?
Virginia Postrel / Writer
Alphabet
Letters
Never Ending
Rigidity
Something New
Forms
Challenge
Designers
Essential
Presents
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Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.
Laozi / Philosopher
Men
Birth
Rigidity
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In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.
Robert Mondavi / Winemaker
Country
Dictatorship
Rigidity
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In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.
Isabelle Kocher /
Mania
Rigidity
Schedules
Creates
Time Hate Long
Finish
Wastes
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The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.
Bob Simon / Correspondent
Government
Bureaucracy
Pace
Rigidity
Dealing
Working
Minute
Slow
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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
Robert Kennedy / Former U.s. Senator
Communism
Compassion
Dogmatism
Flexibility
Honesty
Intellectual
Paid
Rigidity
Everywhere
Above
Price
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Democracy
Ideological
Indoctrination
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Rigidity
United States
Unusual
Among
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The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?
George H. W. Bush / 41St U.s. President
Circumstances
Hell
Rigidity
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
Imogen Heap / Singer-Songwriter
Clarinet
Etc
Guitar
Instruments
Piano
Rigidity
Sound
Crafting
Drums
Electronic
Organic
Shaping
Sounds
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The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.
George C. Wolfe / Playwright
Rigidity
Musicals
Worst Thing
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They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Errors
Rigidity
Views
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Pope Paul Vi /
Art
Crystals
Exterior
Hardness
Human Life
Lust
Luster
Regularity
Rigidity
Life Art Work
Considered
Crystal
Deepest
Devoid
Facet
Life Work Art
Fragment
Interior
Meaning
Offer
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Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.
Eugene Jarecki / Author
Changed
Eight
Emerging
Example
Flexibility
Raised
Raising Taxes
Rigidity
Six
Taxes
Views
Years
Correction
Held
Policies
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
Answers
Dialogue
Engaging
Foe
Rigidity
Always Believe World
Avoid
Works
Believe I Believe Always
Believe I Believe World
Friend
Confront
Problems
Saying
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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk / Novelist
Fixed
Fool
Good Mother
Hygiene
Mother
Obsession
Outlook
Reality
Rigidity
Unafraid
Unnecessary
Wine
Glass
In Fact
Scornful
Suburban
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The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.
Greg Graffin / Musician
Active
Implying
Natural Selection
Rigidity
Selection
Theologian
Evolutionary
Substitute
Trick
Participant
Writings
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I was raised as a Catholic. I went to a Jesuit school - obviously, being from Ireland, was brought up in quite a regimented belief structure. I shed a lot of that rigidity and got a sense that there are definitely forces that we don't understand. I think 'magic.' It's a word to apply to some of those things.
Jack Reynor / Film Actor
Belief
Catholic
Ireland
Magic
Raised
Rigidity
Shed
Structure
Apply
Brought
Definitely
Forces
Obviously
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
David Cameron / Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Able
Approach
Country
Facts
Insistence
Integration
Rigidity
Size
Speed
Assert
Eu
Fits
Implies
Network
Same Level
Weighed
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If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
Joanna Scott /
Dull
Impulse
Nonsense
Obliged
Polished
Prose
Rebel
Rigidity
Sentences
Temptation
Convey
Correct
Followed
Resist
Stir
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