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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.
It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.
Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.
You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.
Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization.
I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.
Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.
What better motivation is there to get in better shape than imagining your thighs exposed, watusyin' and a shimmyin' all over the stage.
This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.
There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.
The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.
You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.
Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
I've learned that it comes in so many different shapes and sizes, and that communities with autism are extremely supportive of one another.
Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.
Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.
To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming
You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge... The iPhone is in deep trouble.
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.
My favourite colour is red, but I also like jewel tones and monochrome, while my preferred shapes include A-line skirts and skinny trousers.
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.
And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.
Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.
I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.
I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.