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“Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would be actually on the lot somewhere and some guy with a loud sports jacket would be sizing me up...kinda lookin' around goin--maybe kickin my knees. Looking behind me going: That looks a little bashed in back there...Yeah. You mind if I check under the hood?" 'Well yes I do! Thank you very much.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Wells Looks Littles Body Would Be Guy Sports Behinds Car Yeah Checks Loud Knees Trading Jackets Hood Analogies

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.”

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“Food and clothes sustain Body and life; I advise you to learn Being as is. When it's time, I move my hermitage and go, And there's nothing To be left behind.”

Body Moving Left Behinds Clothes Left Behind Advise

Author:Layman Pang

“No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.”

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Author:Steve Rauschenberger

“Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a foundational text, she draws on the arts, philosophy and theology, and her experience as a hospice volunteer to explore concrete alternatives to privileging the rational mind. Her erudition, wisdom, and graceful writing are compelling proof of the intelligent body.”

“I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.”

Body Behinds Known Fantasy Huge Horror Adults

Author:Michael Scott

“Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.”

Soul Body Behinds Moved Unseen Veils

Author:Jean Racine

“Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.”

People Body Fall Behinds Tired Your Body Wheels

Author:Shanola Hampton

“I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.”

Way Wells Looks Mean Made Body Behinds Made It Stomach

Book:The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story

Source: The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story

“Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.”

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Book:Silences

Source: Silences

“And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.”

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Author:Mike Myers