It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.
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The build up to this game has been huge since the tournament began. It's going to be amaz... KYLE CHIPCHURA It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy. ALARIC HUTCHINSON The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the re... WINNIE HOLZMAN We are never alone, even when we feel that we’ve been totally abandoned. Sometimes our Guardians s... JANE MOORE If we only take a hard look at the facts of life, we will know that, really, nothing is in our hands... OSHO That's probably not on our minds right now. Our minds are on making the playoffs and going on from t... BILL PLUMMER We can quiet our minds enough to tune in to what our bodies are telling us - I believe in angels - a... ZOE MCLELLAN Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own... EMILE DURKHEIM If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just ... 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DR. SEUSS Once we beat Rocky it became set in our minds that we can do this. We're really confident. We're a s... LAURA HAUGEN I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting h... GWEN STEFANI Our minds are like closets. Plain on the outside,but full of colors and thoughts in the inside waiti... TAYLOR RYAN DANIEL That's our roadblock. So even though we could be down a couple bodies, I think it's definitely a goo... DEREK FISHER He [Richards] is just the whole package for me. He's going to be a great player in our league. ... E... KEN HITCHCOCK We were really focused knowing all the things Gorman had going for it tonight. We just set our minds... TODD DUNCAN We've been hit hard already this year, ... And really there's nothing we can do about it. Our injuri... ANDY MURRAY Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanh... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in ... JOHN FOWLES We're doing really good. I expected us to come in here and beat everyone because we've been practici... JEANA KEYES You play as hard as you can now and you hope for the best. I'm sure what we do to our bodies is goin... JEFF SATURDAY Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps... GREGORY MAGUIRE It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and the... GARTH STEIN Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. WILLIAM ADAMS (EXPLORER) courage is the bridge between our minds and our bodies. GEORGE SHEEHAN There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of... ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO Some people around us are energy vampires while others are energy boosters. Our bodies resonate like... HINA HASHMI We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep... ERICH FROMM We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sle... ERICH FROMM It’s all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, a... RICHEY EDWARDS Guilt?” he remarked in prison. “It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusi... ROBERT D. HARE To be honest, we are not sitting on our 3G licenses. We are now going at full speed. LI KA-SHING But even a vessel pulsates, beats and pumps in ecstasy and in rage! I wonder are the way ... QUIETSTORMPOET I know the Bush administration is talking about going back to the moon and going to Mars. But there ... BRUCE BEEHLER We're really happy that people have accepted us and welcomed us here. Our employees are our family. AMBER CLIFFORD Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this li... JENNIFER NIVEN Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp... PETER REDGROVE Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more c... NEIL GAIMAN There’s nothing to try, Ethan. It’s over. It’s too late.” She barely whispered, but it felt ... KAMI GARCIA If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. ... EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To come in here with this type of atmosphere, it's definitely a very good feeling to come out of her... KYLE CIEPLICKI Things are getting better all the time. But for a while, it was really hard on us and our school. LARRY KING Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds... CARRIE P. MEEK This is really the most we can do from where we are. All of us that came here today felt like we sho... AMANDA BROWN How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about? PAULA STOKES Just getting here is a tribute to our guys' hard work. We had to change our mindset this year. We ha... CEDRIC DRAKE A lot of people can say what they want, but people are really interested in making this district wor... DOUG WILES We are going to stay here because this is our home. LISA MICHIELS Nothing can enslaved us, if we free in our minds. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Merrill Lynch was down about $20 at one point. I'm sitting here with my hard hat on, watching things... BILL FRIES We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else. PENN JILLETTE Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are u... ALBERT EINSTEIN I just heard a commotion and came outside to see what was going on. KEVIN CAMPOS People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of ... LISA LAMPANELLI There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform. SARA SHERIDAN Our prime objective is to study the processes that are going on inside Venus' atmosphere. GERHARD SCHWEHM Our dreams are merely the product of a consumer culture. Our lives are nothing more than a reasearch... ANDREW THOMAS WELBORN Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. FRANK GELETT BURGESS Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies FRANK GELETT BURGESS It’s our memories that teach us who we are. GLENN HAYBITTLE We are trying to perfect the routines. This is just a group of really hard workers. They are very de... KATIE LOMAN People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's ... DAVE MASON We're the slaves of our bodies. We don't have to be the slaves of our minds. MARTY RUBIN He's definitely a great ballplayer. It's really nice that we do have that inside presence more this ... ANDREW DIDONATO I really like our team - we are a team that (opponents) really can't figure out. We run the football... CHRIS ATKINS Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you... JENNY HAN We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. PLATO We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell PLATO She's really intense, but she pushes us to do our best. Our practices are really intense but fun. ELYSE STOLLER Coco is a special person in the sense that she really loves UT and she totally cares about the team.... KATHY HARSTON In the winter, he'd shovel our walks for us; just a great guy to us. We had no idea anything like th... GAIL WILSON Our defensive intensity gave us a lot of inside shots. We really just played extremely well. DAN DERSAM It's hard to even talk about. We allowed ourselves to lose our composure and not execute. We just fe... BARBARA TURNER If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is alw... CYRIL CONNOLLY If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is alw... CYRIL CONNOLLY Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrat... STARHAWK
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JERRY RUBIN I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still t... JERRY GILLIES It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians. JERRY BROWN Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. JERRY GILLIES And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rain... JERRY CHIN Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. JERRY WEST When the game is over it is really just beginning. JERRY KRAMER When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. JERRY MARTIN I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication... Not easy. There's an ent... JERRY SEINFELD Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. JERRY GARCIA You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energ... JERRY GILLIES The government is becoming the family of last resort. JERRY BROWN It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to h... JERRY GILLIES People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. JERRY LEWIS You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the onl... JERRY GARCIA Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside a... JERRY GILLIES I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. JERRY GARCIA Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit. JERRY MARTIN Inaction may be the biggest form of action. JERRY BROWN For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the ... JERRY GARCIA The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. JERRY GILLIES What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important th... JERRY GILLIES Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place... JERRY GARCIA Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? JERRY BROWN By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything ... JERRY RUBIN It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenho... JERRY ADLER Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobe... JERRY BRIDGES I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?' JERRY SEINFIELD The backseat produced the sexual revolution. JERRY RUBIN Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. JERRY BROWN According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death i... JERRY SEINFELD It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits th... JERRY SEINFELD Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr... JERRY RUBIN A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. JERRY SEINFELD Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating charac... JERRY STAHL AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th... JERRY FALWELL We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers. JERRY MORAN I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alic... JERRY CANTRELL 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi. JERRY ORBACH A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms,... JERRY SALTZ