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I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Also Back Because Bend Break Conscious Culture Idea Interested Itself Machines People Reading Resistance

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It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.

~David Gilmour

Topics: Band Bend Content Draw Emotional Even Guitar Instrument Magical Melody Movements Notes Out Over Piano Play Rhythm Sing Solos Thing Things Tiny Tonal Top Which Whole You

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The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Beings Bend Childhood Chunks Control Day Deep Desire Fantasy Flawed Giant How Inside Large Laws Life Magic Mercy No Control Novel Over Resonates Spend State Strong Then World You Your

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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

~David Trimble

Topics: Attention Beam Bend Close Driving Hills Mountains Must Next Night Over Paid Politics Reach Unfamiliar

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I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

~Dolly Parton

Topics: Am Backwards Bend Definitely Diva Like Make Over People I Am

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I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

~Dominique Moceanu

Topics: Bend Could Got Injured Jump Knee Leg Olympic Properly Straighten Trials Walk

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Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

~Don King

Topics: Ali Art Bend Bow Confess Every Fighter Greatest He Head Icon Knee Magnificent Muhammad Muhammad Ali Must Thou Thou Art Time Tongue

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The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Allowed Apple Backward Bend Code Compatible Computers Create Digital Even Every Follow Hardware Microsoft Over Piece Reason Rules Software Time Universe Unlike Well Why Worked You

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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

~Eartha Kitt

Topics: Anyone Bend Bending Constantly Deter Following Go Going Know Means Never Own Path Right Right Track River Staying Track Turning Up Where Wind You Your

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Thrones, dominations, principalities know now with a terrible certainty that mere force of arms has no power which compares with that living word of the crucified Nazarene, that bears with it Eternal Life, and directs the duty of a world of men whom he can lead, but who bend no knee to power.

~Edward Everett Hale

Topics: Arms Bears Bend Certainty Compares Crucified Duty Eternal Eternal Life Force He Knee Know Lead Life Living Men Mere Now Power Terrible Which Who Whom Word World

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