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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: After Appear Bank Courts Declare Gesture Here Honest Honest People Law Looked Money Must People Secret Secure Threatening Toward Vice Well Your

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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

~Andrew Eldritch

Topics: Alone Art Even Gesture Grasp Greater Increasingly Postmodernism Requires Surely Symbolism

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Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

~Anohni

Topics: Act Against Gesture Hopelessness Itself Participation Speaking Up

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I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Eat Every Gesture Hilarious Horribly Japan Japanese Just Look More Movement Offending Often Particularly Really Ridiculous Traditional Try Way Without Wrong

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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

~Anthony Daniels

Topics: Boring Everybody Gesture Life Mime Own Performance Real Real Life Realize Technique Though Useful Uses Very Watch

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I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture.

~B. J. Novak

Topics: Big Big Way Busy Gesture Get Got Guys Like Lives Lot Middle Nice Office Our Our Lives Really Room Symbolic Thought Too Upgrade Watch Way Wear Were Writers

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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.

~Ben Foster

Topics: Cent Dialogue Drop Film Forty Gesture Much Per Silent Still Twenty Waiting You

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Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.

~Billy Butler

Topics: Difference Even Gesture Huge Huge Difference Make Smallest

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I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

~Carrie Mae Weems

Topics: Body Gesture Good Like Looks Moves Nuance Photographs Really Structure Understands Well

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I talk fast, I'm always running from one thing to another, and I tend to gesture a lot with my hands when I talk.

~Channing Dungey

Topics: Always Another Fast Gesture Hands Lot One Thing Running Talk Tend Thing

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