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Bodily Quote by Roy Harper

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“I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.”

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In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to…

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In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation…

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I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.

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I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

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I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

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I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

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As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

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I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have…

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At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that…

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I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also…

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Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt…

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It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this…

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We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have…

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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen…

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Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of…

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It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as…

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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily…

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I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public…

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I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through…

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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice…

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You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day in order to stay regular, lose weight, and detoxify. Our bodies are mostly…

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Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that…

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Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government…

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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a…

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