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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.


Auguste Rodin

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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I DONT KNOW We chop off hair... they chop off hands.
MENZIES CAMPBELL What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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TERRY PRATCHETT I want to knock her block off.
PRINCESS DIANA You need to be dedicated to your workout, whatever you choose.
TRACY ANDERSON Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
SIR HENRY COTTON Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
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ELBERT HUBBARD The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no...
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PERRY FLORIO I block down and he (guard Scott Wells) pulls around. He (Harris) just got me off the ball on that p...
CHAD CLIFTON Could be better. Need steak. Pork chop, maybe.
LONG NGUYEN He’s a chip off the old block, I just don’t know which one!
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KATJA MILLAY Dont put yourself and your happiness in a bubble and block the rest of the world out.cause when that...
KIMBERLY SHILENJE Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord.
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DANIEL BOULUD I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS I'm such a foodie. If I see a pork chop, I'm eating it.
JOSH HENDERSON If you're the wolf, though, I'll chop off your head and piss down the hole
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT I just fought off a block, he tried to run me over, actually and he just didn't make it.
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR Ni dieu ni maître!

(Neither God nor master)

[Feminist and labour slogan trans...
LOUIS-AUGUSTE BLANQUI Nothing is more dangerous then having just one idea
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER To think is to say no
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one you have
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER There will always be motive for crime, if we ever get to a point where people attacking each other i...
C. AUGUSTE DUPIN The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent cr...
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that ha...
CHARLES-AUGUSTE DE BERIOT Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
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PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necess...
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PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS That which is not worth speaking they sing. [Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
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