Relax Quotes
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“You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.”
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“Relax! Life is beautiful!”
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“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
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“A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.”
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“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
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“If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.”
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“It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.”
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“It's not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.”
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“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
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“We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.”
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“Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.”
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“I don't really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I just try to relax and let my preparation and training take over.”
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“There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.”
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“I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.”
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“I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.”
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“We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.”
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“I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.”
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“It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.”
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“Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.”
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“Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.”
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“I like to have quiet evenings and relax.”
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“I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.”
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“If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.”
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“Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.”
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“My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.”
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“Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.”
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“I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.”
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“Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'”
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“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”
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“The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.”
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“I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.”
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“I wish I did have time to relax, but I'm a Virgo and it's just not in me.”
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“I wake up at 5am, by 6am I'm on the way to training. I come back and relax, have lunch, take a little nap, then train again at 4pm for an evening run. Then relax, dinner and bed at 9pm until the next day.”
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“People choose to struggle when people don't want to relax. Sometimes it is not on your side. Relax; calm down. No matter how hard the waves are, you will float on the ocean.”
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“I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.”
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“I like to be funny. I can't stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.”
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“I always tell people, 'The week after your fight is just a very good time.' You get to release, relax, unwind mentally - everything.”
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“The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.”
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“I have learned to not look so much at the results and tune out the outside pressures. It has taken a lot of work and I am still growing and learning how to do that, but focusing on the process, trying to relax as much as possible and just have fun has always produced some of my best tennis.”
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“You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.”
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“Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.”
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“I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.”
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“I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.”
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“You need to stay calm the day of the contest. Not let the weather bother me and just relax.”
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“I'm starting to get old. I want to eat some hamburgers and just relax.”
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“You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.”
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“I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.”
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“Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?”
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“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”
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“I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.”
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“The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.”
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“I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.”
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“I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved.”
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“Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby's diaper.”
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“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.”
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“We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.”
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“You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.”
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“I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south a little bit, it's like, 'You wanna play ping-pong or foosball?' Or, 'You wanna go grab somethin' to eat?' And then you just like talk to them and relax them and get them comfortable and get yourself comfortable.”
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“It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.”
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“Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.”
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“Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.”
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“You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!”
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“Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.”
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“When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.”
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“I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.'”
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“I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.”
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“Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.”
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“That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.”
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“I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.”
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“If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.”
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“I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.”
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“It's awesome to get home and just… relax your brain.”
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“FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.”
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“I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.”
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“I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.”
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“I can't relax. I don't have any hobbies.”
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“When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.”
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“You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.”
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“When things are down, we can't hit the panic button, and when things are up, we can't relax. We've just got to stay consistent.”
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“Whatever they're feeling, I want them to be able to turn up my music and think, relax, and get good vibes.”
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“Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.”
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“I've always loved to cook. It helps me to relax and gives me peace. It's my nourishment.”
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“It's nice when I have days off to go home and relax and literally take the weight off my shoulders and enjoy the simple things.”
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“When I am on stage I am locked away in energy and in concentration. I hear and I think about nothing but the music and I can only relax when it is over.”
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“I've never been the guy who tried to line up three or four projects down the road. I like to find one piece that speaks to me and then pour my heart and soul into it. Then I come home, recoup, and relax.”
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“The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.”
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“With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.”
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“Bolsonaro must relax, I do not plan to shut down the economy. It's silly.”
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“For years now, I've used gaming to unwind and relax during the season. It's also how I manage to keep up with my friends when I'm on the road.”
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“I wish you could make money and people never saw what you did. Then you could relax and not care about how bad you are.”
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“I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends.”
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“Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.”
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“It's easy to relax and get comfortable but you can't be comfortable if you want to be great.”
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“I love how Pilates makes me feel, like it opens me up. I have the hardest time breathing, weirdly enough. Even when I have conversations, I need to work on my breathing, so it's something I enjoy because it's peaceful and it helps me relax.”
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“I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.”
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“People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.”
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“I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work… I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.”
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“I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?”
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“When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.”
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“I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.”
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“I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.”
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“I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling.”
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“The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.”
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“I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.”
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“Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.”
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“When I try to relax, it's more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play guitar, but it doesn't matter really what it is - just something that keeps you away from hockey.”
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“It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.”
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“I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.”
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“I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.”
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“I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.”
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“To look back is to relax one's vigil.”
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“I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.”
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“My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.”
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“An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'”
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“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect… but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”
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“I'll have an omelette, porridge, and fruit for breakfast at the training ground, then chicken, pasta and soup for lunch; then I can relax in the evening.”
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“On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.”
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“To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.”
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“But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.”
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“I'm near the beach, and I'm definitely a beach bum. For me, going to training and then going to the beach is kind of an escape for me to get away from everything and relax. It's really done wonders for me.”
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“I like to play music; play guitar - I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice.”
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“Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.”
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“Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.”
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“I don't ever want the players to relax in a game.”
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“I think I like to do a lot of things to, you know, turn off the 'football head.' I think that's really important so you don't get burned out or whatever, so you can relax completely in your mind. Because it's not easy to be a footballer; it's a lot of pressure.”
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“I'm alright with being disliked rather than trying to be perfect, because you get to relax then.”
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“I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.”
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“I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.”
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“I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.”
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“Nitric oxide is a key biological messenger within the body. When released by the cells lining your arteries, it makes the walls of the arteries relax, allowing more blood to flow.”
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“It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.”
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“When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.”
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“You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.”
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“When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.”
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“Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.”
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“I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.”
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“It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.”
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“To relax, I work.”
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“One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.”
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“Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.”
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“The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.”
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“I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.”
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“It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.”
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“It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.”
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“I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.”
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“I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.”
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“Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.”
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“He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear… '”
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“I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.”
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“And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.”
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“The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.”
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“We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.”
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“You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.”
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“Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match.”
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“I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.”
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“I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.”
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“I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.”
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“I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.”
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“I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.”
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“Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.”
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“Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.”
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“I love to go to Ireland just to relax.”
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“The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.”
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“I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.”
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“I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.”
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“Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.”
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“I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.”
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“Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.”
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“To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.”
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“I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.”
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“You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.”
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“The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.”
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“So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.”
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“I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.”
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“So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!”
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“Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.”
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“I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.”
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“As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.”
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“I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.”
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“I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.”
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“I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.”
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“I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.”
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“I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.”
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“People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.”
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“In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax it's all I want to do.”
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“I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.”
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“I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.”
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“If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.”
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“To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.”
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“A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.”
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“I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.”
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“Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.”
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“I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.”
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“An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.”
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“When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.”
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“I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.”
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“I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.”
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“I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.”
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“I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.”
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“It's very hard for me to relax.”
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“It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!”
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“I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.”
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“There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.”
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“I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.”
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“I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.”
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“Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.”
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“I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.”
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“Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.”
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“My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.”
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“A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'”
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“We all need to relax more, but I don't find it easy.”
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“I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.”
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“I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.”
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“Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.”
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“I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.”
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“There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.”
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“Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.”
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“I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.”
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“Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.”
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“I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.”
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“Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.”
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“I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.”
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“During the week it isn't always easy to sit down together and I am usually in a rush to get everyone off to school. A bowl of cereal and milk with fruit is perfect because it's quick and easy. I like to mix it up on the weekends when we can all relax in our pajamas.”
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“While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.”
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“It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.”
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“That's how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.”
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“You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.”
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“I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.”
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“I like to relax.”
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“At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.”
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“Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.”
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“When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.”
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“I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.”
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“Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.”
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“For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.”
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“If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.”
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“When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.”
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“I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.”
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“Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.”
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“In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.”
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“I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.”
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“I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.”
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“Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.”
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“When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.”
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“The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.”
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“I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.”
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“I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.”
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“I love zombies. I don't know how else to answer that… I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.”
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“Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.”
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“Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.”
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“I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.”
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“I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.”
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“I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?”
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“I don't relax very well, and I find it hard to sit still.”
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“I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.”
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“Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.”
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“I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.”
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“I just can't relax. That's my problem.”
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“I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.”
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“I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a divided island relaxing - with beauty and tranquillity in the north and a sense of fun, shallowness and celebration in the south.”
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“I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.”
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“It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.”
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“I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.”
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“I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.”
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“I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.”
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“The problem with the treadmill is I just don't know what to do in my head. You either stare at the mirror or concentrate on the TV. It makes me ill because I can't relax on a treadmill.”
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“I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.”
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“I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.”
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“My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.”
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“I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.”
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“Being the son of a father who works so hard, I always wanted to be able take a lot of load off of my dad so he can just relax.”
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“As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.”
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“When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.”
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“Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'”
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“To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.”
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“At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.”
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“I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed.”
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“One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.”
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“I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.”
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“I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.”
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“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”
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“Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!”
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“I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.”
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“I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.”
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“I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.”
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“I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria's Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident - that made me feel very comfortable.”
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“I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it… Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.”
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“Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.”
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“When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.”
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“The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.”
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“When every moment is constantly being filmed, it's hard to relax.”
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“I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.”
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“I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us.”
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“There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.”
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“When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.”
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“The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.”
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“There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.”
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“You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.”
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“I like to go to places where you can relax a little after you're done working.”
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“I think I am disciplined when I need to be, and relax when I can.”
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“Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can't do that. Night in and night out, you're playing some of the best point guards in the world. That's something I'm continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive.”
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“If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'”
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“You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.”
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“To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.”
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“It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary.”
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“I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.”
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“I have Time Warner, and I try to relax a lot and watch television a lot and everything. I really enjoy that. Listen to the radio.”
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“By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake.”
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“If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.”
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“'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.”
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“No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.”
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“Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.”
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“The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.”
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“I've always been active - outdoors, on the beach, playing - and so to go home and have to sit on my couch and relax… it's frustrating. Sometimes, you just have to really shut yourself down.”
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“I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.”
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“My goals are so high that I don't have time to relax in any way, shape or form.”
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“18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.”
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“If I had any advice to give people, it would be to relax; never treat an audition like an emergency. There will be plenty more in your career. If you think you messed up, you probably didn't. And if you did mess up, it's not the end of the world.”
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“I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.”
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“I'll get to the oval three hours beforehand and warm up for about 45 minutes off the ice. Then I'll stretch and get on the ice for 20 minutes. I'll cool down, then relax, close my eyes and think about what I need to do.”
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“Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.”
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“The more comfortable you are, and the more you can relax, the more truthful your performance is.”
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“When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack.”
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“Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.”
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“How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.”
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“I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.' And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.”
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“It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet.”
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“There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.”
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“Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.”
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“I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.”
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“I'm a very nervy kind of person, who finds it almost impossible to relax.”
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“There is a tremendous amount of pressure when you are a world No. 1 with everyone behind you trying to knock you down. But I always believe you should be enjoying the pressure at the top. It is a case of being able to relax and keep playing the game that got you there in the first place.”
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“Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.”
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“When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a short-term benefit, but may not be beneficial for the future.”
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“On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.”
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“I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.”
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“People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.”
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“I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.”
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“Sometimes I'll do a mask if I had a lot of makeup on that day or was out in the sun. I like a hydrogen mask. It's an easy one, and it's supposed to soothe and relax your skin.”
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“I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.”
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“In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.”
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“Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.”
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“The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax.”
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“To relax, I do yoga and meditate and do little math problems, and it's fun to check that part of your brain off and turn on a different part.”
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“I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.”
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“I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.”
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“Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.”
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“For me, it's important to relax and concentrate on what I want to do.”
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“Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.”
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“I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.”
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“I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.”
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“When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the rest of the day off. I do think that it can be overdone, however.”
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“Running is a way for me to relax. With one hour of intense running, I can get a lot of physical exercise. I can relax my body. I feel a tension in my muscles when I don't run. In that sense, I need to get out a few times a week in order to do my work as a scientist, which involves a lot of sitting still.”
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“If you can't relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you're too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.”
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“I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.”
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“I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I like spas and nice dinners. I'm not much of a club person. I like to hang on the beach in Malibu.”
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“One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do.”
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“Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work super-hard to take it to the next level every week. And when you feel like you got to the point where you want to be, you definitely need the time to go out, relax, have a good time, take all the stress off it.”
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“A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.”
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“A lot of people, once they become champion, they relax, kind of sit in the position and try to enjoy it. But I feel like everything I've ever worked for could be lost at any moment. I work harder and harder and harder, because I want to be farther ahead with every fight, and not worrying about these girls catching up to me.”
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“I sleep five or six hours a night, then crash at the weekend. I'm learning to eat properly and exercise. I relax by watching silly sitcoms like 'Scrubs' and 'How I Met Your Mother.'”
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“I love the region around Lake Geneva. The landscape is beautiful, very peaceful, and such a nice place to relax and spend time outdoors. It's always a pleasure to come back home.”
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“I definitely like not working sometimes. It's so fun. I just love sleeping in. In America, everyone is driven to succeed and wake up and do something. But I don't care. I want to sleep in. I want to relax. I don't want to have to get up every day.”
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“That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.”
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“I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.”
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“Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.”
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“I have an inability after matches are over to sort of switch off and relax completely.”
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“If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.”
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“When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.”
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“In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily.”
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“Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.”
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“I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.”
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“We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.'”
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“Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.”
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“Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land of the Eagles,' relax. You're not alone.”
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“I live in a beautiful village in the middle of the countryside, and being able to disappear off on my bike for a couple of hours two or three times a week is a wonderful way to relax.”
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“I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won't relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.”
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“It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my life. I'm never going to forget it, and it's very humbling.”
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“I noticed every time I felt overwhelmed, I would hold my breath. I had to learn to stop, relax, and take long deep breaths, and within seconds I would feel more clear and ready to deal with the situation in a more loving way.”
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“When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.”
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“I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.”
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“I think it's important to relax in general. I don't try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it's kind of a daily practice that I've tried to remain aware of.”
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“In the summer, I love to go up north to a cottage and relax by the lake, swim, go canoeing… I also love riding my bike around Toronto, going to the farmer's market, cooking. That sounds simple, but it's a luxury you don't have when you're living in hotels.”
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“After a show, people say, 'I bet you want to just sit back and relax.' No way. First thing I want to do when I'm home is cook.”
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“Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.”
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“You do get a chance to think about things when you're at home, but that is when you want to relax and forget about football for a bit. Honestly, you don't really get time to stop and think about things. We have a job to do. That is all we concentrate on, going game by game.”
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“On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.”
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“I'm a pretty casual dresser. At home, it's probably whatever is functional to relax in, whether it's a pair of sweats or a pair of jeans.”
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“I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.”
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“I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.”
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“The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.”
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“It's always been such a big part of my life to be fit and healthy and be outside and run and play sports. It gives me energy. Sometimes, I have these days where I don't do anything because I have the days off, and I just need to relax, and I actually get more tired.”
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“The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.”
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“It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions… to me, it's peaceful.”
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“For me, I stay pretty focused on football, and then at the end of the day, you just go home and relax.”
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“When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.”
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“Being in water makes me relax instantly.”
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“I did 21 years of hard labor in the NBA, invested my money right, so I'm set. I earned the right to relax and enjoy, you know?”
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“I give everything far too much thought. If you think you know what you're doing, then you can kind of relax, and then you can improvise and play and just enjoy the day rather than be chasing the lines.”
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“I love to relax. It's my favorite thing in the world. I am very good at being like a grandma and staying in and watching 'Game of Thrones' or a movie. I think I could do that every night.”
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“I didn't want my daughter to grow up in that intense attention - wherever we went, we'd get paparazzi. There are bigger, better superstars in America, so I thought, 'I'll go there for a quick holiday, and relax.' And my holiday just turned into me loving it and wanting to stay there longer and longer.”
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“I have things I watch in my downtime - I love 'Scandal.' I don't write political romance, so there's not a direct relation there. But it's something I do just to turn off the brain for a little bit, and just to relax and recharge.”
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“Meditating is easier than most people think. Start by focusing and following your breath. The goal is not to eliminate thoughts entirely but to continually return to your breath. Taking this time to relax your mind can help sharpen your focus in other aspects of your work and allow you to work for longer periods of time.”
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“You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.”
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“I plan my time to a 'T.' I plan when I am going to sleep; I plan when I am going to relax. I obviously leave time to have spontaneous life experiences - I think that's really important. But so much of it is setting up you mental energy in the right way to get the most out of your day and time.”
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“Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to be OK.”
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“I've let my body soften. I've let it relax.”
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“I want people to talk about my comedy, about cancer, about body issues, about scars, because cancer, it's a big deal, but scars are not a big deal. My skin healed. Relax, you know? That's all it is.”
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“The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.”
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“The thought that you ought not to drink while pregnant came much, much later. In fact, I had my first child in 1982, and I was still told by nurses and so forth, 'Have a glass of wine with dinner. It'll help you relax.'”
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“To have that normality to come back to, to totally relax and not have to deal with a lot of the pressure that's put on young actors makes it a lot easier.”
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“I had stage fright for years and years, and I could hear it in my singing. But since I've done it so often for so many years, you'd think that I'd relax a little bit, and I think that I have.”
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“I like to relax and get my mind off of business for a few hours.”
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“The day my players relax, I get crazy. They know that.”
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“After a game, I really just relax with the family.”
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“It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the mass of stories that one is subjected to living one's life is otherwise overwhelming.”
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“My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.”
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“There's so much pressure on women to have it all together. There's always this 'next, next, next.' I hope Glossier encourages women to be O.K. wherever you are. Just, everyone, relax!”
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“I keep my inner circle of people very small and tight, and I like to relax if I get a chance.”
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“I just wear very nice pyjamas. When I'm at home, I love to watch movies and relax because when I'm modeling, I'm always travelling. When I'm not working I don't put much make up, but I do love nail polish for that little bit of fun colour.”
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“I love to have massages, I think it's really important to relax. In New York, I usually go to Massage Williamsburg or Great Jones Spa.”
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“The important thing with memorising a part is not to force it. Sometimes when you're rehearsing, you'll think it's not going in, but it is. On stage, you have to trust that the lines are there, because they are. The real challenge is to relax.”
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“Bloggers and stores and publications and brands and houses all need to sort of take a deep breath and relax because no one is going away. The brands aren't going away. The designers, bloggers, publications aren't going away.”
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“I'm excited and nervous about every film; once I understand the medium fully, I'll relax.”
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“On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day!”
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“I feel mindless comedies make you relax - there are times when I come from shooting and watch comedy shows; they really change my mood.”
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“That was one of the lessons I had to learn - just relax and play. Don't worry about what's happened in the past; don't worry what's going to happen in the future. You are playing a game you dreamed your whole life about playing. There's no sense in ruining it by worrying or doubting.”
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“I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.”
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“The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax.”
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“A lot of the things I do outside the rink are just to relax and recover. We spend so much time at the rink, so it's nice to decompress a little.”
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“I don't listen to music when I ski - I find it distracting - but I will sing to myself before I go to just get my mind out of what I'm doing and relax a little bit.”
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“No matter how much you urge them to relax and how much you mean it, your child probably grapples with highly stressful environments away from home, whether it's where they go to school, the teams they play on, or the peers in their social circle. Most teenagers I know long for empathy from their parents about their struggle.”
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“It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.”
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“Yoga will uplift you if you are feeling sluggish or down, relax you if you feel high-strung, and soften your edges if you are feeling angry.”
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“At home, I relax by catching up with friends.”
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“For me, a big thing growing up was naturalness - both in being and appearance. My mom never let me relax my natural hair. For so long, I thought I was ugly, and I still sometimes struggle with that. But now I've come to feel like this is me.”
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“Bobby Bones is a young country DJ who does a widely syndicated morning show. He's at his best with his BobbyCast, in which he talks to Nashville up-and-comers such as Kelsea Ballerini and Lauren Alaina. Guests are encouraged to relax on Bones's couch and talk about anything they like.”
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“I figured I would go to the Olympics, give it my best, work hard, and once it was done, have some time to relax. I'd do a couple days of press and then go home to my normal life.”
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“In ten years of modeling, I've trained myself to relax and be able to use my upper body.”
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“'JoJo's Bizarre Adventures' - it took a long time for that to get animated because the old-school animation wouldn't have the glorious nature of JoJo justice. Watching shows like that and 'Super Kia,' 'Black Clover,' 'Attack on Titan,' being able to watch some anime the night before the game definitely helps relax me.”
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“I can't stand adversity and stress and drama and tension. I can't function in that environment. If I have anything to say about it, we're going to get rid of it so that everyone can just relax and have a good time.”
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“This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.”
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“I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.”
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“In Jiu-Jitsu, every instinct you have wants to do everything but relax or breathe when someone's attacking you, and learning that takes a long time. I think that's why a lot of people stop at blue belt because it's really hard to do. It's hard to take that next step. It took me a long time.”
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“Once you get comfortable playing hard, a lot of things just go your way. You just relax more, and you feel like you can do a lot of things.”
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“The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want to do love scenes, and you want to do just kids hanging out and trying to get them to relax.”
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“I used to go to the gym with one of my best friends, and we seemed to have the same conversation over and over again. I was always saying, 'I'm still not pregnant, and I still haven't worked out what I'm writing,' and her answer to both was always, 'Just relax!'”
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“I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.”
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“If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn't a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I'm a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it's the hobby you do to relax and unplug.”
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“People think after the fight you get to sit around and relax and all that. But really, people come around and family and all that, so it's a whole 'nother responsibility you have to take care of.”
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“I love, love, love Lauryn Hill's 'MTV Unplugged.' It just helps relax me. I love just where she was in her space with that album and the truth that she was telling.”
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“I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn't really show them.”
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“I went to university every day for five years. I thought, 'I must - must - go to school.' Look, my hands, these are like guns. When you have guns, you can relax. But in the future, you need something else.”
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“To relax in the Premier League is not good.”
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“For me, it is important to get away from football, to calm down, relax, and have fun with family and friends.”
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“The thing about the Super Bowl is, once you got to the Super Bowl City, it was non-stop football, 24/7. You couldn't get away from it. You couldn't leave your hotel room and not get bombarded by fans. You couldn't go have a nice dinner and relax. Friends and family weren't there, so the normalcy of life changed.”
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“If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don't think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember.”
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“Doing films like 'Judwaa' helps me relax, and that should be my reason for doing it, not to compensate for doing films like 'Pink.'”
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“What's that song? It says, 'Everything that you do will come back to you in your sweet time?' That's why I still don't relax. Even my coach gets mad at me sometimes. He's like, 'Come on, man - relax.' I go, 'Nah.' I'm always good.”
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“Ahead of a semi-final, there is always the same buzz. You know you are very close to reaching the final, but there is no way you can relax because then you will be punished.”
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“You play one game after another, meet new people every day, and travel a lot. That is why I try to disconnect and relax as soon as I get some time off.”
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“I do have moments when I like to relax, but I'm always moving, and that has always been the case since I was a boy.”
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“I like to relax; of course I do! But when I am inside the pitch, that is it. You have to go on full on from the first minute.”
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“We know, in history, people are unable to put different elements together and create gold, yet it's what you're asking actors to do every day. You're asking them to relax enough with the confines and restrictions of the lights and the cameras, and you gotta hit this mark, to relax enough to create what seems wonderful and beautiful.”
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“I love England, it's my home now. But I've been to the city, the centre of London, very little, as I don't really relax.”
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“I watch football sometimes at home, but in my downtime, I play pool with my friends. Darts - I enjoy darts now, and when there is a game not coming up, I enjoy playing golf as well. I'm not very good at golf, but I enjoy being able to relax.”
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“Of course I would buy a house in Marbella. In Marbella, you can buy a house by the beach, relax there, and later you can go there on holiday and everything.”
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“I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'”
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“English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.”
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“What I need to do is relax, take my time, and make my shots count. That will give me more energy later in the fights but also allow me to throw the punches harder.”
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“Music is a great part of my life. It helps me relax and keep calm whenever I am not boxing.”
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“Personally, I like to be at home, relax, and just be around my friends.”
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“For me, off-duty hair means no products. I have people touching my hair almost every day, so when I'm not working, I try to let my hair relax.”
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“You have to have a sound that inspires you to play because, if not, you won't be able to make the sound you have work. You won't be able to make magic with it if you're not happy with it, so it's important that you at least please yourself to the level where you can just relax and be an artist.”
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“I think every footballer, after 20 years playing football, the first thing that comes to your mind is to relax.”
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“You train hard all week, and in your downtime, you can relax with your friends and have fun.”
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“While I am training, I don't go out for events, so rest days, in a way, take away that time. Apart from that, I just stay at home and rest, maybe relax at home and spend time with family.”
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“Sometimes you just got to settle back and relax and be like, 'All right, Saquon, chill. You know what you're doing. Just do the little stuff.' The little stuff will get you there.”
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“I want to relax and spend time with my family.”
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“My favorite place is Maui. It's almost perfect there - the people, the weather, just everything. No matter how busy you are, when you get to Maui, you chill and relax.”
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“When I want to relax, it's nine out of 10 times TV or movies. I love going to the movies and grabbing popcorn or watching 'Mad Men,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Breaking Bad.'”
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“I'm trying to relax, but it's hard.”
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“After I finish with football, I will definitely go home. I won't stay in England, but I like it here, and I'm happy I'm doing what's best to give everything on the pitch, and then when I can, I relax. But the only bad thing is here maybe the rain is much more than in my country, but everything else I am happy with.”
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“In the past, I may have felt quite trapped - rebelled a little bit and been quite defensive and not known how to relax.”
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“I don't like Type-A actors, and I don't like Type-A golfers. I like people who relax into what they do and who enjoy it for the process.”
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“When I'm working, especially when the role is very intense or very demanding, I actually tend to relax just innately afterwards because work relaxes me more than anything.”
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“A lot of young coaches who respect the fact I have been doing it a long time, that is often their question: 'Does it get any easier? Can you relax more during the games? Can you take it all a little bit more philosophically and put it more in perspective?' The tragedy is that I have to tell them, 'No. If anything, it gets worse.'”
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“Some people get a little shy, you know, and it can take a certain mood or a situation or a vibe for you to relax and come out of your shell.”
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“With a good start, players can relax a bit more and aren't so anxious throughout the season.”
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“I work, and I'm a full-time mom, and it's hard for me to sit down and relax because it's like, 'Crap, there's something I'm forgetting.'”
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“What makes a home to me is the energy. I'm a big energy person, so somewhere that I can relax, feel free and not have to worry about anything.”
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“That's important for me, to never just relax and be too comfortable with what you have.”
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“As I'm a complete water baby, being by the beach helps me relax.”
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“For players you don't hear about in the news, they enjoy the hell out of the offseason. They can travel and see things they never thought they'd see, or go back home to relax and see their kids and family that they haven't had a chance to hang out with in a few months.”
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“When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.”
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“When I reach the line, I just know I'm going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it's going in. I get there and relax. I've put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they're going in.”
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“When I used to watch TV when I was young, it was a fun space which helped us relax and de-stress.”
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“A lot of young players relax a bit when they reach the first-team, thinking they have reached the finish line, but really, it's just the beginning.”
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“I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That's why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.”
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“It's not that I don't take the job seriously. I'll do everything I can, humanly possible, to make myself better, but at the end of the day, if I don't relax and walk away from it knowing that I've done my stuff, then there's not much point.”
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“If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.”
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“Whereas people increasingly get their news from the Internet, magazines have a different atmospheric to them. A magazine is something you sit down and relax with.”
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“It can feel like such a hectic lifestyle. We are always busy and always under pressure. So giving myself that 10 minutes of meditation each day has really helped me to relax, restore some perspective, and gain that meditative state.”
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“Playing for South Africa is an absolute honour, and I don't feel like I need to relax. Every game I take more than seriously.”
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“In T20, there's a time shortage because you've got four overs. In one-day cricket, you relax, and the game goes long, and you only win the game in the last 10 or 15 overs.”
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“You get the best out of the girls when they're enjoying themselves, when they've got a smile on their face - they're working hard on the training pitch, but they're allowed to relax off it as well.”
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“I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.”
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“When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.”
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“I learnt to relax a little more and enjoy the process, which is something I didn't do in my first movie - understandably, I guess.”
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“Wherever I travel, I always head for a drink at the hotel bar as soon as I arrive. Not only is it a great way to relax, but it's a fantastic way to feel the pulse of a city.”
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“I just try to stay as focused as I always am, relax and make sure I can help the team out whenever I can.”
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“In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.”
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“I like to relax and watch TV and play with my little boy. I like to play some tennis as well.”
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“I like to relax in the South of France. The weather is so good, the food is so good, and it is perfect because we can all speak French.”
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“All I do in Dublin is relax and live away from the cameras. There are a few coffee shops I love and I spend my days in there drinking cappuccinos.”
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“I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.”
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“It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.”
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“Over the summer, you do have to take that time to relax and go on holiday with your mates and get away from football.”
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“Damnation' and 'Dublin Murders' are the first lead roles I've gotten to do. The more time you spend in front of the camera, the more you begin to relax in front of it.”
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“The one bad thing sometimes when you switch 1 through 5, guys think it's easier and they relax. You have to be just as aggressive. If we're going to switch 1 through 5 we got to meet that point of entry at the ball and be physical.”
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“And I think the first LP was perhaps too precious. It was our life's work up to that point; there was so much pain in trying to make the perfect statement. We couldn't relax and I think most people missed what we were trying to say.”
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“Being there for each other in person or at the end of the phone during the show is so important for us and is a nice comfort. Whenever we get time out we make sure we go on dates, watch films together and just relax without thinking about work!”
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“I think, you think critically all day, you've got a lot of decisions to make, so you've got to make sure that you take a couple of seconds every day to relax your brain a little bit.”
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“When it comes to friends, as in people to relax with, that's my wife and my kids.”
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“You can see players do things in training that aren't a problem but they can't in a game situation. You have to work on it, relax and be brave.”
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“I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.”
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“I learned all I have to do is sing the best music I know how and put on the best show I know how and just relax with it and people enjoy it.”
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“When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn't relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.”
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“When you're in a fight camp, you're working your body harder than normal and it's important to still look after yourself and to relax.”
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“In a way getting fired up for these matches is what makes the Premier League the hardest tournament for me. Knowing I can lose and still be in the tournament probably makes me relax too much sometimes.”
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“In football, the Champions league semi-final does not allow you to relax.”
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“I think holidays come in all sizes - sometimes you just need to relax.”
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“I am on a fat-free diet for most of the year, but before 'the worlds,' I tend to relax on the diet a bit to concentrate on darts.”
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“People love authenticity in comedy and, coming from a region, you get a very strong sense of place. They can place you straight away, so they can relax.”
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“I like jokes and one-liners. I enjoy entertaining and making people laugh, being the funny man. But when I'm launched into unfamiliar environments I shut down, and as I relax then my character emerges.”
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“In fact, even during the audio release of 'Papanasam,' I said that I have reached a stage where I want to relax and travel, but work keeps coming.”
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“When something is great, then you can sit back after the work is done and relax, but during the process I definitely am making sure everything is really, really good.”
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“I'm a young-old guy. I go home, I don't need to go out, and I watch TV on my couch and relax, maybe have a cigar here or there. A couple of the coaches tell me, 'You're old school for someone who's young.'”
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“Once you're drafted there is no time to relax.”
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“People panic in the kitchen and they don't need to. The first thing to do is to open a nice bottle of wine and relax.”
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“I don't just hop in the car. I have destinations. I drive to relax. I'll be gone for two weeks, hit four or five major cities. I don't like being nowhere for more than two or three days. I just go. I don't have a schedule.”
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“Great kitchens are a must-have. A place to relax and cook for friends and family. A gathering place for family of all ages and guests is a staple for me as well.”
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“I go to comic shops because I like to just listen to nerds arguing about nerd stuff to relax.”
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“When I go away, I do like to sunbathe and relax in the sun but I use SPF. I use factor 30 on my face and 20 or 30 on my body.”
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“I'm a warm person and I like people to feel comfortable - if they're comfortable they're going to relax, cook and feel good.”
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“I try and get all my shopping done before December so all the presents are wrapped in my lounge and ready so I can really relax and enjoy Christmas.”
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“A lot of people go up there and think about what they're going to do - I just hit. I relax and don't think about anything. I just want to hit the ball as hard and as far as I can.”
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“Sometimes, there is not a lot of pressure, so you can relax.”
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“What's funny about me is that when I try and relax, and my body is in a fatigued or - you know, my muscles aren't feeling that great, I feel I only get worse. But when I go work out and do the things that are productive to helping off-set the weak muscles or hurt muscles, I feel like I can become a lot better after that.”
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“I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting for me.”
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“As a manager I always trusted my players on Christmas Day. I did not see any point in dragging them into the training ground - a three-hour round-trip for some of them on icy roads - when they could relax with their families instead.”
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“But it's been perfect - where you grew up is where you relax. It's been the most perfect thing to have the country lifestyle again after my fall and after the Melbourne Cup.”
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“You need balance in your life all-around. When you find that balance and relax and get away from the game a little bit - and when you come back, you just go that much harder.”
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“I want my family and myself to be comfortable wherever I am at the time, and just be able to relax and kind of let my hair down.”
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“With all the traveling I'm doing, it's really important for me to be able to relax when I'm at home.”
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“So I think it's like the night before the exam. Obviously, you stress. But when you have done your job well, then you need to go down, relax and enjoy.”
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“Sometimes when I need to relax, I just watch in the stands how people are enjoying the tennis or what they are eating.”
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“I am strong, the crowd makes me even stronger when they are on fire, I love to be with them, they give me focus so I just relax and play.”
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“Cooking is what I do professionally and it is my way of life, but it is also the way I relax. It is the thing I dream about the most; it makes me smile.”
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“I suppose if you make enough money with one album, you can relax the rest of your life. I would rather go for smaller and stronger successes.”
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“Yeah, I think the suites have been definitely a game changer here at the US Open, somewhere to relax and chill just with you and your team.”
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“The Premier League is so competitive so we have to be very attentive, very focused and not relax in any way - especially when it is thought to be a winnable game.”
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“What I have always liked about Italians is the way they are serious when they need to be but know how to relax and have a laugh, too.”
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“At home I have a mixing desk that I like playing around on. It's great fun making music myself. And music has always been a very good counterbalance to football for me. It allows me to switch off and relax.”
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“I love the game of basketball, and it has shaped my life since I was seven years old. But as a broadcaster it took me a good 10 to 15 years to relax and allow myself to enjoy the job.”
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“A tradition I have on Christmas morning - my son has always been the one that cooks the breakfast and I am always the one in the evening attempting to cook the beautiful Christmas dinner. And during the day we just have a nice snore, a nice relax and watch a movie.”
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“At times, I would decide to keep myself completely free for a week to relax. But, after the second day, I would feel bored and tell myself, You better do something.'”
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“I try to tell young guys - like, if I see a young guy pressing, I try to tell him to relax and play your game.”
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“I love living in a condo because I don't have worries, relax ka lang and everything is being taken care of.”
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“In today's society, many people feel stressed. So when they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to relax and experience something nice, to take away some of their anxiety and stress.”
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“Whenever I was done with a scene, I'd go back to my trailer, relax and go over my lines. I'd think, 'I can't wait to get out there.'”
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“Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.”
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“Personally, I take every match seriously and give off my best… My aim is to win and there's no time to relax.”
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“When you are on the field as a captain, the mind is always working. You cannot relax at any point of time. You are always focussing on what is going to be the next move, what if it doesn't work, what if the situation changes and you have to change your plan.”
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“Playing live is my natural element. It's too hard to relax in the studio because there are too many options. It's just not as exciting.”
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“Canelo's a very disciplined guy, but he's very relaxed in the ring. He taught me that there are ways to relax so you won't get hit with certain punches. He showed me that the more relaxed you are, the easier it is to fight your fight by staying put.”
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“You can not relax against Ribery and Benzema.”
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“I listen to classical music when I need to relax. It depends a lot on mood.”
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“When mom is cooking, we are more in a routine. You can better relax when you go through things like you usually do. It is more comfortable.”
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“You can't relax, even for a millisecond in this sport.”
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“Godard and I got married because I got pregnant. Then I lost the child and they couldn't do anything about it. So I went to a kind of, not a crazy house, but a place where you have to relax. I hated it.”
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“I love to relax.”
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“It's nice to come away from training and relax, get away from the pressures and get away from football and enjoy the downtime!”
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“I get up, I have breakfast, go work out, go to my eye appointment, come home, relax for a couple hours, and then go get my kids from school and start carpooling them around to their different activities and things they do.”
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“Someone asked me 'What's the biggest thing you'll take out of the Premier League?' I said that you can't relax. I think you can go from having a great run of games - you can go four, five, six unbeaten - and turn a corner and go into a run of seven or eight games without winning. That's how difficult it is for the so-called smaller clubs.”
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“One day, after shooting, when I went back to my hotel room to relax, I just couldn't sleep. I had a feeling that someone was in my room. I was scared and opened all my windows and doors, but the feeling only got worse. I decided to leave the room immediately.”
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“Your circulation will improve if you breathe right. And doing your best to try to relax when you're stressed out will improve your overall health.”
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“I love games so we always play cards and board games to relax when we're on tour.”
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“If Im on TV, I make a real effort to get ready. When I go out, I want to relax a bit more. Its a quick shower, a bit of moisturiser and Im done in 15 minutes.”
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“Prior to a fight when I have to make weight, obviously I can't eat all the rubbish - chocolate and stuff like that. Straight after I can relax and eat what I want.”
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“You can't relax on the court with Luka Doncic. Even if you're not open, he can make Luka magic at any moment - throwing a perfect pass that somehow lands in your hands. Every game, he debuts a new move. It's crazy.”
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“I work hard and relax a lot, too.”
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“Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I've done in that cage, then I'll have time to relax and take in what I've done.”
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“Apart from music, I like to relax with friends and family, watch a film, go out for some food.”
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“Some people say that I need to take a break and relax a little bit, but basketball is all that I know. This is what I've grown up doing and when I call my mother and my father, they talk to me about the game. It's just embedded in me and it's pretty much all I care about.”
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“I'm taking my own time but I don't want to just relax either. Also, when you're looking for work, everybody approaches you, but I'm trying to target the right project that takes me a level up.”
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“If I have written anything, a person will comment using abusive language if they feel it's wrong. Why can't you relax and write properly.”
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“Sprinting is my stress relief, something to do to relax. I don't know what I would do without it.”
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“One of the best things about summer is that it's the only time of year I don't have crazy amounts of studying to do. I can relax with books I actually enjoy!”
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“The telly's almost always on. It's how I wind down after a show. It's how I relax on a rare night off. It educates me, entertains me and makes a hotel room feel a lot more cosy.”
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“I don't know how to relax. I get so edgy and instantly I'm ready to go. I don't like to waste any time. I try to use up every minute until I get tired, and then go home, rest for an hour, and then go. But I don't ever actually relax.”
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“I can go to a movie theater and sit there all day. I love movies. They intrigue my brain and they relax me. I am a movie buff.”
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“I realized that I am not meant to relax all the time. I have gotten into the system of working for 12 hours.”
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“If there's one thing Nawaz sir taught me, it's how to just relax. He's not your method actor who will ask not to be disturbed on set if there's a serious scene to shoot. He just comes and does his thing.”
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“If I go out to dinner in Cincinnati, I know everyone's eyes are on me, or at least the people who recognize me. Eyes are on me, judging me, and I can't relax. I can't be at ease. I don't like that feeling.”
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“We take all elections seriously. We are 24/7 politicians working for the interests of the country and its people. We are not like others who relax and enjoy power.”
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“I've kind of developed an attitude where sometimes you've got to relax and you've got to go with the flow.”
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“It's just so weird coming into the gym and not feeling like, you know, 'I'm going to die.' Before it was like, 'I've got to hit that routine or I'm going to get yelled at.' So it's just been really nice to kind of relax a little bit and be able to really focus on gymnastics and get to enjoy it more.”
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“I think the fun part with the commercials is that I've been able to show a different side of my personality, relax, and be a little sillier than normal.”
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“I find it easy to relax, but I'm always thinking about songs.”
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“When I drop the football, it does hurt me… The hardest thing for me to do is relax, because when I drop one, I really want to go out there the next time and make a play.”
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“But learning how to enjoy my own company - and picking up hobbies is really important as well in not being bored and staying sane. But it can be quite difficult to get to that point where you can sit and relax and enjoy your own company.”
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“If my parents or Wayne's parents are around and can watch the kids and give us a bit of spare time, then on a Friday night I like to pamper myself and relax.”
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“Sometimes it's nice just to relax and enjoy the kids.”
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“My skincare regime in the evening really helps me relax, unwind and get ready for a decent night's kip.”
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“One thing I learned from being on 'Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins' is I don't spend enough time switching off. I'm a workaholic, so when I'm not travelling or renovating my house, I try to find time to relax.”
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“I sometimes don't feel as if I really use London for what it is when I'm free at weekends, but to truly relax, I have to be at home.”
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“I stopped l thinking about dates. I knew I would become champion, I knew I would fight for the title, I knew I would headline a card. I knew it would happen one day, but I decided to relax and let things happen.”
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“When the sun is shining, enjoy the sun; when the rain is raining, dance in the rain - you're going to get wet anyway. And if you slip and injure your back, at least you get some time to relax in hospital.”
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“People don't go to clubs to think that much. They go to have a good time and relax.”
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“I had this malaise in me until people knew who I was or could see what I was capable of. Then I could relax. Then I could be myself.”
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“I always find it interesting the way golfers relax. You've got the painters or the readers like Luke Donald, but if I went down that route, I'd find my mind drifting and thinking about the day job.”
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“Social support is crucial at every stage of life, and too often we are both late to react to threats, and slow to relax restrictions.”
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“I just take it one play at a time and try to relax.”
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“I want people to take away a message of love, of looking at the way you are living and thinking where we can work to be our best. Whatever they're feeling, I want them to be able to turn up my music and think, relax, and get good vibes.”
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“I want to get better so bad to the point where, sometimes, I have to even step back and take a deep breath and kind of relax.”
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“That's how I relax before a gig. By laminating my cards.”
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“The bath, for me, was always a place to relax, to retreat from the hell of modern-day life. A sanctuary.”
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“I am in London every day so I know my way around London. I know where to go for dinner, I know where to go to chill and relax and I know where to go to the movies.”
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“Try to relax when I'm home with good people around me, that's really important. Just try to enjoy my life.”
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“I love to have a joke on Instagram here and there but other than that I like to relax and have fun. Basically enjoy what I'm doing.”
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“Jacuzzis always relax me.”
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“Bali's for me, 'cause I love to relax. It was beautiful. Think of Hawaii times a thousand: the beautiful water, the weather, the vibe. It was heaven on earth.”
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“I'm not the person that the next day I'm back in the academy. I like to be on the beach, relax and miss to be on the mats and want to be on the mats.”
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“To me, playing video games is a way for me to put my feet up and relax during the season.”
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“The biggest piece of advice I got from J.J. is just to be yourself, don't overthink things. Just be yourself, relax and you show people who you really are.”
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“Everybody was telling me, you'll get pregnant when you don't plan it. And when you just kind of relax and that totally happened for me.”
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“I like to play fast, but some of the coaches are telling me that playing fast isn't always the best thing, especially when they move me around a lot. It's more being able to process everything, relax and rely on your instincts.”
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“That's one thing I've learned, being the head coach - it's a little tougher to clear your mind and relax and do other things.”
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“If you can't relax, you can't play well; on the pitch you need to keep loose.”
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“I do the news on 'The Rickey Smiley Morning Show,' I talk about how many millions of Americans are unemployed. And so I thank God and my lucky stars for my employment - but if I could go and just relax for a week? Oh geez. Ah! The reason why it wouldn't work for me is because I'd be asleep the whole time.”