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When I was five, I got forced into taking piano lessons. And it came really naturally to me. Knowing that I was good at something played an important role in my confidence. I was always shy, uncomfortable around people. I slipped by. But with the music, I didn`t. I got into bands. I studied trumpet and saxaphone a little bit. It got to the point where my teacher was like, you can be a concert pianist. But the last thing I wanted to hear at 15 is, well, you`re not fitting in now, how about dropping out of school, studying all the time and becoming a concert pianist? It sounds like "penis." Even earlier, Kiss had changed my world. It seemed evil and scary-the embodiment of rebelliousness when you`re age 12 and starting to get hair on your balls. Also, my dad, who I`d not lived with since I was 5, got me an electric piano. He had a little music store that sold acoustic instruments in the back room, where me and a couple other guys started jamming in terrible garage bands. I realized that music wasn`t all about learning a piece on the piano.

- Trent Reznor

All the work I usually do: imagining the past, the circumstances of the character in this case I didn`t do it. We all saw him as a force of nature the embodiment of violence. - On his character Chigurh in No Country for Old men

- Javier Bardem

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.

- Max Weinberg

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

- Aggrey Muchelule

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

- Al Nash
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Each of these three young people -- Lauren Bessette, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr . -- were the embodiment of love, accomplishment and passion for life,

- Andrew Tobias

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

- Woodrow Wilson

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.

- Adlin Sinclair