Chita Rivera Quotes

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Chita Rivera

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• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Honor

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• I want to go down in history.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • History
  • Want
  • Down

• When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Hard
  • Really
  • Unfinished

• After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Cooking

• My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Different
  • Independent

• It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Very
  • Land

• If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Money
  • Future
  • Care

• Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Long
  • Home
  • Hockey

• From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Ridiculous

• Crime is a form of 'unorganized' class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society
  • Struggle

• Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Sacrifice

• The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Future

• This is a state of graceThis is the worthwhile fightLove is a ruthless gameUnless you play it good and right

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good

• Pequeño es aquel que para mostrarse esconde.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Together
  • Pretty

• If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's comfortable with me, my image as a person, as an artist - he's willing to sit down and give that song a chance.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Guy
  • Song

• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Complaining

• I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, 'Be fearful here,' 'Be angry here,' because I think that is intrusion.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Done
  • Dance
  • Angry

• It’s hard to recover. You become not so innocent. You become, in a way, more sophisticated, which I think you shouldn’t. We should all have more simple happiness . . . . You become bitter.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Simple
  • Innocent
  • Bitter

• There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Help
  • Control

• I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Done

• I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

  

  Chita Rivera