Chita Rivera Quotes

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

Chita Rivera

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• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Find
  • Questions
  • Sit

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Play

• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Nature
  • Lazy
  • Human Nature

• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Remember
  • Think

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Long
  • Me
  • Process

• If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Victory

• My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Interesting

• Consistent with Martin Luther King's vision, the government should stop color-coding its citizens.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Stop
  • Vision
  • Color

• You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

  

  Chita Rivera
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