Darcey Bussell Quotes

There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at the top.

Darcey Bussell

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Think
  • Relationship

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Sun

• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  

  Young Buck
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Young

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Well
  • Editor

• People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Age

• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Idea
  • Simply
  • No Idea

• From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Technology
  • Understanding
  • Listening

• All of my businesses are profitable.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Businesses
  • Profitable

• My first book, 'Contest,' had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, 'Ice Station,' and 'Temple' were present-day military thrillers.

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Present

• No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

  

  Emily Oster
  • People
  • Why
  • Fighting

• It's really funny to me that I get called a workhorse or somebody who's really good at making other people better in the ring. I feel like I'm good at every aspect of this. I feel like I'm a great talker; I feel like I'm a great representative of the company. I broke records in college. I have an amateur background with fighting skills.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at the top.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Fighting