Martha Graham Quotes
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one.
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I love stretching myself musically.
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With fame comes the responsibility of what you say. If the country is watching you, there ought to be substance, something worthwhile to speak about.
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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
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I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.
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There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.
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The only sin is mediocrity.
