Martha Graham Quotes
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Quotes to Explore
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.
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China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a world, is in itself a profound challenge to China, which now has fourteen countries on its borders, some of which are small, but can project their nationality into China, some of which are large, and historically significant, so that any attempt by Chinese to dominate the world, would involve in a disastrous for the peace of the world.
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Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
