Martha Graham Quotes
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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The big business, Hollywood? I don't really work in that business. I peripherally work in it, but I'm not involved in it the way some people are.
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Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.
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I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.
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If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
