Martha Graham Quotes
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.Martha Graham
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
J. C. Chandor -
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin -
I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
Jaclyn Smith -
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski -
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes -
My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Patrick Kane
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
Lata Mangeshkar -
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie -
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams -
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron d'Holbach -
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
Zara Larsson
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman -
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Adam Ferguson -
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana -
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim -
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
Rafael Cruz -
I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
Najib Mikati
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We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
Bernard Kouchner -
My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.
Drew Barrymore -
No one eats pretty.
Lauren Conrad -
If it is wrong to wreck the planet, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage.
Bill McKibben -
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
James A. Leach -
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.
Martha Graham