Martha Graham Quotes
I've always regarded eroticism as a beautiful word. I'm not ashamed to be linked to it. I would be ashamed to be linked to flamboyant sexuality; that's a part of life, but it isn't all of it.
Quotes to Explore
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.
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I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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I've always regarded eroticism as a beautiful word. I'm not ashamed to be linked to it. I would be ashamed to be linked to flamboyant sexuality; that's a part of life, but it isn't all of it.
