Martha Graham Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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We are fighting against Islamism, not Islam. Islamism is the will to impose Shariah for all as civil, political and religious law. … In reality, it's asking French people to increasingly submit themselves to the Muslim religion. That goes totally against the secular principles of the French republic.
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Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.
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All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
