Fred Astaire Quotes

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Father
  • Fire
  • Lighting

• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • May
  • Winning

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Night
  • Myself

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Sleep

• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Light

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Feel
  • Opportunities

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Day
  • Problems

• Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Road

• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Financial

• I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Hunting

• I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Support

• Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

  

  Fred Astaire
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