Jerome Robbins Quotes
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
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He wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.
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Desolation Island (1979)
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What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life.
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Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task.
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We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.
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Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
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When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.
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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
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Saddam's hands-on years in the dungeons distinguish him from the other great dictators of the 20th century, none of whom had much taste for 'the wet stuff'. The mores of his regime have been shaped by this taste for the wet stuff - by a fascinated negative intimacy with the human body, and a connoisseurship of human pain.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
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I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.
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I told you to sell it, not give it away.
