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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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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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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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
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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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A France or a Belgium is not quite a sovereign nation any more, and thus does not have complete control over its national destiny or foreign relations.
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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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'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.
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I told you to sell it, not give it away.
