Gene Kelly Quotes

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

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• Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Think
  • You
  • Someone

• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunities

• Everybody is a teenage idol.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Teen
  • Everybody
  • Idol

• If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Work
  • God
  • Strong

• I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Support

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Information
  • Trade
  • Sit

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Women
  • Used
  • Mere

• I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Think
  • Film
  • Understand

• I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Proud
  • Woman
  • Vision

• The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Together
  • Doing
  • Internet

• History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • May
  • History
  • Three

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Taken
  • Shows
  • Very

• In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Little things are big.

  

  Yogi Berra

• Unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man!

  

  Samuel Daniel

• People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • People
  • Life
  • Space

• The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

  

  George Sanders
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Being

• I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

  

  Amy Chua
  • World
  • Trying
  • American

• What I never want to do is start phoning it in and making things just to show that I can keep my foot in the door and do big movies.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Door

• Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

  

  Gene Kelly