George Balanchine Quotes
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
Quotes to Explore
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
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Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.
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I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.
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The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.
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There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."
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God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
