George Chakiris Quotes

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

George Chakiris

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• Actually

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• When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Think

• The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Up
  • Military
  • Will

• I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Win

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
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• Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Man
  • Space
  • Nothing

• What makes an officer's job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and - to be honest - about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • She
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• I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Night
  • Know
  • Born

• I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Money
  • Small

• To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Free
  • You
  • Difficult

• I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Background
  • Observer

• Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Words
  • Horror
  • Express

• I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Mind
  • Heart
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• The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Stressful

• There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Tradition
  • Stationary
  • Living Things

• “Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the “dualistic fiction,” which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, “degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!”

  

  Alain de Benoist
  • Life
  • Paganism
  • Rupture

• It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Learn

• I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Happy
  • Performing
  • Turn Me

• Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Changing
  • Performing
  • Drag

• I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Film

• As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

  

  George Chakiris
  • Dancing
  • Performing
  • Actually