Merce Cunningham Quotes
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
Jacob Artist -
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
Flavor Flav -
I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
Maddie Ziegler -
Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
Vash Young -
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
Mahalia Jackson
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We've all done things we shouldn't, it's just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I'm not a saint. … I wasted time doing self-destructive things but it didn't work. I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I'm healthy and I'm grounded.
Anne Hathaway -
'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.
Charli XCX -
I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.
Pauly Shore -
Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
Bonnie Langford -
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.
Jamie Wyeth -
I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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I never went to my high school dance, and didn't date much.
Kerri Strug -
Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.
Klaus Schwab -
Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.
Claire Messud -
I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move.
Aimee Garcia -
When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.
Blake Lively -
I can't dance. If I try, I'll trip onstage.
Dua Lipa
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Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.
Kathryn McCormick -
Every company, city, and country is becoming digital, navigating disruptive markets, and Cisco's role in the digital transformation has never been more important.
John T. Chambers -
We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
Lance Burton -
How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
James Bay -
I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.
Merce Cunningham