Judith Jamison Quotes
Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
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The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.
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Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
