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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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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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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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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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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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.
