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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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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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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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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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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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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When our institutions lack movement to propel them forward, the Spirit, I believe, simply moves around them, like a current flowing around a rock in a stream...without that soul work that teaches us to open our deepest selves to God and ground our souls in love, no movement will succeed and no institution will stand...it is the linking of action and contemplation, great work and deep spirituality, that keeps goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness flowing...as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy, and peace.
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After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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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.
