Isadora Duncan (Angela Isadora Duncan) 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.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
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My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
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You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
