Isadora Duncan (Angela Isadora Duncan) Quotes

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

Isadora Duncan

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• I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Doing
  • Project
  • Whatever

• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Night
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Spring
  • Falsehood
  • Perennial

• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Country
  • Play
  • Feelings

• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Before
  • Luxury
  • Printing

• When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

  

  Larry David
  • Write
  • Idiots
  • I Write

• I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• Is 'Cowboy Casanova' about the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys? No. I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong. I would never give him that much credit.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Guy
  • Cowboy

• about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Good

• His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.

  

  Arthur Baer

• The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Work

• I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People
  • Why
  • Religious

• Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

  

  Aristotle
  • Body
  • Friendship
  • Souls

• You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Body
  • Lasts
  • Auditions

• I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

  

  Bev Perdue
  • Country
  • Help
  • Hope

• These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America - we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • Goal
  • Islamic
  • Accountability

• When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Power
  • Accomplished
  • Suggestion

• Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

  

  Isadora Duncan
  • Dance
  • Body
  • Spirit