Isadora Duncan (Angela Isadora Duncan) Quotes
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.
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I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world,'
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Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?'
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I always had this fascination with superheroes. Who didn't love Hulk and Spider-Man?
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I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.
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I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
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After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.
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It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.
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...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
