Misty Copeland Quotes

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Politician
  • Ask

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Bother

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fiction
  • Duty
  • Painful

• 'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Homeland

• If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • You
  • Working

• I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Great
  • Better
  • Nothing

• If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Suicide

• When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Religion

• My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Kids
  • Special
  • Surprise

• We are never ever ever... getting back together.We are never ever ever... getting back together.You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me.But we are never ever ever ever... getting back together.Like, ever.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Together

• I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Learning
  • Brain
  • Deep

• I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Up

• Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

  

  David Blankenhorn
  • Father
  • Winning
  • Social

• I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

  

  Peter Ackroyd

• I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Fun

• I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • People
  • Life
  • Choices

• I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Training
  • Devoted