Alicia Alonso Quotes
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
Ian MacKaye
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
Gary Johnson
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
Sally Schneider
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
Samantha Bee
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I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
Jacky Ickx
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
Imelda Staunton
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
Gaby Hoffmann
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There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don't think the only alternative is to elect people with money.
J. B. Pritzker
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Sally Mann
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
Bashar al-Assad
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
Daniel Barenboim
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I am constantly running around, so if I can take a couple hours to pamper myself, I will.
Hannah Bronfman
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Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.
Jan C. Ting
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We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.
John Michael Higgins
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
O. Henry
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Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.
Alicia Alonso