Alicia Alonso Quotes

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

Alicia Alonso

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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
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never

• 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
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• 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
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Ferrari

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Famous

• 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
  • Men
  • Man
  • Strong

• 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
  • World
  • Show

• 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
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Photography

• America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • America
  • Fit
  • Sees

• I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Me

• Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Parents
  • Church
  • Brother

• I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Know
  • Sales

• St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • Soul

• I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • People
  • Education
  • Driving

• We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • New World
  • Dignity of man

• I hit an exercise - arms and legs, a set of curls, a set of tricep pushdowns, and then grab the bar and squat 40-20-30 and do it over again. I hit that a couple times through, then go in the sauna. I'll do a couple calf raises, then hop on a treadmill at 15 - the highest incline it can have while maintaining a fast-paced walk.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Couple
  • Exercise

• I'm a huge fan of television, and the reason I'm a part of the world is because I'm a fan of it.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • World

• Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

  

  Alicia Alonso
  • Art
  • Dance
  • Exercise