Alicia Markova Quotes
A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
Alicia Markova
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
Adam Jones
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
Ursus Wehrli
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
Andrei A. Gromyko
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Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.
Barack Obama
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I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.
Maz Jobrani
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It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
Alicia Markova
