Arthur Mitchell Quotes
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.Arthur Mitchell
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
Kate Moss -
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
Edmond de Goncourt -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Barack Obama -
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
Lady Gregory -
I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
Natalie Cole -
I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
Rachel Griffiths -
Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
Naval Ravikant -
It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
Samantha Harvey -
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings -
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
Garrison Keillor -
Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
Barton Gellman -
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
Harold E. Varmus -
I shake hands on the first date.
Nargis Fakhri -
Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
Natasha Lyonne
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
Takeru Kobayashi -
While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
Gabriel Luna -
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
Arthur Mitchell