Cholly Atkins (Charles "Cholly" Atkins) Quotes

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.

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• I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Strange
  • Going
  • Lie

• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • Alone
  • Design

• I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Justice
  • Internet

• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Want
  • Know
  • Religion

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Never

• Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.

  

  Anthony Kennedy

• America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Time
  • Long
  • America

• If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Blow
  • Health care

• My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fear

• Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

  

  Jane Grey
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• For escape, I love popcorn thrillers that you can read in a weekend, like 'Sharp Objects' and 'The Woman in Cabin 10.'

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Weekend

• The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Remember
  • Age

• I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Remember

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Childhood

• I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Long
  • Game
  • inspirational

• Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Propositions

• You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.

  

  Cholly Atkins
  • Singing
  • Artist
  • Couple